Prayer request: David's Tent and health

Hey everyone!

It's with so much joy in my heart that I can say in two days we are officially starting David's Tent, 40 days of nonstop worship right in front of the White House! Thank you all so much for your amazing love and support that has gotten me this far. I was just reflecting on the fact that I didn't have money to pay for my taxes earlier this year, and I didn't have the time to get a job and raise the money myself. But God provided more than I needed through two of my amazing supporters and now I'm still on staff with YWAM and here in DC to be a part of David's Tent! The Lord is so faithful!

Another amazing testimony that I heard is that until David's Tent 2012 the longest permit ever granted for events on the White House Ellipse was 14 days. But God made a way so that this wild crew could put a tent on the White House Ellipse for 40 days just to worship Jesus! It was unprecedented and totally a work of God!

So it's with great faith in my heart that I humbly ask you to join with me in prayer to our great God for us and this event.

Please agree with God's desires in the following ways:

1. Ask God to pour out His Spirit upon in unprecedented ways. Our greatest desire is His presence with us. A part of this is that we would be filled with boldness to preach the Gospel with those that have yet to follow Him, and that they would be saved and filled with Holy Spirit as well!
2. Ask God to release all the finances we need. We need $15,000 to get on the Ellipse, and then we need at least $35,000 to sustain us through the whole duration of the tent. If you feel led to give, please go to http://www.davidstentdc.org/donate/
3. Ask God to strengthen us to worship Him wholeheartedly the whole time. We would also appreciate more worship leaders, especially throughout the night. If you or anyone else is interested in leading worship for David's Tent, please go to http://www.davidstentdc.org/worship-leaders/
4. Ask God to cause the message of David's Tent to spread all throughout the Earth. We really want to see more and more people getting together simply to worship Jesus and enthrone Him on our praises. You can go to our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/DavidsTentDc or just share the website davidstentdc.org with your friends.
5. Ask God to send the media to share the message, and spare us from any unnecessary controversy. We believe God wants to use the media to spread the fame of Jesus all across the Earth!
6. Ask God to move in our President and our government like never before, that all of our government would follow God wholeheartedly.

Also, please pray specifically for me, that the Lord would supernaturally heal me. I've been sick for about 4 weeks and really ready to be done with it :)

Thank you so much!

David's Tent 2012 Documentary

Hey everyone! I just wanted to share an amazing documentary that was made about David's Tent in 2012. There was 40 days of nonstop worship to Jesus from the White House Ellipse! If you or anyone you know is interested in leading worship, donating financially, or just being a part of the nonstop worship, please visit davidstentdc.org for more information.

Enjoy!

Circuit Riders recap

Thank you all so much for praying for us as we went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a week of training, called Circuit Riders. It seriously was one of the best weeks of ministry I've ever seen or heard of! Here are some highlights:

• about 500 students enrolled for the whole week to get trained up in saving the lost, reviving the saved and training them to go and do the same
• At least 320 salvations on the street within one week, which included 4 hours of scheduled evangelism
• one of our deaf students wrote on a paper back and forth with a person, eventually leading them through praying to follow Jesus!
• Some of the students went to talk to someone on their front porch. After praying the sinners' prayer together, they looked up and saw their neighbors praying to receive Jesus as well!
• Two girls had appointments to get abortions. But, after encountering one of the students at our conference, and receiving prayer, they immediately canceled their appointments and decided to keep their babies!
• The lost were so hungry for Jesus! One of my friends was on her way to the bathroom, and someone approached her and said: "Can you pray with me, I want to know God." While she was sharing with her, 4 more people showed up. All 5 people were led through repentance, received Bibles and got connected to local churches all because one girl was so hungry to know God and approached my friend!
• One of the student in our DTS had a specially favor filled week. He name is Bruce, and he just became a Christian about 6 months ago. During this whole past week he personally led 6 people to the Lord! This first day of evangelism we talked on the phone and he told me, "We just led 4 people to the Lord, we need more Bibles!" and my jaw just dropped!
• There were so many people coming from the community for our nightly free sessions that we kept adding more chairs but more people were coming that we had about 1,500 people at the most, and 300 of them had to sit on the floor! Our meeting hall was seriously packed out!

We are all walking from the past week more encouraged than even. God has given me faith for all of America to be saved like never before. Please join with me in pressing in for that reality!

Prayer Request: Circuit Riders

This whole next week, both DTSs (The American Sign Language DTS and David's Tent DTS) will be gone in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to do an intensive school called The School of the Circuit Rider. The three main goals are to save the lost, revive the saved, and train them all! Please be praying for us, as we will probably be doing daily evangelism on the streets and hope to see God do amazing things. Thanks!

Enjoy this amazing video, and click here for more info!

God still heals!

One of my favorite verses of the New Testament is Acts 14:3: “So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.” (ESV)

And of one of my favorite things in life is when God shows up in miraculous ways to confirm his word! While I could try to explain what happened, I'll let Brooke tell you! She is on an outreach team that spent their three month lecture phase in Kona, HI and spent about 4 weeks in DC with us and will soon be leaving for the Middle East.

"As our time in Washington DC comes to an end, I can’t help but to smile as I think about all that the Lord has done in this city as well as what He has done in my life. Ever since watching Darren Wilson’s “Finger of God” a few months ago, I’ve had an itch to see God show off before my own eyes. This brings me to my favorite moment out of the four weeks we have been here. Every night our team travels out to DuPont Circle, a popular hang out spot for both locals and tourists. To paint a picture for you, just imagine a park with a pretty fountain in the center surrounded by restaurants galore, embassies, shops, and lots of traffic. A large portion of the homeless community call this place their home. The first night our team decided to evangelize in groups of two. With that being said, Grant, his ukulele (aka companion for life), and myself were off. At this point I’m thinking to myself okay lets take a lap around the park and scope out our bait, but Grant just goes for it.

We walk up to a group of four homeless people hanging out on a bench and begin talking about life. Grant takes Mitch who is a universalist and I take Bree, Kevin, and Brett who gives me every reason not to believe in God. Bree has a past of rejection, abuse, and confusion so it was a challenge getting her to open up. Kevin deals with self worth, oppression, and fear that causes him to remain silent. Brett grew up with no stability, love, or acceptation. After nearly two hours of conversation, my hunger to see God move is out of control. It’s like waiting for your favorite meal at your favorite restaurant. All the sudden Brett moans and complains about the pain in his leg. My ears perk up and I realize my favorite meal at my favorite restaurant is about to be served. Brett can barely walk, even with his cane because he was hit by a car which caused a serious meniscus injury. I asked if I could pray over his leg and he said yes! After praying I asked him to stand up without his cane. His reaction is one I will remember for the rest of my life.

Standing in awe, his jaws hit the ground and he says, “There is no pain in my knee.” Still limping, I insist we keep praying that God will completely restore his entire leg back to its original design. Grant walks over and we both pray for full healing. Brett stands up once more and exclaims, “I feel like I have a new leg! Lets walk to California! What the....” Completely dumbfounded at what just happened, Brett tells us that he’s going to share with his mom (who is an atheist), this miracle of how God healed his leg! Bree insists that we pray for her dad who has cancer and Kevin was willing to receive prophetic words, affirmation and prayer too. The atmosphere shifted in that moment, a moment I will never forget. Time and time again I will hear various people from the homeless community speak about how Brett doesn’t walk with his cane anymore. They say he uses that cane as a testimony of how God healed his leg. And that my friends, is the beginning of an awakening in DuPont Circle."

New location and 24/7 prayer!!!

Our new house on Massachusetts Ave. (aka Embassy Row)

I am so delighted to announce that we have moved to an amazing location on Embassy Row, on the same street with embassies from all nations in the Earth except for 5. There are about 30 people staying here, and it has been such a joy living here. When we're not in the classroom or prayer room, we're probably playing chess, ping pong or out on the streets telling people about Jesus.

Brandon & Kari playing chess

I am also so delighted to announce that ever since about 7:00 pm Wednesday, July 3rd, we have committed to establish a specific prayer room that is filled with some sort of prayer 24/7, day and night, night and day, without ceasing. It has been so much fun as we constantly seek to fill the time, and keep that reach in our hearts, that above all else we just want to know God as He can be known and love him as he can be loved. Many of the students have been stepping out and singing on the mic, and many new songs have been written on the spot as we simply lift up a love song to our beautiful God. We believe that it is pleasing to God, and that He will bring about a great awakening in America because of the prayers of His people.

Jason Hershey casting vision for 24/7 prayer on July 3rd

There are many reasons to keep 24/7 prayer going, but two reasons have been at the forefront of my mind. One is that Jesus is simply worthy night and day of worship and praise. In Revelation 4-5 we see this constant reality in heaven. They just can't stop worshiping God in Heaven, so why not establish heavenly worship on Earth? God is simply worthy of unending praise!

Our glorious prayer room!

The other reason is that we are constantly in need in prayer. Without God's intervention, every human is on a path towards hell. We need God to intervene! All of the greatest awakenings in history have been birthed in prayer!! Read on for a short summary of the 100 year, 24/7 prayer watch that went on in Herrnhut, Germany and ended up impacting the world. This is an excerpt from http://www.ihopkc.org/prayerroom/history/:

"August of 1727 is seen as the Moravian Pentecost. Zinzendorf said August 13 was “a day of the outpourings of the Holy Spirit upon the congregation; it was its Pentecost.” Within two weeks of the outpouring, twenty-four men and twenty-four women covenanted to pray “hourly intercessions,” thus praying every hour around the clock. They were committed to see that, “The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out” (Lev. 6:13). The numbers committed to this endeavor soon increased to around seventy from the community. This prayer meeting would go non-stop for more than one hundred years and is seen by many as the spiritual power behind the impact the Moravians had on the world.

From the prayer room at Herrnhut came a missionary zeal which has hardly been surpassed in church history. The spark initially came from Zinzendorf’s encounter in Denmark with Eskimos who had been converted by Lutherans. The count returned to Herrnhut and conveyed his passion to see the gospel go to the nations. As a result, many of the community went out into the world to preach the gospel, some even selling themselves into slavery in order to fulfill the great commission. This commitment is shown by a simple statistic. Typically, when it comes to world missions, the Protestant laity to missionary ratio has been 5000:1. The Moravians, however, saw a much increased ratio of 60:1. By 1776, some 226 missionaries had been sent out from the community at Herrnhut. It is clear through the teaching of the so-called father of modern missions, William Carey, that the Moravians had a profound impact on him in regard to their zeal for missionary activity. It is also through the missions-minded Moravians that John Wesley came to faith. The impact of this little community in Saxony, which committed to seek the face of the Lord day and night, has truly been immeasurable.”

God is truly raising up a movement of night and day prayer all across the Earth. Please pray for us that the fire on the altar here would never go out, and may God bless you with a greater expression of prayer in your area as well. Thank you!

Two new schools starting on Thursday

Hey everyone!

Our base here in DC is so excited to run the first Discipleship Training Schools (DTS) since 1989. That means the last time a DTS has been run was before I was born. That is a long time!

We are now moving into our new house, which is called Embassy Church, on Embassy Row. We will have both DTSs (see below) in that building. Embassy Row is home to embassies from every nation on the Earth except for 5 (which America has decided to cut off relations with). It is very humbling to be dwelling in such an influential location, and such an honor I don't feel worthy of. We are also going to be a block away from the National Cathedral. I'll take pictures and make them available next week so you can see too!

As for the DTSs, there are going to be two running simultaneously. One is called the American Sign Language (ASL) DTS, which is for the deaf, to equip them to reach out to the deaf community (I'll probably get to learn sign language during the next few months!!!).

The other is called David's Tent DTS. This school will have a focus on worship and intercession, and for their outreach they will be staying with us in DC to help run David's Tent later this year, and then going to Israel for a few weeks.

While I won't be on full-time staff with these schools, I will be able to support them and offer assistance as needed. I've been asked to spend 1 hour/week teaching Bible Overview, Inductive Method Overview, and Inductive Bible Study through some specific passages

Here are the videos the school leaders made to introduce their schools and invite people to join them. The ASL video is in sign, but is still really cool to watch. Enjoy! Please pray for us!