Thanks to everyone who prayed and supported us on our nine-day mission tour in Guatemala this past week! My 13 year old son, Stephen, and I joined 15 college students from Northeast Junior College to do street, school and village evangelism in several cities throughout Guatemala. This trip was a great example of “next level worship,” for certainly all of us witnessed through our worship and praise before every person we met!
We presented 16 shows which consisted of puppet songs, dramas, and testimonies. In all we saw over 1000 decisions for Christ during these shows. While many of the decisions were children, we also saw several adults trust Christ as their Savior!
Ken Galyean of Call to Africa organized and led the trip. I would recommend his ministry to anyone who wants to go on a short-term mission trip! You can contact Ken via email: kgalyean@calltoafrica.org.
Below are a few pictures from our trip. Thanks again! ~Dwayne
Many had never seen puppets or skits before
Stephen giving his testimony at a boy's school
We gave away soccer balls, hats and other gifts to people who have never had such things.
Overlooking a huge crater lake in Guatemala
Pictures from Guatemala Mission Trip 2009
Our Next Level Worship office will be closed from Thursday, March 12 through Friday, March 20. We will not be answering calls, shipping store orders, or responding to emails during this time.
Pray for us while we are gone on a mission trip to various parts of Guatemala. We will be doing street and village evangelism utilizing puppets, skits, songs, and testimonies.
Please pray for a harvest of souls to come to Christ through our witnessing efforts!
Dear readers, please say a prayer for me as I travel to Botswana, Africa. I will be leading several worship seminars for worship leaders throughout the country. I will also be teaching 150 college students in lifestyle worship each morning and be doing an open-air concert sponsored by Open Baptist Church in Gaborone. Pray for souls!
Thanks!
Dwayne
Isaiah 6 teaches us that our worship should lead us to witnessing. 1 Peter 2:9 tells us we as God’s chosen people should “show forth the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.” Therefore, any time we come across a particularly helpful resource for sharing our faith, we want to pass it on to our worshiping/witnessing readers!
Former “Growing Pains” sitcom star, Kick Cameron, has teamed up with Ray Comfort to produce a powerful and helpful internet site called www.WayoftheMaster.com. Yahoo New’s People of the Web just featured the two of them and their “slick” witnessing site, as Yahoo News called it. This feature has already gotten some 3800 comments from readers! Go here to read the Yahoo News article and watch the video.
Pure and refreshing! 
That’s what these 10 worship songs are! We recorded these songs while in Botswana a couple weeks ago. We simply sat a stereo mic in the middle of 100 students during their morning praise times at the Face the Nation School of Discipleship. These songs were not rehearsed or polished, and these beautiful voices are not part of an auditioned and practiced choir. This recording captures the pure and refreshing spontaneity and joy that flowed during worship moments from these amazingly talented and God-loving students.
Go here to read our post about what God is doing through these college students to change the course of Botswana.
To listen to these 10 songs we have posted, please… Read more…
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Send Me by Dwayne Moore 
Last week’s mission trip to Botswana, Africa was absolutely incredible. I had the privilege to teach 100 Botswanan college-aged “evangelists-in-training” on worship and also to lead them in praise. Our song, Send Me, they have now embraced as their Face the Nation Theme Song for 2007 and beyond. I am greatly honored that our music could be used within such an amazing and historic move of God.
Those students sang with more passion and skill than anyone I have heard in a long time. Click the link at the top of this article to listen to the live recording of our song, Send Me, during one of our morning teaching sessions last week. These guys and gals sound fantastic!
How “Send Me” Was Written
I have never had a song “come to me” like Send Me did. Read more…
I will be leaving very soon for a mission trip in Botswana, Africa, where I will be joining Ken Galyean of Call to Africa and others. We will be working with Face the Nation, a ministry effort of Open Baptist Church in Gabarone, Botswana. (BTW, while we are gone, we will feature guest authors on this site who will be posting some incredible worship articles!)
We are part of a team of instructors who will be giving Biblical training to 100 Botswanan college students. These students will, in turn, go into all 27 public high schools in Botswana! The Ministry of Education of the Botswanan government has invited them to come and teach abstinence and share about Jesus to the senior high students! What an amazing opportunity God has afforded us! Literally thousands will hear the Gospel and come to Christ through this wide open door! Read more…
The following excerpt came from an article in last week’s edition of Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox. Oh, that every congregation’s leadership understood these powerful truths about corporate worship. Special thanks to Pastors.com for allowing us to feature this excerpt.
Guest article by Rick Warren:
At Saddleback we believe worship services can be deep, meaningful, and accessible to the unchurched. Your church members shouldn’t have to choose between whole-heartedly worshiping God and having a place where they can bring their unbelieving friends to have the Gospel presented to them.
When we speak of worship, we are talking about something only believers can do. Worship is from believers to God. We magnify God’s name in worship by expressing our love and commitment to him. And unbelievers simply cannot do this.
Here is the simple definition of worship that we operate on at Saddleback:
“Worship is expressing our love to God for who he is, what he’s said, and what he’s doing.” Read more…
Last Sunday a young couple shared their testimony at our church. They were members of an underground church in Saudi Arabia for five years. Their story moved our congregation to tears and a standing ovation for their courage. Click in the audio box below to listen to their 20-minute testimony with our pastor, Randy Norris. While you listen, I suggest you read Randy’s article that he wrote about this amazing couple’s faith. - Dwayne
Testimony by couple in underground church:
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Guest Post by Randy Norris
I have been reminded lately that there are people in other parts of the world who risk their lives each day to walk with Christ and to worship Him with other believers. In a recent conversation with a precious couple who were members of an underground church in Saudi Arabia, I heard them share things about what they went through to gather with their church each Friday. Read more…
Try to imagine this if you possibly can: Imagine for a moment that our government has come to us, the Church, and asked us to please help them. Imagine further that our less-than-godly government has opened up every one of our public high schools to us. In fact, they have not only invited us, they are encouraging us to come into their schools and teach all of their secondary students about abstinence, about the Bible, and about Christianity and Jesus as the hope for their lives and their futures. And, if that’s not enough, add this to the mix: The government officials are putting NO restrictions on what we say and do with those students! Read more…
