In 1988, at my ordination ceremony, Pastor Otis shared a dream. In this dream, he and I were in Australia in the land of the aborigines, and they were chasing us. And as we came upon a rock, we looked down and they were still coming. Then Pastor Otis began to speak in tongues, and the aboriginal people said they receive us as teachers. Pastor Otis felt in the Spirit that God would use us to bring many people in that region into the kingdom. I remember wondering at the time why Pastor Otis would share a dream like that at such an important ceremony.

Four years later, a travel agent came to me and said that she was planning to take some pastors to Australia. She asked if I would come. I prayed about it and, remembering Pastor Otis’ dream, I decided to go. Pastor Otis and I were the only pastors who went.

When we got to Australia, we met an aboriginal woman in Cairns named Kaylene Leftwich, who mentioned that her mother was named Thelma Leftwich. They introduced us to Jim Leftwich who was then ministering in an Anglican church and is now Bishop of Northern Australian territory.

Six months after our first visit, we went back to Australia. I took some people with us, and set up a meeting in the Wesley Center in downtown Sydney. We had almost no money; we didn’t even have enough money to stay in a hotel, but we planned meetings in a place that charged $1000 and up to use their auditoriums. We received supernatural favor, and were able to rent it for much less.

This was just the first of many meetings we had in Australia, and since then we’ve been back four more times in 1995, ’97, ’99, and 2002 and held many more meetings in Sydney, Cairns, aboriginal territory around Cairns, and in Fiji. We have become a friend to many of the aboriginal people in the area, and the door is always open to us to minister whenever we come, even in churches where women are not allowed to minister. The city of Cairns, Australia has become our second home.