Spring Update

Hey friends! Exciting highlights from our Fords on a Mission spring adventures, and a peek into our upcoming plans.
March was a busy time for us! Jason spent the first day of the month with our good friend Joey Coriano, who led a \”Cardboard Church\” outreach on the sidewalk on the square in Murfreesboro. We love Joey because he has a heart for evangelism and the lost just like us. The group offered prayer and ministry to anyone on the streets. People were healed and lives were changed.

We took a trip to D.C. at the beginning of March as well. We linked up with A Called Generation, which served at David\’s Tent that week. We also connected at Justice House of Prayer, prayed in and around the Supreme Court, and toured the American Center for Prayer and Revival lead by our good friends Wayne and Genesse Garland.
Jason also spent time with Dick Simmons, who is a prayer mentor to many national prayer leaders. The prayer stories shared were amazing.

During this week, Jason also helped host and facilitate prayer calls with many people around the nation as they fasted together to see an Esther generation of women rise up. Jesus is glorified when women are honored and lead in their unique strengths and gifting!

April brought Nashville House of Prayer into an exciting new phase! For over a year, The Cookery has been a gracious host for our meetings, and we are so thankful to them! April 4th was our first night at our new location at One Stone Church in East Nashville. Being north/east side natives ourselves, it is a joy to see a house of prayer on this side of the river! We are grateful to Pastor Mark Lancaster for opening his facility to the Nashville House of Prayer.

April also took Jason to Montana to dream and learn with Nashville-area ministers. This \”Go Team\” sat under teaching from Bill Johnson and several members of his leadership team from Bethel in Redding, California. There were many wonderful take-aways, and the team was able to bond together and share vision for Nashville. We are excited and grateful to be a part of this dynamic group of ministers who share a passion for the city.

Amy spoke at a women\’s conference in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She, along with three other women, shared powerful messages and prayed with attendees.

Jason participated in the annual Governor\’s Prayer Breakfast. This awesome event brings together ministers across denominations under the common goal of praying for our state. What an incredible thing to live under a government which honors prayer,

In the midst of prayer meetings and gatherings, one we especially enjoyed was at Christian Life, with its intercessory prayer team, led by Jodi Kelsey. Jason has a heart for night watch prayer so a 10 pm-12 am prayer set is always wonderful, made more so by friends anointed for worship, passionate young people, and dedicated intercessors!

In May, Jason helped host the Awaken the Dawn leadership team as they traveled to Nashville to share the vision of ATD and film promotional materials. The team met with James Goll, Ricky Skaggs, and Michael W. Smith to share about the heart behind ATD and the important role Nashville plays in the spiritual direction of the nation.

At the end of May, we felt an urgency to travel to Fredericksburg, Virgina, prompted by Lou Engle sharing the vision for ATD there. We also wanted to visit David\’s Tent and pray at The White House. We feel an important part of Fords on a Mission is to be \”spiritual fords\”, making a path for others to get to what God is doing. Therefore, we need the materials, the vision, to build the ford, so to speak. We went to Virginia with this goal in mind, however, we were surprised by the direction God took us.

As soon as we arrived, Jason felt our first stop should be a Washington monument we had never visited – the Mary Washington Memorial. At this monument is a rock where Mary prayed for her son George regularly during the Revolutionary War. We wanted to go and pray, but we \”happened\” to arrive as a prayer group was meeting. The Mothers on the Rock has gathered there weekly since 2010 to pray for our nation in the spirit of Mary Washington. This prayer group, we discovered, is the impetus of Awaken the Dawn\’s call to women and mothers in particular. We were honored to meet them, pray with them, and to get invited to meet up with them again the next morning as Lou Engle came to the rock to shoot video for upcoming ATD event.

We are continually amazed at the journey God has us on. Thanks to each of you who pray and also financially support us. Because of you we get to do what God is called us to.

Upcoming Missions:
We are making preparations now for several upcoming missions. First, the Bonnaroo outreach is coming in June . Jason, along with his good buddy Dylan Tarpley, will facilitate night watch worship and prayer for the third year in a row. This year, we are also teaming up with our church community from The Foundry for a Love Bonnaroo outreach. There will be a tent set up on the ground of the festival hosting worship, prayer, and evangelism.

The big news is we plan to spend almost a month in San Francisco to join with The Sound, a release of worship-focused prayer and evangelism targeted at that city and calling forth a new generation of Jesus people. Follow our Facebook page for updates.

Finally, we are already preparing for Awaken the Dawn, a three-day gathering on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. There will be tents of worship representing each state, standing in the gap in our nation\’s capital. This is a massive effort, and we are believing God for a shift in the spiritual atmosphere across the country.

E-mail us at [email protected] if you want more information or to get involved with any of these things.

We love you guys! Thank you for your continual support.