April 2020 update

Hey, Guys and Gals! I wanted to get a letter out and touch bases with you all in these crazy days.  I originally started writing an update two weeks ago, but that’s now totally obsolete and in the trash.  I will try again...  

First, I want to say that God is still good and He is still in control.  None of this took Him by surprise.  As I look over the situation and ponder and pray, I am more and more amazed at God's hand in all of this.  With one virus, virtually idols of all kinds have come crashing down.  Just as God battled the false gods of Egypt with the Plague, He has just ripped down all of the idols that we have set in place and that take all of our time and attention.  There are no sporting events or concerts to watch or attend.  Travel and shopping have virtually ceased to exist.  Our money is taking a hit.  The government is struggling to stay on top of the current situation.  All that is left standing is God, He is the only thing that is Unshakable and Unstoppable.  We now have time to honor and worship Him.  Let’s not waste this amazing gift of time that God has given most of us around the world to set things in the right order.  Thank you, God! Continue to fix the foundations of our lives. Here are links to the 3 worship/church services we have been participating in each Sunday in case you don't have one to attend: Immanuel Kenosha.Church, The Tabernacle, and Living Light Church.

Prayer is one of the ways I’m actively staying connected with other people and I would encourage you to do the same.  Although I am unable to do face-to-face visits for prayer, I am using FaceTime, phone calls and Zoom to pray with and for others.  I want to share this little story with the hopes that it will encourage you and spur you on to good works.  One of the guys in my home group named Joe texted me.  Some people call them life group, small group, caring group or a variety of other terms, but it's just a collection of believers meeting regularly to do life together.  Joe texted me asking if I could prayer for him because he had had Influenza B for a week, and it was getting worse. I prayed for him for 20 mins and nothing happened.  Then I felt God nudge my heart to get the other men in home group involved.  So I told Joe, "I’m going to hang up, text the guys in our group to pray, and call you back in 20 minutes."  So I did that, and two other guys started praying, I called Joe back.  And GOD HEALED JOE!  Man, we serve an amazing and powerful God! All this to say, you can do the same thing.  You can pray for God's healing in a time where that’s what people need, and you will see God do amazing things.  When you hear of someone sick from the corona virus, don’t just throw up a prayer for them, go on the offensive, call them and pray for God's healing on their life.  At one of the local churches here in Kenosha, one of the deacons came down with what he thought was COVID-19.  He had been home sick for 5 days.  He had been in contact with his doctor and was just about at the point of going to the emergency room. Just before going to the ER, he went to his church's online prayer meeting, where they prayed for him and his breathing became much better...by bedtime, all of his symptoms had disappeared! Way to go, God! (He later got the results that he had RSV) I was able to pray with this guy last night and he was still in awe that God had healed him.  This needs to be our new normal, not the surprise that God would heal, but pushing into the fact that He can and will heal others.  We need to step up our game.  All that said, I have added a link below where you can send me any prayer requests you might have and I will be happy to pray for you, especially during these troubled times for the world.

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Naturally Supernatural

Roger being prayed over by one of the speakers, Bob Fulton

It looks like my seventh annual trip to Soul Survivor Church, which puts on the Naturally Supernatural Conference, in England with pastors and leaders from Kenosha may be the last trip I am taking for quite some time. This year’s trip included 9 guys from Kenosha  and my son, John, joined us again for the conference, making it 10.  Their were 5 churches represented including mine. It was great to be back in Watford with my good friend Mike Pilavachi. There is just something about the extended time of worship and getting into God’s presence that happens at this conference.  Each pastor brought a younger guy to pour into this year. I was able to  not only pray and speak into the lives of the senior pastors, but also the guys they are raising up to come along side them.  It was great to see the next generation experience God in some special ways. This trip is always an amazing key to building the unity of the Church in Kenosha.

Praia da Marinha in Portugal

Praia da Marinha in Portugal

The guys

An old church building in Lisbon, Portugal

We had a great time of fellowship just being together as we traveled through Portugal, and spent the day there on our way to England.  From the little we saw, it was a beautiful country.  However, it has a drug problem…I have never been approached to purchase so much cocaine or weed in my life.  They would even come into the restaurants where we were eating during our meals and offer to sell us some.  I even had a few offers for free samples, which I declined, in case you were wondering. 

Koral loves Peanut Butter

After the conference, I took my annual pilgrimage to Taunton/Wellington, Summerset, to see my kids John & Marie, Divan & Koral, who live on that side of the pond about 20 minutes from each other. It was important that I deliver Jif peanut butter, pickles, ranch dressing and a few other items for birthdays and Christmas. Each guy going on the trip gives me some of the space in his suitcase, and takes part of the gifts for the kids so I can bless them with more than I could carry alone. For those of you who really know Koral, you know about her PEANUT BUTTER PROBLEM!  Hahaha.  My brother Matt and son-in-law David Johnson (Kellie’s husband) accompanied me on the trek to Summerset.  We were able to again attend the Wellington Church which we try to do every year.  It was great to be able to worship with them and to be able to pray for them.  It was great to see my kids who live so far away.  I am so grateful that I can bundle those two adventures together.  

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Allies of Kenosha Youth

The Gathering at The Tabernacle on March 8th

Allies was on a great path before COVID-19 turned our world upside down.  We started March off with The Gathering (a gathering of youth ministries' Sr. High and middle school across Kenosha area, and campus life clubs from local schools, for prayer and worship.)  God has been speaking a lot about unity and being on the same page.  So we were working towards that end.  At The Gathering, we introduced a Bible reading plan for all the students to do together via the YouVersion Bible app.  It was 21 days in Ephesians.  At the conclusion of the 21 days, we were going to come together for another Gathering.  During the 3 weeks between gatherings, each Church across Kenosha was going to be teaching the same lessons on the Armor of God as we were looking to mobilize students to reach their friends more effectively with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to go on the offensive.  That is all on hold now as no one can gather and everyone is currently looking at how they can best minister to their current students under these circumstances.

We continue to meet together weekly as youth leaders by way of Zoom meetings.  Thank you, Jesus, for technology that makes this possible.

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Sr. Allies

The senior pastors and leaders in Allies have been faced with some incredible tasks these past few weeks.  How do we best care for the people we shepherd, and how do we take our church services into their homes?  It's a crazy, time-consuming task and many of the pastors are weary from putting in 90-hour weeks making sure that all the little details work along with all of the studying and preparing that usually has to happen to bring about a church service.  I am even aware of some that have been sleeping at their churches to be able to get everything done so services happen. Meetings have evolved from sitting around the table discussing best strategies and praying, to having online meetings and trying to get acclimated to using technology and making it feel natural as situations change from day to day.  We continue to meet weekly for prayer via Zoom, although I missed one due to our staycation (more on that in Family update section).  This is all new to everybody and we are working to try to get things right.

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Family Front

From left: Roger, Sarah, Grace, and Zeke

We were all set to take our spring break to Tennessee two weeks ago.  We had our clothes packed, had groceries for the week in coolers and totes, had our swim gear out for the indoor water park.  The pets were set to be doled out to various people. We were ready to go!  There was no sign in our area of any of the COVID-19 at all.  Then about 12 hrs before we were to leave, our state made moves to help stop the flow of the corona virus. Schools were closed and a no-unnecessary-travel order was put into place.  The same as all of you.  So we did the only thing we could do...we turned our vacation into a staycation.  We had a Toy Story 1, 2, 3, 4 marathon.  We did puzzles, played games, ate unhealthy food (isn't that what vacations are for?), played indoor tennis (using foam plates with stick handles for rackets and balloons for balls), played video games, and a whole lot more. I stayed away from all meetings (although I did sneak in a few calls).  We had a great time being a family and focusing on each other.  Although it wasn’t our first choice or second ...or 689th, we still managed to make it an enjoyable time. 

Last week was crazy as we tried to get Sarah and Grace up and running with online schooling.  This is problematic in itself, then throw in Zeke who was already being home schooled with his ADHD, and our house is a mad house.  Raising this group of kids is nothing like raising our biological children, it requires us to constantly go to God in prayer looking for supernatural wisdom to tackle these new problems that are unlike anything we have seen before.  The link to this lady's prayer summarizes what we and probably half of America is now going through.

There is another chef brewing in the family besides Uncle Dude (my brother David). We attended The Tabernacle’s Chili cook-off fundraiser for the youth.  And Zeke entered a chili, which He and Tammy made... He called it Zeke Olicious.  It was a pizza chili.  He told me he was going to win because he had the best chili. I was prepared to make this a great teaching moment and to help him rise out of the ashes and rebuild his life.  We got a lot of strange looks at first, but in the end it was voted kids' favorite.  Well, so much for my great in-the-moment teaching plans...throw them out and enjoy the moment.  When they called his name to come up and receive his spoon for winning, he was so excited he didn’t know what to do, he finally ran to the front with the biggest smile ever! 

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Summer Plans

This was going to be the section were I was going to tell you about all my summer travel plans to South Africa, New Zealand, and California.  All of which are now on hold. We'll leave this section empty until another time.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support over this difficult season.  Please remember to use the prayer request link so we can be praying for you.  We love you all and wish we could see you.  Love, Roger

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Kenosha, WI 53142-2119

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December 2019 update

It has been a usual fall…Busy, busy, busy, but awesome! God has allowed me to minister in a variety of places all over the world.

Mission Trips

September saw my 3rd trip to South Africa where we worked with an organization called Go Live Dare, run by my friend Donavan Olding. This is very similar to Dare 2 Share in the United States.  Go Live Dare exists to equip youth leaders and students with the tools they need to be Gospel-Advancing people.  We trained and equipped about 50 young people and youth leaders in Cape Town, South Africa, with how to share their faith.  This was Go Live Dare’s first outreach into Cape Town. I was able to pray for several leaders and hear from the Lord for them before and after some of the training and teaching times.  We also did some scouting to help set up for a bigger training program which will involve hundreds of young people being trained and equipped next year.  One of the places we scouted was a penguin park on the ocean to take people on their free day of the week-long training.  I was not expecting to ever be this close and personal with a penguin in my life, it was an awesome experience.

In October, I filled in last minute for a Christian Life School missions trip to Watts, California.  One of the leaders became sick and they literally asked me to help lead the trip with less than a week’s notice. The trip was led by Josh Caputo, a CLS Bible teacher and a former student of mine who attended my school, The Next Generation School of Ministry in 2011.  It was great to work alongside Josh as a peer 8 years after he attended my school.  Watts is most notably known for its riots where 34 people died and thousands where injured in the 1960’s.  It is a very poor African American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. We worked at the Watts Empowerment Center with young children. We also went down to skid row in LA to share Jesus with people by giving them water, listening to them, praying for them and sharing Jesus with them.  The one highlight outside of ministry on this trip for me was being able to eat at my favorite restaurant in all the world: IN-N-OUT Burger. (Nothing like a 4x4!)

In November, I took my first trip to Italy where we worked with Grande Mandato, (basically the Italian version of Dare to Share) with my friend Stefano.  There were about 50 youth and leaders in attendance. The greatest part of this trip is that Tammy was able to accompany me and we were able to minister together…something that has not been able to happen in years.  Mostly due to the fact that we can’t leave the children at home alone.  Our daughter Kellie and daughter-in-law Amy along with others all pitched in to watch the younger kids while we were there.  Kellie even said she would not do it if we didn’t take a few days for fun to see some sites.  We are so grateful to those who allowed us to take this trip together!   

It was one of the worst trips I’ve ever been on if you look at circumstances alone.  My luggage did not arrive with me and I was without a change of clothes for a week.  I bought a few things that we washed out at night but I had to wait until we were in a place for more that one night so that it had a chance to dry, which didn’t happened until day 4.  When I finally received my luggage I discovered that $50 of electronics was missing and had been stolen.  (I am still fighting with the Airlines for them to take responsibility).

Roger is being attended to by paramedics. His lunch has been blurred out so you don’t lose yours.

Roger’s free city transportation.

Not only did I have the luggage fiasco, I also enjoyed some of Italy’s finest hospitality as I spent the night in an Italian hospital.  On Saturday afternoon as part of the training we traveled to a major city approximately an hour away from the conference to share the gospel on the streets of Torino.  Right after I arrived as I was walking down the street, I felt immediately dizzy, sat down and threw up for 5 hours continuously.  So they called an ambulance, took me to the hospital, and gave me a CT scan plus 5 bags of fluids and kept me overnight and most of the next day.  They diagnosed me with vertigo.  And I am still being effected by the dizziness going on my third week from the incident.  We also stayed in Venice as that is where we flew home from, which happen to have the worst flooding they has ever experienced. Thankfully, we don’t just look at our current circumstances but we look to see what God is doing in them. 

Even though I didn’t get to share on the street, an American missionary who spoke fluent Italian stayed the night with me and Tammy to translate for us.  He was able to read the scriptures to my three roommates and a guy from across the hall and discuss Jesus for about 3 hours with them. We were also able to encourage several missionaries who were lonely and missing home.  We were able to pray for several people and see God miraculously heal them.  And we were able to speak the truth of the scriptures and bring prophetic words to several people.  In God’s eyes this trip was a great success.  

We did get a chance to see a few sites in the midst of our travels which helped to soften the blow of the terrible trip.  We spent 3 hours seeing Rome before we had to catch a train. We caught a glimpse of the leaning tower of Pisa before we went to bed one night.  And instead of staying in Venice the whole two days, we drove to a Micro country called Republic of San Marino and spent the afternoon there before we had to fly home, it was absolutely stunning.  So I guess that we made lemonade out of our lemons, lots of lemonade.

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Allies of Kenosha

Youth Leaders worshipping at the Leader Training.

The Allies groups are going well.  We continue to make strides toward more and more unity.  Our prayer times together are perhaps the highlight of the work week for me.  I spend time worshiping and attending many of these churches, whenever possible.  Please continue to pray for unity in the churches of Kenosha.

Jordan Dejno speaking at the Gathering.

In November the Youth Allies Network held two events: a training for youth leaders and a worship night for the youth groups. The training was super helpful as a few senior pastors spoke and encouraged the youth leaders in their ministry to students and being united in our city.

Then the next week the youth groups in the Allies Youth network had a worship night called The Gathering. There were 175 people in attendance with students from 8 different churches plus Campus Life. God is really working in the lives of the student ministries and the Campus Life ministries are growing and reaching new students every week.

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Future Plans

Margaret and Tammy visiting the future site of the Amani Haven girls home back in 2016.

Tammy and I would like to partner with our dear friend in Kenya, Margaret Waruguru, to start a home for girls called Amani (Peace in Kiswahili) Haven. We have been in the planning stage for nearly a year and have some plans drawn up by a resident architect. Our first goal is to raise $30,000 for the foundation. If you feel led to give to this, you may give to Kingdom Partners Global with a note for it to go towards Amani Haven and 100% of your donation will go towards this. We will have more details in future letters along with some pictures of the area where Amani Haven will be built. Some of the girls will be orphans, some will be rescued from human trafficking, some will be there because their families cannot afford to keep them. All of the girls (Phase 1 should be able to house 8 girls) will be given a safe place to live, food to eat and an education at the local school. Our desire is to have the foundation laid before we take a team there to help build the walls and put on a roof…estimated time for that, Lord willing, is summer of 2021.

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Family News

Tammy and Koral

Tammy was blessed by Zach and Jess with a ticket to visit our kids in England, John & Marie and Koral & Divan. She made the trip alone and was gone for two weeks…Kellie and David sent her off with some spending money on a credit card!  It was quite hectic at home without her, but we managed to survive.

Toby Jones has returned to England after staying with us for several months. He accompanied me on my trip to South Africa and was involved in any youth activities I had including working with two youth groups on a weekly basis.

From left: Sarah, Tammy, Grace, Roger, Zeke

Grace is in 7th grade at Concordia Lutheran School and Sarah is in 5th grade there, both are learning well.  Zeke is in third grade and Tammy is home schooling him.   He is involved in soccer and his team just won a Thanksgiving tournament. All three of them LOVE Camden (2) and Adley (4 months) who belong to Jess and Zach and Kaylee (1) who belongs to Kellie and David. (Bold are our bio and adopted kids, non-bold are their amazing spouses!)

We are looking forward to celebrating Christmas with Koral and Divan as they will be here briefly in the States for Divan’s brother’s wedding.  Unfortunately, John and Marie will not be home for the holidays.  It’s part of the sacrifice we make when we choose to follow the Lord, we go where He sends us, when He sends us. Sometimes that is easier than at other times.

We hope you have an amazing Christmas celebrating the Lord’s birth and enjoying your family! Thanks so much for your faithful prayers and support.  Without them we could not do the work that God has called us to. 

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Click the link below to give online. If paying by check, please send your check to the address listed below; do not put our name on the check, but make checks payable to Kingdom Partners Global. All checks will go towards our personal support unless stated otherwise. You will receive a receipt for tax purposes. Thank you so much for being a part of the ministry with us.

Kingdom Partners Global Inc.
7951 - 36th Ave.
Kenosha, WI 53142-2119

- Roger Myers
Executive Director

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