Oregon Trails

We passed over the Golden Gate coming from San Fran to Redding

The last few days we have been in Oregon, Grants Pass and Portland. We have been hanging out with Matthew Combe's family and friends. We had an evening of fellowship, worship, repentance and deliverance one night in Grants Pass. It was amazing!

Yesterday we visited Reed College, a very prestigious college that is very liberal in thought and value. We wanted to go there to pray over the campus, which is a bit risky to begin with considering you can visit by invitation only. Matt's brother was invited last year and we def felt the Holy Spirit's invitation, so we jumped on the occasion. We started out walking and praying and were led to the library where we read aloud, Colossians 2 and 3 which speaks warning against the doctrines of man. God showed us that His word stands forever, far greater and longer than any manuscript could ever exist with power, so we know that by simply proclaiming some of The Word that the place was impacted. Next we strolled passed posters of nude women to the Student Life building by the coffee shop. Kelly stepped out to pray for a girl that was appreciative.

Then I felt God nudging me to break through the oppressive atmosphere with some out of the box, prophetic, goofy acts. I started towards a small children's ridable fish that had a hamburger head and proceded to ride it like a kindergarden cowboy, followed by break dancing and cart wheels mixed with jazz hands and a couple of original moves. Call me crazy, because I am!!! I will forever be a fool for Jesus. (hopefully I'll have some video footage for you of this soon) Next, Kelly took a bold step out and approached a girl that she had overheard the girl she had prayed for earlier exclaiming that she had never been prayed for before. Sorry if that last sentence didn't make sense? Another girl said she had never been prayed for. Kelly asked her if she wanted prayer and her response created a scene as she loudly exclaimed so her friends could hear, "So how does this prayer thing work, I just ask for whatever i want and tomorrow I get it, hahahha?" As Kelly politely spoke to her about prayer, all of her friends began to scoff and point and laugh. Kelly kindly persisted to expound on the easiness of prayer, though the girl obviously just wanted to turn Kelly into a public spectacle. "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for their's is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for so they persecuted the prophets who came before you", the words of Jesus ran through my head. They are blessing us right now! We knew our time there was done and we shook the dust off of our feet and walked away as they literally pointed there fingers and laughed! I laughed as well as I knew we were being blessed by their laughter. We know Kelly's words will be a topic of conversation for them and that they will have to recall the memory of us being there throughout their lives!

That evening, we got to play some of the songs we have all written at a coffee shop close by and release some of our flavor! It was a fun time! Zion ended with, "Jesus Loves Me"!