Tour Update #2 (Santa Rosa, California)

Hello everyone back home and afar!

Tour continues to be an amazing time of seeing the Lord pour out on His people and change lives. Our last update (sorry they’ve been kind of late, internet connectivity isn’t always easy to come by on the road) summed up our time in Novato which was awesome. We have just left Santa Rosa with Pastor Adam and Jo Peacocke. We were all anxious and excited to see what the Lord did through us in our time there. A large majority of our time went to helping City Life Fellowship move into a new building. The Lord blessed them tremendously by opening up a great new building that comes fully stocked with amazing amenities and the coolest kids church you’ve ever seen. We spent most of Friday and Saturday moving in and now they are set up in a great new building.

We had an awesome street ministry time with a local group named Raven Ministries. We were with them last year for the first time and their focus really reaches out to a very large, lower class Hispanic neighborhood. We were able to go out with them as they passed out huge amounts of food and clothing and perform Kingdom Rhythm and really reach out and pray for those around. Even though there was a language barrier, the Lord ministered strongly and a number of people accepted the Lord for the first time. It was so great to see how the Lord can use Kingdom Rhythm to rise above the constrains of language and really touch such a diverse group of people.

We performed Alive Again for the first time in Santa Rosa at CLF’s new building and had an amazing time. The presence of the Lord was definitely the thickest we have had yet in performing and so many people were touched. Here are some of the highlights from our ministry time that night.

Whitney and Kelly really felt led to go talk to two girls, Sarah and Josie, at the end of the night and upon asking them for prayer, Whitney felt she needed to ask if Sarah had ever accepted the Lord into her heart before. After talking about it, Sarah expressed how the Lord was never someone she experiences personally, but had recently felt increasing desire and pull towards giving her heart fully. Whitney and Kelly were able to lead her to the Lord and had an amazing discussion with her about her family. Come to find out, her father has been in prison for quite a few years and has refused any interaction with her or her siblings. This had been weighing really heavily on Sarah’s heart and Whitney was really able to speak from her own testimony of how she was adopted and really found love in the arms of Christ. Sarah was tremendously touched and forever changed and is looking at joining Christ Church Northbay because she lives only a few minutes away from it in Novato. (interestingly enough, after talking with Sarah’s friend Josie, we learned that she is related to the Quiring’s and McCuen’s…small world!)

Adi really felt like he had a specific word for the nights performance and when we walked in the Lord highlighted a guy in the back. Adi approached him, sat down and continued to very simply and clearly say that the Lord was faithful and in control of what his mom was going through and no matter what was going on ,the Lord would have his way and there was no need to worry. The guy was stunned upon hearing this and told Adi that his mom had recently got a new boyfriend and after a while they discovered that not only was he an alcoholic, but also very abusive. He was able to really confide in Adi what he was feeling and going through and they spent a lot of time praying and interceding for him and his mom. He was so blessed over the fact that the Lord got so specific with a guy he had never even met. It boosted Adi’s faith a lot too!

Riley was approached by an older gentleman who obviously had a lot on his mind. After hearing Riley’s monologue (which touches on apathy, putting off school and just wasting time in video games and creating his own fantasy world through his entertainment and loneliness) this man approached Riley pretty amazed because just that same day his wife and his son had almost word for word the same conversation Riley has in the play. He was stunned to see it completely reenacted right before his eyes. Riley was able to pray with the man and his wife and really intercede for their son and break apathy over his life. They left with a lot of hope and expectation of what the Lord would do in the life of their son.

From Santa Rosa we took off to Los Osos! The update from our time there will be following shortly. Thank you again for your prayers. We appreciate them so much. Miss you all, cannot wait to be home!

-Kirkland Master’s Commission (via Kaleb)