The Rest of Our Road Trip

God is continuing to move powerfully in our lives and continues to faithfully open amazing doors during this road trip.





In Atlanta, God opened more doors than we expected. During a pastor's prayer meeting we went to we were given the opportunity to share the IPO vision with them and they all prayed for us. Two pastors prophesied over us. It was powerful. After the meeting one of the pastor's began talking with us. He told us that he did the same thing in Brazil that we are doing right now. He gave up everything and by faith went to a region of Brazil that had very little churches and began establishing churches over thirty years ago. Now they have missionaries and churches all over the world. He has a PhD and has a online Christian University that he made in order to train their missionaries abroad. He also told us that he has tons of space left in his huge server that he uses for his online university and that he would let us use his server if we ever needed it for our website. That's pretty awesome!



On Friday night we went to a prophetic meeting that Edward led. Edward is the man who prophesied over us in the pastor's meeting. ON this meeting they prophesied over us for about 30 minutes. It was so, so intense. We truly felt that God was commissioning us to establish His kingdom on this earth. We have the whole thing on tape. One thing he said was: "You have the anointing of Joshua...no John the Baptist." Then another woman confirmed it saying: "As soon as you began singing earlier God told me that you had the anointing of John the Baptist. You thought you were hiding, but I saw you as soon as you came in (we sat right behind her, but she never looked behind her once because she was leading worship looking away from the audience). When you stood behind me I saw two huge shadows appear over me and I heard the Lord tell me, 'There are two giants standing behind you.' Because you guys are giants in the Spirit." It was so crazy man.
Then we went to IHOP to eat and when we left there was a group of about twenty-five extremely raggedy teenagers smoking and cussing on the step of IHOP. Brooke felt a huge burden to speak to them, but I was so exhausted because it was already 12:30 a.m. But I told, "If you start it I'll go with you and talk too." So she did. Her and I went up to these twenty or so crazy kids and Brooke began preaching the Gospel to them. Surprisingly, they were extremely attentive and respectful.. We ended up talking to them for two hours. It was amazing. What a woman God has given me! Praise God!

On Sunday Edward took us to a church called North Gate Church. It was absolutely amazing! The worship was off the chain, the preaching was one of the most powerful sermons I have ever heard preached in a church building in my entire life, and they had amazing art everywhere. But what was the craziest part of it all is that the whole left side of the wall was full wheelchairs, crutches, neck braces, medical pills, etc. nailed to the wall. They had belonged to people who had been healed in their church services!!! Isn't that crazy! I was so blown away. I felt like I was in one of those old tent revivals from the healing movement! We connected with the pastor's son at the end (he's the one who preached that day) and we got his card and he got ours. We told him about GGM and he got really excited about it too.

The day before on Saturday we preached in Videira's youth group (the largest Brazilian church in Atlanta: about 800 people.) It was awesome. We preached about our courtship that led up to our marriage. We hung out with everyone afterwards and it made me feel like I was back in Brazil again. It felt like they were all our family.
Then on Sunday night we went to the service and it was one of the most powerful church services I've ever been to. The worship was at least an hour and a half long, people were worshipping like crazy, and during the worship goldust appeared all over our bodies! You heard me. GOLDUST!!! Don't ask me why or how all I know is that God did it. We were worshipping with all our hearts and then a young guy walked up to me and said "look" pointing to my hand. It was sparkling with tons of little gold glitter. I thought to myself, "Maybe I rubbed my hand on some glitter or maybe it's just because my hands are sweaty," but then I looked more and it was all over my body and it was all over Brooke too. Both Brooke and I had it all over our faces, necks, arms, backs, etc. It was crazy! And a bunch of other people had it too. Personally, I believe it was simply a physical sign to us that God is here.
Pastor Napoleon preached as a man absolutely desperate and broken for God. It was amazing. He is truly one of the most humble and genuine pastors I've ever seen. Five people were baptized in water during the service and at the end of the service they prayed for the sick and many people were healed right on the spot. It was extraordinary!

Pastor Napoleon asked us to pray about staying in Atlanta and starting GGM there. He said they would support us financially and he desired to be a spiritual father for us. His love towards us was so amazing. We still feel like California is the place God wants us, but I know that if God tells us to go to Atlanta that Videira is where we will be.

Next, we went off to Hammond, LA and stayed with my friend Dustin who goes to the G12 church there. We had a great time with him and his friends. We were only there for one day, but in that one day God set up a divine appointment. A friend of Dustin called him and invited him to eat lunch with him at a Mexican restaurant. Well, as we talked we found out that this guy is an amazing piano player who plays full time for Rocketown Records (label owned by Michael W. Smith), Tooth and Nail Records (Underoath, Supertones, As Cities Burn, Anberlin, etc.), and BEC Records (Jeremy Camp, Bebo Norman, etc.). We eventually told him that we recorded our first CD in Brazil and he got really excited about it and said, "Well hey man. Whenever the CD comes just mail it to me and I'll personally give it to the president of BEC and Tooth and Nail Records for you." We were blown away. God was just opening huge doors and we weren't even trying.

From there we went to Texas and had a great time visiting all of Brooke's family and friends. We stayed with Brooke's grandma in Livingstone, her best friend Cody in Montgomery, her sister (and now my sister-in-law) Chelsea in Austin, and Aunt B in Waco. We toured the whole state of Texas. We even stayed the night in a friend's house in El Paso.

From there we went to Phoenix, AZ to visit Kelvin. It was awesome. We went on an amazing hike through these gorgeous red rocks, but Brooke vomitted because she had just eaten Jack in th Box before and it was 114 degrees outside. So we went back. We had a great time with Kelvin and keeping up with the Olympics.

Finally we were off to California!!! We arrived at Meire's house around 11 p.m. and they were still watching the women's gymnastics, so we watched it with them.

As we approached the border of California we began interceeding, when we entered CA we gave a big, long shout of conquest and victory, and as we drove through CA we prayed for nearly an hour. It was glorious. This is truly where God wants us to be. We could feel it every day while we're here.

Keep praying for us please for God to guide us and provide for us.