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HONORING SENIORS
ordinary

PEOPLE by Jess Peterson

by Randy Boyd, Executive Director, Prepare International

rdinary people. What a powerful and our God and of His Christ.” It still amazes me
productive force on the earth they are. that these ordinary people, based out of Lub-
OOver the years, I’ve discovered there is bock, Texas, are His instrument for His world!
really only one kind of person on earth—the We live by faith, serve because of love, believe Inspiration
ordinary man or woman, boy or girl—but it’s for the supernatural, encourage the wounded,
how we view our ordinariness that determines dream impossible dreams. We are just the ordi-
what we become and what we accomplish with nary ones on mission with heaven.
our lives.
I want to encourage each of you reading today
Earlier in this edition, you met Callie, my wife, to dream, offer your lives, live sacrificially, and
and our family and heard a bit of our story. give your ordinary humanity into His hands.
Callie and I have pioneered a leadership devel- You’ll be amazed, for life is made of the ordi-
opment work in 25 nations, stretching from the nary, and how these ordinary ones live and give
cities of Peru to the high mountains of Nepal. determines greatness!

The name of this work is Prepare International, Contact Prepare international at
and we develop spiritual leadership, focusing on www.pinations.org.
seeing, entering, and advancing the Kingdom of
Jesus in the world at large. I still stand amazed
that we are the ones called to this work because
we are so, so ordinary, but I’ve learned this sim-
ple principle: when the ordinary is placed in the
hands of Jesus, anything can happen.

Callie and I simply began this journey trying to
get things right in our marriage and in our chil-
dren, and it seems that God has chosen to export
what we’ve learned and become into the world.

Prepare International now serves in 22 nations
beyond the United States. We work in many
Latin American countries and 14 European
ones, stretching across the continent from East
Africa to Asia. Many years ago, we dreamed
of a simple, mobile, yet very powerful training Bio:
school that could be adapted to any culture and
any environment. We have conducted over 75
two-year training programs with thousands of Randy serves as director of Prepare International (PI), a mission group
graduates who are now living and serving the serving over 20 nations of five continents. Prepare International is a
Lord more effectively in their own nations. Over leadership training group who seeks to help the Frontline Shepherds of
300 new churches have been started, Christian the world to see the Kingdom of God, enter the Kingdom, and forcefully
schools have been opened and the Kingdom of advance the Kingdom through discipling their nation. Randy has been
married to Callie for 38 years and has three married children, Josiah married
Jesus has invaded tens of thousands of homes to Brandi, Bethany married to Boone, and Hannah married to Nathan, who
and the everyday workplace. The kingdoms of all serve the nations with him and Callie through the ministry of PI.
this world are truly becoming “the Kingdom of

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