The apostle Paul lived a life of hardship as a messenger of the gospel, yet he never lost heart and always glorified God through his experiences. On one particular occasion he and his companion Silas, had just cast a spirit of divination out of a slave girl. The girl’s owners were very unhappy and had Paul and Silas stripped, severely beaten, and thrown into a maximum security prison.  See Acts 16:16-24

But Paul and Silas are men of God who understand that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1 Many believers today seem to have forgotten this truth and instead of worshiping the God of the present they focus on the next life where one day things will be blissful and they will be free of the troubles of this world.

Take a look at the response of Paul and Silas to what is certainly a potentially devastating situation. We read in Acts 16:25 “But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.” Several years ago I did a study on the word “hymns” in this passage and what I discovered changed my understanding of this passage forever.

The Greek word here is the word hymneō and refers to the “great Hallel” (Psalm 113-118&136) My first discovery was that Paul and Silas weren’t singing “The Sweet By-and -By” or “I’ll Fly Away”. No, they were singing God’s word which is filled with promises and prophetic declarations.  If you’ll take the time to study these passages of scripture the first thing that hits you is: a call to worship the Lord. Psalm 113:1 says, “Praise the Lord!” or another translation is “Hallelujah!” It’s obvious that Paul and Silas knew that no matter what they went through God is good and deserves praise.

Now these passages are rich with truths and I encourage you to study them for yourself, but to whet your appetite let’s look at two passages that will confirm what they were singing and also reinforce the power of prophetic declaration through song.

Psalm 114:7 “Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,” Psalm 116:16 “O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds.”

Now look at Acts 16:26 “Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.”

Paul and Silas sat beaten and naked in a dark and dirty prison and began to invoke the presence of God through songs that declared His promises. They called for the earth to tremble at His presence and the earth trembled. They declared their identity as servants of God and that God had loosed their bonds and the God of the present broke through the darkness and invaded their situation and everyone around was loosed from their bondage.

When we find ourselves in times of trouble we must believe that God is the God of the present and that no matter what the situation He can breakthrough, but we must posture ourselves for victory by calling on the presence of the Lord. We must use the greatest weapon He has given us, His word.

But to use His word effectively we must believe that He is a rewarded of those who seek Him, Heb 11:6.  We can declare God’s promises over our lives until we’re blue in the face, but until we come into the reality of who we are and Who He is it is all for naught. We must change our mindsets and renew our minds to the fact that God is still in the business of rescuing us in the here and now.

I challenge you the next time you are in a challenge to call on the presence of the Lord and declare what His word says He will do. He promises He won’t disappoint.

God bless you all,

Keith Stone

Hello dear friends, we are experiencing the greatest season of ministry since launching out in 2007.

Over the last four months we have:

• led more than 20 people to Jesus
• trained hundreds in Healing Rooms Ministry
• help prepare and distributed more than five thousand meals after hurricane Isaac and personally ministered to hundreds
• launched 6 new Healing Rooms in Three States
• been recognized as the fastest growing Healing Rooms Region in the United States
• graduated 16 from our first prophetic class and began 2^nd class with 28 students
• had Healing Rooms recognized as a core element of our community
• traveled to and ministered in several different churches and conferences in five states
• made progress on our building
• been invited and accepted the invitation to join a prayer network of leaders in Louisiana
• accepted a mantle from a local prayer ministry that leads annual day of prayer event

We appreciate all your prayers and support. If you sense God leading you to give a one time gift to this ministry or to become a monthly partner, you can click on the Contact and Support tab or the Donate button. Any amount you give is appreciated and no amount is too small.

God bless you and thank you for reading.

Because they need Jesus,

Keith and Cindi

Here are some pictures from this summer.

Cindi about to deliver dinners to the fishermen affected by hurricane Isaac.

Keith cooking for folks affected by Isaac with Courtney Treadaway at Living Cornerstone Church in Braithwaite, Louisiana.

Keith leading a Healing Rooms training session

Cindi with some of the graduates from the Prophetic Class

Cindi receives a word from Jim White at Healing Rooms conference

Cindi with Cal and Michelle Pierce founders of Healing Rooms Ministries

Enjoying lunch with friends from The Harvest in Lexington, South Carolina, after a weekend of services

Our good friend Danny Steyne came to New Orleans and held a conference with us at the Lighthouse

Keith with Co-Directors, Nancy Marant and Dana Wittmann, of the New Beginnings Missions Healing Rooms in Gulfport, Mississippi, in their new building

Walls for Healing Rooms finished and painted

Cornerstone Christian Center from Branham, Texas, puts some fresh paint on the gutters and porch

New emergency exit installed 

New doors, frames and cased openings

We are making some great strides reaching people with the Kingdom of Heaven.  This month we have led 60 people to the Lord, dozens have received healing in our local Healing Rooms, Cindi continues to lead 16 ladies through a prophetic training course, the local pastors are about to publicly acknowledge our ministry as a core element of the Christian community in St. Bernard, a Baton Rouge businessman is paying for the drywall work for our Healing Rooms, and next week a team from a Texas church is providing the materials and labor to paint the exterior of our building. People are being touched by the power of the gospel and lives are changing and we are so very blessed to be a part of what Jesus is doing.

Once our building is complete we will have the capacity to reach many more lives with the full power of the Gospel.  Right now our biggest challenge is financing. We lost our AC unit that cooled our upstairs living quarters. The entire system broke and has to be replaced. The initial discounted quote was $4200, but a businessman connected with another local Healing Rooms is negotiating with a distributor to get it done for less than $3,000. We’re praying that God will meet this need, quickly. It gets very hot and humid here and the temps are already in the 90’s. Please agree with us that God would raise up new partners to help finance our AC and the completion our Healing Rooms in the Louisiana Light House.

We could not do all that God is doing through this ministry if it weren’t for faithful people like yourself co-laboring with us through prayer and financial giving. We are very grateful for our supports and pray for you regularly.

If God leads you to give you can do so by following this link and clicking on the donate button or by mailing your checks to BlueStone Ministries PO Box 1701 Chalmette, LA 70044.

Praying God’s blessings on you and your family,

Keith and Cindi

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WOW! Where do we begin? 2012 is turning out to be the most amazing year for the ministry. In the past two months we: have led 10 people to Jesus, helped dozens of people find freedom in Christ through Healing Rooms, opened two new Healing Rooms in Louisiana, had a lot of help completing some building projects on the residential side of our building, completed a new believers class, began a ladies bible study, held a women’s conference,  became Regional Directors for the International Association of Healing Rooms over Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, and spent a week in California, at a well established Healing Rooms catching vision.

Since there is so much that has happened we’d like to do something a little different this month. We’re going to give you a short but powerful devotional on forgiveness and then end with some pictures showing you some of the things that have taken place these past two month’s. We hope you enjoy.

God bless,

Keith and Cindi

Forgiveness

In Healing Rooms Ministries we find a lot of physical healing occurs when a person forgives those who have hurt them emotionally, physically, or spiritually.

Jesus told the parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18:21-35. In this parable the servant is forgiven a great debt by his master but later refuses to forgive a fellow servant a minute debt. When the master is made aware of the situation he has the unforgiving servant “delivered to the torturers”. Then Jesus says, “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” Matt 18:35

Medical research has proven that people who don’t practice forgiveness are the ones who pay most dearly with medical and emotional problems like cancer, depression, and chronic pain. Doesn’t this sound like torture? But by embracing forgiveness, you embrace peace, hope, gratitude and joy which help to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease.

In John 20:23 Jesus explains we have the power to release or retain sin, but this is not the same as salvation, so when we exercise this power to forgive those who have sinned against us we release the effects of that sin in our lives.

It’s been said, “Not forgiving someone who has hurt you, is like drinking poison and expecting them to die.”

Forgiving isn’t excusing, forgetting or pretending that an offense never occurred, and it doesn’t mean you’re required to trust the person who hurt you.

Instead, forgiveness is a letting go of bitter, grudging, vengeful feelings that damage the offended and not the offender.

Are you struggling with unforgiveness? Is there an illness that you’re battling that may be the result of unforgiveness? Ask the Lord to reveal to you if there is someone you need to forgive and then from your heart forgive and then get ready to experience a new depth of freedom in Christ.

Pictures

Students from the South Carolina School of Leadership came down for the 5th year to help with outreach and work on the building.

Healing Rooms of Mobile, Alabama brought us a brand new stove and installed new base boards.

Team from Mobile painting base boards

Keith and Cindi in California, with Rick and Lori Taylor Regional Directors for Healing Rooms

Keith and Cindi with Timothy Snodgrass (left) and Paul Cain at the Healing Rooms of Santa Maria Valley

Students from SCSL worshiping Jesus in Jackson Square

Cindi teaching Ladies about the prophetic at our weekly bible study

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!

This December has been a flurry of activity with many great gifts from the Father of Lights. We have watched Jesus touch many with the message of the Gospel and His power to heal. 7 people came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ this month! What a party in Heaven.

No lumps, please.

In Healing Rooms we had a lady who was told by doctors she had suspicious lumps in her breast and after healing prayer she returned to the doctor for more test. The Doctor told her he couldn’t understand it but the lumps were gone. He showed her the x-rays: one showing lumps and the new one showing, well nothing.

Another woman reported that the Doctor had suspected she had MS, but after a prayer session she returned to the Doctor who once again didn’t understand what happened, but gave her a clean bill of health. That’s my Jesus, The Healer!

In Sozo we have helped several people find total freedom in Jesus. Including a gentlemen that had dealt with unforgivness. After one Sozo session he had experienced the freedom of forgiving those that had hurt him and left the session with a renewed sense of freedom in Christ.

Christmas cabinets

We received a call from a local cabinet seller who wanted to donate cabinets for the building, and he delivered them last week. We thank the Lord for people like this man that see the necessity of this ministry. He told us that when he found out about the ministry he had to help. He and his wife donated all the cabinets for the kitchen and will be bringing more for the bathrooms. We were so blessed by a couple of local handy men to help install the cabinets. Right now we have the base cabinets installed and we will install the wall cabs right after the new year begins. What a great Christmas gift from Papa!

The kitchen when we received the building March 2010

May 2010 after sheetrock was donated and hung by the body of Christ

Jingle Bell Sheetrock 

We also had help installing the remaining sheetrock needed for the Healing Rooms. Friends of the ministry worked with Keith to hang the new walls in preparation for the tile flooring that will be laid by three churches coming in January. This will move us closer to opening the Healing Rooms in St. Bernard. We still have some work to do, but now the ministry center is taking shape. Many are awaiting the Healing Rooms to opened in this area with great anticipation. We are so blessed to have the opportunity to serve this region through the Healing Rooms.

Our friend Rich secures the new drywall in a healing room.

Prayer and closing

Cindi and I pray that you and your family have a Merry Christmas as you take the time to reflect on the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We also pray that you will continue to pray with and for us. This month we’ve also incorporated 5am prayer six days a week. We have friends that join us to pray for the needs of the community and this ministry.  We have so much to be thankful for as we continue to see God’s hand upon all that we do. We know that God is going to finish this work that He began. Even though things are moving slower than expected, we’re okay with God’s pace. We’d rather end up with and oak tree than a mushroom.

If you would like to sew a Christmas offering into the work God is doing through BlueStone Ministries, it’s not too late.

You can do so by clicking on our contact & support tab to donate online or by sending your donation to us through the mail.

We appreciate your prayers and support and pray God’s richest blessings on you and yours this Christmas Season.

Merry Christmas,

Keith and Cindi

Brent Brooks speaks to 500 public school students

Wow! We have led or been a part of leading 247 people to the Lord Jesus this year. Recently we had the privilege of hosting our great friend and Pastor, Ken Jumper, of the Harvest and Brent Brooks from Upside Down in Lexington, South Carolina. We arranged to hold a special youth event where Brent would share his amazing testimony with young people from the St. Bernard and the Ninth Ward. We had arranged for Brent to speak to a small assembly at a local high school, but that soon turned into five engagements at four public schools once officials heard Brent’s story. At the youth event held at World Prayer Tabernacle in Chalmette,  181 attended and 35 responded to the invitation. Go God! School officials want Brent to come back and speak in every school in the community.

Pastor Ken displays two of the 40 fish we caught

We also hosted a special “meet our Pastor” night and more than 50 friends and team members attended, including nine local Pastors. Pastor Ken shared a word with everyone that was well received. We also arranged a fishing trip for Pastor and Brent. Together we caught 40 speckled trout, and that was a bad day of fishing in Southeast Louisiana.

St. Bernard Pastors Coalition

Keith addresing local politians.

As St. Bernard approaches one of the biggest elections in recent history, the St. Bernard Pastors Coalition held a public forum for candidates for Parish President and Sheriff.  Keith was among five local pastors asking the candidates questions. Local residents called it the best candidate forum as the pastors insured that candidates focused on the issues and not their opponents.

Jesus the Healer

Cindi with some of our Healing Rooms Team

Hebrews 13:8 says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”  This verse gives us proof that Jesus is still in the healing business. In Healing Rooms we know beyond a shadow of a doubt the He heals. Over the last two months we’ve watched  the Lord heal cancer, shrink tumors, and relieve  chronic neck pain. While visiting us on a short weekend trip, Pastor Indar and Christine Singh of the Harvest in Lexington, South Carolina, witnessed as a lady suffering arthritis slowly walk into our Healing Rooms ministry. Her countenance was  dim and she had to use a cane to walk. Less then 20 minutes later she walked out with a bright countenance and  holding her cane above her head while giving God the glory. Healing is part of normal Christianity. Yeah God!

Pastor Indar and Christine Singh

We are excited to announce that we have begun our Sozo ministry in Healing Rooms. Sozo, the Greek word for salvation that means saved, healed, and delivered, is a deep inner healing ministry that uses Holy Spirit led prayers to help people get beyond deep emotional wounds. One of our very first sessions our team helped a woman find freedom from fear of abandonment that was the result of trauma she experienced during hurricane Katrina more than six years ago.  That’s my King! We are booked through the end of the year and we have already more than doubled the amount of clients we saw in 2010. Some people drive more than an hour to receive ministry at the Healing Rooms.

Progress

Contractor sprays foam insulation in Healing Center

As we continue to operate Healing Rooms ministry more than 50 minutes away from our home , we are making progress on the Healing Center. We were able to finish the fire wall required by the the Fire Marshal, and we were blessed by our contractor who sprayed every room in the Center with foam insulation. Our rooms will now be sound proofed! The blessings is, it didn’t cost our ministry a dime. The contractor sees the value of what we are doing and wants to be a part of God’s work.

Churches in and near Baton Rouge, are ready to begin Healing Rooms. These last two months we have spent a bit of time in meetings with church leaders and preaching in churches in Baton Rouge about the healing power of Jesus. Three churches are coming to a future training in January after which we will begin the process of opening the first Healing Rooms in the capitol city.

We have entered the fourth month of our radio ministry “Hidden Treasures” which you can listen to live at kagyradio.com on Sunday evenings at 5:30pm Central Time or on our archived Hidden Treasures page on this site.

Prayer and closing

Cindi and I appreciate your prayers for us and this ministry as we have many pressing needs. The biggest need we have is the funding to complete the Healing Center. We have looked for funding in many places and will continue to seek funding sources that line-up with our statement of faith and our vision. Because of an over-site in an estimation, we now need   $17,750  to complete the building. You can find a list of projects on the LHC tab on this site.

We also need to increase our monthly support. Our current monthly support is around $1,100 up from $950 earlier this year, but we need still need $1,575 additional support each month. This is a very conservative amount of money to fund ministry and sustain ourselves, but God always seems to come through.

If you sense the Lord leading you to give, you can do so by clicking on our contact & support tab to donate online or by sending your donation to us through the mail.

We appreciate your prayers and support and pray God’s richest blessings on you and yours.

Keith and Cindi

Cinid holds a square of the new tile while standing in front of the 13 pallets that were delivered.

Greetings dear friends. We are floored! Just last week we received a shipment of porcelain tile for the Healing Center. A friend contacted Crossville Inc, about donating flooring tile to BlueStone, and they said “yes”. We received 7400 square feet of tile with a retail value of  more than $43,000 for free, including shipping. A local pastor arranged for a forklift and a crew to help us unload the tile. The owner of the forklift refused any compensation because he wanted to help us as unto the Lord. The tile will be used for flooring the entire Healing Center including the residential areas and all the bathrooms and showers.

BJ, of BJ's Construction of St. Bernard, supplied the forklift

Radio Show

Listen live every Sunday at 5:30pm CST

We have had some good feedback on the new radio show “Hidden Treasures”. The show airs every Sunday at 5:30pm on KAGY 1510 AM New Orleans and also at KAGYradio.com. The station is going FM sometime this fall and will continue airing our show each Sunday. KAGY plays Swamp Pop, New Orleans style music, and is listened to online around the world. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to spread the gospel through the airways. If you miss the show you can listen here at our website by clicking on the “Hidden Treasures” tab on the right. There you can find all of our past episodes.

August Rush

Lia Elizabeth

August was a rush of travel for us. Cindi spent the end of July and the beginning of August helping our daughter adjust to the newest member of our family, Lia Elizabeth, our fourth grand child. We are so blessed! We did offer to help our daughter and son-in-law, by having Lia live with us the first 12 years of her life, but they declined.

While Cindi was in New York, Keith was in Tulsa, attending August Rush. Through several small miracles, Keith was flown into Tulsa, to take part in the event held by Scott and Shari Norvell, founders of Blue Flame Ministries, and International Directors for Healing Rooms. Keith played in the worship team and led worship for the morning sessions. The Norvells have an amazing ministry that is developing teams across the globe. In one of the sessions, the more than 200 attendees participated in a prayer exercise to alleviate the drought Tulsa, had been suffering. That day the temperature was 115 degrees. The next day with no rain in the forecast a huge thunderstorm let out a deluge of rain. Papa gave us all a kiss from heaven, and everyone’s faith grew leaps and bounds. To learn more about the Norvells click on their Terra4ming  link under our ministry friends tab.

The men of the Blue Army Band

Later in August Cindi and Keith were able to share some time together in New England due to the kindness of a couple of BlueStone partners. They flew us to Boston where we were treated to a week long sabbatical. We also met with a group of people who have been praying for our ministry. It was a fun trip and we are so thankful for the blessing.

A picture of a New England lighthouse taken on our sailing trip

Funding

We have spent a considerable amount of time between April and July researching grants to fund the construction of our Healing Center. We have learned a lot during this time. Because we are a Christian ministry it is difficult to find grants that apply to our work. To apply for many grants an organization must supply and independent financial audit which cost thousands of dollars. Even if you have a current audit there are no guarantees a grant will be awarded. Most grants take months to write, and then months before a you receive a response. We applied for 5 different grants this summer and will receive $1000 from Toyota in  November. The other four organizations, including BP, declined our request. We did receive a donation of office furniture from BP.

We are convinced that God will provide. How He provides is often through His people. We would like you to consider becoming a monthly partner. Together we can bring the gospel of Jesus to dark places and turn tragedy into triumph. We also need $16,550 to complete the ministry center of The Louisiana Healing Center. You can click on our Louisiana Healing Center tab to find out what projects need to be finished, and if the Lord moves on your heart you can take a project to your church, small group, or work place and have others join together to help us complete this needed ministry.

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.

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

God can use anything He wants to draw people to himself, even the blues. Using the blues as a means to share the Gospel we have lead 35 more people into the Kingdom of God since we last posted a blog. Someone give a shout to the Lord!

Healing Center

Two churches came to help us build walls in the Louisiana Healing Center in July. We are now closer to opening our center, but we still have a way to go before it is completed. We still need $19,000 in materials and skilled labor before the building is ready to pass final inspections. We have approached several foundations for grant money, but have been turned down each time. We have a great plan and vision that God has given us, but most foundations don’t want to help Christian organizations or ministries. Since April, we have spent much time and energy searching and writing grants and we have concluded that unless we hear from God, we’re gonna leave the grants alone. We continue to pray that the Lord will move on the ones He has to partner with us to build His vision.

Union Christian Church from Terre Haute, Indiana

Bible Church of Little Rock, Arkansa

Outer walls of hall way and rooms complete

Reception and intercessory prayer room outer walls complete

Mobile

We were blessed to have a team from Healing Rooms of Mobile, Alabama come and minister to our team and also help further our training in inner healing ministries. The team took our folks through deeper cleansing and really encouraged our young team. It was a great weekend and we held the meetings at the house God gave us. Because the building is unfinished, it often feels like we’re in another country. One of the leaders from Mobile said it felt like being in Guatemala. We continue to move forward and are seeing fruit from our labor.

Mobile team blessing our team

Radio

Out of the clear blue we received a phone call from a local secular radio station about hosting a radio show. After a few meetings we sensed the leading of the Lord to say “yes” to this invitation. The show is called Hidden Treasures. On the show we use the bible as our treasure chest to help folks understand that the keys to success are found in God’s word, and we get to spread the word about our ministry. The show is 30 minutes long and airs on Sunday evenings at 5:30 central time. A local restaurant is sponsoring our air time and the show can be heard online at KAGYradio.com or you can listen to the rebroadcast here by clicking on the “Hidden Treasures” link on the right of this page. This is a great opportunity for us to spread the truth around New Orleans and the world. Our first show was heard in several countries, including 500 listeners in the Philippines.

If you would like to help us continue our mission here in New Orleans, and now around the world through the airways, you can do so by clicking on our contact & support tab and donating on line or by sending your donation through the mail.

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

What a great Fourth of July weekend we had in Southeast Louisiana. We started off with Thursday night outreach in the French Quarter. Cindi and our good friend Beth Moon, who was visiting from South Carolina and is with Deeper Still Ministries and Landmark Church in Lexington, SC, went with our team to the quarter while Keith went to a rehearsal in Slidell, LA. Cindi and Beth minstered to many that night releasing the love of God to people of various backgrounds.

French Quarter Outreach

On Friday and Saturday nights we had the Louisiana Glory Explosion, a conference dedicated to releasing the Glory of God into the New Orleans area. Richard Hanson was our guest speaker and God used him in a mighty way to breathe a fresh wind into our City. The manifest presence of the Lord surrounded everyone as Keith led all into the deep river of God through worship. We were blessed to be able to hold the conference at High Praise Fellowship’s Chalmette campus, which overlooks the City of New Orleans.

Keith with Richard Hanson

On Sunday Keith took part in a special service at High Praise Fellowship’s Slidell campus. Kent Henry, know as the first to be given the title of  worship leader, was the guest speaker and worship leader on Sunday. Keith played led guitar behind Kent both in the morning and evening services. Every services was anointed! What has been God’s signature on our lives since we moved back to the area happened again this weekend. Both Kent Henry and Richard Hanson spoke prophetic words to us about what God is doing and going to do through our ministry, and both spoke  almost identical  words including words about New Orleans being a city of light and refuge. Kent and Richard do not know each other and both came from out of state. WOW!

Kent Henry and Keith

On Monday, July 4, we took part in High Praise Fellowship’s Fourth of July outreach in Slidell. It was a great event where more than 1000 people heard the Gospel and received ministry. Keith played the blues right before closing the day’s concerts with another amazing time of worship with Kent Henry.

Keith plays a holy groove

This was a great weekend for us and for our community. Jesus’ love came through to a lot of people and we were truly blessed to a part of what He is doing here in the New Orleans area.