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Several months later she was taken up in a vision for several hours
and heard the Lord speak to her and tell her to be a minister and
a missionary to Africa, Asia and England.
When she returned home to Laguna
Beach, California, she began ministering at every opportunity
and leading short-term mission teams.
Praying for the Body of Christ in Barbados
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Rolland and Heidi met at a small
charismatic church in Southern California and married six
months later after realizing they were united in their calling
and desire to see revival among the poor and forgotten of
the world.
Rolland and Heidi spent twelve years in Asia.
The first six years they led Christian dance-drama crusades
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They made use of their backgrounds in creative
media and the performing arts, and saw thousands come to Jesus.
The bond was established with Praise Academy,
the Barbados group who present the Gospel of Christ through
Dance.
"Changing Mindsets
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After meeting Jackie Pullinger-To and working with
her ministry to drug addicts in Hong Kong, however, they had a strong
feeling that the Lord wanted to change the direction of their ministry.
Their hearts were increasingly broken for the poor and unwanted.
They wondered about their crusade converts and wanted to concentrate
more on the specific daily needs of those to whom they ministered.
This was a time of change. They began to plant works among the poor--first
in the slums of central Jakarta, Indonesia, and then among forgotten
streetsleepers and elderly in the most crowded urban area in the
world, central Kowloon in Hong Kong. God was giving them his heart
for the poor and abandoned.
In 1992 they left to do their PhDs in systematic theology at King's
College, University of London. At the same time they planted a church
among the homeless, drug addicts and alcoholics who lived on the
streets in central London.
In 1995, after twenty years of praying and waiting, they arrived
in Mozambique, the
poorest country in the world. <
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Sourced www.irismin.org
Email heidi@irismin.org
Iris Ministries, Inc.
933 College View Drive
Redding, CA 96003
rolland@irismin.org
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