Sunday night, February 12th, my husband was ministering in
a little church in Villa Altagracia just outside of the capital
here in Santo Domingo. It was a busy Sunday and I knew that we
would get home late so I was packing PJ’s for the kids and stuff
as we prepared to go (one hour trip). Anyway as I was busy
packing I thought to myself that I should grab my CD with my
soundtracks so that I would be prepared to sing if the Pastor
asked. But in all my busyness I forgot and we ran out the door
to church.
When we arrived, sure enough, Pastor Pedro (who is on our
ministry staff and a very close friend) sat next to me and asked
if I came prepared to sing special music. I looked at him with a
nice smile and I just simply said, “NO.” He said, “No?” and I
again replied, “NO.” Well the service started and I felt the
conviction of the Holy Spirit. I felt the Holy Spirit say to me,
“That was kind of ugly, Rennae.” (that is just how He talks to
me sometimes!) I responded, "well I am not prepared, I don’t
know what to sing." Then the Spirit reminded me of the morning
service. In that service someone spoke about the problem of
divorce in Dominican society and as they talked about it, I felt
such a burden because I have seen how the enemy is tearing up
the family of this society. I left that morning with just a new
determination to intercede for the families in our churches and
society in general.
So I felt as though the Lord would have me share this burden and
then the Spirit put a song in my heart. “Yo Tengo un Nuevo Amor”.
So at the time my husband is about to minister, he calls me
forward to give a greeting and I just shared my burden with the
congregation. I told them that the Lord had given me this song,
“I Have A New Love” but when I finished the song I wanted to
intercede for unity in marriages and families. The Holy Spirit
came and people were weeping tears of intercession and one woman
in particular just wept and wept.
After the message we had a time of ministry in the altars and
this same woman who was weeping came forward with her husband
and two girls and the Holy Spirit moved powerfully and the whole
family fell under the power of the Spirit. After they got up,
the father looked at me with tears in his eyes and just smiled
and went to his seat. I just thought, "how wonderful to see the
whole family in the altar receiving such a blessing." That was
it. So I thought.
After service I was speaking with Pastor Pedro (apologizing!)
and he told me “the rest of the story”. Pedro was so excited
after service. Evidently, that was the first time that that man
had been in the church! His little girls were faithful to go to
church and the mother had just started coming here and there. A
few weeks back, one of the girls had asked the Pastor to pray
for her daddy because he was an alcoholic and he would fly into
rages and beat her, the sister and her mother. She also told
Pedro that God gave her an idea that whenever her daddy would
get really angry, she should get her Bible. She would tell him,
“Come here Daddy. Llet me read to you from my Bible.” And you
know, she said it worked every time! He would always calm down.
Well this was softening this man’s heart and Sunday night he
finally gave in and came to church. with his family! Sunday
night he gave his life to Jesus!
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Vinicio
is a retired General in the Dominican Army who plays the oboe. He
was the director of the military orchestra in years past. Just the
fact that he is a General who plays the oboe makes this story
interesting but it doesn’t actually start there. It actually began
last January when our dear friend and pastor’s wife Nancy Féliz
called me. Her son was involved in our Kings Castle ministry and she
knew of our desire to develop a training center for our young
people. We were looking for property. She told me about this place
in the mountains and I put off going to see it until last May. 
year. In October we had our annual Kings Castle directors’ camp. I
remembered that place and asked if they were willing to rent it out
to us. The realtor set us up and mentioned to me that the owner had
come down in price and was looking for a Christian group to buy the
property. He was now asking $600,000.
Through
a series of miracles, just in this past month we were able to
purchase the property. I say miracles because this came together in
a matter of four days! We had spent months in prayer and we were
waiting on God to make a decision when all of a sudden we were told
that we had only ten days to come up with an $20,000 binder. The
owner under the pressure of financial debts told us that he was
ready to accept an offer by another group to buy 1/3 of the land and
rent out the retreat facilities for three years. In only four days
God provided $29,000 for the initial payment which allowed us to buy
the furniture, appliances and a 20 kilowatt generator on the
property.
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