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.

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.

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

Registration is Now Closed! 

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.  

This 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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REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

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

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

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

Kathie Jenkins

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

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

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 —

Proclaim tour live
produced by Alex Sims

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