Circuit Riding in Alaska

Hello from Wasilla, Alaska! We have just finished a four week run with a Circuit Rider outreach here in Alaska. We started our “circuit” here in Fairbanks with Door of Hope Church there. Our team partnered with our leaders Tom and Donna Cole as they led the church through a pure heart seminar that they had developed while at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. We saw a radical release of the new song of the the Lord as well as a lot of healing and freedom!

From there we went to Mento a native village on the road system (as opposed to those only accessible by boat or plane). In Mento we weren’t able to do the ministry we had first planed for because of a death in the village but we were graciously allowed to join them as they celebrated the life of the elder that passed away and God opened a door for us to minister to some of those who were grieving as well at one point our team was asked to pray for the daughter of the man who had passed away by the elders this was a big open door as we prayed for her she and several other women in the room started weeping at first we thought this was pretty normal latter we learned from one of the ladies that she hadn’t been able to grieve for years and that it was a total breakthrough for them.

From Mento we went back to Fairbanks for a bit and then on to Wasilla. In Wasilla we shared with two youth groups who were on fire and in many ways blessed us as much as we blessed them. We also had an outreach at the State fair which is held just outside of Wasilla in Palmer, Alaska. There we had a time of worship right in the middle of everything and even had some of our team stand up and preach from the benches as people passed by until we were asked to stop by the security. While we didn’t see anyone come to Jesus in that time it was a huge breakthrough for our team in regards to the fear of preaching publicly.

From Wasilla we went back up to Fairbanks and right into a 24 hour prayer and worship time with the church up there in partnership with Burn 24/7. Rachel and I got to lead one of the sets together and while our set was going a ladies right knee got totally healed. In fact she was so excited about it that latter that day she was bringing her friends to Church so that they could get their knees healed too. Go JESUS!!! We also shared with a gathering of youth leaders that day and had an amazing time of prayer and worship the Holy Spirit came and encountered the meeting and brought so much freedom and joy and vision for these young kids who have a heart to take their campuses for Jesus.

From there we finished our trip in Valdez with a three day seminar and some evangelism at some of the local trailer communities. We were also personally blessed to get to spend some time with some friends Ethan and Makisha and their family while we were there.

I (Greg) was also so blessed that a group of 5 staff and one future DTS student from Homer came and spent the whole trip with us. I was especially blessed to get to know Nick who is from St. Lawrence Island where I led a short term outreach about 4 years ago. Nick is a radical young man who Jesus has set free of so much that is now fanatically pursuing Jesus with his whole heart. He is a first fruits of sorts for the YWAM base in Homer and has a great evangelistic calling on his life please pray for him as you think about him and Alaska. God is going to do great things through and in him.

Well now we are in Wasilla again and shortly we are headed to Colorado to prepare for Japan and spend some time with my family there (as well as partner with whatever God is doing there)

Love you all and God Bless