Texas to Northern California

We are now in the last couple weeks of our trip and have made it all the way up to Redding, California to visit Bethel Church for the weekend. We had such an amazing time in Texas, stopping in Waco and visiting the Antioch church which reaches out to the Baylor university and community college campuses by setting up discipleship houses and other training programs. The church also plants other church communities like this around the world and wants to plant one in all of the 50 states. Us guys were able to stay at one of these discipleship houses for a night and spend some time talking to the guys there. One of the guys had heard about what the Antioch church was doing and moved out to go to school there for a deeper relationship with Jesus and for the community that is created there. I was amazed at the discipleship that was going on here and vision to go beyond just surviving as a college student.

Next we headed down to San Antonio, Texas to visit a church that was hosting Todd Bentley for a few days of healing ministry. I know there is controversy over him doing ministry and his history, but he spent some time humbling himself and is back to working in his calling and God is still moving through his ministry so we decided to check it out. One of the hardest things being there was choosing not to judge and not even focus on him but to keep my eyes on Jesus and to see what God is doing. It was incredible how many people where healed and how they were able to keep the focus on God and continue to give glory to God.

We are now up in Redding, California visiting Bethel Church for the weekend and I am blown away by how awesome this place is! We arrived on Friday and attended that nights service and met up with some friends that were there. On Saturday we were able to go to the "Healing Room" where they have people come sign up to be prayed for. We where able to go in and see how it worked and it was nothing liked I expected. Instead of sadness and heaviness there was such a spirit of joy in the rooms and an expectancy for people to be healed. At the end we where able to stay with the staff as they circled around and shared testimonies. For almost a half hour they shared story after story of people that had awesome miracles and healing happen that day! If you would like to check out some of the testimonies you can click HERE to go to their testimony page.

We now have about nine days left on this trip and will be heading down to Sacramento and
Los Angeles. We should be meeting a few more people on the way but we will be taking some time to do some serious processing of all that the Lord has shown us.

Please pray that we make it through the rest of this trip as safe as we have and that we continue to stay open and available for whatever God has for us.

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