Connecticut - What We Did!

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(Liz under the pretty blossom tree in CT...I convinced her to let me photograph her :) Success!)



Well! Our road-trip to Connecticut proved even better than any of our highest expectations. Our host families were amazing, the churches we ministered at loved us like family, and our days at UCONN were awesome. It seemed like everywhere we went we had favor.

First we visited Wellspring Church in Berlin, CT and ministered to the youth there for a few days. We got to talk about dreams and prophetic words with the 'Clearvoice' youth prophetic group, which was very cool. Then we met with the rest of the youth and split up in smaller groups to talk to them about intimacy with God and the prophetic. All the youth were very hungry, so it was easy to minister to them and talk with them about how God speaks.

The next day we met with the adult Clearvoice team to just encourage them with where they're at and help them take some steps toward where they're going. They are an awesome group, and it was so exciting to talk with them about stepping outside of the church walls and doing ministry on the street. Their hearts' desire was to reach people outside of the body...those who need it most. It was amazing to minister to them and encourage them in this new season!

The next day we went to River of Life Church in Tolland, CT (about 45 mins away). The interns shared lunch with them then we teamed up to do Dream Surveys at UCONN.

Dream surveys are basically just tools to help us interact with people about dreams without them feeling pressured or awkward...It's really just a clipboard with four or five questions on it, asking about how often they dream, if they have reoccurring dreams, if they have one we could interpret right now, etc. We say we are students learning about dreams and just ask them to help us out with a quick survey. They love it! Sometimes it even opens the door to talk about deeper stuff, without it being weird or offensive.

So that was our first day at UCONN. The next day, however, we got to do the big stuff :) We finally got amazing favor with the people there to set up our tent and do Dream Interpretation and Life Readings on their 'Spring Weekend' event. Spring weekend is basically a big festival where they do oozeball tournaments (mud volleyball), have live music, games, blow up toys, and everybody gets drunk. It's awesome.

There were SO many good testimonies of college students that got touched by the Lord, I'll have to save them for another post...

After a full day at UCONN we went back to Wellspring for their college-aged group called 'Elevate'. That. Was. Spectacular...truly. We didn't really do much ministry there, but we did get to worship and sit in on the message, and just get to know some of the youth there that were actually our age! We did end up doing some personal ministry at the end with a few individuals, but that's to be expected. It seems that when "the interns are in town" people want to get the most out of us while we're there, so we usually end up doing ministry even if it's not planned :)

After that we went back to River of Life Church on Sunday morning and the interns joined in on the worship team then hung out with the church members after service for a relaxing afternoon. That night we had another youth group to minister to, so we had to get our rest in! James did worship with some of us interns then we got to lead the whole service and talk with the River of Life youth about dreams and prophetic words. We even did prophetic exercises with them, and that was a blast.

That night we left Connecticut for our beloved state of New Hampshire. It was a fun trip...exhausting, but fun.

Hopefully I can get up some pics and testimonies about our outreaches in CT next time. I feel like there's still so much to tell! Oh well. This post already seemed a bit long. You get a gold star if you read it all the way through :)

Blessings everyone,

Jourdan M.

Italic

Traveling Interns

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Under The Green Tree was amazing! 



So much better than I could have ever imagined.  The speakers were so great, and the interns even got to spend some time with them on breaks which was really fun. They shared some of their own personal stories and got to know the interns as well. 

Steve Thompson and Loren Sandford each had truly profound messages that made every person in the congregation think hard about things they used to see as absolute truths, when in reality they needed to be re-examined and possibly even thrown out the window.  They both broke a lot of boxes this weekend. It was great!

John Paul was amazing, as always.  He had a great word on what it means to be a warrior, among other things, of course! We got to spend a whole lunch time with him, just JP and the interns. That was super fun because we all went around the table and got to share what was happening inside our hearts since coming to the internship.  He is our spiritual father, and it was inexplicably awesome to get to spend time with him for a while and talk about where the internship is at. Then we also got to spend some impromptu time with him in the middle of the night on Friday.  We all stayed up (some of us made it longer than others lol) till about 4am talking with John Paul and John Thomas (the pastor of the Metrowest Bridge). What an honor to be with them for so long, just talking like good friends would. It was such a blessing.

Now we are heading out to Connecticut to visit the River of Life Church in Tolland and the Wellspring Church in Berlin. We leave tomorrow afternoon! This trimester is going to be a busy one...lots of traveling. We love it though!

I'll get pics up from the conferences when we return...


Blessings!

Jourdan M.
1st year intern



PS. don't forget, we are now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 intern year! visit this link to find out more information and/or print out an application.

Under The Green Tree

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Interns, pack your bags....



It's conference time!


So stoked for this weekend at the Metrowest Bridge in Natick, Massachusetts for the "Under The Green Tree" conference with John Paul Jackson, Loren Sandford, Steve Thompson, and John Thomas. To get info on the conference, or for registration info, visit the Metrowest Bridge Website.

We are so stoked to go to this conference...not long ago we visited Metrowest for another awesome conference called 'Kingdom Mechanics'. See that post here. As for the interns, we haven't actually gotten any face-time with John Paul yet this year, so as you can imagine, we're really looking forward to formally meeting and getting some group time with the father of this ministry!

I think the Lord is really going to do some incredible things in the people at this conference, and we're all really blessed to be a part of it. I can just feel the expectation in the air and in the spirit!


As for the Pinnacle, things are going very well with the weather being so nice. We are starting to notice the changes in the spirit after each time we spend time on the mountain. It's like placing little charges in the spirit, every time we go up just bringing our worship and sacrifice...until the atmosphere becomes so electrically charged that it has to explode. I guess you can say we are just waiting for that explosion :)

"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
-Luke 6:38


Here is that link to the John Paul video concerning the Pinnacle Prayer Mountain. It is an awesome video where JPJ talks all about the history of the mountain, what it is called to, and what is happening on it right now! Take a few minutes to view it! Click here...

Blessings,
Jourdan M. 1st year intern

**ps. We are now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 Streams School of Ministry year! If you are interested in becoming an intern, click here to download the application and find out more information on our program.**

The Beginning of a New Season

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The interns have each been returning to New Hampshire over the past few days. During Spring break some of us returned home to visit with family while others stayed here. Those who remained enjoyed fishing, rock climbing, relaxing by lakes, traveling to Maine for a day of eating lobster and shopping, some good fellowship time, and even an Easter egg hunt.

Those of us who stayed also traveled to Boston for a day of shopping, fine dining, and some unforeseen ministry. After dinner one of us told our waiter at the restaurant that we attended a school for spirituality and we would like to use our gifts to encourage him. He agreed and was blown away. After prophesying to him and giving him several words of knowledge, we encouraged him to seek God the Creator for more understanding about spirituality and his life.

Tomorrow marks the beginning of our Spring Trimester. Now that we have all been through the Streams dream courses, we will be traveling to Dartmouth University for a dream interpretation outreach. During the outreach we will be approaching University students and asking them to take a quick survey about dreams. The final question on the survey is "Do you have a dream you would like interpreted right now?" Many times we have powerful encounters after simply asking people about their dreams.

Next week we will be traveling to the greater Boston area for the "Under The Green Tree" conference with John Paul and other speakers. We are all anticipating some good teaching and ministry.

Here are some pictures from our Spring break:

Brandon before his haircut





Brandon after his haircut





Liz and Jourdan relaxing at the lake

Seeking God on the Pinnacle Mountain

An Easter egg hunt with kids from the local Bridge church







Fellowship with Scott and some church members

The church cooks Easter dinner for the interns



Fellowship with Cedric and Roxanne

Waiting for a train in Boston











Kyle makes sushi



Lance at an indoor rock wall


Matthew Ryan Keating
Streams School of Ministry, NH