November Newsletter 2025
Happy Fall y’all!
Wow! It’s November 2nd, which means its Reneé’s birthday—40 again…
It also means a couple of other important things: one, we just returned from ministering and participating in the world’s greatest conference; and two, it’s time to kick off our annual Christmas Orphan Project through our Humanitarian Aid Foundation, JMICF (Jackie Mize International Children’s Foundation).
Every year starting on the last Sunday of October and running through Wednesday night, Pastors Kenneth and Angel Harbaum put on and host their annual Missions Conference, at their great church, Covenant of Peace International in Eaton, Ohio. This country church, sitting between a corn field and a cemetery miles away from town, hosts this wonderful meeting— and has since 1972, when my spiritual father, Wayne Myers, preached the first one. You can see there is a lot of heritage and lineage there. It was formerly called Full Gospel Temple and pastored by Pastor Charles Rothwell.
Later, his son, Raymond, took the church. Ken Harbaum was raised in the church and at 13 was praying at the alter and a Rhema graduate came up to him and said, “Ken, I know you like missions. I’m going to give you two cassette tapes by a missionary named Terry Mize. You are going to like them.” Ken listened to my tapes, and he said it changed his life completely. He has kept them in a wooden treasure chest on his desk all these years. Pastor Raymond turned the church over to Ken, and the yearly missions conventions have continued.
I don’t even remember when I first started ministering at this convention. The first year I came, I fell in love with it. It totally reminded me of the old Lakewood Church in Houston under the great John Osteen. For years he held a missions conference over the Thanksgiving holidays. Jackie and I, with our kids— and Dean and Reneé with their kids— spent many a Thanksgiving at Lakewood and that great convention, usually coming up from Mexico. We actually met Dean and Reneé at the 1974 missions conference. Legacy… Heritage… Lineage…
I first took Reneé to COPI missions conference in 2014; we had been married just over a month. She too fell in love with it, reminding her of the Lakewood years. Of course—I had told her and Dean about it from the first year I attended.
The church family lives for this conference all year, saving money, using their faith, and believing God for increase and abundance to give to and meet the missionaries’ needs.
Pastor Ken allows each vetted missionary to come up, give their name and the country they are working in, and to state the need for their ministry. The people pray to be led of the Spirit on where and how much to give.
Sometimes there are needs for water wells—water is life, after all. Reneé and I gave to dig one in Africa last year where villagers had to walk 12 miles to get water. Some need cars, motorcycles, bicycles, buildings, medical equipment, airplanes and airplane parts, generators, food for feeding programs, trucks, plows, planting equipment, harvesting equipment, tractors and on and on— medical bills, children’s programs, human trafficking rescues, widows, orphanages, boats for some in the Amazon jungle of Peru and even more.
I discovered the last day, in an afternoon conversation, that Pastor Ken had been trying to get a maternity hospital built in Kisumu, Kenya, complete with an operating theater for cesarian section births. This will save the lives of so many mothers and babies. I asked him what it would take to finish it and start helping the precious people. He told me $153,000.00. I said, “I’ve never heard you mention it, not even here at the convention.” He said no, he did not want to—maybe it would take away from the missionaries.
Well, that night, after all the wild or hilarious giving had pretty much ended, I got up and gave two powerful testimonies—one of mine and Jackie’s, and one of Reneé’s and mine, last year. Then I told them about the hospital, and I shared how much we were ready to give to save these lives and then I said, “Let’s get the rest of it.”
People started giving, I started counting, and BAM—we raised the total amount in less than 10 minutes, with no pressure on anyone. Praise the Lord! Over $400,000.00 for world missions— and nobody has buyers’ remorse; all of us are so very thankful. Ken told me years ago to tell the people my needs too, but I declined. Thank God and our partners for helping us get our needs met around the world. I hope every pastor would come next year. You’ve never seen anything like it.
Number two: it’s time to kick off our JMICF Christmas Orphan Program! Each year we try to make sure that orphans around the world get a good Christmas present, a beautiful tree to decorate, and a wonderful Christmas meal. Last Christmas our partners helped us give $119,500.00 in 37 nations for orphans and orphan Christmas. Total for the year JMICF gave $247,806.00 for those in need around the globe. WE SPENT $0.00 FOR EXPENSES OF ANY KIND! We paid all expenses out of TMM (Terry Mize Ministries) so 100% of what was given to JMICF actually went to the place it was intended.
Elon Musk exposed so many NGOs as corrupt. I would never give to a government or some conglomerate NGO— but there are good ones: church and faith-based ones. I am believing people will stop giving to the corrupt and government NGOs and start giving to JMICF and others like us so the money will go where it should. I am believing for one-hundred-thousand-dollar and one-million-dollar donations. So please bathe this project in prayer and give as the Lord leads. Help us with the Christmas Orphan Project! Thank you in advance!
You can watch my three services in the conference on my Facebook page. If you have had people question you about the antisemitism and hatred for Israel, Pastor Ken asked me to deal with it on Wednesday and I did.
For the only cause that counts,
Terry L. Mize
Wow! It’s November 2nd, which means its Reneé’s birthday—40 again…
It also means a couple of other important things: one, we just returned from ministering and participating in the world’s greatest conference; and two, it’s time to kick off our annual Christmas Orphan Project through our Humanitarian Aid Foundation, JMICF (Jackie Mize International Children’s Foundation).
Every year starting on the last Sunday of October and running through Wednesday night, Pastors Kenneth and Angel Harbaum put on and host their annual Missions Conference, at their great church, Covenant of Peace International in Eaton, Ohio. This country church, sitting between a corn field and a cemetery miles away from town, hosts this wonderful meeting— and has since 1972, when my spiritual father, Wayne Myers, preached the first one. You can see there is a lot of heritage and lineage there. It was formerly called Full Gospel Temple and pastored by Pastor Charles Rothwell.
Later, his son, Raymond, took the church. Ken Harbaum was raised in the church and at 13 was praying at the alter and a Rhema graduate came up to him and said, “Ken, I know you like missions. I’m going to give you two cassette tapes by a missionary named Terry Mize. You are going to like them.” Ken listened to my tapes, and he said it changed his life completely. He has kept them in a wooden treasure chest on his desk all these years. Pastor Raymond turned the church over to Ken, and the yearly missions conventions have continued.
I don’t even remember when I first started ministering at this convention. The first year I came, I fell in love with it. It totally reminded me of the old Lakewood Church in Houston under the great John Osteen. For years he held a missions conference over the Thanksgiving holidays. Jackie and I, with our kids— and Dean and Reneé with their kids— spent many a Thanksgiving at Lakewood and that great convention, usually coming up from Mexico. We actually met Dean and Reneé at the 1974 missions conference. Legacy… Heritage… Lineage…
I first took Reneé to COPI missions conference in 2014; we had been married just over a month. She too fell in love with it, reminding her of the Lakewood years. Of course—I had told her and Dean about it from the first year I attended.
The church family lives for this conference all year, saving money, using their faith, and believing God for increase and abundance to give to and meet the missionaries’ needs.
Pastor Ken allows each vetted missionary to come up, give their name and the country they are working in, and to state the need for their ministry. The people pray to be led of the Spirit on where and how much to give.
Sometimes there are needs for water wells—water is life, after all. Reneé and I gave to dig one in Africa last year where villagers had to walk 12 miles to get water. Some need cars, motorcycles, bicycles, buildings, medical equipment, airplanes and airplane parts, generators, food for feeding programs, trucks, plows, planting equipment, harvesting equipment, tractors and on and on— medical bills, children’s programs, human trafficking rescues, widows, orphanages, boats for some in the Amazon jungle of Peru and even more.
I discovered the last day, in an afternoon conversation, that Pastor Ken had been trying to get a maternity hospital built in Kisumu, Kenya, complete with an operating theater for cesarian section births. This will save the lives of so many mothers and babies. I asked him what it would take to finish it and start helping the precious people. He told me $153,000.00. I said, “I’ve never heard you mention it, not even here at the convention.” He said no, he did not want to—maybe it would take away from the missionaries.
Well, that night, after all the wild or hilarious giving had pretty much ended, I got up and gave two powerful testimonies—one of mine and Jackie’s, and one of Reneé’s and mine, last year. Then I told them about the hospital, and I shared how much we were ready to give to save these lives and then I said, “Let’s get the rest of it.”
People started giving, I started counting, and BAM—we raised the total amount in less than 10 minutes, with no pressure on anyone. Praise the Lord! Over $400,000.00 for world missions— and nobody has buyers’ remorse; all of us are so very thankful. Ken told me years ago to tell the people my needs too, but I declined. Thank God and our partners for helping us get our needs met around the world. I hope every pastor would come next year. You’ve never seen anything like it.
Number two: it’s time to kick off our JMICF Christmas Orphan Program! Each year we try to make sure that orphans around the world get a good Christmas present, a beautiful tree to decorate, and a wonderful Christmas meal. Last Christmas our partners helped us give $119,500.00 in 37 nations for orphans and orphan Christmas. Total for the year JMICF gave $247,806.00 for those in need around the globe. WE SPENT $0.00 FOR EXPENSES OF ANY KIND! We paid all expenses out of TMM (Terry Mize Ministries) so 100% of what was given to JMICF actually went to the place it was intended.
Elon Musk exposed so many NGOs as corrupt. I would never give to a government or some conglomerate NGO— but there are good ones: church and faith-based ones. I am believing people will stop giving to the corrupt and government NGOs and start giving to JMICF and others like us so the money will go where it should. I am believing for one-hundred-thousand-dollar and one-million-dollar donations. So please bathe this project in prayer and give as the Lord leads. Help us with the Christmas Orphan Project! Thank you in advance!
You can watch my three services in the conference on my Facebook page. If you have had people question you about the antisemitism and hatred for Israel, Pastor Ken asked me to deal with it on Wednesday and I did.
For the only cause that counts,
Terry L. Mize
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