Week 3

Recent Highlights

• Hitchhiker to hospital
• Freedom Week
• St. Croix Overview
• Riding under the stars in flatbed truck
• Zane Memorized Matthew Chapter 5
• Pure Heart
• Media Class- upcoming interview with Dan Baumann
• Matt’s cafeteria announcement  (Click to hear Dickson Slater interview & Matt bragging on Bridger at 2 min.30 sec)
• Students going to Alaska
• RTC student gifts and letters

I keep pinching myself waking up in this place. I saw Facebook posts of Alaska’s 5 inches of snow yesterday and I can’t help but feel like I'm in some kind of time warp transport here on Kona. Its surreal to not have seasons here- like time is standing still- yet feeling each week that we are covering spiritual ground that should take years. This place is intense. They don’t mess around.

  View Clip of worship in Ohana Court

We jumped right into inner healing with Tom & Donna Cole leading Pure Heart week. Tom & Donna both have incredible testimonies of transformation from homosexual lifestyles. I would say if the SOZO ministry I’m familiar with at Northgate feels like cleansing rain, Pure Heart is more like a fire hose- painful but efficient. We covered father & mother wounds with a time for everyone to write out their specific past hurts from people we needed to forgive and then everyone tore up their papers and left them on the ground at the foot of the cross. 

Tom Cole Standing in Student's Torn Paper

We also covered shame and past sin. Every student had to confess 1 or 2 of their “worst” sins to a leader (some we hadn’t ever met yet). We covered sexual purity and feminine & masculine identity. Students were encouraged to release all their suppressed anger & shame during the prayer time that was expressed in a sound I will never forget- agonizing wails from women all over the room- sobbing as they processed their way to forgiveness and healing.

 Paper Collage from Student's Torn Pieces

View video of Matt being knighted by Tom

Brian Brennt spoke on freedom giving students tools to replace lies and walk out their original design as sons & daughters. It is a privilege to watch students bravely trade their fear and shame for true identity and rise up as new creations. Matt led the whole tent in “the enemy has been defeated” chant. The guys became wild men ready to hunt something and the women began to roar as a Deborah battlecry came out. This is getting good.

Kids always know what to do in a warm rain

Bridger's new smile

IronMan Mahalo Party

Please pray: That we will get much needed rest.
                                    For Zane to thrive with his new classmates
               For unity in our outreach team
                   For Matt’s head/Chest cold to go
                                     For the people of Saint Croix to hunger for Jesus
                                     For direction with our family plans after outreach

THANK YOU! - Matt, Tina, Zane, & Bridger