California Here We Come!

Most of you probably still have not heard, but my wife, Brooke, and I are moving from Miami to California. We are moving for two reasons. Number one, to found the Itinerant Preacher Organization that the Lord has commissioned us to establish through His Holy Spirit. Number Two, to attend Biola University and study Missions. However, a huge shift in our plans has taken place ever since we set out on our road trip to California. We left Miami on July 5th. We went to Lakeland for the Revival for one day. Then we went to Orlando. Next, we went to Charlotte to visit The Cause base and now we are in Atlanta, Georgia. We have now been on this trip for seventeen days and God has completely rocked our world. Through a series of clear prophetic words, wise counsel, and personal revelation God has clearly shown us that we are not supposed to attend Biola University at all (thus, reason number is gone). God desires that we focus only on establishing the
Itinerant Preacher Organization (IPO). We feel that we are in the end times and there is a sense of urgency in the air. God is organizing His troops to strategically move forward in battle against the Kingdoom of darkness and save multitudes of lost souls through the preaching of the Gospel and the demonstration of the Kingdom of God and I honestly believe that IPO is going to play a huge role in this.

For those of you who don't know about the mission trip God sent me on or this organization He has commanded me to establish let me give you a brief summary of it all.

In 2007, I and my friend Alex Diaz went from Miami to San Francisco preaching the Gospel six days a week all day long for six months. We took no money or credit cards with us. We only had backpacks with clothes, our Bibles, and Jesus. We never asked for money, food, or shelter and God was faithful to provide. OUt of six months I only slept four nights on the street and never was there one day where we did not eat three good meals a day. Many souls were saved and God was glorified.

Now God is calling my wife and I to establish IPO. The goal of IPO is to train up an army of itinerant preachers to radically preach the Gospel throughout all the cities and streets of America and, eventually, the nations of the Earth. There will be two networks. A network of churches who the itinerant preachers will work with in order to consolidate the souls that are saved into the local church. Secondly, there will be a network of homes where people will open up their homes to host itinerant preachers in their cities. After a few years there will be such a large network of homes and churches registered that thousands of itinerant preachers will be able to freely and easily travel the nation preaching the Gospel, working with local churches, and staying in peoples homes along the way.

Furthermore, I am currently writing a book about my 6 month mission trip and I pray that it will be a tool to inspire thousands of people, young and old, to preach the Gospel and to be itinerant preachers. Also, Brooke and I just recorded our first CD while we were in Brazil. It was a miracle from God. So we will also be playing music and selling our CD's.

I wanted to explain where we are at right now in God's plan in our lives so that you guys could pray; for you to know where we are at once we actually see you; and for you guys to pray and see if there is any way that God would have you help us to establish this vision.

If you know of churches that we could preach and/or sing at. If you know of ministries or people we should hook up with. If you have a skill or talent that you feel would be relevant in assisting us. If you know of people who would love to be itinerant preachers or if you yourself would love to be an itinerant preacher. Or anything else God brings to your heart.

I am not asking for your help because I need favors or money. I am asking for your assistance because we are the Body of Christ and if we don't work together in unity and cooperation we cannot accomplish anything. I know that Brooke and I are still a young and inexperienced couple and that is why we need older, wiser men and women of God counseling us, teaching us, praying for us, and working with us. We know God's calling on our lives and we will not back down no matter what anyone says.

I love all of you so much and look so forward to seeing all of you again and living with you guys again. Please pray for God to give us guidance as to where we are supposed to live. Originally, we were going to live in La Mirada because we were going to attend Biola, but now all of Southern California is open. We are looking at L.A., Orange, or (maybe) Ventura County only because we know that we are supposed to be in a large metropolitan area.

Please be in prayer for us and this ministry that God wants to birth.

Your Friend and Brother in Christ,
Joshua Carvalho

Our Road Trip Thus Far

Currently, we are at Nilton's house in Atlanta. I preached in a Brazilian Assembleia de Deus here at their youth service on Saturday night and on Sunday night we preached at Tocha Viva, another Brazilian church. We went to a pastor's prayer meeting this morning and it was awesome. Tomorrow, Brooke is gonna sing at a woman's meeting at a big American church here and on Saturday night we're gonna preach at Videira. Also, we made a friend here named Lindsey who is very involved in the biggest church in Georgia (30 to 40,000 members). She heard our music and loved it. She said that if we ever come to Atlanta again and inform her ahead of time she will for sure have us sing there in the church and sell our CD's there. Furthermore, we met a paraplegic man here named Zen Garcia who knows how to make network website's just like myspace. He's already made three network sites and he said he is able to fully make one in only one week. He told us he would
make ours for
free. He also posted up some interviews with us and the documentary video that our friend Nora made on www.fallenangels.tv and I think that its on Current.tv also. It's been an awesome experience here and also at The Cause.

At The Cause in Fort Mill, SC we had an awesome time seeing several of our friends from The Cause Tour that we went on last year. We saw Alex too. He's doing great. Jason Upton led worship one night for free at Morning Star Church, so we went. It was awesome.

Moreover, I asked Chuck Mervin, the founder of The Cause, if he could give me advice on how to start a Non-profit Organization. So on one of the day's there he sat down with Brooke and I and gave us life-changing counsel about IPO (Itinerant Preacher Organization), our marriage, college, my book, etc. It was glorious! He told me the process I have to go through to start IPO and and he told me that I could call him every day for help if I need to. He gave me several amazing contacts. He gave me the cell phone number of the President of Morning Star Publications, Destiny Image Publications, and one other Christian publishing house I never heard of (both of these publishing companies are some of the biggest Christian publisher in America). He gave me the number of several pastors In L.A., San Diego,and San Francisco for me to hook up with. I called the President of Morning Star Publications and he is helping me now to form my book and he told me that
he would personally ask the President of Destiny Image if he would be interested in publishing my book. Also, a few people have already volunteered their homes and churches to partner with IPO and one girl already said that she wants to be an itinerant preacher. Praise God!

God has been guiding us and directing us each step up the way. It's crazy awesome. He's opening crazy huge doors so quickly and so miraculously and I don't have anything to do with any of it. It is absolutely amazing! I am so, so excited!

God is AMAZING! I love serving such an adventurous glorious God!

Your Friend and Brother in Christ,
Joshua Carvalho