What A Weekend! It's a novel!

I don't even know where to start with this one. Thursday was our 4th anniversary! Where has the time gone? We went to the Rib and Chop House and stuffed ourselves with steak and a delicious dessert.

The reason this weekend was so busy was that Jason had invited, a while ago, a man by the name of Ray Hughes to come and speak to our new church New Life in Powell and Victory Fellowship in Cody where we used to go.
Ray has been on a Summer of love tour this summer with about 300 young people, traveling from Nashville to San Francisco. They stopped in other places to play and minister and take back from the spirit rhealm, what took place 40 years ago during the hippie summer of love. There's a whole lot more to it than that but anyways, he is really gifted in music, has a music school in Nashville, prophetic and brought a phenominal band with him. We hosted all 12 of them friday night for a barbecue and had one of the guys stay with us. He and Jason just hit it right off. His name was Brad Tretola. Phenomenal guitar player. He would blow us away. This is him. Super nice guy. We became quick friends.

These guys and girls were a lot of fun. But you wouldn't know unless you talked to them that alot of them have played or toured with some big Christian music artists. For example, Rebecca St.James, Salvador, and Jeff Deyo . The girl playing banjo is Ricky Skaggs' daughter Molly.

We had them in Powell and the worship they brought was awesome. Fresh songs for us and prophetic encouraging words for the region. They had kind of a blue grass feel or sound but it was really a mix. Ray is from Kentucky so he speaks with a drawl and is a so funny. He told us his testimony of becoming saved and saving almost his whole high school during the Jesus movement. It was really great. They packed up and we moved to Cody, only to have communication fall apart in the group and the arguments started. We stuck around because we had to take Brad back to our place. They finally got their differences resolved around 1am and proceeded to do their sound check for Sunday morning.


We took Brad for breakfast and went to church. The power of God was in that place. The worship was better than the night before. Things had changed for the better in the group giving them a better ability to minister and worship. It was so awesome! They were singing and giving phophetic words as they sang. Ray gave some words for this church and the region again which was so encouraging to many. Things being broken and new life coming, men rising up into new positions of authority. What was really overwhelming for us, Joel one of the guys, had a prophetic word about worship for us that just blew us away because we've been struggling with it, but he didn't know it. Jason had only told Brad and he was with us all the time. We both just were crying and can't wait to see what's going to happen. Then to top it off, Brad gave Jason his Martin guitar. Jason has always wanted one and loved playing Ray's that Brad had with him. But Brad had his own as well and gave it to Jason. He told me with tears in his eyes what had just happened. We were so blessed today! God is so awesome! Words can't even describe how we're feeling or what really happened.
God Showed Himself to Many today.