To the Mountains Tomorrow

Tomorrow we venture where no FMCS team has gone before. We had up to the mountains and pray to reach those willing to meet Jesus! Practices are over. Tonight we meet at King Castle's 24-7 Intercessory Prayer Castle.









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A Few More Tour Pictures

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Tour Of King's Castle

This morning the team was treated to a tour of the campus - something our teams have never done.










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Explosion Evangelism

Students are learning the opening dances that will draw people to the services! They are having more fun that most human beings are allowed.









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Buenos Dias

Kids are wide awake and ready to go! (Remember that we are two hours behind you) Today is ministry training day and then free time - stay tuned for updates. Thanks for your prayers


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The Eagles Have Landed

We are here! Just landed and will be going through customs. Thanks for praying for us. Plane complications in Miami backed us up 2 hours and 45 minutes. God is good. We are safe.


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Electronic Withdrawals

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Trip is Underway

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Airport!

Ok parents, great job by our bus drivers through Miami! Team has made it through security and now waiting for 11:10 flight. I am having trouble posting photos but praying that improves. I may need to post to our school's Facebook page but will keep you posted.

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Missions Team Highlighted at FMCS Weekend

We would like to thank First Assembly of God for their support and prayers for our missions trip during the February 28/March 1st services.

Prayers Being Sent

All missions trip students have now had the opportunity to visit a preschool or elementary classroom, present themselves, talk about the missions trip, pass out prayer cards and have students pray for them. When we come back from the trip, they will return to the classroom and give a post-trip report. 

Update With 49 Days To go!

- On Thursday of this week, I will go over this packing list with the team.

- Passports should be turned in by February 10th so we can turned our information in to the airlines.

More reminders from the information we passed out last August:

February 27	Total of $1300 due in your account and your passport
February 28 & March 1 weekend	Missions team prayed for Saturday night at 6:00 pm/ Sunday at 9:30 and 11:00 service – attend ALL services
March 3	Eighth graders visit the elementary classroom that will be praying for them
March 6	“ALL TEAM MEETING” – all adults and students going on the trip  ♦ MANDATORY, 6:30 PM to 8:30 pm KIDZTOWN Chapel, Dinner will be provided
March 26 to April 1	Missions trip 2015!!
April 7	Testimonies in middle school chapel
April 8	Elementary Chapel for grades PK-5th 8:45 am
April 14	Eighth graders return to  visit the elementary classroom that will be prayed for them
April 10	Missions Night Program for family and friends 7:00 pm, Kidztown Chapel

Holiday House Fundraiser

Update from King's Castle

On October 31, we celebrated 16 years of what we call Marathon Pentecost, which consists of 24/7/365 prayer chain, and the very epicenter of the Children of the Spirit Revival in El Salvador. 

National Evangelism weekend was October 31- November 2, where we mobilized the 1,875 Assemblies of God churches in El Salvador to each visit 500 homes, and together, we actually visited over 1,000,000 homes, giving each family a Gospel Tract provided by Every Home for Christ.  By putting a tract in the home, we can reach the whole family who come together under that roof. It is very easy to follow up on those who openly respond to the Gospel or experience a miracle. Every one of our King’s Castle Teams took to the streets that weekend to see how many people we could reach in the parks, on public buses, on the major highways, in communities and wherever they could mobilize to do outreach.

As we hosted the 92 AIM/MAPS Teams during the year, most visitors believed that June and July are our busiest months of the year because we are all running to and fro to explain the Gospel to Everyone. 

However, November & December are actually the busiest months of the year for us with all kinds of ministry going on exponentially every single day. Just to give you an idea, we work with about 300 King’s Castle Teams in El Salvador (with 7,500 children’s-workers) so when we all go out to do outreach on any given weekend, we reach 300,000+ children.  Since everyone is off school, there is a huge amount of outreach taking place every week, so we have the potential of literally reaching millions of children (during these 3 months of Vacation from Schools) as our KC Teams do Outreach and Discipleship.  

PK Retreats, where we have a 25-year tradition of celebrating Christmas for the children by giving them a nice Christmas Gift which they receive during their annual PK Retreat. 

Schools of Warriors, training literally hundreds of young men and women the Disciplines of a Warrior so that they will be effective in ministry.

January is chalked full with General Councils in El Salvador and Nicaragua with Children’s Activities going full swing.  PK Retreats in Nicaragua with some 1,000 Pastor’s Kids between the ages of 3 and 21.  We are currently recruiting 500 Warriors from El Salvador to respond to SOS Honduras appeal for a King’s Castle World Invasion.  Several other countries are recruiting King’s Castle Warriors to join us in Honduras. We intend to go to San Pedro Sula to literally invade the darkness with the power of the Gospel.  We call this “Strategic Target Evangelism” because we invade military style with large numbers of street emboldened children’s workers in an effort to give a presentation of the Gospel to an entire city, or a small country in 10 days of outreach.

We literally have thousands of outreaches scheduled during our busiest months of the year, and we go day and night as we work to transform Central America for our Christ Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit.  We are Great Commission Christians fulfilling the “Mission of God” who sent his Son, who sent US, to preach the Gospel to the Entire World until he returns to take us home to his Castle in the Sky. 

While all this activity is happening, every dollar is stretched as far as it can possibly be stretched to meet the financial challenges we experience during this time of the year.  We must find a Christmas Financial Miracle in order to pay all of the Christmas Activities and Year End Salaries. (In El Salvador, we are obligated by the government to pay 2 1Ž2 months salary for each employee in December.)

If Jesus comes back to Rapture the Church tomorrow, or any other day next week, or next month or next year, He will encounter us busily working to accomplish the “Great Commission.” We fully intend to have him find us working when He arrives to take the latest batch of souls along with those who have been waiting much longer for his return. A couple of months ago we visited William Borden’s grave in Cairo, Egypt, and were challenged once again by his bold example of being sold out for Jesus.  We have no reserves, we won’t retreat in the face of danger, and we know that when Jesus comes, we will have no regrets. 

Our children, youth, staff, church and National Church are helping us pray for a HUGE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.  God has put peace in our hearts as we wait for him to speak to the hearts of our King’s Castle Partners. He has promised to speak to you on our behalf ans to the hearts of his people.

Happy Holidays,

Don & Terri Triplett

King’s Castle International 

Update November 14

Parents:

1. We have reached the "POINT OF NO RETURN" - everyone is responsible to purchase a plane ticket to help cover costs.

2. Passport - have you started the process? you need to start here

3. Holiday House is coming up - email will be coming within the week from Mrs. Jackson. Don't miss out on this fundraiser.

VERY IMPORTANT: we will not know how much money you made until AFTER Christmas break on the Holiday House. Once everyone is back in the office after the break, all money and expenses will be turned in, then we can then find out how much money was made and how many students worked so we can divide the net profit.

4. Pray for a life-changing trip!

5. Next deadline is having $600 in your account by January 9th.

Thank you!

Special Visitor Today

FMCS was blessed today to have Katie Carter from El Salvador King's Castle speak in chapel today! Katie challenged our student to be "world-changers" for God! Afterwards, the upcoming 8th grade missions team was able to spend time getting to know her at lunch.

We are looking forward to El Salvador 2015!

Praise report

Back in August, at Open House, we suggested the new site: www.gofundme.com

Praise report: Hannah Upton raised all her money in 25 days on that website!

The First Roster (as of 9/3)

Here is the first roster for the 2015 missions trip based on what has come in so far:

Students:
Lucas Bell
Stephanie Blum (need application papers)
Hailey Burton
Alex Coval
Zach Engren
Treven Figeroa
Laura Gequelin
Sam Goguen
Savanah Hastings 
Josh Heald
Alexis Mast
Manny Mendoza
Mulon Missick
Jayne Parker
Elizabeth Swiersz
Lleyton Taylor
Hannah Upton

Alumni Peer Sponsors
Lynzi Baxter
Sarah Swiersz


Adults
Mel Mitchell
Lee Mitchell
Aaron Larva
Anairam Fernandez
David Heald
Lisa Mast
Shane Parker

New Packets For 2015

The new information and application packets are now ready for the 2015 missions trip! You can pick them up in the FMCS Middle School front office. Thank you - the first $100 deposit and application are due by August 29th.

Missions Trip 2015

The airline arrangements have been made and reservations are in for Missions Trip 2015 for El Salvador: March 26 to April 1, 2015! Airline costs have increased so the cost of the trip will be $1300. More details coming in future blog posts - subscribe and receive updates! ("subscribe" link is at the bottom of the page)