Returning to Obedience.

      What a year it has been!! We started off the year joining Youth With A Mission ( YWAM ) in Kona, Hawaii where we had a 3 month intense lecture phase. The Lord encountered us both numerous times revealing a deeper revelation of His love for us and it has forever changed us. We then went to Turkey for 2 months of outreach. We got to put on many Burns (extended times of worship and prayer) and sow into the long term workers in Turkey. We got to see the Lord working there in many amazing ways!

     While we were in Hawaii God really put a love in us for our town and state and what He is doing right here in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota. He poured out vision into us for what He wants us to do. Being back it has been a bit of a reality check. :) Some things have been really good and some things have been very difficult but we are still clinging to the word God gave us. He has a special place in his heart for our town and desires that everybody would step into the fullness of who He created them to be which leads to the natural outcome of revival and cultural reformation.

     In Hawaii & Turkey we had felt that we were supposed to get more training after our DTS but when we finally made it home we did not want to leave. We pushed off further training and decided we were going to be staying in Glendive for a while. In Mid July we headed down to Denver for the School of the Circuit Riders and it was there that God reminded us of this further training He had told us to go to. We repented for our selfishness and recommitted our plans to the Lord. Soon after this we found out that the further training was a 1 year commitment. We tried to sign up for 3 months but it just doesn't work that way, so once again, we said we are not going. Sometime after that we definitely felt the Lord tell us to go to Kona for further training.

     Leadership Track is designed to produce the following:


Raise up priests before the Lord who have learned to prioritize His presence, live for His glory, and
be led by His Spirit through a lifestyle of corporate and individual worship and intercession centered
around the Word of God


Create mature and effective leaders who walk in great integrity and godly character that could staff a
DTS, lead outreaches and pioneer schools and communities in any setting and circumstance.


Release evangelists, preachers, teachers, and worship leaders who could effectively teach and impart
into any setting with great anointing and profound impact


Train community builders and pioneers who are effective in creating, discipling and multiplying
missional communities centered around the presence of the Lord.

     So, with this being said through all the back and forth and yes and no we are confident that this is what He is calling us to. We will be leaving at the beginning of January for 1 year. Our dream and desire is to bring back the training and people to set up a community within our community in Glendive that is centered around the Word & Presence of God.

Actualization

I believe that God is rising up a new movement.  Not new to heaven, but something that many of us have never experienced before.  This movement is a generation that lives out in every breakthrough that Jesus died for.  Soon is coming a day when people realize how amazing they are!  Jesus is the “Light of the world” John 8:12.  Jesus also calls us the light of the world also, Matt 5:14.  As a generation we need to grasp this revelation, that we hold SO much potential.  Untapped potential that the entire earth is longing to see come out of us.  We are the children of God.  We are also the bride of Christ.  With these 2 identities we can know that God truly desires the best for us.  We have gotten caught in this rut of focusing way too much on how “deprived and filthy and horrible” we are.  Now is the time for us to step into our true identity.  I am a man that God desires to spend time with, He actually created me just so that I could do absolutely amazing things to worship Him.  My Daddy wants to bless me, He wants me to live a life of insane faith and risk.  He will always be there to pick me up when I fall, hold me when I’m hurting, help me when I mess up.  As we understand the reality of who God is we will understand the reality of who we are, Royalty, Light in the dark, more than conquerors, we are phenomenal beings created to do astounding things!  

Please consider what God has created you to do.  As a body we need to come together living in the fullness.  We are a team and if one member of the team is not doing their best it effects us all.  Jesus died for us to be able to live like Adam and Eve should have.  He died so that there would be no more separation between us and Him, and to redeem all the time when we were separated.  He died so that we could actually live a FULL life.  This my friends is actuality and we can grab a hold of it today.  Be the breakthrough for those around you.  Take responsibility to live a life like Jesus died for.  Be an ACTUALIZED Christian!  

--JR

Recent Happenings.

hello family & friends!!

We leave Hawaii in a week to go to Turkey! I feel like time has flown by!
Tyler & Alladin came to see us for a week at the end of February. It was so good being able to be with them!! A little "home" in Hawaii :)
Carly is here now, she just got back from her outreach & is heading back to Montana on Friday. I love getting to be here with her! God has sure blessed us with being able to be with our friends!
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This week we have "elective classes" We are in 2 different classes.
1. Justice Water - www.justicewater.net check it out!
Yesterday we built a pump to be able to pump out water from deep wells.
Tomorrow we will build a "squatty potty"
Friday -- not sure what we are building! :)

this is a squatty potty that we will be building!







2. Pure Heart - www.pureheartseminars.com check it out!!
We are honored to have as our leaders of the school Tom & Donna Cole!
They have this ministry bringing inner healing to people & they are training us up to be able to teach this & bring inner healing wherever we go!
We hope to be able to do some sessions back in Montana! :)

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For the last month or two a group of people have been going down town Kona and evangelizing to people. We have gone a few times and we have seen the power of God come!

1. One time we prayed for a homosexual couple. They were both drunk & we seen the Lord come on one of them and she just started weeping. It was very touching seeing God come & touch her.

2. We asked a guy if he wanted prayer. We asked if he had ever accepted Jesus as his Savior. He said no, and we asked him if he wanted to and he replied yes, and came to the Lord right there!

3. We met this lady who was telling us all the different religions she has tried out. She was currently searching christian churches & saying Jesus is the only one that really "feels right". She also said that she had a "dragon" in her & a "scorpion". She accepted Jesus and we prayed for her! It was so crazy how evident she was searching for truth!

4. We met a couple that wanted us to pray for them to get their children back. The same day that we met them, earlier that day the lady was telling the man that God hated her because He let her children get taken away. The 2 accepted Jesus that night!! They knew that it was no coincidence that we were there and that we met them! Also, their children's names were: Elisha & Ezra! wow!! How crazy is that!!!

Throughout all this what we have seen is this:

THE HARVEST IS RIPE, BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW!!

People get ready... Jesus is coming!! The King is coming back once again to reign!!

Eastern Montana better get ready!

People get ready…Jesus is coming. 

Just vision casting here in the glory room, getting more and more vision for Eastern Montana.  i can just imagine little fires burning everywhere.  Starting at the Glendive Alliance Church in the spring/summer of 2012. People start getting radically transformed because of the revelation of their sin and the love of Jesus. The people of the Glendive Alliance Church start breaking out in signs and wonders. They recognize the urgency of the time they live in.  They will seek NO  glory of their own as they begin to reach out to their families, then to their communities and work places. Then, people surrounding areas start hearing of the radical love that these people have through things like Facebook and texting, so they decide to check this out. People like Dale Diede and his two sons from Ekalaka finally discover that the passions and desires that they have deep down inside of them for excitement, true friendship and community, are the desires that God has put there. They being to worship the most high King and make Jesus the Lord of their life. This new thing begins to sweep across all of Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota. All of these little towns start sending out missionaries to the hardest and darkest places. This first major revival in this area!! Then it will move into reformation where houses of prayer start popping up all over, and people aren't "cool " unless they are laying their life down for others. The farmers and ranchers start to become more prosperous than ever before. The oil boom then does not end, it only increases and men are learning more and more how this oil and these jobs are gifts from God and ALL the glory should be given to Him and only Him. The rig crews start inviting some of the worst men on their rigs so that they can baptize them in the presence of God. Other men start asking land owners if they can preach the gospel to the rig crews on their land. Oh man, the day is coming soon. When to live in Eastern, MT means to prosper, to live here means to be transformed; to live here means that you preach the gospel every day through the way that you live. To live in Eastern Montana is to live in REVIVAL!! 

Carly, Ash and I have been living together for that past week or so and God has really been giving us a heart for what He is doing in this area! We are all so excited to see all of this come to fruition. I got this vision last night while we were all laying down ready for bed. I feel as if this is just a continuation of the word that God gave us at the burn, 1 Corinthians 3:9 EYE HAS NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEAR, NOR HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN THE THINGS WHICH THE LORD HAS FOR THOSE HE LOVES. He really loves us all so much! So much that He was willing to die for us! Let us give Him the reward of His suffering and move into this radical place of WORSHIP!!  

update on emily ;)

sorry i haven't posted this, i know a lot of people were interested in our post about "emily"

We did find emily!! God is faithful, she is at our campus right now and she will be traveling soon to go to germany for a fire & fragrance dts there!

destination:TURKEY

Hey guys, just wanted to update you all on what we will be doing in Turkey!! I will be using abbreviations for some things for our teams safety, so if you aren't sure what it means please message me about it, or just get the general idea of what I am saying! :)

We are leaving March 27th. We have a really long lay over in San Francisco so we will be able to leave the airport & take an adventure around the city. I am really excited for this because I have never been to California! Next, we will fly to Germany and from there to Turkey!

1st Destination: Antalya!

 

Based on the Apostle Paul’s port of entry and exit to Asia Minor, you begin with some basic language and cultural adaptions, lead out in Burns, sow into long-term workers, share the Good News, release the miraculous, and celebrate Christ’s Resurrection with the expat community by helping lead worship!  This is also the city where we are based as a family!

 2nd Destination: Izmir ( Smyrna )

The Burn was launched here a few years back and soon a fully functioning hop will open. Our team will join in prayer & encouragement for those who are a part of hop. We will help man the hop, prayer walk in strategic areas (like the ruins of the old city), and outreach to a needy, dark area where Islam, consumerism, and sex trafficking are prevalent.



3rd Destination: Villages of Antalya


We will join an existing ministry called Awake Antalya in major pioneering prayer and outreach. This strategic initiative will take us to rural Turkish villages that have never seen a foreigner, never have been prayed for, and never have heard, felt, or seen the Gospel!!!

4th Destination: Cappadocia

We will launch the first burn here! This region is known as the bible belt of the ancient world filled with over 3,000 prayer rooms where Basil the Great first fused mission, community, & prayer together! In addition to launching the burn in an underground cave in a super strategic area, we will help teach basic music to "m" kids, prayer walk in some super strategic villiages, and praying in some of the ancient prayer furnaces and whatever else God leads us to do!!


5th Destination: Kusadasi 


We have the honor of being invited to launch the Burn at the nation Y conference! We will lead out in prayer, worship, and soak the Y pioneers with whatever God gives us. This will be a time of relaxation & debriefing for us.

6th Destination: Villages of Antalya


This will be really similar to the one above but to a different village! We will also be hosting some nights of prayer leading up to a Burn on Pentecost.

7th Destination: Antalya


We will head back to Antalya where we can reconnect with those we have shared the Gospel with and relationships we have built. We will have more strategic EV and outreach.

We are so so so excited for this outreach! God has placed us with amazing leaders, teammates, and location! We are excited for what God has for us in this! Please continue to pray for us! love you all!!

Do you know who my dad is?

Really, do you know who my dad is?
He really is the nicest guy you will ever meet. He takes care of me so well and is always there for me when I need to talk to Him.
I told Him I needed $2,000 by March 2nd. He didn't sigh, or get angry. The next day I checked my bank account. He put in $1,060 for me. THANKS DAD!! :) Yesterday I told Him i still need $1,000 by March 2nd. I know it is still a few weeks away, I'm not worried that You won't get me the money. I looked in my bank account today. You put over $2,000 in! THANKS DAD!! :)

He really is the best dad in the world. His love for me is really crazy. He loves me as much as Jesus, His other Son.

Do you know who my dad is?

Abba, Daddy. Your love for me is unfailing.

God, my Father. Your love for me is unchanging.