Unlimited Glory Ministries - Mission Adventure 99

Mission Adventure 99 page 6 The next morning was the beginning of our last full day at Many Waters. It was hard to believe that our time of outreach was swiftly drawing to a close. But we had not yet completed all that God had called us to do.

THE SPIRITUAL WARFARE CONTINUES Many Waters Mission is located just off the main highway which runs between Farmington and Shiprock. Because of the alcoholism which is so prevalent in this area, when Don and Lynn first arrived in Waterflow there had been one alcohol related fatality per week along this 29 mile stretch of road. While it is not quite that high as of this date, it is still high above the national average. Without a doubt it has earned it's nickname 'Slaughter Alley.' When Lynn first shared about the situation which existed on this highway it tore at the heart of several of the team's members.

After several days of prayer it was decided that we would conduct our last time of outdoor spiritual warfare of this trip by praying along side both the east bound and west bound lanes. In addition to this, the Lord had shown our team leader Aimee that we needed to pour a bucket of water on each of the lanes we prayed over. I believe that the Lord had shown me that the blood of all the innocent victims of these highway fatalities, as well as that of their families who suffered because of their loss, was crying out to God. The water which we were to pour out was symbolic of this road being washed clean of the blood by the River of Living Water which was flowing from each member of the team.

About 9:30 on Tuesday morning we headed to a spot which the Lord had shown Bob we should pray over. We spent about 45 minutes there, praying and tearing down the altar of sacrifice to the spirit of alcoholism that this highway had become. After pouring half of the water in a 5 gallon cooler on the west bound lane, we headed back east and repeated the process over that portion of the east bound lane where the Lord had Bob stop.

Back to VBS
After lunch we headed to the village of Upper Fruitlands to do a VBS for kids at the Walter Collins recreation center.

Lynn advised us that this particular village had been more open to the Gospel than many of the areas Many Waters served. This was evident from both the blessings which the Lord was pouring out upon its residents, and from the openness of some of the kids. While the set up crew got the puppet stage and props ready the remainder of the team joined in a series of games that the kids were already playing when we got there.

As always, the puppets were a big hit and the audience appeared to appreciate the story behind 'Go and Sin No More'

Andy Jeromie, Evan,Stephanie, Amanda, Lauren (behind Kenn),
Ken and Paul. Megan is on the floor in the red shirt ready to be
stoned. She played the woman caught in adultery and Kenn was Jesus.

Afterwards we broke out the balloons and also did more face painting.

Holly is preparing a 'helmet of salvation.'

Luke is applying paint to one of the girls who was there and Rebekah is painting Joe, one of the YWAM road staff members (Joe was the first of the road crew that we met and we all fell in love with him instantly - awesome brother in the Lord) For all practical purposes, the ministry time at Upper Fruitlands was the last outreach of the trip.

After returning to the Mission that afternoon, the Lord put the finishing touch on the trip for us. There in the eastern sky was another 1/4 rainbow!! In four days He had shown us four 1/4 rainbows. Together they made up the full rainbow He had given us at the valley ranch in Colorado the evening before we left for Shiprock.

You can just see the rainbow inside the red square in the center of this picture. That evening we rejoiced in the knowledge that we had indeed completed that which the Lord had called us to do for this trip.
Even as the trip draws to a close there's still time for one more group picture!

...and some fellowship after dinner.

This time the praise team was composing songs about any topic someone wanted. There was even one about the purple shag carpet which was on the floor in the mission basement which we were using as a dining room and fellowship hall. (As an indication of our team's 'unique' sense of humor, it might be noted here that the worship team had adopted a name for their band. They called themselves "Robin Hood and His Band of British Praise and Worship Puppets!")

Josh, Chris, Kenn, Doug, Nathan

Since it was Nathan's 14th birthday on Wednesday we celebrated it on Tuesday evening as we were all leaving Many Waters in the morning.

Nathan got a beautiful cross necklace. His best friend Doug was in charge of getting everyone to sign the card.

But his best present was yet to come!

THE KISS!

Rebekah and Danielle give Nathan his birthday kiss

(Sorry Nathan, but I told you this one would be on

our web site)

After a wonderful time of fellowship we finished off the evening with one final time of praise and worship.

Nathan, Kenn, Doug, Chris

By 9:30 AM on Wednesday each of the 3 groups and the YWAM staff had all departed on their separate ways. We are however all going to be in prayer about returning as one team next year and beginning where we left off.

My prayer for our group as we headed home was that as awesome as this trip was, it would become a fading memory in the minds of each of us. Not because it was lacking in any way, but my prayer was that what God has in store for each of the team members in the near future would be as far beyond this experience as this experience was beyond anything they had encountered with God up until this time. My prayer was that Mission Adventure 99 would be remembered not because of the awesome things God which did in, for and through us, but merely because it was the first one.

Should any of our visitors wish to contact Don and Lynn Cartwright they can be reached at:

Many Waters Mission PO Box 790 Waterflow, NM 87421 their e-mail address is: 1119@acrnet.com

For those of you who are interested, the next page of our Mission Adventure covers Unlimited Glory Ministries' trip back to Kansas, IL. There are even two more rainbows to talk about!

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