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Written by Don Jeter   
Saturday, 11 February 2006

jeternuclearwedding.jpgDon and Cyndie first served with the Division of Home Missions of the A/G in the ministry among the Cuban refugees in the Miami area in the Cuban Evangelistic Center (IEP), the Cuban Refugee Center of the A/G, and taught at Miami Spanish Bible Institute. They were contacted by the Division of Foreign Missions in Springfield, Missouri, and received their approval as missionary candidates in 1972, which led to their foreign missions appointment.

Don & Cyndie's first assignment on the foreign mission field was to learn Portuguese and help establish a resident Bible Institute for the national Assemblies of God of Portugal. They arrived in Portugal in 1973. In 1975 they transferred to the field of Spain at the request of the DFM in order to fill an urgent need in there. Don took on the responsibilities of pastoring a church in Madrid and the position of ICI (International Correspondence Institute) director for Spain. Don & Cyndie ministered in evangelism, seminars, and workers' training across Spain through correspondence and personal contact until July of 1988.

Don & Cyndie felt a burden for our own churches in the USA with respect to the lack of growth and the preaching of the Word in Pentecostal power with signs and wonders following, advocating a return to the basics of Pentecost - intercessory prayer, the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues, the operation of the Gifts of the Spirit in the church which includes the healing of the sick and other signs & wonders, bold Spirit-empowered evangelistic witness, and living in holiness with the urgent expectancy of the immanent return of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Rapture of the Church.

Don & Cyndie resigned their missionary appointment with DFM in 1988 and later accepted the chairmanship of the Department of Missions for Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, North Dakota. In 1993 Don and Cyndie accepted reappointment with DFM in order to minister in Cuba in the area of teaching and leadership training. They were later assigned to the Strategic Missionary Force for Latin America & Caribbean while maintaining their active ministry in Cuba and teaching with the Latin American Advanced School of Theology of the A/G in their advanced degree program.

After 12 years of active ministry in the field of advanced ministerial training and theology throughout Latin America and in Cuba, the Jeters have been asked by the Assemblies of God World Missions Department (formerly DFM and now AGWM) to return to Spain and help direct the ministry of SETS based in Madrid, Spain, and ministering throughout Southern Europe. The ministry of SETS provides the fourth year of the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theology and Bible and also the Master of Arts Degree (in a non-traditional format of modules/seminars and directed research) for ministers in Spanish-speaking congregations throughout Spain, the Canary Islands, and areas with heavy Spanish populations in Southern Europe.

For the Jeters, in a way, going back to Spain is "going home" since they spent 15 years ministering on the Iberian Penninsula sowing the Word of God through Bible correspondence courses and in person. They are excited at the possibility of being able to participate and see with their own eyes the great revival which they feel God is sending to the church in Spain!

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