Every year we have an accountability meeting with our elders. We take a moment to look back and honor what our Father did even as we continue to forge ahead. We just completed that meeting so I wanted to share with you what we discovered. It is as humbling to me as it is glorious to our heavenly Father.
Now is Your Time to Launch
In 2022 I had the privilege of ministering at KCIA’s Leadership Summit titled “Now is Your Time to Launch.” Not only did God mark the message with another supernatural sign and wonder at that event, but it turns out that we actually helped launch a number of new churches or ministries. Several of these churches or ministries were launched after I’d taken the founders through my training found in “Hit the Mark.”
In the Northwest, see above, we saw Virginia and Dick McMannus start Watchmen on Fire while Don and Cathy Davis launched Direct Action Ministries. These two couples were elders who helped found FireStorm Ministries which was the first church/ministry to utilize KLI’s charter thereby becoming the first affiliate or auxiliary of KLI. Their goal, turn it into an apostolic hub.
In addition, the Stryzewski’s are one of the leaders in the Business mountain and they also founded “Living for More.” They have a young evangelist named Enoch whom I took through “Hit the Mark.” He’s been leading the charge in reaching out to high schools in the Northwest. Why I just heard from him a day ago where he reported that next week they’ll be hosting an event at the high school next to us wherein they expect 1000 students to show up.
These are expressions of the prophetic proclamation in 2022. Now is your time to launch… and they did! Now, let’s continue with that theme across the US in 2023.
Affiliates or Auxiliary Churches & Ministries
FireStorm was the first ministry/church/ARC to adopt KLI’s charter in 2013. Steve and Joan Driessen were part of KLI’s Tribe since our start in 2011. In fact, our first act as KLI elders in 2011 was to pray and send them, Carry the Fire, to Tennessee on assignment. They were there for a decade. In 2022 Carry the Fire became an affiliate of KLI by adopting our charter. Why? It’s because they had a vision to establish an apostolic hub which they launched on January 4th. It is called “The Hub” and it is located in the greater Appleton Wisconsin area.
In 2022, Ron and Libby Hamilton connected with us. They oversaw The Gate Community. In 2023 they launched The Gate Community Church in Charleston South Carolina. This was followed closely by a new work starting in Kentucky.
Chuck and Diane Bartle went through “Hit the Mark” too. Dreams that had been dormant for years came to life and the training gave them some traction to move from theory and vision into operational reality. In the summer of 2023, the Kingdom Community Fellowship International was launched in Lexington Kentucky.
It is truly marvelous to see these new works begin.
As I look at the images above, I cannot help but remember when I, we, began working with the founder of Equipping Christian Warriors in 2003, Don Bell. John Mark and Sophia who founded the prayer center and orphanage which I cannot mention their names due to war in 2006. Or I could mention Troy and Northwest Life Center in 2007, Charlene and Kingdom Builders International and a business leader, David or Ron and Grace Ministries in 2009. Or I could mention the founder of Axiom in 2004, Warring Dove and Carl and Prepare for Transformation in 2009, which happened to be when Nani and what became the India Prayer League also began working with us.
Then there are the Passian’s who oversee the 3rd Day Prayer Portal and The Passian Center Church. Then we have the CEO of Centric3 and a colonel in the Air Force working…. well… I should not say where they work.
Suffice it to say, I remember when in most cases there was nothing. Now, Christ has done so much in and through them to impact people, cities, and sometimes even nations.
But of course, I’d be remiss if I did remember Al Houghton of Word at Work and Greg Daley of Fire of His Love. We connected with Al in 1991 and Greg in 1993. They’ve been with us a long time and remember when this was nothing but an idea, a dream and a vision.
As I have taken a walk down memory lane I would be remiss if I also did not mention that through these ministers whom we are honored and privileged to watch over their souls help undergird their assignments in Christ, that through these we’ve seen:
- The poor have the gospel of the kingdom preached in word and through action
- Healings and miracles have manifested to confirm God’s word
- Souls saved, water baptisms, baptism in the Holy Spirit
- Wisdom and influence manifested in government, the military, through elections, business, and media spheres in national and international circles
- National and international influence through a weekly appearance on Fox Business
- Serving the beggar on the street to CEO’s in the boardroom, from private membership associations in the county to winning a seat on a school board
- Interactions with city, county and state governments as well as serving those in prisons, on the streets and coming out of the gangs.
- From orphans in a war torn nation to titan’s in government and business Christ is working in and through the ministers and members of KLI to manifest His glory, His purpose and His will on earth as it is in heaven.
I pray you hit the mark for your destiny in this coming year.
