WOW, what an amazing SPIRIT led time together. Thanks again to our amazing hosts Eric and tera Bezko and our awesome greeter Ziva. Please see a few pics attached from evening.
We kicked off our evening with great collaborations and intros. An amazing dinner served from our dear friend and Host “E”. As we all circled around the firepit for our sharing of what GOD has been up to, Rita with “RHIM” Rock Intentional Home Ministries www.rihministries.org opened us up in a wonderful Prayer and our new Worship leader Aubree with Fight Therapy, blessed us all with an angelic worship time. What a way to kick things off!!!
So many GOD Winks to share, we had some newbies to the group and what IMPACT they and their team are having in HIS Kingdom. First Jake with Search National www.searchnational.org shared how they are focusing on going deep with the one over going deep with the 99, what a discipleship model!!! Laurie with Peacemaker Ministries www.peacemakerministries.org shared how her team has been working on loving GOD and others always.
When Rita spoke of her recent partnering with Tera and Gina’s team at www.findingfreedomint.org from coming to a recent dinner we knew the evening was going to be special, but when she said her team needed GODLY young men to be male mentors for some in her program and she was sitting next to 3 in Justin, Cade, and Nicola we were blown away!!! Jason with an IT consulting firm www.intersectis.com spoke up about he and his wife Amiee wanting to foster and/or adopt and have been working with strong families with www.olivecrest.org and that he may be interested in helping in the mentor needs. Jason is also helping us with our new app and creating a QR code, for all of us to utilize and share. Thanks Jason for all your help and if you need and IT help please reach out to him.
Moving along with this fun journey, ” I just love re-living the evening in these re-caps” our team at Standing Stone Ministry www.standingstoneministry.org was well represented with Jim and Debbie Hogan joining us were we learned more of Hogans Journey, www.hogansjourney.com and Debbie’s newest recipes and the Kicking off of Jim’s second book ” From Why to What” we are so looking forward to hearing more from Jim. We learned of the huge success in the passing of the torch to Jeramy and Jerusha Clark and their leadership team of which the current board chair joined us, Rick Hicks. We all know how important succession plans are and to see and hear one of the best ones was so awesome. Rick has such an expansive resume, but he shared a few, working with the leadership team at Forst Home and many years ago leading the ministry Operation Mobilization www.om.org and now back in a leading role again, opps almost forgot he was the dean at Biola “Bible Institute of Los Angeles” for years. Welcome to the team Rick and Jeramy thanks for being so active with our growing group.
One of our most active and utilized by the coalition resource team members Kieth with Pocket Testament Leage www.ptl.org shared some amazing stats of the custom app of the gospel of John being down-loaded all over the globe especially in the most persecuted areas. As always Keith a huge thanks to you and your growing team!!!
One of our newest resource partners Eternity Changers www.eternitychangers.com was represented by the founders Allyssa and Brian Seed, not only do they have amazing materials for parents, ministry leaders and churches to help their kids share and learn the gospel they believe and do share their materials and trainings with many of our other resource teams leaders. If you haven’t looked them up, please do and reach out for more information. On a side note Brian going to Biola let us know this was the most Biola teammates he’d seen in a decade!!!
Lynda and Walter joined us, and Lynda gave us an update on Kingdom Builders International please see more on their site, and that their daughter the founder Jayme is moving back to OC in the coming months. www.kbinternationalministries.com , Walter shared his recent conversion story and how serving in the Vietnam war had shaped much of his life. Thanks, Walter, for your service and sharing a bit of your story. It always so encouraging to see and hear that it is never too anything for GOD. Thanks again Lynda for taking your note.
One of the biggest blessings of the evening was to be with Gail and Neville Fannin from South Africa that were in town teaching and sharing at a Royal Family Kids International summit. www.rfk.org , They have been working with the LORD in transforming the lives of Millions of kids and raising up the next generation of GOD’s field Generals and covert Opps agents. Their latest venture is Everything Kids Ministry, where they are leading the equipping and training of Church leaders and Children’s ministry leaders throughout Africa. As well as the Trainers for all of Africa for Royal Family kids camps and mentoring. Neville spoke to us of the importance of GOD’s kids and that we need to bring them to the front of the Church not the back as they are GOD’s change agents!!!! He also spoke of how lucky and blessed we are to live in the greatest country in the world, the USA, and how grateful he and Gail are to us. Gail shared how amazing the coalition has grown since they helped create it over 12 years ago and how awesome it is to share resources like Alyssa’a training materials. The Fannin’s have been 2 of the most IMPACTFUL GODLY friends and mentors for Gina and I and we can’t thank you both enough.
Speaking of my best friend and better half Gina Streit, WOW does she amaze me with her open HEART to GOD’s callings and assignments for her. She is currently very active in the growth of Finding Freedom and their new programs, both local and around the globe with a current focus in Nicaragua. Tera the founder and our gracious hostess has such a gift of the SPIRIT to continue to say YES to GOD’s call and the two of them work so well together and we are so proud and blessed by their work and friendship.
Again a special thanks to Aubree for her leading us in worship and blessing us with her Angelic voice, “E’s” amazing cooking and hospitality, Ziva’s exciting greetings, and mostly the Holy Spirit with HIS powerful leading and movements throughout the powerful evening.
Until next month
