Greetings family of God! Happy Faith and Family Month!
Maybe you recall me mentioning that back in December I was invited to a private meeting with the Mayor of Palmetto to hear about the plans that he and several other Mayors had to proclaim that June 2026 was Faith and Family and NOT pride month.
In January and February, we had meetings with a small coalition of local Pastors and leaders to further discuss it, and by the grace of God the movement spread like wildfire. Over 20 Florida Mayors got on board and proclaimed it over their cities! Talk about a way to shine the Son in the Sonshine state!
Here are just a few of those proclamations- proclamations – Faith and Family Month
On Monday night (June 1), it was awesome to be in the room as Mayor West made the official decree at City Hall. Here’s one small clip:
Here’s some of our team (along with the Vice Mayor of Bradenton) with our copy of the proclamation:
It was also cool to be able to testify at the meeting and to encourage them in what they are doing. As you may know, the gay agenda affected my life in a very personal and negative way, so I was glad I got to share that with them too.
It is truly amazing that we are finally getting to see the pride movement start to die after so many years of growth. And praise God, a new poll just came out showing that public support of homosexuality and the gay agenda is falling.
It truly feels like the beginning of a new chapter.
Given all that, I’m excited to see how much weaker the St. Pete pride event is this year. Miami pride definitely seemed weaker than before so I’m hopeful.
Mark your Calander and join us for that mission (day) trip if you can! 6/27 from 2pm-9pm.
Another REALLY cool thing that happened on the first day of Faith and Family Month was that I got reconnected with my longtime friend Georges Dumaine. I first met Georges through a mutual friend in 2012, and the Lord really bonded our hearts together. In 2013, he was on staff as a worship leader at IHOP and I stayed in his home while I was there visiting. In 2014, he was also my life coach for a brief time as he was starting his practice.
Since 2014, I hadn’t really had much contact with him since we were always in different states. But, in 2024 I reached back out to him after I discovered through reading the book “Taken by Surprise: The Asbury Revival of 2023”, that he was the one leading worship at the Chapel service on February 8th, when the Glory fell.
He shares the testimony in this podcast. It is powerful! https://rss.com/podcasts/thetoddcastdiscipleacity/1113029/
He has had a crazy travel, family and ministry schedule for the last few years, so we hadn’t had a chance to fully reconnect, but on Monday he reached out to me and told me that the Lord had recently put me on his heart. We spoke that night and I filled him in on life, including Azalea, and he was stunned. He told me that he had recently moved to Winter Haven and that he wanted to come down and visit me and pray over Azalea. It was such a blessing to be with him for the afternoon on Tuesday.
I even got to show him Siesta Beach, which he had never seen before
Here’s a little clip of him worshipping over Azalea.
We even had this amazing Divine appointment with a man (who we had asked to take our picture) and his wife while on the beach. They were believers here on vacation and they have lost 6 children (5 miscarriages and one stillborn). We prayed and prophesied over them and they were really touched. It was such a God moment. Here they are:
As for Azalea, she is still sleeping, but praise God I’ve still been able to visit her virtually every day, which has been SO sweet.
We are in the process of making funeral arrangements, but we still have faith that she will rise before she is in the ground!
I’m actually kind of excited for the funeral too. I feel strongly that if she were to rise, that would be the perfect time and place for it because of all the witnesses. I’m even going to try to arrange for Georges to come and lead worship during the service too.
On that note, I also feel very strongly that I should invite him down to share the Asbury testimony at various churches and to pray an impartation over those in attendance. Please speak to your pastor about this and send him the podcast. I will also try to get him down for one of our Thursday Housefire meetings in the near future, so I will keep you posted on that.
As for the outreaches last weekend, they were awesome.
On Friday, there was some major renovation going on at Bayfront Park, which we thought would slow traffic down but it actually did the opposite. Many people walked by and heard, a good number stopped for gifts and tracts, and we got pray for a good amount of people too.
Here’s one video of some of the traffic:
Here just a couple pics:
The woman pictured here next to Amber was even crying as she was being ministered to and she later said that meeting us was a huge answer to prayer:
On Saturday, the renovations were still going on at Rossi Park, but the playground area was still pretty packed with people. Many children, a handful of older kids, and a few adults came over to receive gifts and prayer. At one point, a group of young boys came in response to an altar call and I prayed with them to receive the Lord. Pictured here:
Another really cool thing that happened that night was that shortly after we arrived, a 6-year-old boy came up and greeted me. We had ministered to him a few months ago, and he was so excited to see us again. He told me that he has been following God and telling people about Jesus. Here’s me praying over him on Saturday. I love his “praying hands” with the tract in between them:
Later he even came and preached…for a while! It was so precious to see such a fire in him for evangelism.
Here’s one clip I got when he was quoting John 3:16-
Gen Alpha for Jesus!
On Sunday, there was a lot of traffic at the beach and lots of young people were there on summer break. Many people stopped to listen, many tracts were given out, and a good number of people were prayed over. It was a very fruitful night. Here’s a few pics:
It was also really cool to see young people getting involved in evangelism. Two guys that just graduated High School have been coming out to minister for the past few weeks and they are on fire.
BIG thanks to Susan, Larry, Julie, Tom, Amber, Laney, Gene, Chuck, Debbie, Rachel, Tim and family, Bram, Gavin, Mike M, Michelle, Bailey, Joe and Hannah for coming out!!
Something else that is really cool is that I got a text from a woman named Nikki who we met at outreach several months ago. She is from NY, but she was here for a brief time and was very intrigued by what we were doing. She is a Christian rap artist, and she ministered with us a few times and shared some of her songs.
Here’s one clip:
Her and I had a meeting together before she left where I coached her on how she could do a similar type of outreach in her area in western New York. This is what she sent me yesterday:
And she is going BIG too, check out her schedule:
So cool to see more Tabernacles of David rising up, especially in a state like New York!
Oh, and one more thing that is too cute not to include here. This is Natalie on Monday night at The Front, “anointing” Sofiya’s feet. She said she wanted to do what Mary did to Jesus. So precious!
Hope to see you soon! Love and blessings!
C, S, N & AY