A Stately Affair

I'm back. Turns out my outreach was a wild success, but I mean, come on, who didn't see that coming?

We left Saturday at around 10:30 pm, we had a bit of a laid-back/late start because the last few outreaches ended up being pretty intense, so we thought we'd switch it up a bit.

One of the vans went to the Olive Branch Bookstore where they did Dream Interpretations for the people there and my van went to Boston where we roamed about praying and bringing the presence of God.

It was a ton of fun walking around Boston, John Harding lived in that area for a while and he loves history so he took us for a great intercessory prayer tour around some of the places in the city.

Picture: The Boston Team


Later we just split up into groups and walked around praying and changing the atmosphere. One really cool example was when Anthony(Virginia), Kaylene(Michigan), Anton(Everywhere) and myself were walking together. We came upon some people preaching and shouting in the park and all surrounding them and yelling as well were a big group of Youth Pride people. They were all gay youth doing a peaceful demonstration that day who happened to come upon the preachers as well.

When we got there a whole a bunch of yelling was going on and some very upset people so we just started to pray and Anton and Kaylene were talking to people from both groups and it was like all of a sudden, peace from the Lord came. Everybody stopped shouting, people were sitting down and talking, it was such a dramatic departure from when we arrived. It was really neat to see the Lord come into a situation like that so quickly.

We were there in Boston till 9:15 pm, we made a good day of it. Then we headed to the Metrowest Bridge where we met the other van and spent the night.

The next day we were up early and left to head to the Boston Statehouse at 7:45 am and we started working at around 9 am and didn't stop till about 10 pm. It was good we had so many interns there because when there wasn't enough work for everyone whoever was doing nothing was just praying for the event or walking around the statehouse praying. It was definitely good we were there or they would've been short of help, I think we cut it pretty close in getting everything ready as it was.


Picture: The venue: The Boston Statehouse

Some of the various jobs we did that day was helping set up a massive backdrop, I gotta give props to Noah(New York), Nathan(North Carolina) and David(Massachusetts) who worked like machines with the guys who were setting it up. We did various other set-up, doing whatever they needed, wherever they needed. When the program actually started at around 5:30 pm, many of our people were ushering, helping guide people around the building as well as other people registering all the guests. Seven of our guys also helped carry these huge banners, one for each of the tribes of Israel during the program.

I ended up spending much of my time running to and fro, making sure everything was running with a semblance of smoothness. All the interns that came, there was a total of 26 of us, did such an amazing job finding work for themselves as well as praying for the event. They were such a huge help to me and to everyone running the evening. I think that as the leader for this outreach I'm allowed to brag a little on the people that joined me for this event. If not, I'll repent later...



Picture: Kaylene(Michigan), Myself(British Columbia) and Anthony(Virginia)


Picture: Half boat, half bus, all tour duck.


Picture: Vin Diesel sighting? You decide.


Picture: Self-portrait in front of a statue


Picture: Jamie(Alberta) and Sharon given'r


Picture: Rebecca(Sweden) by a Swedenborgian?


Video: Anthony playing a short seafarers song



Video: Short small clips from Boston