New Lives

January brought in the new year 2012 and with it we have already witnessed 24 old lives exchanged for new vibrant lives dedicated to Jesus Christ. Somebody give a shout of praise!!!

Cindi also began a new believers class with some ladies who recently came to the Lord. She holds the class for a local church where the ladies met Jesus.

New Floors

Once again our dear friends from Georgia, The Weapons of Mass Construction, returned to St. Bernard. This time the men of Smoke Rise Missions laid down and grouted more than 3,600 square feet of tile floor on the entire first floor of our ministry home. This puts us closer to finishing our ministry center. It is a very exciting time.  We’re very grateful for Curt and the gang.

New Healing Rooms

A total of 190 people from more than 20 different churches attended one of three training seminars we held in January. The seminars are designed to train new Healing Rooms directors and teams to begin the ministry in their town. We held trainings in Boutte, St. Bernard, and Baton Rouge. The response from pastors and church leaders was outstanding. We hope to have new Healing Rooms in each area by March. During the training many people were physically healed of  back and neck pain, arthritis in the knees, a migraine headache, bad feet, and an emotional wound caused by an abusive father. Go Jesus!

New Intern

We are blessed to announce the arrival of Terence Edwards. Terence is our new intern who will be spending the next three months (or up to 9 months) helping us develop our new internship. We are working to develop a team of prayer missionaries dedicated to imparting and reaching out in the supernatural power of Jesus through the Healing Rooms ministry. The internship will also have a strong emphasis on the relational leadership skills needed to operate Healing Rooms. Terence is a graduate of the South Carolina School of Leadership which has sent missions teams to work with us the past four years.

New Name

We have a new name for our building, it is now the Louisiana Lighthouse. The change came after spending time in prayer with our team asking the Lord to reveal any thing hindering the ministry. Our choice of the name “healing center” continually came to the fore front. Last year the “New Orleans healing center” opened about 5 miles up the road from us. It is the brain child of the voo doo high priestess of New Orleans.

When we talked about our healing center people were getting confused, because the New Orleans healing center has become well known in the community, and a some were questioning whether we were a Christian ministry. We started asking God what He wanted us to call the building and the name Lighthouse started showing up everywhere even in sermons we heard.

Before the building was donated to us, the US Coast Guard considered buying it and turning it into housing for visiting Admirals and dignitaries. The Coast Guard calls this type of housing a Lighthouse. Seems that the name was right in front of us the whole time. So with that we are now building the Louisiana Lighthouse where many will discover and experience the healing power of Jesus.

New Dog

We have a new family dog. Cindi had desired to have a Golden Retriever because of their gentleness and loyalty. Keith didn’t want one. Cindi prayed and God moved, in a big way. Normally a full bread Golden is a costly dog to purchase, but God cares about every desire of your heart when you set your life to delight in Him. Psalm 37:4

God provided a full bread AKC registered Golden Retriever to us for free. Her name is Daisy and she is a prophetic picture of our ministry. Our ministry is about retrieving the gold that lies dormant in peoples lives and leading them into the fullness of there destiny in God’s Kingdom. You just gotta love how Papa moves.

By the way, Daisy was given to us by one the Nation’s leading breeders of Golden Retrievers and she comes from a championship line. The Lord always does things with excellence. There is so much more to her story, but we’ll save that for the book we plan to write.

Prayer Needs

We are so blessed to be co-laborers with God on this journey of Kingdom building. We still have a ways to go to get to the place where He is taking us with the Louisiana Lighthouse. We still need finances to complete this building that will house our state offices. We have need of finances for life support for Cindi and I and the ministry. Many are finding freedom through the ministries we provide and we need your prayers to help us pray in the provision for the work of the Kingdom.

If you sense the Lord leading you to give, you can do so by clicking on our contact & support tab to donate on line or by sending your donation through the mail. a monthly contribution of $25, $50, or $100 dollars helps us sustain the work of the ministry or a one time gift of $500 0r $1000 can help us move toward opening the Lighthouse. Please continue to pray about how you can partner with us to continue to renew lives and restore hope.

Thank you for your prayers and may God richly bless you!