In 2007 during my mission trip to Haiti, I saw the hillside dotted with shacks. Towering above them were a few multi-million dollar mansions. My heart was broken over the disparity of the many in the earth, including our own nation, who are so poor that they can barely eat. On Saturday, June 19th, I […]
On January 12th, an earthquake devastated the nation of Haiti causing the nations of the earth including America to respond with humanitarian aid. Before the earthquake, Haiti was considered the poorest nation in the western hemisphere with 54% of Haitians living in abject poverty (Central Intelegence Agency, 2009). After the earthquake, the situation went from […]
I was fifteen years old and just beginning to turn my life back to the Lord. For two years, I had been serving in children’s ministry but had no thought of music. Suddenly, I was with my mom at a conference and a prophet spoke this word to me from the Lord: Music, music, music…I […]
Bethany was one of my roommates when I did the Fire in the Night internship, and she moved in as my roommate once again in mid-January. We have quite the adventures together, but she always provokes my heart to greater love and abandonment to God. She challenges my walk and carries herself with joy and […]
My Weekly Worship Sets Sunday 2 am Tuesday 12 am Thursday 12 am Friday 4 am Saturday 4 am You will usually catch me singing. Sometimes I am playing keys or leading worship. For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place […]
Monday Feb. 8th, I departed for Minnesota and Wisconsin for a week of vacation and ministry time with friends and family. At 5:55pm, I spun off into a ditch due to ice on the roadways near Story City, IA. Towing was prohibited in the area because of the weather, so the state trooper brought me […]
From My Heart – Trusting the Lord in Disaster My heart is heavy as I write this month’s newsletter. An earthquake has devastated a nation that I deeply love. News has been trickling in slowly from ministry friends and contacts. James Adams is a dear Haitian friend that I went to Haiti with in 2007 […]
At this present moment, the second largest abortion facility in the world, next to China, is being built in Houston, Texas. This six-story, 78,000 square foot, Planned Parenthood abortion “Super Center” is right in the middle of four minority neighborhoods. Three of these neighborhoods average an 85% Hispanic population and the fourth is 80% Black […]
Over one full year ago, I was saying good-bye to friends, to family, to Eau Claire, WI, and to Duluth, MN for what I thought would be 6-months. As I came down to participate in the Fire in the Night internship, God apprehended my heart to move here and serve as a missionary full-time in […]
On November 11, I arrived at the FSM building at 3 pm for my normally scheduled Justice Program class. To my bewilderment, I found the auditorium filled with over 2,000 people that had spontaneously gathered from all over the Kansas City area. During the 9 am class that morning, led by Allen Hood and Wes Hall (the […]