I heart S.F...

Hello family and friends,

This month has gone fast and we have had some good times. Snow fell.. So pretty, but too cold!

At the moment Ben is gone, he left me to head to Ecuador. He shall be back shortly, but we will miss each other by a day as I head to Honduras. We want to send the biggest THANK YOU!!! AND KISSES!! to everyone who supported us and whom have been praying for us. After asking for some help from friends and family we got all the money for our mission within 3 weeks!! God is so good for taking care of us, and for blessing us with such great family and friends. Please pray for us while we journey into lands foreign to us. Especially me, I'm not so use to this mission field, it's my first mission trip, and I am very excited. We will update you on all that happened as soon as we return.

On the 18th of Feb we had the oppurtunity to head down to San Francisco for the weekend with a few other students. We went for what they call a 'ministry trip', which is pretty much you travel with a pastor to another church or conference and minister to them & support what your leader is doing. We went to a church called Promise Land. We joined their school of ministry on Saturday afternoon and shared some things we felt God was saying to us and for them, just really encouraging them in all they are doing and giving them prophetic words. After we had spent this time together we headed to the city to do what is called a 'Treasure Hunt'. We drew prophetic art and headed to the city to find our treasure (the person God has revealed details to you about before you start to hunt). When we arrived we split up into groups, I was leading mine although I had never done this before, pretty scary. Any-who, for a while I couldn't find mine, then about 20m away I saw pretty much the exact picture that I had drawn so I walked over to the area where it was. Looking around, I found exactly who I was looking for, a teenage girl with red long curly hair, I knew it was her straight away. With a bit of fear I approached her, explained to her who I was and what I was doing, then proceeded to ask her if she sang or wrote poems. She does both! (Inside I was relieved, I'm not the type to just approach randoms) So I gave her the prophetic word I had for her and she allowed me to pray for her. It was so good to encourage a stranger with the thoughts of God towards her. She was so happy and blessed that I bothered to share with her.

Later that night we joined the ministry team at Promise Land at their church service. It was great, and more but for the sake of  less reading, it was great!! The next day we headed back to Redding.

Probably the best part of this month was heading down to San Fran for the second time, on the 25th of Feb, to see the Best Man, not just by title, but by life. We got to see Mr Simon Kobler. It's was only for 2 days, but the travel was well worth the embrace. Two of our good friends from Redding joined us for the journey. Thanks for the good times Yari and Dayna! We shopped, ate, laughed, rode the cable carts, wished we could do this everyday and hugged lots. We celebrated that Saturday evening with Hillsong United. Was weird seeing them in "concert" but the best to see them, so great to hear some Aussies accents from the stage!! Thank you friends for touring to San Fran just so we could see you, hehe.
Miss you! Love you!!

The week we returned from having fun in S.F. we had to pack up our little apartment, and move across the road to join our friends Yari and Scott in a 2 bedroom apartment to enjoy for the next 3 months. It is beautiful in here. It's a lot fresher, bigger and happier. We miss you Apt 68, our first home as a married couple, but are so grateful for Apt 23.

There have been many exciting and encouraging things happening, as it seems I could write forever. I will leave you with a very exciting testimony. Our dear friend Scotty, who we live with, his mum had been diagnosed with diabetes 7 weeks prior to this event, about 2 weeks ago now. He was talking to her on skype one night, and came and asked Ben and I to come and pray for her. She wasn't feeling very well and had already taken insulin 6 times that day. So that's what we did, we prayed and asked God to take away what had already been paid for by Him. After praying a little we asked her how she was feeling. She answer "my whole body is burning, it feels like it's on fire!" Now that's a good sign, she was feeling the presence of God all over her. 2 days later we called to see how she was doing. Her sugar level has remained normal and hasn't taken any insulin and her eye sight which had been badly affected by the diabetes had returned to normal. She is in the process of getting test to confirm that it is gone! Praise Jesus!! YAY!!

We only really have one prayer request at the moment, and that is for finances. We are pretty much at our wits end and have 2 months to go. We trust that God will take care of us and he wont let us go in need, and he hasn't yet. We also have our bank details up if any of you wish to help support us at all. It would be greatly appreciated and we wouldn't let it go to waste! Anything would bless us greatly. We really have been blessed by all your support in any form. Thank you so much for loving us and sharing this journey with us.

Love you all, You shall hear from us soon...

Missing the summertime...

Happy Valentine's Day...well yesterday for most people reading this...

We have had an incredible past two weeks. Firstly we are both well...my tonsillitis has gone down and Sarah was finally able to shake that annoying flu which hung around for four weeks.

Also...We owe a huge THANKS to everyone who has been giving and supporting us in prayer and finances for our mission trips. We have been incredibly blessed with over $1200 this week alone! My trip to Ecuador has been paid off! and we only have $835 to go for Sarah's trip to Honduras! We need this by Friday 18th February, so if you feel led to support us in this way, you can give anonymously by using the link below or our bank details are in the right hand column - every dollar counts. THANK YOU again and again to everyone who has supported us so far, it means the world to us! God is soo good.

https://www.ibssm.org/?action=donate&target=missions&student_id=210951

Ben to Ecuador - 11th - 21st March
Sarah to Honduras - 22nd - 31st March

After jumping through a few hoops...we have been successful in finding an apartment! We put the deposit down on Wednesday, and we move in on the 10th March. The new place is much newer, and is being remodeled before we move in. The complex the apartment is in has tennis/basketball courts and well as a pool, spa, sauna and pool table room, and our rent is going to be a lot cheaper. It is a huge blessing!

Once again, school has been incredible. We had an electrical engineer speak about creation and the science behind 'sound'. He had some amazing videos of experiments that he had done to show the power of sound and the spoken word. Then talked to us about how "life and death is in the power is the tongue" (Prov 18:21), and the power of our words (James). "What we speak has power and we don't always see the effects".
Also in our leadership development we had to write out ten core values (non-negotiable's) in our lives. This proved to be a bit of a challenge for me, but after reading and copying a few of Sarah's I was good. ha.

We also have the opportunity to head down into San Francisco on a ministry trip this coming weekend, which we are very excited for!!

Some friends of ours here are in need of some urgent prayer, so if you could please pray and partner with us for their healing!
1. Tim - He has stage four cancer and has also just had surgery to remove a hernia, but he is having problems with water retention, and a few other side effects. He went back into hospital today.
2. Joshua Caleb - He is a two year old boy with very aggressive cancer. His dad (Jimmy) is in my small group. The cancer first started behind his left eye, but after recent tests they have found it to have spread throughout his body.

We are declaring full and complete healing, quick recovery, and peace upon both of their families!!

We hope you are all well and loving life as much as we are! Have a great week!!

Diners, diners, diners...

Hello lovely everyone whom we love...

The past few weeks have been busy, fun filled, experiential and we are falling more in love with a good God everyday!

Sy Rogers has just been to visit our school, which was amazing and extremely humourous, as per usual. One of my favourite parts of this time, was watching all the guys faces when he started to speak, which is of course what Sy first addresses as he says, "I'll over look your residue, if you overlook mine!" God has really been putting on my heart the importance of speaking the truth about people, not what we perceive to be the truth about someone, but rather what God says is the truth about us and them. How can we lead someone into their God given destiny if we are lying to them and ourselves about who we are? It's a good time to get rid of generalizations and start learning Gods truth about his creations.

Also this week on our outreach, we had the most amazing time. We are finding out what it truely feels like to love the poor like Jesus did, and how to enjoy what that love can do and who it can set free. Update from our first blog on our two friends Jesse and Shell. This last Saturday our dear Jesse gave his life to the Lord!!! Yay!! What could be a better day than that! Since we had been praying for him and ministering to him, his family is being restored to him. His father whom he hasn't seen in 8 years has moved to where he is, as well as his mother whom he hasn't seen in 6 years. And the lovely Shell is just lighting up from the inside out. She was having really big financial problems and payments that were being blocked. So afters a few weeks of asking her if she would like me to pray with her she finally let me. She had told me "Every time someone prays for me it gets worse." I told her I pray to a different God, one who hears and answers his children. A God who is good, so she let me pray. She now is getting all the welfare support that is owed to her, and extremely happy. So thank you to any of you who have prayed for our friends. God is really moving at Cascade Apartments. (where we go to feed the homeless)

We have just got home from starting our first SOZO training, which is the inner healing ministry hear. SOZO, a NT greek word, meaning to 'heal, save, make well or whole'. It refers to the healing of Spirit, Soul and Body! This is what we long to see, and will see!!! It was amazing learning about it. We will update you on this further on this. We really believe in this, which why we are getting the training so we can then minister in it.

Australia Day was a bit of a none event for us, which was pretty depressing. Although we did get two of them. We went to Outback Steakhouse to celebrate, it was the closest we could get to home. Dorothy was right when she said "there's no place like home." Please someone create a teleport so we can celebrate special days in oz! We lusted over some pictures of Australians basking in the sunshine and celebrations on the net... then we had to move on back to our winter.

Benny is now 23! Yay!!! He had a nice day. I made him blueberry pancakes for breakfast... then off to school. For dinner we had some friends and family over to share in a feast of Lamb Shanks and Pavlova. Lets just say you should buy lamb only in the country it comes from, and Pavlova will always remain glorified on the taste buds! He has tonsillitis at the moment, so please send a prayer away!!

Next month we are looking to move out of our little apartment and into a 2 bedroom place with our friends Yari and Scott. It will be sad to say goodbye to number 68 Pepper Tree, our first love nest as a married couple but exciting to share a new season with great friends. We were blessed with a vacuum cleaner and a television this week from our lovely neighbour, Ellen, and that makes us so happy.

Lastly thank you to our family (Freddy, Helen and Matty) for loving us enough to put themselves through a garage sale. And thank you for not selling my cabbage patch kids. You have totally blessed us. We can live again!!

Please continue to pray for financial support for our mission trips, as we still need $2000 by the 18th of Feb.

Love you all so much... and thank you for reading!

Since the post before...

After a short Christmas break...we are back at school and into our second week.
It has been a fairly crazy week with lots of things happening.

Patty, the lady who was healed of stomach ulcers (read the last post), through being healed has had the opportunity to witness to all her family, including her children and grandchildren, about Jesus! Her family are astonished with her radical transformation, physically and spiritually! Over the 6 week holiday period she has gone from just under 45kg to almost 64kg, because she is able to eat!! She is so joyful and has a new spring in her step at the age of 70. Thank you Jesus!

I have been doing most of the driving here and Sarah has been quite content in having her own personal chauffeur...but this week Sarah has conquered the nerves and learnt to drive on the right (wrong) side of the road!

So last Thursday we ventured down the San Francisco (about a 4 hour drive) to pick up Nathan & Jeannette from the airport as they were returning from Christmas break in New York. Last time we were in San Fran we didn't get the chance to go to 'Johnny Rockets' on Pier 39. So this time Sarah was pretty keen...unfortunately the food wasn't like we remembered and it was a slight let down.
School on Friday however was a blast...We had Russell Evans from Planet Shakers here for the Jesus Culture Conference over the weekend, and we were lucky enough for him to come and speak at school. It was amazing to here an Aussie speak again!

Sarah and I have been given the amazing opportunity to partner with Bethel International in going to Honduras  (Sarah) and Ecuador (Ben) in March for 2 weeks. We are extremely excited for this chance to go to South America and see how God will use us there. Also this is Sarah's first overseas mission!!
Sarah's Trip to Honduras will be supporting one the most unique churches in Honduras. Abundant Life Church is located on the island of Guanaga, northwest of the mainland. When Missionaries Jim and Julie Nelms founded their church they thought it was to reach out to the drug and alcohol addicted population. But, when they opened the doors three years ago only children attended regularly. So they chose to train the children that God had given them and now it is those children that are part of an outreach to addicted adults. They will be doing a worship school for these children, as well as providing ministry in the streets and local churches. The teams heart is to see gifts, abilities, dreams and passions transform the nation.
Ben's Trip to Ecuador is in the city of Loja. This is only the second trip to this region. The aim this year is to equip the church and release revival culture into a country that can be won in a day. It's harvest time in Ecuador! The team will be spreading the goodness of God by ministering in churches and on the streets. They will also have the opportunity to activate people in the prophetic and arts...and they have the amazing opportunity to minister and pray for people in hospitals! The teams heart is to release God's love, goodness, glory and power.


Our trips together cost around $4200, of which we have been able to already pay just over $2000, Praise God! Our final payments are due on February 18th.
If you would like to partner with us financially, you can go to the links below and donate to our trips (tax deductible):
(these links are also under the support us section in the right hand column, just click on our names)
Sarah: https://www.ibssm.org/?action=donate&target=missions&student_id=210951
Ben: https://www.ibssm.org/?action=donate&target=missions&student_id=210955

We would also love your prayer support! This is a vital part of our trip and important to both us and our teams. We will keep you updated on what you can specifically prayer for.

As we are unable to work here due to student visa laws, we are also in need of financial support for our living expenses. If you feel led to partner with us in this area, our Australian bank details are in the right hand column of this page under the 'support us' section. Please also email us at benn.pridmore@gmail.com if you wish to do this.

A massive THANK YOU to everyone for all your continual prayers and support!

Until next time...

Watch This Space.....

Hello and welcome to the Pridmore's blog.

Sorry it has taking us this long to update you all on what has been happening in our world...

It has been 4 months now since left our homeland Australia on an adventure to attend Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding, California. We have loved our time here so far and are really looking forward to the next few months. We are growing in many ways, and learning so much about who God is and who He has originally created us to be.

We have been so blessed to make many great friends, ones that we know we will have for the rest of our lives.

School has been awesome, and of course it is what we journeyed here to do. We have class from Tuesday - Friday, from 12:45-5:30pm. Our days are full of speakers, amazing worship, and elective subjects (which they call AMT's, Advance Ministry Training). The AMT that we are doing at the moment is called 'Cultivating the Presence and Encounters'. It focuses on how to recognize and partner with the presence of God and how that can increase our encounters with Him and the miracles that follow us. We choose one of these electives every 5 weeks. The first AMT we did was called 'Building and Protecting Connection in Relationship'. This was an elective specifically for married couples, in which we have learnt many keys and tools for our relationship.

Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton are the Senior Leaders here at Bethel Church. We are blessed to have them speak on regular basis at school. Their teachings are revolutionizing the way we see ourselves, ministry and God.

The school of 900 students is split up into 'Revival Groups', which are groups of around 65 people and a pastor is allocated to each. This is to manage the students and to make sure that everyone is taken care of. It's really amazing, most of our closer friends have come from this group, and we are really blessed to have been put with the people we have in our group. Everyone in our group is so different. It's amazing how different the personalities are. Yet we work perfectly together. The culture here is built based upon honouring one another, it is one of their core values. Learning to honour one another for who God has created them to be means that you learn to celebrate differences and fall in love with those you hadn't necessarily enjoyed before. We love it!!

We have home-group every Wednesday night, which is amazing. It feels like home every time we are there, mainly because our leaders are two Australians who are in second year. We pretty much fellowship, worship and let God do the rest.

On Saturday afternoons we venture out for our favourite part of the week... we head to a run down apartment block to feed the homeless. We love it!! Ben has made one mate in particular, his name is Jesse, he is so precious. And Sarah has fallen in love with a lady called Shell. Pray for them if you think of it, because they need it. We are there to bring hope and joy to them, to show them love as much as time allows us too. (We had to select an outreach to do every week, and this is what we chose.) One week Ben got to pray for a lady named Patty, she had a throat infection and stomach ulcers and wasn't able to eat. She asked for prayer, and so Ben prayed. Then she asked if she could pray for some people too, so that they would know Jesus. She then proceeded to list off around 30 names, pretty funny. The next week we saw her, and she reported to us that she hasn't had any pain since then and has been able to eat whatever she desires!! Yay God!!

We are seriously missing summer at the moment. It is freezing here and we are trying to embrace it...one of us (Sarah) is struggling to appreciate it. Especially after seeing photos on facebook, of all our sun kissed friends. Mountains surround us, and we can see snow covered peaks from every angle. Ben and one of our friends Liam went snowboarding just before Christmas with Ken and Judy (Ben's parents) who came to visit for 2 weeks leading up to Christmas. Jacqui Bouchier also graced us with her presence. We had such a wonderful time with them!! We ventured down to San Francisco for a few days in which we saw an NFL game, did some shopping, site seeing, the girls went to the art gallery, and the highlight of the week: we went to Joe's Crab House! This place is Heaven on earth! Ben and Ken were in their element! Grandfather we are sorry you missed out on the seafood feast!

Christmas and New Years was great and very relaxing. But so weird being so far from home.

So so much more has happened...to much to tell in one tale...so we will leave it here and promise to keep you updated further and as the year progresses.

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support! We would not be here if it weren't for the love of our family and friends!

Our skype name is 'bs.pridmore'... date us ...

Love Sarah and Ben....