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THE WALK OK

Bouncers, Gamblers, & Night club hoppers!

6/20/2020

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The Lord is moving among us. As student missionaries posture their heart in response to the presence of the Lord, we are seeing transformation happen on the streets and in their personal lives.

Going house to house, team members prayed in response to requests at each door. A common prayer was, “Lord send rain!” We awoke yesterday to a rushing pour of rain that didn’t just get everything wet but flooded areas we were planning to serve. Team members didn’t get discouraged, but embraced the opportunity to pick up their cross and pray Heaven down on the highway and byways.
As the day progressed the clouds cleared and team members got their gear and headed to serve. Pushing mowers, picking up trash, & plowing through brush to clear pathways to people’s homes, awakened hearts to how God is plowing through our hearts as we serve and seek Gospel opportunities.

One Team member said, “Clearing the brush is showing me how The Holy Spirit is clearing the brush in my life, so I can display Him without hinderance.”

By evening, we hosted a bonfire that brought out the community and students played with kids while others engaged in gospel conversations with their parents. About 10pm we packed up and headed out to the casino! Packed full of cars we got permission to set up at the exit and offer burgers and prayer to everyone that was leaving. Team members began conversations with bouncers, gamblers, and night club hoppers! Imagine leaving a casino at midnight and being offered prayer as you stumbled home from defeat. Gospel conversations permeated the air as Jesus was lifted high in the night watches among the hopeless.
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Please pray for the Lord to capture hearts today and open doors for salvation!
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What are the Chances???

6/19/2020

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Today the team was challenged to be RFA- “Ready for Anything” Taken from Acts 8 where Philip was placed on the road to Gaza and encountered an Ethiopian Eunuch who was reading the Scroll of Isaiah! I mean what are the chances??

So everyone prayed this morning for the Lord to use them to share the gospel like Philip and they committed to be RFA!
The Lord responded! Every house that was painted and every yard that was mowed or yard that was cleared students prayed for the Lord to push back the darkness, bless the home, and give Divine Encounters!
By the time we got to our community family outreach ( aka the Carnival) the Lord was setting up encounters!

Taylor, one of our student missionaries felt a prompting from the Holy Spirit to share her personal testimony with the entire crowd at the Carnival. Taylor had never done this before and was nervous, but knew with confidence she was suppose to share. She stepped to the mic like a pro and shared confidently how the Lord had changed her life and gave an invitation for anyone who didn’t know Jesus to go to the prayer tent.
What Taylor didn’t know, was as soon as she finished, a young boy that has been helping with #TheWalk was overwhelmed with conviction and ran over to the tent to rededicate his life to Christ. It was powerful how God had so evidently prompted Taylor to speak boldly, but at the same time was using it to speak to this young man. Taylor walked out being RFA and God had a Divine Encounter waiting!
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Can we challenge you, if your reading, to ask the Lord to make you RFA (Ready for Anything) for Him too and ask Him to lead you toward a Divine Encounter?
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The Unseen Seen

6/18/2020

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Today was amazing! It was like the presence of the Lord flooded every community our teams entered. Divine encounters seem to be everywhere.
We had the opportunity to pray at a home of two young women in a decaying neighborhood. Upon arriving at the door, the ladies greeted us, surprised we were willing to talk to them. We offered them some free burgers and began to ask how we could pray? One lady hung her head sharing how she had just been diagnosed with cervical cancer. The other lady also very defeated, shared how bills were more than they could manage and that life was hard right now. I asked, “is there anything else?” The first lady replied, “ Yes, please pray for my daughter who has a tormenting spirit.” What? A tormenting spirit? A bit surprised by her response, we instantly knew, we must pray and take authority over their home in the name of Jesus! We bowed our heads and prayed for healing, provision, and deliverance. When we were done, the ladies smiled and said “this is the best thing that has ever happened to us.”

Can you imagine living in such uncertainty, pain and torment that the simple prayer of another would make the “best moment that has ever happened to you?”

My friends, that is the power of the name of Jesus and the beauty of the gospel when it is preached to those without hope.

As teams were going all over the communities in another area, a man drove several miles away to catch up to us and ask how he could buy a burger? We told him they were free and we would be happy to give him and many as he wanted. He asked for 6. As we stood their making them we began to ask him some questions about his life and if he had faith. He shared he was an agnostic and struggled with what he truly believed. We stood talking for about 15-20 minutes about faith and trust that come from Christ alone. He didn’t pray to receive Christ but he did say he felt led to go back and watch the Passion of the Christ. Would you join us in praying for Tristan to come to Faith in Christ?
God truly is pulling back the veil and allowing us to see the unseen as we intentionally go door to door sharing burgers, a Bible, and lots of Jesus!
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His presence is Restoring Homes and transforming Hearts...

6/15/2020

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Today was intense! It began with 3 service projects across the community. One was a yard that needed completely cleaned and cleared and the other two were homes that needed significant paint work done.


One house had cedar siding that had been painted over so many times that it took several hours scraping before it looked like we had made any progress. We taped off the windows & doors, took a paint sprayer to it, gave it a few coats and just like that it was finished. We felt every scrape and every spray; but it really paid off. It didn’t even look like the same home! Without doubt it will stand out and our prayer is that when people see it, they will remember how God provided transformation to their community!


It was a beautiful picture of how Jesus works on our hearts (some longer than others) then comes in and changes them completely. He is relentless in His pursuit, scraping away at anything that doesn’t look like Jesus once we belong to Him.


After projects were completed, everyone hurried to set up for our community family outreach we call Carnival night. From the very old to young, our team had opportunities to share the gospel and experienced its power as several made decisions of salvation.


The local pastor said that he saw children and parents from all sorts of backgrounds come to this event that had never/would never have stepped foot on church grounds otherwise.


Will you join us in celebrating and praying for those that made decisions tonight and pray for the many more seeds that were planted!


Tomorrow will be a “free day” for our team to rest and recoup from the last couple weeks of intense ministry.


Pray with us as we transition more team members in tomorrow from Inola and prepare to go into two communities that have been the most difficult for us to establish connections with. We know though, that just means that they still need Jesus!
Please pray as we prepare to do some serious Spiritual battling in these dark places; fighting for freedom for those who can’t fight for themselves.


The team has been working so hard pouring themselves out to make sure that everyone they interact with feels seen. Please pray for a physical and spiritual recharge tomorrow, and for divine encounters all along the way!
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United in Christ

6/14/2020

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One of the amazing things that we are getting to experience on this trip is the family of God working together as He designed it. This morning we were blessed to participate in a church service outside and invited everyone in town! It was incredible to see different denominations and ministries coming together for one common purpose: to glorify God and make Him known! It was like seeing a little glimpse of heaven.

As soon as church was over we grabbed our sack lunches and headed out for Loyal and Okeene (this time we are combining the two towns together). We rode most of the way and the team was blessed by the extra time to gather strength worshipping together and practiced sharing testimonies. After Inviting everyone in Loyal to the carnival tomorrow night we continued on to Okeene.

We could tell that God has gone before us because we were able to have many Christ centered conversations. One of the team members talked to a lady named Kay whose husband (who is not a believer) had been on life support a while back. When the doctors said there was nothing more they could do, a man she didn’t know came to her and said “Don’t give up hope. Trust in the Lord.” Then the next night he woke up from his coma! The students were able to encourage her that God has a plan for her husband still and that he allowed him to wake up for a reason. We encouraged her to continue to share the Truth of the Gospel with him. Will you join us in praying for them? Pray that God will change Kay’s husbands life!

As we prepare to help restore some homes and put on a carnival again tomorrow, please pray for the people in these towns. Pray that God would prepare them even this evening to have an encounter with Him tomorrow; and that the presence of God would undeniably fall upon this place!
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Our God Reigns!

6/14/2020

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God has shown himself mighty!
Our students have grown in so many ways, they are developing a heart of a servant and we are excited to wrap up this first week with some exciting stories of the great things God has done!

We started off with our quiet times and after breakfast we headed on over to Mrs. Julia’s home, an 84 year old woman who lives on her own in an old run down house. Seeing her house was heartbreaking. It has been through many floods, flooring was coming up and the siding had rotted. So our team got busy!

​With hearts full of love and hands ready to serve we replaced the rotted siding and inside walls and then were able to put a fresh coat of paint on them. God gave us the privilege to spend some meaningful tim with Mrs. Julia, talking with her, praying for her and sharing the hope of the gospel with her! Please pray for Mrs .Julia with us!


During our family outreach that evening ( our carnival) God continued to move! The community that we had visited the day before through going door to door, slowly showed up during the evening. Adriana, our newest summer staff member got the opportunity to translate in Spanish as the gospel was presented to the entire Carnival. She was also working a booth and had a girl come to her booth. She talked with her and began to ask her if she had ever heard the story of Jesus. The girl said no. She began to share but before she could get done the girl asked if she could get her twin sister. Adriana continued to share and both girls gave their lives to Christ! It was incredible!
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​Please continue to pray for God to give us more and more Divine Encounters! Pray He would give us strength mentally, physically and spirituality. Join with us in praying for the students that ended their week trip today that God may continue to do His work in their lives. Pray for those that will join us on Tuesday for our second full week of ministry. We are excited for all God has in store for the days ahead and can’t wait to share!

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Salvation Reigns!

6/13/2020

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God has shown himself mighty!
Our students have grown in so many ways, they are developing a heart of a servant and we are excited to wrap up this first week with some exciting stories of the great things God has done!

We started off with our quiet times and after breakfast we headed on over to Mrs. Julia’s home, an 84 year old woman who lives on her own in an old run down house. Seeing her house was heartbreaking. It has been through many floods, flooring was coming up and the siding had rotted. So our team got busy! With hearts full of love and hands ready to serve we replaced the rotted siding and inside walls and then were able to put a fresh coat of paint on them. God gave us the privilege to spend some meaningful tim with Mrs. Julia, talking with her, praying for her and sharing the hope of the gospel with her! Please pray for Mrs .Julia with us!


During our family outreach that evening ( our carnival) God continued to move! The community that we had visited the day before through going door to door, slowly showed up during the evening. Adriana, our newest summer staff member got the opportunity to translate in Spanish as the gospel was presented to the entire Carnival. She was also working a booth and had a girl come to her booth. She talked with her and began to ask her if she had ever heard the story of Jesus. The girl said no. She began to share but before she could get done the girl asked if she could get her twin sister. Adriana continued to share and both girls gave their lives to Christ! It was incredible!
​Please continue to pray for God to give us more and more Divine Encounters! Pray He would give us strength mentally, physically and spirituality. Join with us in praying for the students that ended their week trip today that God may continue to do His work in their lives. Pray for those that will join us on Tuesday for our second full week of ministry. We are excited for all God has in store for the days ahead and can’t wait to share!

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Boldness and Salvation

6/13/2020

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Today team one started walking to Dover! We continued in the prayer walking that we’ve been practicing and it helped us to focus and gave us strength. Along the way we saw a trailer park that we felt the Spirit was leading us to go into so we went door to door offering sack lunches, handing out Bibles, asking to pray with everyone and invited them to the carnival tomorrow!


This evening we had a movie night free for the community. While setting everything up one of our team members started sharing the gospel with a girl who had come to watch the movie. The little girl decided to pray to ask Jesus into her heart and immediately asked when she could be baptized! She ran home to tell her mom the exciting news and then her whole family came to join in on the movie fun!


Please pray for even more awesome stories like this tomorrow as we engage with the community through service projects and the carnival again tomorrow! Pray for boldness and willingness to share, for hearts ready to recieve and this small town to be changed forever in Jesus’ name!
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Overwhelming gratitude and Persistent Seeking.

6/12/2020

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We started out today working on two service projects; this time the homes were next door to each other. On one we put up a new porch and the other needed a complete makeover including the entire exterior repainted, one exterior wall rebuilt, all new windows put in and a sheet metal roof! This home belonged to Jeanie. As she began to tell the story of the house we discovered that it has been in her family for over 80 years! Needless to say, it was very special to her and she often teared up stating “you guys just have no idea how grateful I am.”
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Then later at the carnival, (family fun night with games) we were able to see the fruit of a seed planted yesterday! When one of our teams started out on the “grill walk” offering hot dogs and inviting everyone to the carnival, they ran into two girls walking down the street. We asked if they wanted any food and started making conversation. Then we offered to let them walk with us inviting more people and they actually came! They were able to witness us giving, praying, and sharing all first hand! At the end of the night, one of our students took the opportunity to share the gospel with them and since we sensed they weren’t quite ready, we gave them tracts and asked them to share what they learned with us at the carnival the next day. We are so excited to share that they not only came and shared what they learned, but one, Addi, decided to ask Jesus into her heart at the end of the night!


Join us in celebrating Miss Addi and everyone else who made decisions to follow Jesus tonight!


Please pray as we walk into Dover tomorrow and invite more people to the carnival there. Pray that we would see the people above the tasks and look for opportunities to make them feel valued and loved; ultimately by the King of kings!
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Condemned Homes, Suicidal thoughts, but a Jesus who sees, heals, and provides!

6/11/2020

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In Hennessey, passing out hot dogs, our team met one man who had experienced a lot of hurt and guilt and was considering ending his life. But we praise God for leading us to him because he ended up re-dedicating his life to Christ, asking for forgiveness and for help to forgive others!


Please pray as we do service projects and a carnival again today, that darkness would be pushed back, the gospel would boldly be proclaimed, and that salvation would rain down in Hennessey!
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Yesterday the weather continued to provide some welcomed reprieve as the team walked crosses from Waukomis into Hennessey! Not one student has complained and all continue to amaze us with their willingness to push past their own fatigue for the sake of serving others. In fact, every conversation they had or opportunity to pray with someone that opened their door energized and spurred them on!


Before we started walking, we had the opportunity to help out on one more service project in Waukomis. Going into this home was a bit like entering a third world country right here in Oklahoma. We began by trimming overgrown areas in their yard and by gutting one room where things have been hoarded. We are so proud of how the students jumped right in with whatever needed done; overwhelmed at first, but when we asked them what their thoughts were afterward, their biggest disappointment was wishing we could have done more! Please pray specifically for these sweet new friends Ronnie and Lisa.
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