Happy Thursday Family of God! Hope all is Glorious!
It has been a whirlwind two weeks. Most of last week I was in Key West ministering at Fantasy Fest, which was AMAZING (recap coming soon), and this week has been mostly playing catch up. Since I wasn’t able to recap the 16th-19th while I was in Key West, I’ll do so today because it certainly was eventful.
On October 9th, The Lord gave me a sudden vision of training youth groups and home school groups in evangelism and then getting them activated out on the street. THE SAME DAY I got that vision, I got a call from my friend Cody Williams, who is a youth pastor at Hope International. He was calling to ask me to come and speak to his youth group about- you guessed it- evangelism.
We scheduled it for the following Thursday- 10/16.
It was a really fun and frutiful night of training and activation and the feedback I got was really good. Here’s a few pics that were taken:
And here’s what Cody’s wife and co-Pastor Nina said about it:
Thankfully, this youth group meets at Riverwalk once a month to do evangelism already, so I’m believing there will be many more testimonies of people coming to Christ as they use the information they were given.
Interestingly, just a few days later…a different youth Pastor brought part of his youth group out to minister with us at Riverwalk. His name is Pastor Jacob, and he leads a Hispanic youth group at a church in Palmetto. We met him at the Riverwalk a few months ago and this was his first time joining us:
Definitely feels like God is bringing confirmation to this vision.
At the Riverwalk, many kids prayed with us to receive Jesus, and this young man even told me that he’s been going to church because of us. He also told me that he is growing in his walk with God and that he left his old friends behind:
So cool!
Earlier that day, I preached in one of the most intense environments I’ve ever preached in- The No-Kings Protest:
From the moment I started playing music-I was yelled at. I even had a microphone stolen. Praise God though, I found the PERFECT spot to preach from, and I would say that 80%+ of the attendees heard me. Here’s a clip. You can even hear someone manifesting:
The whole gathering was super demonic. At one-point hundreds of people were even chanting for the murder of President Trump, and there were pretty hateful and dark signs too. Here’s one example:
Although I got more pushback than I’ve ever gotten at any event, I also saw MANY people listening and some videoing.
The most powerful moment though was when a young man came up to me and stood listening to me preach for several minutes. I knew he looked familiar, but it took me a minute to place him. Then I realized it was a young man whom I prayed with to receive Christ back in February 2023 at Riverwalk. Here he is the night we met him:
When we met him, he was living on the streets with his mom and siblings, and in addition to praying for his salvation, we also prayed for God to open a door for housing.
About 8 months later we saw him again at Riverwalk and he told me that he was going to church regularly, reading his bible and staying on the narrow path. He also told me that shortly after we prayed, God opened a door for him and his family to have a place to live in Tampa. He was so happy and excited, and he gave God all the Glory.
About a year after that, in October of 2024, I saw him at Riverwalk again and he told me that he was about to start at The River Bible Institute and that he felt the call to become a Pastor. This was us that day:
The day I saw him at the No Kings protest- he was dressed in rainbow gear. After he listened to me preach for a few minutes though, he took the rainbow gear off. When I finished preaching, he came to me almost crying saying that he had fallen back into sin and that he needed help and prayer. I ministered to him for a little bit and then continued to preach. It was a massive Divine appointment.
After the protest, I went home, picked up Natalie, and went to the Charlie Kirk Memorial at Robards arena.
It was such a contrast to the protest. Peace, love, unity, prayer, worship and Gospel proclamation permeated the memorial. Going from one to the other was the starkest contrast of darkness and light I can ever remember seeing in a single day.
While there, a reporter for the Herald Tribune asked to take our picture and then he said that it would be in the paper. I ended up speaking with him for quite a while on the way out and I told him all about the protest experience, Chalie’s legacy, the Gospel, the communist agenda for taking over the United States, and the need for Christians to wake up to it and speak out like Charlie did.
Well, not only did our picture end up in the paper, but he also quoted some of what I said in the article, which came out just a few days later:
It was actually part of a front-page article, and this part was an entire half page. I’m guessing that thousands of people have read it, and likely many that are unsaved. Crazy that Natalie and I were the only attendees that were pictured up close and that I was the only attendee who was quoted. I also LOVE that my Jesus shirt made it front and center!
Here’s the full article- https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2025/10/18/sarasota-tribute-for-charlie-kirk-draws-thousands/86753333007/
The next day at Siesta, we had a powerful time and saw a number of people get drawn to The Lord. Here’s just a few pics:
The two in the middle pic are in a relationship and are considering marriage. We got to minister to them for nearly an hour, and their hearts were very open. Both prayed to receive Jesus as did others that night. I also got to pray for one of the drummers that I’ve never prayed with before, which was awesome!
It was also great to have a crew from Kingdom Life Church in Bradenton join us that night. All of them preached and all of them ministered. One even played the cajon too which was great.
I was very encouraged by the fact that several churches linked up with us in different ways that week. I am believing that this will continue as more and more believers recognize the urgency of the hour and the need to be the laborers that Jesus told us to be.
BIG thanks to Thom, Amber, Mike, Nancy, Jacob and his youth group, Carol, Bridget, Michelle, Diana, Diane, Chris, Christine and Crystal for coming out to serve!
Also BIG thanks to all who served while I was gone in Key West! So proud of all of you!
See you again soon!
CV