New Freedom Ministries

Tour Update 2007

Look Up, Look Up, Look Up

LUK 21:28

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

It has been a long time since I have had a moment in which to sit down and ponder the past few months.  This year started with our Friends and church Family in Metaline Falls.  We had a wondrous time with salvation and baptisms of the Spirit.   But the close relationship and bonds that God began this year with this church family is what has been burning in our hearts.   We have always believed that we don’t come to stir up and leave, but to stir up and become a part of your lives.  

I believe that in some ways we are finding ourselves in pastoral roles more than before.  We are finding those whom we have allowed ourselves to become close to are becoming disciples and partners in this ministry.   But then, that is exactly what Jesus Did.   His disciples became family,  they lived together, ministered, walked, prayed, sharpened and became closer than a brother in the end.  True ministries are being raised up in these days and learning how to partner up and use each others gifts and relationships to further His kingdom.

The powers of darkness are becoming very strong and vengeful and we must conquer the enemy through teaming up and allowing our weaknesses to fall with our foolish pride so that the dunamis power of Christ within will begin to gain strength, not in single handed ministry, but in greater numbers as we work together.

JUST IGNORE !

This is more deeply imbedded in our hearts today after a very stressful and extreme near disaster in our own midst.   Just a week prior to this very eventful day, I had some very disturbing health issues that almost caused me to have my husband take me to E.R.  But I am a very stubborn person and I kept praying the healing word of God, As the pain grew more intense I found that I could not keep the pain from crossing my face.  Soon several others gathered around me and began to pray.  The pain did not cease, but I still chose to minister during that evening.  What was awesome was the Power of God.  “In my weakness He is My Strength!”   I felt absolutely no pain during ministry.  After ministry the pain regained momentum, but I still chose to stay strong in the Lord.  He gave me a word….I responded by doing as I was told.   The pain continued for days and each day got less and less.   But I am now watching my food intake and making sure I get plenty of Sleep.  This also lines up with God’s word

THERE SHE BLOWS!

This led up to our departure on Monday from Florida.   We arose to a broken windshield wiper arm that could not be fixed, because the part had to be ordered to the tune of $480.00,  we chose not to fix it as that was bit steep and we are praying for little or no rain and a place to purchase elsewhere cheaper.   Oh but that was only the beginning.

We had only been on the road for approximately 2 hours, the temperature at 89 degrees and the humidity at 95 percent, when the loudest gunshot we had ever heard pierced our ears.  Larry with his quick response just looked in the side mirror in time to see our wheel-well flying in the air across the freeway and our tire on the trailer completely blown   to pieces. He managed to bring us to a safe stop and as we got out of the rig he ran back to get our fende,  that the  oncoming cars were swerving to miss.  As I began to look at our situation we discovered a nice gapping hole in the trailer from the blowout.    Now if that was the end of our story, That would have been wonderful….but of course that was not the case.   As we began to get our tools out we discovered that we had no cross wrench and the tire wrench in the truck would not work on the trailer…..GREAT!  But God always has a plan….Across the freeway was a young man washing his truck. Larry crossed the freeway and talked to the young man and he looked and had no cross wrench either…while He was over there, the State Game  Sheriff stopped to see if he could help…he also had no wrench…in fact he had NO WRENCH at all.  You could tell he was frustrated….meanwhile the young man jumped into his truck drove to his dads and came back with a wrench and helped us out. 

Was this the end…..of course not.   Within an hour of the first blow-out the second tire on the tire blew and we had no spare, and no wrench.   I made the choice to sit inside the trailer and journal, (and pray) while Larry went in search of a tire shop to replace the 1^st blowout.   After replacing that tire we stopped and got the second one replaced and headed down the road.  We lost 5 and half hours in tire problems.  The longest day we have ever spent and the least amount of miles driven in our travels ever.   But we were still safe and sound.

PRAYER HELPS

Why did I share this.   Upon the first blow-out I immediately made 5-7 phone calls and said we need prayer cover from now until we get  home.   That is part of the partnering that I am finding extremely needed in these days.   We are in a war and we are in need of each other.          I was blessed by the response by those we love and we can feel the power.  Thank you so much.  In every situation if we will look up, listen and then respond to the Lord, we will find our help in every situation.  In the past, we have always stopped and prayed ourselves, just figuring we were covered,  this time was different.  There was urgency in my spirit to include those we loved and felt were able to cover us in prayer.  If you were not notified and felt you would like to be a part of this….would you please call or email us and make sure your phone number is in our phone so that you can be added to our emergency calls.  We need you.  What would help is if it is someone who is responsible for accurately getting information out to prayer chains.

Re-capture

February

Oregon was a great time of Cowboy Churches, Pointman, Ladies retreats and churches.  We had 5 salvations during this time and many restoration stories of His healing power and encouragement.  We also worked extremely hard on getting phone calls made, printing brochures and working on music for our CD. 

March

We had one incredible week at the beginning that we both ministered and did an outreach with 3 other churches and ministries in a Mexican Restaurant to both bless and help bring business to.  What a night!   Especially when together our voices rang together worshiping Jesus in the midst of busy restaurant and Bar.   God is Awesome!

Continuing on in Oregon, we had the marvelous time of working with our friends in Oregon and re-kindling time with ministries that we had not been a part of since Mark and Becky went over-seas.  In fact in one of the services….they all dressed up in Cowboy clothes in honor of the style of music that I do on occasion.   I was a bit awestruck. 

Our Ladies Retreat in the mountains will be one of those memories that we have a hard time forgetting as we became a floating boat in the midst of several feet of snow and slush.  But the fruit was awesome as the ladies found a deeper relationship with our Lord and Savior.

Our last service in Oregon did bring about a rather intense time of God’s miraculous power during and very strong onslaught of an intrusion of Darkness trying to ruin and meeting.   Those whom were there to hinder His work were rather miffed at the power of One so Faithful,   Our Lord and Savior.   Many were dropped to their knees and others left, still unbelieving that God could and will make change in the lives of His People.

We ended our Month in Cody ,Wyoming!  What a time we had.   We enjoyed our friends in Cowboy church and new family in Powel.   Praise God for Pastor Kay.   She is really on fire for Jesus and the church is moving up.

Then we headed towards South Dakota.!  Each night was a experience with new adventures and delights as God fell in each service.  But this was hard for us.   God broke our hearts for one little boy and his family.   We still continue to pray and believe for the miracle they need.   As we got ready to depart and head out we had a huge snow storm.  Dumping about 15 inches of snow and no snow tires or good tires to boot, we began to call the road departments for traveling conditions.  We got boxed in.  Every road we had chosen to go down was closed including Interstate 90 which was the main road to where we needed to go.

We phoned ahead to Colorado and stated we may not make our service.   Unbelieving, Mark began to  suggest different routs all of which were closed.  “Yup, you’re boxed in! Keep me posted.” 

We waited until 1:30 and took our chances.  After getting our truck and trailer stuck twice we were on our way.  As we got To Gillette, Wyoming (this route had been shut down 1 hour prior to our leaving)   we decided to try hwy 59.  We stopped as asked and would you believe, they had just opened the route up only 1 hour prior to that.   We did make it to our service and Wow…Cowboy church at its best.   This church got on fire.   They took “The Wave” to an all time High.  The pastor was still in tears as he began to share what he knew and how God had moved through his people.  He was still in awe

From the Snowy SD  to the Bare Roads of Colorado

April

Well believe it or not….we finally made it to Florida.   We knew we were supposed to be here,. But my-oh-my!   The enemy did not like it…..Could be why we had so much trouble getting  out!

We spent 2 weeks at the Jesus Is Ministries, both helping and ministering to the Re-hab. We did ministry at the Give-away the first week-end and the second week-end we did ministry at the Fund-raiser in front of Walmart and the music reached clear to the store and the fruit-stand.   The response was grand and people were drawn in and all of the workers had much opportunity to lay hands on an pray     

Larry lead 3 men to the Lord on there first 2 days of the program.  We have discovered if you spend time with them quickly when they are vulnerable to the Spirit they come into the Kingdom quickly and their lives are wide open to all that God has for them. 

 Finding God’s Beauty in All Things 

We found ourselves once again spending much time mentoring those we have been a part of during their conversion and spiritual growth.  When we were not ministering during worship time we had many gathering together with questions about the word of God and just one on one ministry.  The fruit is very evident this year. 

May

Then we spent time this year doing as much single mentoring as we did ministering in the church.  Our last week was spent at Riverside Fellowship Church and The Good Spirit Foundation.   Larry spent much time building on campus, while us ladies put together music for the Friday and Saturday night opening of the new building and campus. 

SOME OF LARRY’S CARPENTRY WORK (STAGE)