The Faith Of My Fathers

Have you ever been to an old fashioned Holy Ghost tent revival?

When I have asked that question in meetings, the answer is usually a no. We are used to being in the comfort of an air conditioned building, sitting on comfortable chairs while being entertained. Tent meetings cost something, even if it is just a small bit of comfort or the pain of missing your favorite show for a few nights. Not to mention the horror of the porta-potty.

To the old saints, this wouldn’t have been a cost at all. Tent meetings were a normal part of the evangelism of the church. In the 60’s and before, tents popped up everywhere offering healing, salvation and deliverance to whoever attended. I was raised on the stories and still to this day, I meet people who were saved in a tent in the 60’s, before the church started hiding indoors or putting on rock shows.

There is just something about being under a tent. It is something that has captured my family’s heart now for years. Even in those times when we were besieged by legions of mosquitos in Iowa or sweating all moisture out of our body in the South Dakota summers, being in a tent always carries with it the feeling that you just can’t get any other way.

For us, it has been something that we have wanted to do full-time now for years. A tent gives us the ability to set up for as long as God wants us in an area and does not carry with it the costs that come from renting a room. Not to mention the fact that we can go wherever God wants us, we don’t have to be invited by a church, though if we are, that is wonderful.

Under a tent the anointing seems to flow better, maybe that is because that is where we are supposed to be as a church. Maybe being in the open air, declaring God’s ability to save and deliver and heal, is close to God’s heart, I don’t know.

What I do know is that the healing ministry is needed here in America now more than ever. So many are suffering under the yoke of the enemy for no reason. Satan has the church besieged within the four walls of their buildings while he herds the masses of humanity into an eternal hell, driving them forward with the lashes of sickness, sin and death. And no one breaks from the line and challenges this Goliath in God’s name.

We reconciled last year with a dear brother who has a tent that we will all start out with. We used to travel together a few years ago and the enemy hated the relationship. Over the last few years, he has grown and so have we and we believe that God is leading us to go out together once again. The tent can only hold 100 or so but we know that God will increase that as we need it.

I believe that beginning right now, we are going to see the power of God return to America. I believe that this year will mark the beginning of an outpouring that the church has not seen in 35 years. The gift of healing and old fashioned Pentecostal preaching will return to America, return to a people that are sick of Adonijah, tired of used car salesman preachers, tired of greasy prophets who declare their words for profit.

I feel this in my spirit so strong, that the days of the cave of Adullam are over and that those preachers who have suffered and toiled in obscurity will have their voices heard this year. And that voice is so radically different from the status quo that the church will be forced to pay attention.

I implore you to get involved with this today. Invite us in for a tent meeting in your village, farm, town or city. Help support this work of saving the lost- out there in the world where they are. Help support the healing ministry and be a part of the relief that only God can bring!

We have acquired a good video camera and will be taping meetings and healings from now on. These will be made available right here on the blog.

But we are in need of much more. The ministry needs a good diesel pick up and trailer to pull the tent and chairs. We need our own good sound system. We need some folks willing to volunteer for ministry, putting up the tent, setting chairs and a million other thankless jobs that need to be done. Plus there are many, many other things that we need to take the message of the cross to the highways and biways of America.

We are looking for regular partners that stay behind with the stuff yet share in the rewards of the battle. And that’s where you come in, church. Help send us out to those that the church has missed today.

God bless you.

-JC