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UPDATE FOR 2016

Please Pray! Middle East Update~The Sherrods
Date: Sunday, February 07, 2016

Greetings beloved:

Wow! The last year has been so amazing with everything that has happened.
Sure, there have been challenges, trials, tribulations. Sometimes, it
hasn't been easy to keep going, BUT when we look back and see the beauty of
God's love working in all things, overcoming the impossible, bringing His
healing power, and restoring hope to the hopeless, it's worth any price
we've had to pay and more. We are truly grateful for His hand and His
leading. He is Light and the darkness flees before Him!

*SPECIAL ATTN:* We want to give everyone a thorough update as we have
entered a brand new season. I am sending this, on Christy and I's behalf,
as a regular email to my former list as well as our Mailchimp newsletter
format so if you get this twice, this is why. The email will have some
video links but only the newsletter has the pictures we include. We want to
ask prayer from as many people as possible as we embark on this new year
and all it has to offer. We believe there are great things in store this
year, for all of us, and we know the power there is in prayer. So please
lift us up in prayer! I also ask that you please respond if you only
received the email (with no pictures) and would like to continue to receive
our newsletters. You will then receive our newsletter (with pictures) as
well. I want to create an accurate group list under my email too so if you
receive the newsletter (with pictures) but not a separate email, please
reply to let me know and add richardsherrod333@gmail.com to your address
book. It will be easier at times for us to simply put out an email. This is
a tool of the Lord we want to utilize more as it is so important to stay
connected to the Body of Christ when you are on the front lines. Also,
please watch the videos at the end to learn about the plight of our
persecuted family, seeing them face to face!

*ZINA UPDATE:* Thank you to all who gave to this great need! We received
over $5,000 to give to the Bashar family which was enough to take care of
all pre-op chemo treatments and part of surgery! She had successful surgery
6 days ago and is recovering well! Continue to pray for continued provision
and that immigration will be very quick. Pray they would come to the U.S.
as they hope. Currently, they are approved to Australia but alot of their
family is in the USA.

*WHAT HAVE WE BEEN DOING?* (A little review) After 3 fruitful years of
ministering and pastoring in Jericho and Jerusalem, God directed us to
Jordan. This was after ISIS had taken over northern Iraq and caused a mass
diaspora of Christian and Yazidi refugees.  We knew many came to Jordan for
refuge and we also saw that Jordan is to be an end-time refuge Biblically.
This is a very strategic country for the Lord. It went differently than
expected as we essentially became refugees ourselves, not allowed to return
back to Israel where we had our home, car, and most of our possessions! How
is that for being able to identify with those you will minister God's love
to? That was September 2014 and we jumped in wherever we could to help as
we made new connections and sought the Lord for His positioning.

In January 2015, we began helping Canon Andrew White, aka the Vicar of
Baghdad, with pioneering the work for his Foundation in Jordan, helping the
Iraqi Christians, as he was not allowed back into Iraq under the
circumstances. For the foundation, we started and ran a school for 250
Iraqi Christian refugee children, developed and managed a partnership with
a medical clinic to treat 100's per month, and provided accommodation and
food relief for as many as our budget would allow. Along with meeting the
natural needs of those who come to Jordan with limited resources and are
not allowed to work on top of that (a pretty impossible situation to find
yourself in and the UN does not help the Iraqis), we also pray with them,
encourage them, give them hope, and simply LOVE however the Holy Spirit
leads. The spiritual aspect of being here is vital. We are to equip the
saints, and release the kingdom! We have seen much fruit in praying for the
sick and just loving on people who are hurt, broken and traumatized. We
turned the foundation work over to a younger couple. We pioneered the work
and now they are managing and improving it as they can. One concern we have
heard recently is that many families we were helping previously have just
been told they will no longer receive help. We left in September, and have
heard great things about the work continuing but we will find out more...

*THE NEW SEASON:* Needing to renew our visas, we enjoyed some rest and
ministry in Europe staying with some pastor friends and speaking to several
churches. It was a great time of refreshing as Middle Eastern life is not
necessarily easy. It has been a big adjustment in many ways going from
Israel to Jordan in September 2014 and now God brought the beginning of
another huge transition exactly a year later, September 2015.

We returned to Jordan from Europe and we hit the ground running as we were
contacted to be the point people for a large sponsorship/immigration
program with a church in the US. We registered 60 families in one project
where they will all move to the same place and be cared for by the church.
They will be able to stay as a community in their new home instead of being
scattered all over the world! People are working diligently in high levels
of the US government to make this happen. There is obviously resistance
with everything that's happened overseas and in the US. The work is to get
the Christians moved to the top of the list for immigration. The Christians
and the Yazidis are the persecuted minority and should rightfully have high
priority. If/when this project is successful, it can be a pilot program for
other churches to do the same thing across the US. Please pray for this. We
believe it is utmost in the heart of Abba Father to see His children
relocated to safety where they can start a new life after losing everything
they had. (Oh, and just so you know, these are engineers, construction
workers, drivers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, dentists, business owners,
carpenters, etc., not so different than you and me...)

*WHAT NOW?* We continue pastoring & discipling them, encouraging them,
praying for them (their #1 prayer request is always to leave), helping and
providing as we are able, to bring hope, to release His kingdom, His
provision, His love & His goodness. We are ministering and sharing the good
news to our persecuted brethren in churches and in homes. We are partnering
with different organizations to continue relief efforts. I stayed past
Thanksgiving to facilitate a huge relief effort helping 150 families with
rent over 2 days with the same US church who wants to sponsor the group
immigration. During this time, I also acquired 8 apartments for 9 families
currently with rent paid for a year. (Rent is the biggest need for the
refugees here.) 4 of these 9 families had been living in a literal box on
church compounds for well over a year. Now we have moved them to much
better conditions in safer areas of Jordan where there are many other
Jordanian Christians as well. The great need will not end in the near
future. *Will you consider how you can help?* These people are our family
and they need our help. They need our prayers and support. The work is
abundant and plentiful and we have made so many connections and
relationships over the past year. The Jordan task now? continue relief,
discipleship, prayer, seeking His kingdom as well as being available for
new projects and the current immigration project. We are still connecting
with new groups and new pastors here in Jordan as well. We don't exactly
know what it will look like but we feel that what we are moving into this
year is bigger than last year and we are pushing in to go through the huge
door He has in front of us!

*HOW CAN YOU HELP?* We need your partnership! We ask that you please
partner with us in prayer. We also need financial partners. Would you
prayerfully consider a one time or monthly gift? We need partners for $25,
$50, $100, and $200 per month. Would you pick one of these spots & become a
partner in this crucial work? You'll be playing a vital part in helping the
persecuted church in the Middle East. To give any amount, simply use PayPal
to send to richardsherrod333@gmail.com or mail your gift to Richard
Sherrod, P.O. Box 10068, Tampa, FL 33679. Thank you so much for your
support! We can't do this without you.

Much love and tremendous abundance,
Richard & Christy


There is great reason to believe and have high expectations. Let HOPE
arise! For there shall be a latter day reign of the Spirit of YHWH! It is
time for signs & wonders. You carry heaven inside of you! Jesus said to
him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."
Mark 9:23


BONUS MATERIAL: A dear Christian woman who lived here in Amman (a friend's
aunt) had visitations from Jesus for 2 years in 1933. He showed her many
things which lend to her accuracy, such as WW2, the holocaust, and the
creation of Israel as a nation. She also saw a great outpouring of Holy
Spirit in Amman which would spread into the nations. This has not come to
pass... yet. I believe God is positioning things for such a time as this.
These Christian refugees who are here now are from the Cradle of
Christianity and carry the DNA of the first church (which walked in signs &
wonders). *There is an awakening on the way!*

*I believe God is ready to do some amazing things this year,* not only here
(we've had several healings since returning in January) but in the US. The
100 year Asuza St. prophecy is a couple of years overdue and Lou Engle is
doing the Asuza Now Call on the 110th anniversary of the beginning of this
outpouring that launched the pentecostal explosion to over a 1/2 billion
around the world. There was also a specific word with such beautiful
confirmation for Alabama in 2008 which should have come to pass in 2011 and
it has been delayed. Whatever the reason, I believe *THIS is the season!
The time is now* and we are excited!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSv4vBcFyvo
Who Would Dare To Love ISIS? (A Letter from the People of the Cross)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W0_vdkeFts
An encouraging word for 2016

https://www.facebook.com/KSMIsrael/videos/10156129951385076/
Kings School of Media (KSM) in Jerusalem came to Jordan and filmed some of
the people we helped in 2015. Many have traveled already but many remain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5NdFOxrPAE
This is a longer, more in-depth film from KSM of the families we were
helping and connected them to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuv393P2Ns0
Another great video to see who we are helping here and to know the kinds of
stories they have. (by MORE International)


Richard Sherrod
richardsherrod333@gmail.com



Edited by Moderator on 02/10/2016 at 2:00pm
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