Greetings Family! Happy Thursday!
What a week we just had! We were in Ft. Lauderdale for our 5th annual Spring Break Mission Trip, and as expected, there were LOTS of lost souls there that needed Jesus. In fact, according to reports, it may have been the busiest spring break destination in America:
Fort Lauderdale is also where the entire Spring Break movement started back in the 50’s and 60’s, which was a major part of how the sexual revolution came upon the youth of America. After our 2025 Fort Lauderdale Mission Trip I was interviewed about this dark demonic history of spring break and how the Lord called me to go there to minister. I think you’ll find it interesting.
Check it out below:
Our trip this year was amazing. We had close to 30 warriors with us from all over- Key West, Daytona, Port St. Lucie, the 941, New England, South Carolina, Arkansas, and more. We hit the streets Tuesday night, Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday night, (Thursday it rained ALL DAY), Thursday night, Friday afternoon, Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening.
The entire trip was action packed. SO many kids were getting ministered to and touched by Jesus.
Here’s a few pics:
Here’s some video clips:
We also had some beautiful and powerful times of worship and intercession. This clip is from Thursday when God sent rain to keep us inside all afternoon:
There were so many incredible ministry moments, way more than I even know (because we never fully debriefed), but here’s a few that I know of that really stand out:
This is Adrian. He works at the parking garage around the corner from where we were ministering and he came up to me looking like he was going to cry. He started telling me about how messed up his life is and how his wife pretty much threw him out because of sexual immorality. He spent close to an hour with us, repenting and receiving ministry. He prayed and asked Jesus to be Lord over his life that night.
This is Brandon. He got touched mightily by the Holy Spirit, started manifesting demons and got delivered on the street. He then gave us his bag of cocaine and repented for his sins. We baptized him at 2am and he surrendered all the Jesus.
This is Colton. He came up while I was preaching and started asking questions. Turns out he’s a backslidden believer with a heart for God and a major struggle with sexual immorality and substance abuse. He spent close to an hour with us, repented, prayed to come back to Jesus, and got counsel.
This is Miller. He came up while I was preaching and began to confess that he has a major problem with alcohol, but that he used to walk closely with God before college. He repented and asked Jesus to be Lord again and we counseled him for close to an hour.
This is Nick. He came up to me in the parking lot (VERY drunk) but saying that he wanted to get closer to Jesus. He’s a believer but backslidden. I spoke with him for a little while, he prayed to come back to the Lord, and he’s been watching my ministry videos on Instagram ever since.
This is Lena. She walked by me in the parking lot, saw the cross, heard the worship and started asking questions. She told me that she came down to visit her uncle but wanted to find a ministry to serve with while she was here. She couldn’t find any, so she went to the beach just to worship. After she met us, she spent 4 days with us praying, fellowshipping, ministering to other youth, and getting ministered to herself. She also got free of some strongholds and got water baptized.
This is an entire youth group that we met on the beach who drove from Michigan to minister to people at Spring Break. It was such an encouragement to meet them because in the 4 years we’ve been going down there, we’ve only seen a couple people evangelizing. This team was passing out free food and having lots of conversations with people about Jesus. Super cool!
Here’s two of the leaders sharing some of their ministry testimony:
And this encounter was definitely the most powerful:
This is Jarod. He is a pastor’s son and had been backslidden for years. He goes to school at Arizona State and he came to spring break with a woman who was engaged to another man and had been steeped in immorality ever since he arrived. He saw us ministering and he came up to me and began opening up about his sin. It led to an hour+ long conversation where at one point he began travailing under the weight of godly sorrow.
He prayed a Psalm 51 type prayer from his heart, and he gave his life back to the Lord. He then called his dad, and I got to tell his dad about what happened. That was amazing.
The night before we left for Spring Break my prophetic friend Robert Shields was ministering at The Front and he prophesied about us meeting someone who is called to be an apostle and will affect millions. I think he was talking about Jarod.
Here’s the entire prophetic word:
This moment was the final BANG moment of the trip, and it is probably the most sovereign thing I’ve ever seen the Lord do at Spring Break.
On our last day- Saturday, a few people got rocked by God and wanted to be baptized. We went to water, made an announcement, and 2-3 hours later, the team was still on the beach baptizing people that were coming to the Lord. One person on our team thought there may have been 20 people baptized but it was likely less than that. Either way it was incredible.
Right after the baptisms, I came back to the gift table and told someone that “God brought Siesta Key to Ft. Lauderdale”, meaning that just like He sometimes pours out His Spirit at Siesta and causes a spontaneous mass baptism, He did it in Ft Lauderdale too.
Not 10 minutes later, we meet these two guys pictured above (along with a friend not pictured) while they are sitting on a bench behind our gift table.
I come to find out that all 3 were from Sarasota, all 3 went to my same High School, and one of them has a picture of Siesta Key tattooed on his arm, right next to “941”.
You cannot make this stuff up!!
We ministered to them for a while and they prayed with us to receive the Lord too.
On Sunday, we drove up to Stuart to go to Revive Church. Revive sends teams out to minister with us and we are friends with the pastors.
Prior to leaving for Spring Break, God told us that spring break would turn into “Spirit Break-out”, and that is totally what happened. We were all blown away when 3 songs into worship, they sang- “Spirit Break Out”.
Video below.
After the service, we told the worship leader and the pastors about the Word that God us and how it was confirmed through the song. The worship leader told us that they weren’t even planning to sing that song, but God gave it to them that morning.
When the pastor heard her say that he said to us “see, everywhere you go you change atmospheres!”
Then, as we were leaving, we went to their gift shop and saw this shirt. I was so blown away by this shirt that I bought one right away!
Yet another sovereign move of God!
Here’s a little 10-minute recap of the trip that I did at The Front on Monday:
It is so fun to serve Jesus!
BIG thanks to all the mighty warriors who came- Mike K, Rochelle, Ken, Ester, Chris, Geraldine and the kids, Ethan, Mike, Joel, Ken, Mike D, Charlie and the Revive crew, Isaac, Vinny, Josh, Chris, John, Zach, Susan and Larry.
And BIG thanks to all those who held things down in the 941 while we were gone!! Team Jesus did an amazing job crushing the devil’s head!!!
Speaking of that, we’re excited to go to war again this weekend. We will be joined by several church groups too, which will be fun. Hope you can battle with us!! The time is now and the harvest is RIPE!
Blessings and love!
Chris