There are so many things the Lord has done through our ministry in 2009 that it is difficult to list them all. We can certainly see the hand of God on us. But I will try to include as many things as possible. Some things we cannot tell publically as they are confidential.


We began the year with a witnessing outreach/stand for righteousness at the Route 66 Swinger’s Club. This effort lasted most of the year. The effect of this action was explosive, to say the least, and it led to many of the witnessing opportunities we have had throughout the year. The media attention it garnered put our warfare map “on the map” quite literally. We still receive 60,000-75,000 hits a month on our Repent Amarillo website. We have witnessed to literally hundreds of people throughout the year by phone, by e-mail, by myspace and facebook messaging, and in person because of the controversy of our site and warfare map. It has been very spiritually eye-opening to see the controversy a prayer map could generate. Our website has been linked to on nearly every witchcraft, pagan, and swinger site in the world. We pray that some of those attracted to our site by the controversy surrounding our stand at the swinger’s club and the map will come to Christ. Our website has planted many seeds. Thank you Lord. At this moment the swinger’s club is up for sale as it is bankrupt. As far as we can tell, this is the first time in U.S. history that a swinger’s club was shut down by direct actions by Christians rather than through law enforcement. The Lord has broken ground through our efforts. We know the physical locations of other swinger’s clubs in other cities and we intend to use our experience to teach other ministries to shut down these clubs in their city. Amarillo has become a seed to be sown for the destruction of these demonic strongholds throughout the nation.

We have formed a relationship with a few churches in town that support our efforts. One in particular has given us a voice on the radio on a nearly weekly basis. This has put the message of repentance across the Texas Panhandle, Western Oklahoma, and Eastern New Mexico. Our ministry has had regional impact by this radio program. Thank you Jesus and thank you to the Christians involved in this. We have recruited new RAVEN/Repent Amarillo members as well as have had more witnessing opportunities through this.  Pastors Ricky and Jeremy Pfeil have been instrumental in this area and by their hard work, RAVEN Amarillo will now bring a team of 50+ on fire Christians by bus to Mardi Gras in New Orleans to preach the Gospel.
This ministry has traveled across the United States this year, preaching the Gospel as we have gone. We went to Mardi Gras in New Orleans in February, Fort Worth in the spring, Albuquerque and Las Vegas in August, and Daytona Beach Florida in September. We led people to Christ all along the way. So, this ministry has had impact across the country. In Las Vegas we delivered about 1,000 pounds of baby clothes to RAVEN West Coast for their outreach to young mothers.
In September, we were witnessing at Le Chateau Bar on Polk street in downtown Amarillo for their weekly “teen night” when we witnessed a teen riot involving about 150 or so teenagers. We caught this riot on video. Not only did it make the local news but it made national news on CNN, ABC, CBS, and Fox News.
In September, we had our annual RAVEN banquet here in Amarillo where we kicked off the “Jeans for Jesus” program and raised money for RAVEN Intl.
But there is more. In October, we discovered one of the largest demonic worship sites in the U.S. just north of Amarillo. It is longer than two football fields. But more on that later on. I don’t want to spoil any surprises for 2010.
In October, our ministry did a one hour program on German National Public Radio. The Gospel went out over the air nationally in Germany at German government expense! How’s that for an inexpensive mission trip? Thank you Lord! We even had the reporter Sabina over for dinner and we witnessed to her as well. We have been praying for her.
In October we started feeding the homeless every Saturday for lunch. We give them MREs. Not “meals, ready to eat” as in the military but “mercy, ready to extend”. We have re-established the RAVEN homeless outreach. It is small but it will grow. We have several teenagers involved in this outreach.
In November, we informed the City of Amarillo Zoning Commission that Crystal Pistol strip club was out of compliance with the grandfathering for the Adult Business Ordinance. The city investigated and sent them a cease and desist order. This horrible club, in business for nearly 40 years, is now shut down. Thank you Jesus!
Over the last year God has moved against several places on our spiritual warfare map. God has shut down the swingers club, shut down Crystal Pistol strip club, shut down Avenue 10 theater ( Their first play sexually mocked Christ, it was called “Christ Alive”), and the Peace Farm was sold. God has been moving in this city and we have rejoiced over playing a small part in His plan.
All through this year we have been mocked, ridiculed, cursed at, spat upon, threatened, physically assaulted, had peace bonds attempted against us (we won in court), and I and my wife, were kicked out of our home church due to negative media attention. But it has been MORE than worth it all. All those who were led to Christ by this ministry in front of bars, strip clubs, swingers club, alleys, etc. were all worth it. If they were worth Christ dying for then they were worth what little abuse we had to tolerate to reach them.