Streets of Salinas Outreach Reloaded

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It's Sunday night, the whole house and neighborhood is mimi (asleep) and I am about ready to give a shout as I write this and wake up the streets where I live. 23 youth came out to Templo Rosa de Saron in Salinas, California this past Saturday. Hard-core prayer walkers from Templo Rosa de Saron, Gilroy's Lirio del Valle, Hollister's Faith, Hope, and Love Center and Monterey Bay's Club Alpha Omega showed up to take Jesus to the streets and doorways surrounding Templo Rosa de Saron. It was such a success that numbers can not even begin to tell.

Before we hit the streets, I read from the fourth chapter of the Book of Acts where it speaks of the Believer's Prayer. In part, they prayed the following: "Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus." Our team of prayer walkers was about to walk the streets and visit homes that have been threatened for far too long by violence and by the forces of darkness. Our team was about to act out in boldness. And the Lord's hands were about to be stretched out through us from the Section of Salinas, from Club Alpha Omega and from Templo Rosa de Saron to perform signs and wonders. Behind us stood you our prayer partners who were there in the Spirit. And ahead of us, stood our promise from God for the homes that we visited, for the requests we took and for our lives:

"After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly"

To put things in perspective, the team I was in passed out 30 prayer reminders into the hands of Salinas residents. The prayer reminder cards were requesting prayer AGAINST violence on the streets of Salinas and FOR a move of God in the city. We had 10 teams of two to three people each. Each team hit at least 20 homes. The team I was in alone hit about 100 homes. We prayed for every doorway that we came across. That means that well over 300 homes in the area surrounding Templo Rosa de Saron were prayed over. That is a blessing over a home that DID NOT exist over that home before we came along.

We did not preach to people and we did not shove the Bible down throats. All we did was take prayer requests, pass out FREE prayer cards to remind people to pray for the City of Salinas, and ask if anybody needed help in their yards. Instead of us inviting people to church, people were asking us for directions to Templo Rosa de Saron so that they could visit there the next day (Sunday)!

Some people had tears in their eyes as they asked for prayer for their families. One lady asked for prayer because she could not sleep at night and she feared that she had a tumor. Another family brought their epileptic four-year old daughter to us so that we could lay hands on her. As we prayed the epileptic spirit in the girl manifested with shrieks and fits. We encouraged the family to go to church to seek more ministry. Whether team member's individual experience was good or bad they can take heart in knowing that they were a part of something so awesome, that only God knows the extent of what took place! You took the blood and you applied it to homes that most likely did not have it on their thresholds. You challenged people to pray for their cities in a targeted fashion and some are praying now because of what you did. You went out of your comfort zones to bless total strangers. Your feet brought good news and hope to those who were in need. For that I am so proud of you and thankful for your service unto God. Do not minimize your contribution or experience for you have grown by it. The sacrifice is what you make of it. The Lord delights in a cheerful giver!

"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. As it is written:

"He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!" (2 Corinthians 9:6-15)

The highlight for me was at the end when we assembled at the church again and prayed with one mind and with one spirit for all the hundreds of prayer requests that we received. Let me tell you the power of God was present when we extended our hands toward those requests. As we stretched our hands I felt God stretch out His to perform signs and wonders. I felt God fill me with even more boldness and I felt full of the Holy Ghost!

Right now, I am bursting with pride for our youth and young adults. I know God is as well. Thank you Team Young Seven One, Club Alpha Omega, Templo Rosa de Saron and all of you who prayed for us!

Young Seven One Collectible T-Shirts

Now for the first time, Team Young Seven One T-Shirts are available at the Club Alpha Omega Store! To order your own Y71 shirt, just click on the below image.

Many thanks to Sister Robyn of The Club Alpha Omega Store for making this possible.