I'm going to go through the map of Minnesota and show you where some towers are.
Now, the towers that I'm talking about come out of the scripture where we're talking about the watchman.
Ezekiel 33 talks about the watchman. Habakkuk mentions that, and we've been talking about that in prayer.
The watchman or the sentinel, that's the person who... the people that are praying into an area, right?
And when they climb the tower, they're able to hear some things from God and see things
that maybe other people aren't seeing. And then you're responsible for whatever you saw.
And I think that's a big reason a lot of people don't pray because once you see it,
then you're held responsible for what you saw, right? And the word responsibility means you're
going to respond with the ability you have presently, but God always reveals something
that's bigger than who we are. You peek out and you're like, oh, and then he has to empower
us, right? But something that he has been doing for... it's coming up on, is it May? It's 22 years
we've been here. Is it June? 22 years we've been here. Oh, and that's why I got gray under
this collar, you know what I mean? But at the same time we're here and to begin with,
even in a dream, are the dreams that pastor had or myself or as different family members
when you interpreted, like just showing up here, my husband was on a bicycle. And, you know, vehicles
many times represent how big your ministry is. So that's what we were riding around on when we
first got here and trying to establish the ministry. And then we ended up in our house
that grew to about 60 people and we were like, we can't house anymore and it's probably necessary
to get out of the house. And we turned our three car garage into a children's church. Some
of you have heard this story, but I just feel like I'm supposed to go over it for those who haven't.
And so we had a stage out there with the music and puppets and the whole thing. We put curtains
over the garage door so it wouldn't look so much like a garage and heated and cooled and all that.
And but that's where the children would come up during service and we moved a modular onto
our property which we are now using for offices. And so it went from a bicycle to
a little bit bigger vehicle in the spirit and then it just kept moving and it moved really fast.
It seems God's timer is, you know, we prayed a lot in Colorado and then all of a sudden hit the
ground running and it moved really fast and it's been expanding really fast. When I show the
towers, no one can take credit for the towers that are in connected to us, but God.
Right? A lot of times I'm gone. I'm at many of these places and I've been doing that for years
and I feel like today we're going to reveal that. So if you could show me the the map of
Minnesota. There's two different ones. Flip one up there.
And the tower, of course, is those prayer places. Those are places where altars are.
Those are places where there's the light in the church is, right? There's a lamp stand in these
places and this is nothing compared to if I added the rest, right? But I'm just putting some main
towers down to kind of show if you come to Word of Life or TBO and you think, well, we're part
of three different churches up there, Red Lake, and they got a little thing going on in Cambridge
and then there's this. It's like, no, we're part of that. And so I want to reveal that because
if we're going to be a church of prayer, we're pushing into getting to unite with different
people and different ministries and then we minister to them. They minister to us
and there's a flow that goes back and forth. So if you look around you say, here's the
size of the church. Nope, nope. Who God has us connected into is far bigger. And so
I wanted to show the map just without going through everyone. You'll see there's two places
in Wisconsin so far. Those two places represent Bruce Vanada. He has been in our lives for
many years when we're in the modular. He came out and was part of revival and we partnered
with him. The other place is over in, and I always forget the name yet, is Tomahawk. I'm
going to call it something different. But Pastor Yako and Leslie Theron are over there and they
also minister in a church in Green Bay in Wisconsin. And so that'll be somewhere else.
Pastor and I will be traveling. We've already gone out there and ministered and are partnered
with them. They call and check in and then I'll call them and check in. And prayer is a
thing, right? And so that's the part of the region that will be being filled in that Pastor and I
talked about or he had shared that we're going to do a prayer thing because we didn't get to go
all the way around and where we were supposed to go was right where those two are located
or in that direction. So I think that's pretty cool. You can see Red Lake up there,
right? Cass Lake is not that far from there. There's a place called the Sheep Shed
that there's a ministry in that's connecting into what we're doing up there. Pastor Josephine
is Apache but she's up there ministering to the Ojibwe and we're very much a part of her
ministry. Now she comes out to the Red Lake Church so we kind of go back and forth. So that's
happening there. We have an evangelist friend from Cass Lake that comes out to also Chief
Cornerstone and we'll be going out and ministering where he's at. So just in the Red Lake area it
isn't just Chief Cornerstone Church. There's also a ministry that for some of you who have came to
Open Heavens. Thank you. He's my brain today. Anyways, Open Heavens. Jimmy was on the piano.
How many of you saw Jimmy? Well him and his wife do something. They just travel all over to
churches but they do something called Christian Woodstock and that's just south of Bemidji a little bit
and we've been a part of that for two years and they're actually asking us to help run that
so as pastors. In fact they're referring us to us as the pastors of the event and so we're
going to be bringing in speakers and different bands and stuff like that up there and that
affects if you just took that one event that we're part of throughout a three-day period of time
there can be up to a hundred people coming in and out. Some of them are from Canada, some of them
South Dakota, North Dakota, some Ojibwe, some Sioux, some I mean it's just a mix of people
and it is going to grow. So we're here and we look like this but we're also there
and having an effect on that many people. So I wanted to share just a little bit also
there's some prayer warriors way up in Canada and we didn't we didn't write on the border there
there's a few of them up there that contact us or send cards and they're praying for word of
life they've never stopped praying for the word of life. The one lady said that you know
since she came down to the modular and we got introduced by Jim I mean that's her assignment
isn't that interesting. So we're a part of Canada at the same time up there in in the borderland
and there's other people and you come down the side here you can see
Ely beautiful place I love going up there and speaking but
Cheris Knudsen which will be coming for the women's conference. I've been going up
speaking at her church or being on phone and prayer and all that with her.
You come down from there it is
mountain iron I always want to say iron mountain because where I came from it was iron mountain
and then you get over here and it's mountain iron and Jennifer Cannon is there you saw her at
open heavens and we'll be doing a women's ministry with her again in Duluth so be ready for that
it's it's a lot we haven't even really moved into any of this it's affecting a lot of people
We don't just grab anybody. We don't partner just with a name either.
People do that. They get schmoozy.
Where schmoozy means stupid talk.
But it's kind of that schmoozy way of like, oh, you're important.
I can say that I was with you.
You know what I'm saying? It's very schmoozy.
We don't care what your name is, how big your congregation is, or whatever it is.
Are we partnered by the Spirit?
Because we're taking a region, right?
Where after the region, he has promised us the north.
But part of connecting into the south, as you see, there's a lot going down there.
There's a fuel that comes from the south and those prayers.
And we have to settle things in the south,
governmentally and all kinds of other things,
in order to keep the flow going back and forth.
So we're responsible in those areas.
I personally speak at Teen Challenge in Brainerd.
So you'll see a tower there. I love Teen Challenge, Brainerd.
The men's... I don't know how to describe it.
You know how to describe it, right?
Pastor Sam, he just rocks. I'll just say that.
Anyway, so just about 200 men right now.
And I get to go in and preach to them.
And so that is wonderful.
But they opened a new facility and can house up to 20 women.
And so I do that also.
Many times coming down from Red Lake,
I'll just sleep in my car because there's so much
for motels and it's just quicker that way, right?
I make sure I sleep so my hair doesn't mess.
But that's a priority, you know?
So I don't go in there all.
And then I'll preach at, you know, 6.30 in the morning
and then take off for home.
And so cause and effect is it's growing, right?
And so what's really interesting is people have come to TBO
or a patine challenge or they go over to other places.
And it's like shrinking the state in my mind.
You start to see people like,
hey, what are you doing here or whatever?
It'll start to do that.
And so God has brought us together with so many ministries.
I'm just going to name some.
And then we have the privilege of having some people here
where we can, they can show their face.
And then we can decide with the Lord if we are,
you know, that's another avenue for ministry
for you guys to help out with.
And they get to share a little bit.
And we're just going to probably do three minutes if we can
unless, I don't know, unless we got a little bit more time.
I don't know.
So Teen Challenge Minneapolis, I go down there and teach.
And that's another connection.
And they kind of just, it's almost like a pinball machine.
You'll meet people from all over the place.
And we're partnered there.
You will see Terry Francis coming in.
We're going to start doing podcasts with him.
And he's one of the leaders of Teen Challenge.
And I'm excited about that.
I'm just machine gun you with some of these
until we get to the people we're going to share about their stuff.
Anoka, you'll see advertisements for me going to speak.
And now Jim has been speaking at a church in Anoka.
I will be there when Bruce Vanada is at TBO.
I'll be speaking there and then sneak on in to TBO.
It's a great church of the Phopretic
and Charles Karuku, you know, him, right?
Calvin Woods, we're very connected to.
And then Light of the World in St. Louis Park.
And I mean, Pastor Vassili,
that's where Pastor Igor is right now,
preaching up a storm, I'm sure.
Alexandria is where Brad Brady Ministries are.
AFCM, the main hub is located Wilmer.
That's closest to us.
Tom Scrella is in Rose Mount.
And then Dale Worthington just gets us into all kinds of stuff.
Governmentally.
Amanda Hill, when I was up doing the conference for Wibbitt
at one point, just pointed a finger at me
and she said, you are governmental.
And then later she told me,
I saw that on your husband and yourself.
Now, there's different people who will prophesy
and it'll be, you know, around a person.
And other people, it's a certain area or whatever.
But she's like, you're to affect government.
And that's why we have faith and freedom.
That's why we believe in what Todd and Dieter are doing.
All of that's because we want to be in the region
affecting governmental things.
Amen?
Now, look around again, just saying that
this is pretty much how big a congregation is.
But we're having an effect.
Now, some of these things I'm doing and having an effect,
I have no idea and would like to hear from you.
There's people sitting here who have ministries.
I know nothing of.
It would be sweet for you to let us in on what you're into.
Because all of us praying together,
it will have an effect on these different things.
So, I saw a picture of towers lighting.
You know, you got the towers that...
You'll see that are like forest fire towers or whatever.
These towers had like the ancient times
where they had all the sticks on them or whatever.
And if there was a war coming, if there was something happening,
you'd light one and that would...
All of a sudden, the person on the mountain would see that.
They'd light theirs, which would tell the person down in the valley,
hey, we all got to posse up, right?
That's what we do by telephone.
That's what we do by Zoom.
That's what we're doing with a lot of these people
and a lot of these ministries.
And sometimes they'll call and check on us.
Other times I'm calling and checking on them.
There's a power in that.
That's supernatural.
I will say this.
When we first moved here,
it was different than Colorado, first of all.
But being that it was almost 22 years ago,
a lot has changed.
But I went to one of the minister's meetings with my husband
and the guy who was leading it said,
everyone joined hands and you're going to pray
for the person to the right of you.
The guys that were standing next to me,
they wouldn't touch my hand
because I was a woman pastor.
And then when it came time to pray,
people were praying, nobody said nothing.
I was like, hmm, interesting.
And it just went like that.
It went like that for a few years,
where it was just like, get out of here, go.
We had a person meet with pastor and tell them,
there's no more churches needed in this area.
That's how it started.
You show up and you're like, God, you called us here.
We don't need any more churches in there.
There's plenty of churches.
Right?
Yeah. There's a ton of people in these trees
that need Jesus.
And so the opposition was there,
and we've learned over the years
that when there's a lot of opposition,
you're probably right in the heart of God.
You're probably like, thank you for the confirmation.
And you just keep going, right?
And so it began to just move
and move into different ministries.
And then over the years,
things established,
TBO established miraculously
that I was asked to be the pastor.
And I said, I will do this
if we're submitted to Word of Life.
And we rent the building
and there's got to be some changes.
And there was a whole bunch of changes.
Now River of Life is a full gospel church.
They're renting Sunday mornings.
So we got a dual church thing going on there,
having an effect in that city.
And if you didn't know that, now you do.
Right? So it's pretty cool.
Food with friends
that Grandma Bonnie runs
40 to 100 people
for the last eight years.
We've been feeding them on Saturday nights.
So isn't that cool, right?
And then, of course, we have worship
and hope dealers is on Wednesdays
and that's recovery from all forms of abuse,
addiction, or trauma.
So it fits for everybody.
And so that's been having a great cause and effect.
And then Mission 61,
nine places housing now,
up to 50 people at one time,
having an effect on lives.
And they all kind of weave together, right?
The bus ministry many times will get people from the north
and they'll bring them down.
They get the meal on Saturday night.
One ministry touches the next ministry.
So if you thought it was just TBO,
and then here, no, there's a lot going on.
And I really felt like you guys needed to know that
because some of you were saying,
I want to know how to get involved.
And there's a lot going on.
We are also in with Changing Gates
for quite so many years.
I was on the board, but you can only be on so many boards
in after a while.
So now I'm an advisor.
And Changing Gates in Equestrian Ministry
that works with Teen Challenge.
And it just works for therapy up there in Brook Park.
And they have 40 horses and it's awesome ministry.
Some of you have seen them when they come out for summer fest.
Pastor Steve Ekholm and us are...
we are close in watching the region in prayer.
Yeah, some of you know who he is.
Katie Boyle, who goes to this body,
and she's over there teaching right now,
so that's why she's not over here,
has now started something or was a part of starting
something called the Branches in Mora.
And it's a housing for men and women in crisis,
or coming off of drugs.
And so that's going to have... that just opened.
That's a brand new thing up there.
All right.
Well, I'm not going to just keep naming some of these.
I want to bring up Cheryl Rogers.
And Cheryl Rogers, I mean, something happened,
started with faith and freedom.
We found out information about life-wise
and people were like, who's going to do it?
And we need a teacher and all that kind of stuff.
And we started at TBO.
And I want her to explain what's going on there.
Well, if any of you follow Flashpoint,
they said a couple weeks ago on Flashpoint
that life-wise is the strategy
that has been identified for our country
to get public school kids,
the gospel of public school kids.
So that was really a positive, wonderful thing.
We meet at the bridge,
and if any of you haven't been to the bridge lately,
it's been remodeled, it's awesome.
Here's some pictures of our kids in there.
My biggest class is 17 fourth graders.
They're very rambunctious, but they run down the stairs
and they say, freedom, freedom!
And, you know, we have to have some discipline,
but they love life-wise.
They love it so much.
So what we do,
we've had a group that started three years ago,
and we started in the book of Genesis,
and the journey of life-wise
is to go through the whole Bible.
And so we're going into our third year,
and so what we've been working on
is each of the students
get their own life-wise Bible.
Nobody's learned more than the teacher.
And I do a lot of things
like if something is,
they give gold, they give silver,
we do the monitors.
How much is that worth today?
How much do they pay for that?
Different things, maps, directions,
that kind of stuff.
We just want to bring the Bible alive.
Our goal is that these kids
will have such a fantastic world view
that they, at the end of life-wise,
they'll be like, well, of course,
God is so big.
So each of the kids,
each week we have the lesson,
and we've been studying the patriarchs,
the kings, the creator,
the people,
the culture, everything
that we possibly can do
in about 35 minutes, so it's fast.
And to get it down there,
we also have a character quality
each week that we talk to them
about, and how do you want to apply that
in your own life on a
weekly daily visit?
I don't know if there's a picture here.
Here's our green frog up there.
And we were
learning about the green frog because
we also have an acronym
that's called ABCDE.
And we use that almost every
week. A means they go away
from God. B, people go into
bondage. C, they cry out.
D, God sends a deliverer.
E, everything can be okay.
Well, Pharaoh,
he plagued, because
his heart was so hard,
there was the plague of the frogs.
So we brought our frog in there
and we tell the kids, do a heart
check. Are you doing your heart check?
So every week they're talking about their heart
check. And I tell them that
ABCDE, you don't
have to go away. You don't have to go into
bondage. You don't have to cry out.
You don't have to look for a deliverer.
You can live in everything's okay.
If you keep your heart checked before
the Lord. So that's our little
special thing. The other thing that
we've been doing
is really identifying all the
miracles that God does. Because in
every generation, for every people group
he will always do miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles.
I had the privilege
of being in Jim's class. I don't know if he's here this morning.
Yes.
We had the anointing.
And while we were doing that, in our
class, we were studying about how does
God speak? And so whether it be
Solomon, whether it be Elijah,
all these different prophets, kings,
leaders, and people. Is it a dream?
Is it a vision? Is it
a still small voice? Is it the whirlwind?
Is it the, you know, Job had
the whirlwind? And so the kids have identified
and remembered all these way God
speaks. So I have this little
game for them. And it's
called the whisper game. And they'll
stand over here, like, you know, like
15 feet away and I'll say, I'll whisper
something. God has a very
special plan for your life and they can't hear
me. We couldn't hear you. Take a giant
step forward, giant step forward and they keep
coming forward. And then they go, God
has a special plan for my life. And I
said, where are you standing?
So you heard him whisper, right,
with him. His presence
is where you're going to hear.
His word is where you're
going to find out. And it's a good lesson
for all of us. Get close. You're going
to hear. If you're off gaming and doing
all kinds of other stuff, you're not
going to hear. The other
thing that we've been studying is how
God heals. And that's been
really exciting because
we had the story of
Nahum and he expected Elisha
to come out lay hands on him, pray for
him. And this goes with what you're saying this morning, Vern,
because God has different
ways of doing things. And
Nahum had really
an expectation from the Lord how God
was going to move. And God
told his
servant to tell him to go dip in the river
and he was put out because it was a dirty river
and there were clean rivers back home.
The servant said, you might as well just dip in
the river. And so he did and he
was healed. And so our lesson to the
kids is you got to hear
so you can see. And we
talked about healing oil. We've talked
about the cloths that Don has equipped
us with. We talked and I bring
this stuff in there. Peter's
Shadow. The presence is so powerful.
We talk about all those things so
it really means something to
the kids. But I said, you guys got to hear
the secret sauce because one
way is not going to work. In every
situation you have to hear the Holy Spirit.
You have to hear what he's saying
as he's speaking.
So
with my 50 kids, I
live on the bike trail and the kids are always
on the trail and they have their friends with them
and they go, oh my gosh, there's my teacher.
So I invite them in for muffins
and stuff like that.
So we have fun.
A couple other things.
The morning that we had
Isaiah 6 morning in here where
it's holy, holy, holy. That was my lesson
last week. And I'm just
like, oh my gosh, this is totally
an Isaiah 6
morning. This week
my lesson was Valley of the
Dry Bones. And if anybody was
here for intercessors
on Friday night,
our lesson was
Chris, the Valley of the Dry
Bones. And we really
got into it. So I know God
is anointing these lessons
each time. Moving
forward
we want to get... we did get a
bus. So that's our new bus
there. We're really excited about that to open
some doors. Moving forward
we want to get into the Cambridge
Middle School. And we can only
do a very quick Friday morning
maybe like a breakfast club. We don't know for
sure. We want to hit the I
Sandy schools. A possible
VBS is in the works for
August. That would be in town.
And then we feel like
the new bus will open doors for us.
We will be looking for more volunteers
and
leaders, teachers maybe.
Because I really think I'm
passionate about kids. I
really believe that this is
the doorway for our community
to reach out. Pine City started with
150 kids. And we were the first
in the state of Minnesota. There's others
that are looking into it.
So Mary probably knows more about that.
But thank you so much for your prayer and
your support for these kids.
And keep praying for them.
Yeah, that's so good.
And please talk to her afterwards
if you want to.
I mean there's going to be spots for
teachers. Some of the positions are
paid positions and things like that.
It's Tuesday and Wednesday
so that it will be at
TBO. So it's treated just like a school
doors locked. You can't get in during that
time.
But we've seen it in
other states. When they show
where life wise started, it spreads
like wildfire. And then all kinds
of schools are doing it.
And unsaved kids are
getting saved. It is not
I have to give a little clarifier.
It is not a word of life or a TBO
thing. We heard about it
and one of our people became the teacher
and we said, yes, you can use the
building. So we have to know
that this isn't our thing.
We're wanting it to be the community's
thing and get all the churches involved.
So, alright.
Let me see here.
We're moving right along.
I'm going to...
Well, River of Life, we already
covered. Sarah Gilman, where
are you Sarah?
Forever Blessing.
Sarah is
incredible.
Actually, that word is not correct.
She's credible. I don't know why
we all say it's incredible.
She's credible and she's all
over this ministry like white on rice
and it's affecting some of the ministries
that we'll be talking right after.
If you could just explain what you do.
I'll make it pretty simple.
You guys donate clothes
and items from remission 61
and Forever Blessing and I
sort through all of that
and get it where it needs to go.
So, we have like a few connections
and I believe she's going to have
some of them coming up, but we've got
about three connections in the city
who are helping homeless people.
And so, we're getting them clothes, we're getting them jackets,
we're getting them hats, we're getting them blankets
for the winter especially.
And then we've got
Red Lake that we're getting stuff to.
There's, you know, we did that
push in December to get them stuff
and so, they're
still in need even though it's winter
is kind of pulling off.
But yeah,
my big thing
is and I pray this over the ministry is
just Lord, let
the right things
get to the right people
at the right time.
And so, we just, we need to be providing
there's so much need out there.
And trying to
do it very respectfully as well
when I sort things
it goes into bags
and it's like, okay, this is women's
sweaters, extra large,
stuff like that so that when someone needs
something, we can just grab it.
And we don't have to be like, oh, I don't
here's a bag of whatever.
So that's basically
what we do. And I've got
a few ladies right now that have been helping
me. But, you know,
if anyone's interested in helping
you can get ahold of me
or call me or whatever.
I
had one other thing I was going to
say.
Oh, and if you have any donations
you can either contact
me, get them straight to me
or if you're in Cambridge
at the TBO in the back
there is a gray
plastic
shed.
And you can just put stuff in there
and then I go every week and check it
and grab the stuff and go.
So, yeah.
She is at the helm of this.
I had started
ever blessing years ago
and then there were different people
that helped in between.
And now it's
right down the hallway of the modular
which is
what?
Oh, the one picture was Red Lake.
She put it up
when she was talking about Red Lake and that
is the winter giving that we did. It was so
cold and when we got to the church
their furnace was out.
So they have a little wood stove
and we were all trying to get the wood in there
and get it going.
The person to the far right
is Pastor Josephine
and that's the PTL church.
So we just love her
and what she does is she gets it to her
small congregation but then they get it
to the needy and then now
we're connecting into a facility
that is for people
in addiction that's right in Red Lake
but the people coming off the streets
when they go in there whatever clothes they have
on their back is all they have.
So if they're in there for six months
that's the clothes they have.
So she found that she just asked
do you guys want any clothes?
And all of a sudden they were just grabbing
they didn't care if it was women's men
they just didn't want to wear the same thing.
They wanted to take a shower and wash
what they had on or whatever.
So it just keeps morphing
like that into more and more areas.
And so
thank God for ever blessing
but that way you can contact Sarah if you want to help
and then also
you can
donate clothes instead of giving them
somewhere else. Get them to Sarah.
Alright, I'm going to have
Pastor Jean come up.
Let's welcome her.
I got to meet her
at unshackled which is
another thing I've been ministering at
for over eight years in the Malacca area.
And she just happened to be there
and I want her to tell us
about the ministry she has.
Who is the Lord?
My name is Pastor Jean.
I am a street pastor.
That's mean
the Lord gave me
this work
to go to the needies
those homeless
and all kind of people
in the street
who are in need.
So as a Christian
we have to go to those
people who cannot
go to regular church.
So as a street pastor
eight years back
and the Lord called me
as a former homeless
to taking care
of the homeless.
When something happened to you
often
the Lord used it as
your ministry.
So
we start the ministry
in Tempa
so we have
a soup kitchen
where we feed daily
people.
And last year
in 2024
and as we feed
people we feed their soul as well.
So we had
like 2,243 people saved.
amen.
And
last year the Lord
told me to come here.
Ha!
It wasn't something easy for me
but as a woman of God
and faith
as obey and I came here
last January
the coldest
day of the year.
I drove 3 days
by myself alone
to come here
just to obey because the Lord told me
go
in Minneapolis, in Minnesota
and feed my people
tell them I love them
the same thing you did in Florida
go there.
And I have to leave everything
my son the ministry
over there
but when I said yes
he put
everything I need
to be there
by faith.
And
as a question
the Lord told us, obedience is better than sacrifice.
As we obey
and we step
in by faith
the word of God will be
fulfilled in your life.
So I came here
knowing nobody here
but
two days before
I left, I have a friend
I call him and I say this is what
the Lord told me to do. He said
hey!
I said nothing will stop me
I said yes already
and he talked to another friend
who is someone here
who three years back
came in Florida
to see her ministry
and I didn't know that
he came
he is from here, from Minnesota
and my friend call him
and say hey!
Emily is coming
she is always on the way
but
Buddha did not say where
in Minnesota might not something
I didn't know where I will stay
I didn't know anything
I just came by faith
and the Lord touched
his heart
Buddha did get back in
and he welcomed me
and from
this connection here
I knew this wonderful woman
of God personally
so
today I would like to
let you know
this woman helped me
she helped the ministry
when you sit down
sat down here
you donate
This ministry and this ministry donate to me and helped me touch another kind of people you don't know, you don't maybe, you know, so your donation, your blessing came from that too, right?
So, when I met Pastor Marie, a great woman of God, I would like to acknowledge you for the work you are doing, for the anointing and the mantel the Lord put on you to do all this with your husband and your family and this ministry.
I know it's a lot, but the Lord is on your side, is in with you and he helped you go through all this and I bless the Lord for your life and I pray the Holy Spirit continue to use you mightily to do his work.
So, we feed homeless people every week in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Every month, every third Tuesday of the month, we went to Union Gospel Mission where we had 250 people and I cook a wonderful dinner so they can come and eat.
They have to choose their food. When the Lord told me to go and feed the homeless, he saw me a buffet, good food. This is the reason personally I cook a good and yummy food to give them so they have to choose what they want to eat because for an homeless to have a balance plate, beautiful yummy is something expensive.
So, I bring that quality of food to them, you know, so they have to eat. And after eating, so now I start talking to them about Jesus.
You know, I start, you know, preaching, telling her, go easy. And I tell them my own, my own testimony. If God can do it for me, look at me today serving you. He can do it for you too.
So, amen. So, a lot God bless and we went, this picture is at the Union Gospel Mission and every time the Lord told me to do a really, you know, like fancy dinner, I put the level very high.
So, surprising them, tell them how valued they are, you know, in the eyes of God, you know. So, I had this opportunity last December for Christmas with a wonderful dinner.
And those women at Onchekal where testimony usually preach for us, some are here, help. I wasn't by myself. I cannot do this by myself. And everybody helped the way they can.
And sister Mary, pastor Mary gave me clothes to give to them. And as we feel homeless in the camp, open camp, where you are so blessed, you don't know, maybe you don't value what God gave you to have a roof over your head and everything you want.
But some other people like you, few miles away from you, didn't have nothing. So, as a question, we are the feet and the hands of Jesus. We have to step out and help those people. We have to help our neighbors.
And this ministry, you know, help, they help, they support my ministry. This is the work of all of us. All of us, we are strong. And I encourage you today, as pastor said, he don't have to beg because this is the work of God.
And he don't have to every Sunday tell you to give. But when you give is a blessing. When you give your donation, any kind, clothes, I have clothes every month to give to those wonderful people, you know, from this ministry.
And all kind of help, food and everything because every month we feed 1000 people. And good food, good quality food. So, give to this ministry is a blessing for me, is a blessing for those people in need.
At the same time, we have a group of families in Baker, at Baker Estate. And every week, door to door, house to houses, I give them food too. Box of groceries. And more, I am Haitian from Haiti. I have 400 children in Haiti.
70% of them are often and living in extreme poverty. So, those children, I send them to school. We have a community of 1000 people. I have a team with a pastor, you know, like 20 people helping those children.
For now, we didn't have a building yet. But by faith, we know one day, we will have a place to, you know, care of those children. So, actually, our van is walking, walk down. So, we are, I am doing my best to find something.
I have to tell you, I gave everything I have to this ministry to God. Since he gave me salvation with priceless, and I gave God all myself involved in this hard and difficult work.
Please help this ministry so I can have more help, so I can help more people. And your blessing will be multiply, multiply, multiply. Thank you for having me today.
She's a really good cook, by the way. But you can volunteer and meet her after the service. You can go down and help feed.
I mean, there's all kinds of different things that you can do. Ah, that touches my heart. Next person up is Jenna and Steve Rods. All right, come on up.
I have a shaky hand. Some of you might remember me. Sorry, I'm very nervous being up front. We have a non-profit Fresh Waters Ministries, Minnesota.
And what we do is we go out and we do street ministry. Currently, we go down to Minneapolis every week and we feed and clothe the homeless. We pack lunches.
So we do about 50, 60 cold lunches. We've been getting donations from Everblessing Closet and the community of Zimmerman and Princeton have really helped out this past year with all of the donations.
Here, do you want to share something? My hands are dirty.
Well, hi. I just, I worked on Pastor Verne's car a couple weeks ago and I'll bet you he didn't know I was going to be up here. Well, neither did I, so I'm going to tell you what.
But Pastor Gene goes to the encampments in Minneapolis and St. Paul and that's awesome. That's not where we're called. We go to different neighborhoods.
But we, a lot of, sometimes we just end up driving around namelessly and we say, oh, there's some dudes and we pull over and then we just pull out the stuff and they just go, whoa, you guys actually seen us.
And we're like, yeah, man. You know? I mean...
We have Bibles, so we bring Bibles. We do prayer. We've done the sinners prayer and salvation prayer and people have been giving their lives to Jesus.
We have events up here planned for like water baptisms because we also do recovery outreach.
So in March we started a non-program recovery. It's all recovery. It's faith-based. We go through the 12 steps through the Life Recovery Bible and we do community meals.
So we cook for however many we think are going to be there, probably 40, 50, and that's every Tuesday night. God is really moving.
And I know through my own prisonment of toxic relationships and recovery and addiction, I know that this is where God had called me.
I spent two years in Bible college and this is really just what is on my heart every day. It's what I do every day other than doing in-home care.
Tell them a little bit about you, what your history of recovery.
Oh, well, I don't know. I've been in recovery ministry, gosh, I suppose almost 17 years.
So yeah, I've been doing this for a bit. Well, that part of it anyway. But this whole community outreach stuff is all new to me.
And I mean, Isaiah 43 19 says, see, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I didn't perceive it for a while.
Honestly, I had no idea any of this was happening. And then I met my sister here and all this stuff kind of just started getting downloaded into my head and the whole dang time.
It was getting downloaded into her head. And then we just started talking about what we wanted to do. And we're like, well, why don't we just do it?
You know, I mean, Acts 420. And if you don't know the humor behind 420, then you are blessed and don't figure it out on your own.
But Acts 420 says this, we cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.
I mean, in 17 years of recovery, I've seen and heard a whole lot. And in my years before, I got sober and found the Lord as if he could be lost, but I couldn't find him.
And I'm going to tell you, I just can't shut up about it. You know, honestly, I mean, what are they going to do?
You know, honestly, what are they going to do to me? Not a whole lot. That's really going to matter in the end.
And man, just doing this and just the amount of help we've gotten in the last, I don't know, when did we start doing this? For reals, I suppose.
We had our first event in May, but we started doing outreach in November.
Golly, that's in the grand scheme of things. For however old you think the world is, whether it's 6,000 years or 150 bajillion or whatever they think it is, whatever you think in your head, I don't really care.
But in the grand scheme of things, that's not a really long time. And just the amount of people that we've touched and that have helped us do this.
Has just been blowing our mind. And for a guy who's been a Christian for a little bit, you start looking around at the world and you get pessimistic.
And you go, well, I'm just ready for him to come back. Just come back, end it all. I don't even care. I just want to go home.
But seeing what, since we started doing this, just the hope and the heart of people that's doing this has actually given me a renewed heart.
It's like, hey, there's hope for all this. Lord, Lord, Lord, there's more work to do. Don't come back today.
But seriously, whether they're believers or not, they're giving. They just say, hey, you know, you're doing a pretty doggone good thing. I want to help you.
And here's a garbage bag full of stuff. And you open it up and it's awesome. And she goes through all that stuff.
And she's telling me about it. She's telling me about some stuff last night. Look at this stuff I got on Friday.
And I'm just like, holy crap, that's awesome stuff. And the people are just giving it to you. Huh? What? What did I say?
Oh, you know, glorifying God with filthy words, I guess.
Dude. But really, anyone, what does he say in John chapter seven? Anyone who believes in me, and he's telling this, I think, to the gall at the well.
Anyone who believes in me may come and drink of the water that he has.
For the scriptures declare, rivers of living water will flow from his heart. And that's happening. We're seeing it.
Every dang day, it's crazy. I didn't think I was going to see a day like these, but here it is. And it's pretty dang crazy. Gosh.
Just, you know, I want to thank you for being a mentor, you know, starting on Shackle four years ago and being a part of this.
Yeah, you should probably so everybody can hear you.
Being a part of, you know, being able to have you as a mentor has really changed my life and shown me, you know, what God really has intended for me.
And that I don't have to be in the Shackles. I don't have to be in the bondage.
Thank you, Pastor Jean, for what you do and me being able to come down and serve with you and its blessings to have sisters and brothers in Christ so we can all help the ones that are forsaken and forgotten.
Love you guys. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
My favorite part is they thought about doing it and then they just went and did it. I like that because that's how you get evangelism going.
Let's have Sarah Jorgensen come from Firebase, and she's from Fire here, but she's part of Firebase. Good luck.
Is Sarah at the video? I think she had it.
Okay. So, hi. Oh, I didn't actually know I was going to be up here today, so I'm going to let you see my face a little better.
Yeah, I have been involved with Firebase Movement for the last three years.
The Lord has just brought me in full circle. In fact, Firebase is down in Minneapolis and it's two blocks from my childhood home, so it's been amazing that he has brought me back to the place of my birth.
And just recently, I actually have been called to be lead intercession every Saturday, and so I literally get to call down heaven to the place that I was born.
And so, super amazing how God has been working in my life. And just bringing me back to Firebase, which is a ministry and we have three mandates.
The first one is to build the altar of the Lord. And so, that is very biblical. If you look in the Bible, there was altars being built everywhere.
And so, we actually have worship sets that happen every single day of the week.
And we... it's every day of the week, and so there's a couple hours of worship.
We actually are adding another one, which is a marketplace one that's going to happen at the crack of dawn.
And so, you know, we're all about building the altar and then our second mandate would be reaching the lost.
And so, we do actually take it to the streets also. We're all about preaching the gospel and not just having somebody pray a prayer.
Okay? We're about the full gospel that's not necessarily pretty, but it's about taking them by the hand.
And then our third mandate is to make disciples. And so, we actually show them life on life how to live the life of Jesus.
We want to be like Jesus, right? And so, how Jesus is and how we work is there's teaching, which is very important.
We need the doctrine. We need the basis to be rooted in His Word, but we also need the modeling.
And I know there's a lot of parallels with fire base and Word of Life because Word of Life is a how-to church, right?
It's the modeling and the showing of how do you do that. And then beyond that, we're doing the activation.
And so, you know, we actually take people out to the streets and they just get immersed into learning how to preach the gospel,
learning how to heal the sick, raise the dead, do deliverance.
And so, I think there is a video and you can play that.
This is from one of our loved-win cities that we hold every year.
It's a 24-7 altar that we have for a week long, and then we have 50 outreaches that go out.
And we've found that when we call back as we're on the streets and we're praying for people on the spot through that 24-7 altar,
it's like a nuclear reactor because the salvations, the deliverances, the healings, they skyrocket when it comes from that resting place of God.
So, I'm just going to have you play that.
We just thank God for what is done again this year, opening the heavens at Noftwin cities.
And we actually do the warfare in the throne room, worshiping God.
And it just went like a ripple all from here, cleansing and opening minds and hearts.
And we've heard from several messengers that people were very receptive and open to the gospel.
And we know that is God's answer to us fixing our eyes on Him only.
Dear God, bring us to that one lashing.
Show us that person and give us the courage to share fully the gospel message with them.
That it is only the full gospel message that saves.
My name is Cabell and today is our last day of the Lord 20 cities outreach.
And I met these two gentlemen, Ron and Mario, they were walking and I reached out to them, invited them to come and eat some burgers.
And we said to have a conversation.
Mario is really hungry for the Lord. He wants a church family. He wants to know the Lord. He wants to walk the Lord.
So hey, there was just two young men who came to get a free burger.
And I just felt from the Holy Spirit that I needed to share, even though I was giving up on to share the gospel.
And when I shared my testimony on what I've been through and how God rescued me, these young men, they were open to the gospel.
They surrendered to the Lord. And that's what the Lord does. He changes lives.
So yeah, and so actually Word of Life has just recently been donating to Firebase and we have gotten connected and I'm super excited about it.
So thank you so much.
And I just want to say too, if anybody is interested in going out and preaching the gospel, we have outreaches that go out every day of the week.
So if you're interested, come talk to me.
So I could have had another hour's worth of speakers that we didn't call.
I wanted to let you know what was happening within the body or just around in the area.
But there's a lot of towers.
So when we're at prayer, we want to expand our picture of what we're actually praying for when we pray for the region.
It's not just Chief Cornerstone.
It's all of this and this.
You know, it's just all the different churches represented and the outreaches.
If I tried to count it, I tried to count.
Well, this is how many, if you say that many people, then whatever we're a part of.
I mean, it's a lot for numbers of how many people Word of Life is affecting.
And I think you need to know that.
But we are a regional center and when the bigger building gets built, people are already streaming in
and then going back to their churches wherever we're going to have some more.
Just called me and said I want to come down from the north and be a part of Word of Life.
We have to be able to house them.
So the building's so important because we're taking a region.
Let's stand.
Thank you to all of those who shared this morning also.
So I felt the fear of the Lord during prayer where it was just like when we talked about the things we talked about in prayer.
God's doing this.
He's raising up people and He's doing it.
When He told us when we were in the modular, He said,
I have given you the north.
We look at a map and you're like, that's craziness.
How are we supposed to, you know, but this is how He's going to do it.
We're connecting in and then the fire lights.
I also want to say that Tom Scarell and I shared this before for those of you who hadn't heard when He was in,
not the last time, but the time before pastors said everybody join hands if you want to do that.
Pray for the person next to you.
He grabbed my hand and He said a hundred fires in the north.
I mean the fire God hit me and I was like where Lord where you know I was like a dog hitting the end of the chain.
But you know, and then in the next seven weeks, 150 people got saved through TBO.
So my brain was like, oh God you went beyond a hundred.
That's what was it.
A lot of them were from the north, but I see now that it is taking all of us from the southeast to west
and moving on the north.
By faith, there's going to be all kinds of churches lighting up for this.
So Father, we just thank you.
We thank you for all the information Lord God that we can go home and just digest this.
And if there's anything we're supposed to do or be a part of,
Lord just lay it on our hearts and just reveal to us as we're in intercessory prayer.
We give you all the glory in Jesus' name.