New web site

Rachael and I are now married and have a new web site for the both of us!

www.wix.com/RAADAMS/rechabiteministries

the site is now under construction, but in the weeks ahead we will update and give all of our information on that site!

We are also in the process of being ordained as Rechabite ministries, which should be finished in a couple of weeks!

Recently theOverseas Ministries Study Center reported the countries that receive the largest number of foreign missionaries.  Guess who was #1?  The United States.  That's right, there are now more missionaries to the United States than to any other country in the world.

Unreached and unevangelized: 95% of the people living in the 10/40 Window are unevangelized. Many have never heard the Gospel message even once. There are either no Christians or not enough of a Christian movement in many cultures of the 10/40 Window to carry out vibrant near-neighbor evangelism. If those groups are to be evangelized, believers will need to leave their own culture to enter another where they will seek to plant the gospel. Such cross-cultural evangelism is required because there are people groups with no church movements that are understandable or relevant to them.

• 865 million unreached Muslims or Islamic followers in 3330 cultural sub-groupings
• 550 million unreached Hindus in 1660 cultural sub-groups
• 150 million unreached Chinese in 830 groups
• 275 million unreached Buddhists in 900 groups
• 2550 unreached tribal groups (which are mainly animistic) with a total population of 140 million
• Forming a smaller -- though important -- unreached group are the 17 million Jews scattered across 134 countries
• Good news: Missions researcher David Barrett says the country with the most rapid Christian expansion ever is China where there are 10,000 new Christian converts every day.

One Question for you all out there>>>>>>>  How was your potluck at church this month?

Minor Update!

I've been in a season where I have felt like my connection with the Lord has become second place to ministry. I am not sure what exactly happened or how it came to be that way but I came to a place where the Lord wouldn't let me continue on as if nothing was wrong. Towards the end of my last trip in South Africa it was as if the Lord lifted His blessing off of ministry and I was forced to leave Africa and return to the states.
When I returned it was still very difficult to reconnect with the Lord. Which was when He introduced me to a strange new method of revelation named Rachael! Rachael and I met in Mozambique at Iris Ministries in 2006 but something happened when we started talking this time, my heart went absolutely crazy! I couldn't wait to talk to her, I couldn't stop thinking about her! I became a lovesick mess in almost no time at all!
I was reading psalm 139 a while ago and Jesus really started talking to me through it via my relationship with Rachael! I finally started to understand His heart for me! I don't know have many times I have read through that particular chapter but this time I started to understand!

17 How precious are your thoughts concerning me, O God! How vast in number they are!

18 If I try to count them, there would be more of them than there are grains of sand.

I started to interpret through a different lens..... I know my thoughts toward Rachael, how often I think of her, how my heart feels when I think of her and all these kinds of thoughts. Then feeling the Lord smile knowing that I was finally understanding how he feels towards me, towards all of us!
Knowing the pleasure the Lord feels about me and how it truly has nothing to do with whether or not I am going crazy trying to reach the lost or get the sick healed or the demonized delivered.
All of these things I thought that I understood but it was more of a head knowledge and not real knowing! The real Christian life is just loving Jesus and letting Him love us! Perfect love casting out all fear and anxiety about life and ministry and just being able to abandon ourselves in absolute trust to Him! Out of that place flows all anointing, ministry and life. What are we not willing to do for those that we love? Those we love we want to please because if it matters to them then it matters to us! And how free does that make us in Him, knowing that the things on my heart are on His as well! And how amazing to have God who loves us with a love that is so immense that we will likely never in all eternity be able to fully grasp!