Welcome to Betty Swann Ministries. Our heart is to help empower people to change the world by using the gifts and talents God gave them. http://www.bettyswann.com Now for some current news just to bring you up to snuff: (what in the world does that mean and how did we ever start using it????) So much is going on in three different fronts that my head is spinning. i have never seen God work like this in my life. It has to be Him because I would not think it could be done. Instead, it is being done decently and in order, just QUICKLY! NEW YORK FRONT: 1. We are happy as clams here. Every day I have some kind of Jesus encounter with either a person on the street, in a shop, or someone I have just met. 2. Our church, Times Square Church, is so good and so full of joy and the Holy Spirit that I can't wait to get there each weekend and am sad if I have to miss it. Every Sunday night the service consists of this rocking, happy, dancing praise and worship and then there are three testimonies and then a salvation sermon where scores get saved, and then more singing and dancing and joy. Three weeks ago one of the testimonies was a man about 50 who had been a member of the Colombo Crime Family who got sent to prison for horrible crimes and got saved there. 3. I started teaching a Women's Bible Study in Queens, NY (one hour on the subway to get there) on Intimacy with God. Fifteen women attended the first meeting and then we went out to lunch together. Already, I have met privately with some of them and they have emailed me and called me and texted me about how excited they are about the meeting. I will start teaching it weekly this Fall. AFRICA FRONT: 1. Four women-Betty, Sherrye Gugenheim, Judy Fuller, and Mary Styer are going to Kenya and Tanzania. This will be the sixth trip for me to Kenya since 2005. Tanzania will be new. We will be doing women's conferences, a children's leadership training conference at the orphanage, feeding people, and starting the new work in Tanzania 2. Dave Clark and his son, Casey, will be joining us, but they will branch off and do work in South Africa and Kenya on Fatherhood. 3. Pennies From Heaven continues to feed about 900 people a week in Kenya. 4. Christian Women in Business continues to grow and put new women in business. So far $10,000 has been used to start micro-finance businesses. 5. We are also continuing to pay to educate people at the high school and college level. Some are getting Master's Degrees. 6. We are now taking Kenyan women with us on our trips to other countries and they are now trained to preach and prophesy. This will be the third time they have gone with us when we take them to Tanzania. 7. This ministry with Bishop Joseph Wambugu continues to deepen and have great fruit. PAKISTAN FRONT: 1. Blowing my mind! 2. The BSM Projector Ministry which shows my TV show, "What is My Cross?" has been seen by almost 7000 people since September 29, 2009, and over 4,000 have made decisions for Christ in about 17 villages in Pakistan. No one else seems to be doing anything like this projector ministry and Nadeem has pastors calling him all the time asking how in the world he is doing it ( and on as little money as he is doing all of it on) 3. The BSM Mobile Bible School has already graduated its first class and they were so proud of themselves. Before graduating they had to be taught 10 of the basic lessons from my GLC TV shows and memorize 25 Bible verses (they cannot read or write for the most part). We are now starting the next Mobile Bible School in a village where 1400 attended the movie and 1000 made decisions. They shouted with joy today when they heard they are the ones who get the next Mobile Bible School. 4. The BSM Educational Center has 64 kids and 13 adults learning to read and write. There was no chance of this happening in their lives. They are also learning a little English too. We are almost ready for the next Educational Center to start in the village where 1400 attended the movie. 5. The BSM TV Channel started this week on the internet. It happened so quickly that I was shocked. www.bsmtv.tv It will have my videos as well as videos of others from around the world. It will be 80% in English and 20% in Urdu. It is to be an international TV channel, not just a Pakistani one. TEXAS: I will be on GLC TV Monday, May 31 (Memorial Day) on Light of the Southwest from 8-10 PM ( CST). I will be telling about all of the above and then preaching a salvation message for 30 minutes. I have never done one before on TV, so I need lots of prayer. I want it to be highly anointed and full of the Spirit and I want many to be saved. This video can be used over and over for evangelism. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." Did you realize that the Bible says he was talking about the cross when he said it and the cross was an embarrassing as the electric chair is today when a prisoner is killed on it. Yet He was glorified on it. I read recently that the Apostle Andrew said as he was led to the cross, "I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it." I guess the thing that makes me the happiest of all is that this all God. There is nothing going on that does not reek of God's perfume. And to think that we all get to be a part of it! Love, Betty http://bettyswann.com PRAYER NEEDS-- PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE NEEDS TO BE MET NEW YORK: 1. For the Queens Bible Study to grow and grow 2. For the women to begin to be released into their giftings and calling 3. For them to be open and transparent 4. For all these people that God keeps bringing across my path to get what they are looking for deep inside themselves. 5. For amazing signs and wonders to be present in the meetings AFRICA: 1. Our trip money to come in (we all pay our own way) 2. Conference expenses (we need about $8800 still to come in to run off the conferences in Kenya and Tanzania) 3. Conference salaries of the people in Joseph's office who work night and day preparing for this 4. Money to give away to various needy people (this happens every time we go and it can be for school fees, clothes, food, church building needs) 5. Office supplies and music CDs (Not sure how this will work this year as I will be in NYC and not able to bring them) 6. Laptop computers for the orphanage and some of the adult workers 7. Bibles to give away in both countries (They cost about $8.00 each) PAKISTAN: 1. Money to put on more Projector Ministries ($186/showing) 2. Money to buy a weapon, license and training by the police in using the weapon (training is free, they told Nadeem to have two people at the door to guard the church now and he also wants to take them when he goes out to do a Projector Ministry ($400) 3. Money to start another Educational Center 4. People to really grow in their relationship with God from watching the projector show. That some would be called out into the ministry from it. http://bettyswann.com