From our Proclaim team that has returned from a busy and productive tour in Belarus:

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We taught many music/audio classes on drums, bass, guitar, voice, music engineering/ production, and songwriting. We judged a Battle of the Bands and spent time critiquing any band who wanted to know how they could improve.

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We also served in various small groups, worked on improvement of facilities, and introduced an addiction recovery program to serve the body and the community. It was a good time of connecting more folks in the area to our friends in Brest, Belarus.

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We look forward to featuring the ministry in Belarus and the band Salvation at our fund raising Gala in Jacksonville April 13.

See the Proclaim website for more information and how to be involved in that event.

A Proclaim team was recently in Belarus with our partner organization. This is our 3rd year assisting with events centered around X-Star band festival. October Light band from Proclaim!-Croatia was featured this year. Other ways we were involved were activities in schools and teaching master classes for musicians and sound techs. And something new offered this time was an introduction to a program that provides help in recovery from addictive behaviors.

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Marv and Carey in Minsk

Marvin Klein (Proclaim!-France) did some speaking in Minsk, even before the tour started, introducing this program. Fourteen men and women participated in the meeting with 4 different groups represented. All embraced the concept, recognized the potential benefits, and were eager to start such a program, although they were hesitant because of the lack of leaders trained in the program. Marv was able to assure them that most groups in new areas are started without a trained leader, and that they had within their group a potential leadership team who would learn and grow through the experience. The result, after serious consideration, was a commitment to the task. It’s exciting to share this powerful resource to provide practical help for their local community. And throughout the tour opportunities opened up to help others who were eager for tools like this.

The Proclaim team, representing Croatia, Germany, France, and USA, was primarily in Brest. Look for reports on how exciting, exhausting and productive the time was for this team in all the planned (and unplanned!) activities that came their way.

A visual montage of the 2012 Tour to Croatia…

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Croatia Tour 2012 from Proclaim! International on Vimeo.


Saturday, April 13, 2013      6:30 pm      Marriott Hotel, Salisbury Rd

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We are looking forward to our tenth annual Gala, our major fund raising event, which is a highlight each year.  The program will feature our newest associates in Belarus, musicians of the band Salvation.  

Gala 13 pashaigorThis event not only helps us gain crucial funding for continuing and expanding opportunities throughout the year, but gives a way to introduce new people to Proclaim! Plan to join us for a memorable evening if you are in the Jacksonville area. If you cannot attend but would be able to contribute financially, you will greatly encourage us through your part in providing for the coming year.

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We’ve added another video to our video page. Check it out below.

 

 

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You can see all of our videos at our vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/proclaiminternational/

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This CD from the studios of Proclaim is chock full of fresh tunes declaring the goodness of God and what it means to live for Him in an age of intellectual doubters.  The project was produced by guitarist/songwriter John Bowers and engineered by bassist/vocalist, Greg Davis, and saxophonist/vocalist Kim Peterson, with recurring rolls from a plethora of other “proclaimers.”  If you like music with a mix of Rock, Blues and Jazz with tight vocals and a hot horn section, this album is for you.

The production of high quality recordings of our Proclaim music groups is very important to our ministry for a number of reasons.  First of all, we are a community of artists dedicated to glorifying God through artistic excellence. This is something we are striving to model before young musicians worldwide.  Secondly, excellent recordings of our music helps to open doors for the believers in other countries who are trying to procure the most strategic venues for people to gather to hear the gospel.  Thirdly, concert attendees who take the music home with them have a tangible means of remembering the message of God’s redeeming love which is presented in each concert.

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We’ve added several short videos to our video page…experience different aspects of our ministry through these sights and sounds!

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Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you.
Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.    Hebrews 13:7

The recent Gathering in Germany of most of our Proclaim community from their ministries around the world was the perfect setting for grieving the loss yet celebrating the life of our dear friend, colleague, and leader, Bob Johnson.  Since August we have been trying to come to terms with the reality of this loss so soon after Bob’s condition had seemed to be improving. His wife Alyce has been the one to give the rest of us consolation and strength as she has truly experienced a supernatural peace and comfort from God who has sustained her.

At the Gathering John Bowers led the teaching sessions each morning looking at some of the admonitions in scripture to “Consider . . . ” The first day began with: Consider your Leaders. This was an emotional, but uplifting and God-honoring time as we shared together so many remembrances of how Bob’s life has impacted ours in ways that are worthy of imitating.

We are sharing here a video that we watched together that morning, produced by Marj Speiser, which beautifully captures the spirit of Bob’s life and ministry.

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My first job in Europe was typing for Bob Johnson. When we went to Belgium in 1982 where Jim taught at the Bible Institute, I worked as a secretary at the school. But every Friday I went to the Johnsons and attempted to keep ahead of Bob, then Northern Europe Director for Greater Europe Mission, typing up the reams of correspondence he cranked out by hand on legal pads. It was fascinating as through those letters I learned about ministry all over Europe, both in our mission and other missions, as well as in national movements. Only much later would I begin to understand the weightiness of Bob’s interactions and influence on all these fronts.  Through that I got a glimpse of the vision and leadership of this dedicated, charismatic, innovative, and a little bit ADHD missionary. That’s why, when Greater Europe Mission polled the troops as they were looking for a new mission director, I responded that it would be their loss if they considered anyone other than Bob Johnson. Of course, as God would have it, they did consider others and in retrospect I realized that God in His wisdom had a more creative agenda.

As it was, God had planned for Bob and Alyce to be put in intensely challenging life experiences that grew and purified them and proved their faith. And in His great sovereignty, he prepared them and led them to Proclaim where Bob’s insight is indelibly etched in the forming of who we are as a mission. In these years I have come full circle editing reams of Bob’s writings – everything from foundational documents to, most recently, the tour manual he was passionately writing right up till God took him home. And Bob, with his gift of storytelling, has gone way beyond the documenting of guidelines for a successful tour – he has penned a history and journey of Proclaim! International.  Through his keyboard he has both impacted the course of Proclaim as a mission and powerfully recounted and recorded God’s faithfulness through it all.

Bob is so desperately missed – but he gave more for the sake of God, for his co-workers, and for a spiritually needy world, than most people will in a much longer lifetime.

Well done, good and faithful servant.

 

 

Sunday, September 30, 6:30 pm, Proclaim musicians along with guest musicians at Christian Family Chapel led in an evening of praising the Lord.  Music from Kim Peterson’s brand new CD was featured and we shared victories and challenges from God as he is growing the ministry of Proclaim!  Check out Kim’s CD: Like Stars in the Night

  1. You Will Satisfy
  2. Ready
  3. I am Yours Jesus
  4. The Truth of You
  5. Su Pueblo
  6. What Kind of Man
  7. Made to Praise
  8. Here We Are
  9. The Everlasting Way
  10. You are a Shield
  11. You are Everything
  12. You Won
See more about the story behind the CD and background on the lyrics at http://morelightplease.wordpress.com/

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Listen / purchase through itunes:

Proclaim 2012 Gala video
See What a Proclaim! Tour is Like
964-Pound Weight Loss in Less than a Week
Hi Croatia – Soul Tattoo is Coming!
Proclaim! Tour in Greece – Spasenie
Art with Heart – Leah Heinemann
Proclaim! International Gala in Jacksonville
Belarus Tour Photos – Los Vecinos
Los Vecinos Band in Belarus
8th Annual Mission Conference in Croatia
Welcome Carey and Holly Holmquist
Greg and Becky Davis in Germany

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This captures experiences and impressions on a 2011 tour through the eyes of the sound tech David Cook who is now with the Proclaim tour in Croatia and Bosnia —

 

 

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To this . . . 

Thanks to all the generous donors who made this possible. In less than one week $5000 came in and we were able replace the 1000 lbs of equipment you see above with individual units —  a total of 36 lbs that fits in a suitcase!  Now the system is on its way to be used for the first time by the band Soul Tattoo going on tour to Croatia and Bosnia. Click on this link to meet the band and hear some of the music: http://www.reverbnation.com/soultattooeu

 

 

Proclaim!’s newest band on their 1st tour delivered a powerful message — leaving an indelible mark on hearts — in city squares, cultural centers, a jazz club, and a prison in Croatia and Bosnia. This multinational group, including the five-member band and a big support team of sound and video techs and set up crew, brought together motivated proclaimers from seven countries.

The band based in Kandern, Germany, worked hard to prepare an excellent presentation with a clear message, and believers in the churches in Croatia did their part in making the most of the opportunity by spreading the word.

Check out the band on their profile at Reverbnation to meet the band members, hear a couple of their tunes and see the tour schedule:

http://www.reverbnation.com/soultattooeu

See photos of the tour on Proclaim’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.384105901638783.77017.113784272004282&type=3

 

Carey Holmquist and Proclaim ministry partners with Spasenie, from Belarus, recently returned from a rewarding 10-day tour in Greece with 16 events including 2 TV interviews.

The tour took them to these locations, in most of which multiple events were scheduled:
• Northern region: Thessalonika, Alexandroupoli, Katerini
• Southern region: Corinth, Athens, Greek Bible Institute


Their ministry to a variety of nationalities — including Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, American, and even some from closed countries — was met with a warm response from all ages and every cultural group. It is encouraging that every sponsor asked them to return.


Following the tour the team was able to speak with some church leaders on a deeper level, resulting in an invitation to return next year to do leadership and ministry development training in addition to the concerts. Their vision is to include leaders from several other countries to benefit from the training.

In the meantime, some of the leaders in the Greek churches have been invited to visit Spasenie in Belarus to participate in some of their activities early next year.

We love to see cross-cultural relationships like this flourish! Please pray with us for God’s direction in future ministry opportunities in Greece.

Leah Heinemann is a Proclaim Associate in Dallas, a visual artist developing the ministry Fellow Artists Reaching Out. Leah and her husband Mark lived for many years in Germany raising their family, ministering in a theological seminary, and touching lives in their community. Now based in the USA Leah teaches art in public school, and through Fellow Artists Reaching Out she encourages Christian artists to use their God-given gifts for His kingdom.  But her heart is never far from those ladies in Germany that she poured herself into teaching evangelistic aerobics classes and sharing her artistic gifts and herself.

As often as possible Leah finds a way to get back and continue pursuing or encouraging ladies she has known in Germany, or even to go to other countries where there is great need for God’s love and truth to be revealed. Speaking to women’s groups, teaching art classes, setting up her easel in the city plaza — her art opens doors and her heart communicates God’s love.

Last summer Leah created this painting to use as an illustration as she had opportunities in Germany to speak on John 15:5, following up with women she has ministered to in the past and making new contacts.

I am the Vine and you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing.