Prodigal's Home has a new home!

A Prodigal's Home has become a church for the homeless.  It has been feeding the homeless on the streets of Sunnyslope for a couple of years now, feeding over 200 people on any given Sunday.  I have been blessed to share fellowship with them the past few months.

The location and day of the feeding has changed to Saturdays, at the parking lot of the United Methodist Church (on the southeast corner of Northern and Central).  Set up begins early at 6:30 am ... with juice, coffee and donuts shared at 7:30... breakfast at 8am ... and then a service at 8:30 (complete with worship, sermon, communion and hands-on prayer).  All the city feeding programs shut down over the weekend, so the food and fellowship are precious to the city's homeless.  This change in local has also opened up the opportunity for a bus to help bring in the homeless to attend (although, with the change of local, we are expecting numbers to dip and pick up again in a month or so, as the homeless find us again).

I'll be preaching tomorrow on "I Saw The Light: Maximizing Your Potential" through the story of Moses (curious?  Come and check it out...)  We'll see you there!

Preparing for the Tres Dias Retreats in March

What a joy!  Not only have I been invited to return to the Men's Retreat with Tres Dias (Thursday, March 19th-Sunday, March 22nd), but I have been asked to serve as a Spiritual Director for the Women's Retreat (Thursday, March 26-Sunday, March 29th).

The practice/preparation/prayer meetings leading up to these events, have already been a tremendous blessing.  God is meeting with us - and men and women are spending time before the Lord and drawn by His Spirit into intimacy with God.  "Go God!"

If you would like to join us and take part in 64 hours in Prescott, while meeting face to face with Jesus ... contact me at HisTouch@qwest.net and I will be glad to do whatever I can to get you there.  You will be blessed!

24 hour prayer and worship for nation and Arizona

Just got done participating in 24 hours of continuous worship and prayer for nation and Arizona.  Daniel Brymer, out of Kansas City Vineyard (check them out, where 24 hour worship has been going on since the start of the year), was the centerpiece worship leader in the "harp and bowl" model of worship.  

"Harp and Bowl" is where worship is just one long continuous free flowing prayer... either with the guitar (harp) continuing the music underneath as people pray (bowl), or with fresh words and music flowing new songs and melodies before the Lord.  There are swells and reposes that occur naturally during your two hours of worship... and it isn't under the old model of "play the song perfect and be done."  Instead, you are keying in on phrases as the Spirit of God highlights them in  your heart - and you go back and repeat lines within the verse or chorus and continue to play/pray them to God.  The people realize that perfection in music isn't what we are after (although the musicians are accomplished and wonderful) - but the prayer as a corporate body at that moment is what you are nurturing before God.  You are just freely loving on the Lord in "the now."

Angie and I went and worshiped and prayed during the Inauguration (while another band was playing, of course).  And we were blessed to spend time with Hal and Cheryl Sacks who sponsored the event.  Then, later in the evening (4:40 to be exact), we got a call from Hal who told us their 5 o'clock worship team backed out last minute ... could Angie and I fill in?

We rushed down - literally getting out of the car and going directly on the worship platform - where we automatically "entered in" to the flow of the worship at that moment and carried it on.  I grabbed a handful of songs (not nearly enough for the 2 hour set) and trusted the Spirit to lead us.  What a marvelous time we had!  God brought songs back to mind - and to the hands to play them - and worship flowed, drawing us all into the very Throneroom of Heaven.  What an honor and a privilege ... and what a blessing it was to share in that worship with those who were there.  Let's do it again soon!

"Start the Year Off Right" Conference

Come and hear what God is saying to the Church of Arizona - and across the nation - as we join Hal and Cheryl Sacks for the 7th Annual "Start the Year Off Right" Conference.  Special guests Dutch Sheets and Chuck Pierce will inspire and challenge you with the Word of God, and what God has been sharing prophetically in prayer meetings across the country.

The conference is open to all free of charge (a special offering will be taken to cover the conference costs) and will be located at City of Grace, 655 E. University Drive in Mesa - Friday, January 16th from 7-9:30 and Saturday, 8:30 am-12:30 pm.

To learn more, select the link on Hal and Cheryl's names in the column on the right ... and, be blessed.  I hope to see you there!