• *LIMITED TIME* 50,000 US Airways Dividend Miles from the Barclays Premier World Mastercard after your FIRST PURCHASE and payment of $89 annual fee! (They’ve already pulled my affiliate link on 12/10/14 so this may not last much longer!)  $89 Annual fee 1st year. Earn 2 miles per dollar on US Airways & AA purchases & 1 mile per $ on everything else. First checked bag free for you + up to 4 companions on domestic US Airways flights. One $99 companion ticket annually, preferred check in & boarding. These miles will turn into American Airline miles by the 2nd quarter of 2015, so this is an amazing deal either way you look at it for only spending $89! US Airways is now part of the Oneworld alliance so you can book AA flights with these!  CLICK HERE TO APPLY
  

• 80,000 Hilton HHonors points & Gold Status from the American Express Surpass credit card after spending $3,000 in the first 3 months. This comes with Hilton Gold status which includes free internet and breakfast on your Hilton stays along w/bonus points, and possible room upgrades which can be quite valuable. Earn 12 Hilton points per $1 spent at Hilton, 6 at restaurants, & 3pts on all other spend. Earn Hilton Diamond status (the highest available) by spending $40,000 in a calendar year.  Annual fee of $75 is NOT waived 1st year but the Gold Status may be worth it to you. CLICK HERE TO APPLY 

If you’re looking for more American Airlines miles, US Airways miles, or OneWorld miles, that US Airways card is as good as it gets right now considering the miles are awarded after making just 1 purchase & paying the $89 annual fee. What can 50k US Airways miles currently get you? 2 round-trip flights within ALL of South America (LAN Airlines!), 2 round-trip flights in the States, a round-trip flight from the US to Hawaii (with spare change), and of course r/t to the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, etc. also with change.  I’ll pay $89 all day for a round-trip flight to Hawaii or 2 r/t’s in the states!! Insane. We don’t know how much longer the US Airways card will be around since the merger with AA is almost entirely finished and all future AA cards will only be issued by Citibank. I’d suggest applying soon. I applied today and was approved instantly for my 4th US Airways Mastercard.

The Hilton Surpass offer is the highest we’ve seen it at 80,000 so if you need Hilton HHonors POINTS, like, say, for 3 weeks in Hilton hotels in Egypt, then this is a great offer. However, if you’re just looking for free nights at their top end resorts, the Citi Hilton Reserve card is probably your best bet. Keep in mind the personal American Express cards are now once in a lifetime offers – cannot be churned. I already have this card or I would’ve jumped on this offer as well. There are many other Hilton offers on my Top Deals page. Enjoy!

– David

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• Barclaycard Arrival Plus™ World Elite MasterCard®  Earn 40,000 bonus miles if you make $3,000 or more in purchases in the first 90 days from account opening. 40,000 bonus miles equates to $400 off your next trip when redeemed, and you receive 10% back, so actually $440+!. Arrival points are some of the easiest points to redeem that I’ve ever used. They can be redeemed for any travel booked on your credit card as a statement credit for example – flights, rental car, hotel, cruise, travel agency, etc… You earn 2 points per $1 spent on everything and you also get 10% of the points back that you redeem, so this is actually worth over 46,000 points after making the minimum spend and getting points back when redeeming! I have this card personally and love it. No Annual Fee first year, $89 after. CLICK HERE TO APPLY
• 
  CLICK HERE FOR NO ANNUAL FEE EVER VERSION 20,000 POINTS AFTER $1K SPEND 3 MONTHS

• 40,000 US Airways Dividend Miles from the Barclays Premier World Mastercard after your FIRST PURCHASE! $89 Annual fee 1st year. Earn 2 miles per dollar on US Airways purchases & 1 mile per $ on everything else. 10,000 miles towards elite status, two $99 companion tickets annually, preferred check in & boarding, 1 club pass, & a 5,000 mile discount on awards for being a preferred cardmember so a 25,000 mile award flight only costs you 20,000 miles, etc. US Airways is now part of the Oneworld alliance so you can book AA flights with these now!  CLICK HERE TO APPLY

• 50,000 Lufthansa Premier Miles & More Mastercard after $5k spend in 3 months from Barclays.
  $79 Annual fee NOT waived first year but waived for “Senator and HON Circle members” (elite flyers). Earn 20,000 miles after 1st purchase and another 30,000 after spending $5k in first 3 months. No foreign transaction fees, companion ticket after 1st purchase and annually, 2 miles per $1 spend on Lufthansa flights, 1 mile per $1 spent elsewhere. Best use IMO is to redeem for United flights. Good for 4 one way flights in N America! You can use on Lufthansa but you have to pay fuel surcharges.  CLICK HERE TO APPLY             

• 40,000 Frontier Airlines miles from Barclays Frontier World Mastercard after spending $500 in first 3 months. $69 Annual fee NOT WAIVED first year. Earn 2 miles per $1 on Frontier purchases and 1 mile per $1 spent elsewhere. Companions fly for 5k fewer miles on roundtrip award flights. Roundtrip awards in N America are only 20k miles so this card gets you 2 free round trips in the states! Interesting award program and worth checking out for some free flights if they fly to your airport. CLICK HERE TO APPLY

• 35,000 Hawaiian Airlines miles from Barclays Hawaiian Airlines World Elite Mastercard after spending $1,500 in first 3 months. $89 Annual Fee NOT WAIVED 1st year. 1st checked bag free, one time 50% off coupon for coach travel US-Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines, NO foreign transaction fees, 2 miles per $1 spent on Hawaiian airlines and 1 mile per $1 on everything else.  5,000 bonus miles for $10k Annual spend, and $100 coupon off a companion ticket for coach travel US-Hawaii on Hawaiian airlines at anniversary date. You can transfer these to Hilton points at 1:1.5 ratio in increments of 10,000 point transfers so this sign-up bonus can be worth over 50k Hilton points if you’d like.  CLICK HERE TO APPLY

You can get all 3 of these bonuses if you’ve never had one of these accounts with Capital One before. That’s what the terms say at least. I already have a checking, savings, and investment account with them or I’d be all over these deals!

• $125 for opening a new checking account

Get the bonus by signing up TODAY & making 5 debit or virtual check deposits within 45 days of opening.
SIGN UP HERE (referral link)

Terms from site:

*** UPDATE 12/4/13 NOW PRICING AT $29/NIGHT PER PERSON.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ALL-INCLUSIVE BEACH RESORT $15 A NIGHT PER PERSON:

LINK: http://www.cheapcaribbean.com/landing-pages/3834.html

This is one of my all-time favorite recurring travel deals. You have to have at least 2 people in your room, so you’re looking at an all-inclusive hotel room, aka, all your meals included at a hotel on the beach, for only $30/night!!! I’ve done this deal through Cheap Caribbean for 2 other times. Once for $19/night pp and once for $12/night pp! Have loved it every time. Keep in mind it’s not a 5 star hotel, it’s a 3 star hotel, but you get pools on the beach, several restaurants/bars, and all you can eat/drink. Book your flight there on miles, and it’s the cheapest all-inclusive vacation of a lifetime!  Book your hotel on the Barclays Arrival World Mastercard and reimburse yourself for it with the points for a purely FREE vacation!

• Superior Room – Extravaganza Sale
• Ocean World Not Included
• 4 Night Minimum Stay
• 7 Night Maximum Stay
• Travel May 1 – December 23 2014

20% off LAN flights in South America:

www.lan.com

Discount taken automatically at checkout.

“With ThankYou® Points Transfer you can soon be enjoying a FREE stay at more than 4,000 Hilton HHonors™ properties worldwide. For every 10,000 ThankYou Points you transfer between 10/31/13 and 12/31/13, you’ll receive 5,000 Extra Hilton HHonors Bonus Points from Hilton HHonors.”

• Must have a Citi Thank You Premier or Prestige card to make the transfer.
• To access the transfer, log in and click this link:
  https://rewards.thankyou.com/b2r/merchandise/pointsExchange.do
• Or log in and click “Do More With Points” and then “Transfer Points”

Value can be had here if you use your Citi Thank You points for hotels or hotel gift cards at 1 cent per point. For example, let’s look at the Hilton Colon hotel in Quito, Ecuador. It’s just a couple hours from me, and I plan to check it out soon. It costs 20,000 Hilton HHonors points per night, and generally after tax sells for $160-$280 USD a night! I just checked for a random Monday in early December and got $171 after tax for the cheapest rate. That would cost 17,100 Thank You Points, but you could just transfer 10k TYP to Hilton and get the room!

Post your plans in the comments.

Make sure you read all of the terms as new bank account deals can have LOTS of details that most people don’t think about like:
– minimum account balances
– monthly maintenance fees
– debit card fees
– early account closure fees (this one is $25 if closed within 6 months)
– may receive a 1099 tax form for the bonus you received
etc….

If you’re lazy, I’ve copied terms here:

To get your Kindle Fire HD reward:

+Open a qualifying KeyBank checking account online and enter offer code ONFT1113 by November 29, 2013, and

+Make at least 30 payments and/or purchases within 3 months of account opening, plus

+Make 3 direct deposits each of $500 or more within 3 months of account opening.

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Offer available online only.
*Between 11/2/2013 and 11/29/2013, you must open a qualifying checking account online and make at least 30 posted payments and/or purchases from the new checking account within three months of account opening, plus within three months of account opening (93 calendar days) make a total of three direct deposits each of $500 or more to get your gift. Limit one gift per individual. Limit one gift per qualifying account. The value of your gift will be reported on Form 1099-INT. Your gift will be shipped within 90 days of meeting requirements. Qualifying purchase and payment transactions include checks, MasterCard signature, PayPass® and PIN-based purchases, Key Bill Pay, debit card automated payments, PayPal® transactions, and Automated Clearing House (ACH) direct payments. Direct deposit transactions are limited to payroll, Social Security, pension, and government benefits. Offer not available to individuals who have had a KeyBank checking account in the last 12 months. Employees of KeyBank, its affiliates, and subsidiaries are not eligible for this offer. If you close your account within 180 days of account opening, you will be charged a $25 account early closure fee. Accounts overdrawn or closed as of 3/14/2014 are not eligible for this offer. Accounts titled as Trust Accounts, Estate, Non-Individual, and No Access are excluded from eligibility. You must have a U.S. mailing address at the time of gift fulfillment to be eligible. Offer is subject to cancellation without notice and cannot be combined with any other offer. Other miscellaneous charges may apply.
Please read our Agreements and Disclosure. If you opened your deposit account online within the last 90 days, you may also review the original agreements and disclosures provided to you.
1 Required minimum opening deposit of $50.00. Each statement cycle, you will be required to have at least eight (8) customer initiated transactions on the Account or have deposits totaling $500.00 or more credited to the Account. If one of these requirements is not met, a $7.00 monthly maintenance service charge will be assessed.
2 There may be an annual fee for the KeyBank Relationship Rewards program based on the type of checking account you have. Program subject to change without notice. For all details on the KeyBank Relationship Rewards program, see key.com/rewards.

• Earn 20,000 award miles after your first purchase or balance transfer
• Earn an additional 30,000 award miles when you spend $5,000 in purchases within the first 90 days of account opening
• With 50,000 award miles you can redeem for a round-trip award flight to Hawaii, Europe or the Caribbean!
• Cardholders receive a Companion Ticket annually
• Enjoy 2 award miles per $1 on Miles & More integrated airline ticket purchases and 1 award mile per $1 spent everywhere else
• No mileage expiration with monthly qualifying purchases
• No foreign transaction fees

I considered getting this card last time and did not. I will definitely consider it again this time. Barclay’s for me pulls my Transunion credit report instead of Experian and Equifax like Chase/Amex/Citi, so it’s a good way for me to round out my applications. $5,000 is a high minimum spend in my opinion for this card, but this is as high as the offer has ever been. It will probably only be around for a limited time.

I have never used Lufthansa Premier Miles & More miles to book any award flights but they’re in the Star Alliance so you can book free award flights on airlines such as United, US Airways, Lufthansa, Swiss, etc… It’s 50,000 miles for a roundtrip from N America to Europe on Lufthansa! You can also book 2 free roundtrips on United in the States as they’re only 25,000 in coach. If you value biz class, N American round trips are only 35k in Biz class!

No foreign transaction fees and complimentary companion ticket first year  and every year after.  $79 Annual Fee not waived first year unless you are a Senator or HON circle member. CLICK HERE TO APPLY

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We have all we need for life and godliness through his divine power… and are promised WE can participate in His DIVINE NATURE to escape worldly corruption. Which comes from? Evil desires. (2 Pet 1:3-4). Then, with your faith ALREADY in place firmly, add in INCREASING MEASURE goodness/knowledge/self-control/perseverance/godliness/brotherly kindness/love (2 Pet 1:5-8). Why? To be effective, productive, be sure of your calling, and to “NEVER FALL/STUMBLE”. (2 Pet 1:10).

Feel free to study that scripture and be blessed!

Abbreviated Update & Prayer Requests:
– Some friends from the states visited, and may potentially be working with Extreme. It was so great to see friends from Iowa!
– We had a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner, yes, even here in Peru with 40+ people
– Counselors that work with Extreme were here this week. Helped every one a lot.
– 1 member of the Cercado team has announced he will not be returning after Christmas break for health/stress reasons. Pray for Patrick, our friend!
– The last 2 weeks we had lots of sickness in our team, and the Cercado team. By God’s grace, I have still not been sick once here in Peru. Continue to pray for health!
– We still don’t have a new church building to move into in 3 weeks when our lease is up. Continue to pray!
– Brandon and I got to visit our neighbors daughter in the hospital to pray & encourage her. Turned into us laying hands on every patient in the room for healing and peace!
– The Lord has blessing my times of running here in Peru with ministry opportunities, and to declare freedom all over the city, and I love it.
– Ron & I (maybe more) are planning to summit ChaChani, a 20,000ft mountain on the edge of Arequipa next Sunday. Pray for…a great time!
– We have a 5th North American team member, Katherine Alvarez (sp?). She’s from California but is Mexican, and is already fluent in Spanish.
– 5 Ecuadorians were approved last week to be our partners for the next 2 years of ministry in Ecuador. We get to meet them in January! Pray for them as they raise funds, support, and prepare for this big change.

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Miguel & Manuel, the 2 ninos that Brandon & I live with

Yes, yes there is NASA in Peru…

Ramiro Priale ministry event:
The last 9 days have been nothing short of great as usual. I’ve been continually finding joy in the scriptures and private time with the Lord, my Spanish has continued to grow even when I don’t notice it, the Kingdom has been expanded more, the Church is still growing and producing fruit even when building circumstances are unsure, and I’m still healthy! I’ve been reminded by a lot of teammates and fellow missionaries getting sick recently that I truly need to cherish my health. Last week we helped with an outreach event at Ramiro Priale Iglesia del Nazareno which is one of the Nazarene churches wayyyy on the outskirts of the city. It’s amazing to me that you can have such a bustling center of the city full of shopping malls, restaurants, and bustling businesses, and then drive 20 minutes outside of town and encounter 1 room houses with people living on maybe $100 a month, if that. So thankful. We loved on people and helped with simple things like lead in childrens activities, gave out lots of clothes from a US donor, fed people, and presented the Gospel. The next day CJ, one of our teammates preached her first Spanish sermon at the church. God was there, and I believe he’s working in that area through the Webbs who are ministering there currently.

Church Retreat
This weekend we had a beautiful time with members in the church. Every 2 months the church invites anyone who’s willing to come, to go on a retreat with the local missionaries and church leaders. It’s a weekend event where they spend Friday and Saturday worshipping, learning from local pastors and missionaries in classes/seminars, team building games, good food, campfires, and fellowship. It ends on Sunday at our evening church service. We had 6 people attend this retreat, and I was privileged to attend the Saturday evening events with Chelsea. We got to sit in on the tail end of Pastor Elvin’s teaching on Sanctification, and praying for a baptism of the Holy Spirit over every individual. It was very powerful! The evening we had worship around a campfire and team dramas that we had to create on the spot. Let me tell you, Bible dramas in Spanish have made me understand the Old Testament in a new light! Haha.

One of the group dramas at the retreat. They had to create & perform this with 5 minutes of planning!

New Christians, & Hallway Baptisms w/Worship!
Last night’s church service was absolutely INCREDIBLE! We have negotiated with the building to have 3 more weeks of services there. Please join us in prayer for the new building. The service was powerful. Pastor Brian gives a Gospel message at the end for newcomers, and we had 2 people accept Christ for the first time. After service we went downstairs and did baptisms in a pool. This was the 2nd baptism service I’ve been privileged to be a part of. Sammy played guitar, I played cajón (small acoustic box drum), and we all sang worship songs and clapped while 6 people were dunking their old selves, and resurrecting their new bodies through the symbolism of baptism. It was extremely powerful. We went way over our scheduled time to rent the building, but God had His way!! I attached a photo of the service and baptisms.

Testimonies from the retreat, & baptisms in the hallway!

I can’t encourage you enough to be in the Word reading your Bible daily, praying daily, and creatively seeking the Lord. If he’s your best friend, He truly must inhabit your everything.

Please continue to pray for a new church building to show up in the next 3 weeks, health for our team and the other missions teams here, against what the devil wants to do and FOR what God wants to do.

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