Eventually we all went our separate ways. As most families in the baby-boomer generation, our parents insisted we go to college, so everybody did the college scene. By the 1980s and 1990s, almost everyone was well into having their own families. In 1988 our mother died and in 1994 our father died.

In the 1970s, however, the Lord Jesus grabbed our hearts. All of the children had a born-again experience either just out of college, in college, in high school, and some in grade school at that time. Over about a three-year period, one after the other of us were saved by the blood of Jesus and we began following the Lord Jesus. In 1996 we found out that the Holy Spirit could baptize with fire and after that we were never the same. A fire grabbed our hearts and changed the course of our lives. Suddenly, we couldn't get enough fellowship, we couldn't get enough worship, we couldn't get enough of the word. We began pouring over the scriptures and the Lord began melting the Word of God with the Charisma of God and we have been on a road of refining ever since.

In January of 1997, we began to meet on a regular basis and the Lord showed us that our commission was to worship Him. Our focus changed from worldly pursuits to focusing on the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. In order to worship the Lord with our whole heart, our whole mind, our whole soul, we began to pursue a life of holiness - a life set apart from the world - a life devoted to worshiping the Lord with everything we had. Several of us purchased electronic keyboards, some took up guitar playing, some began to play drums and congas, some took up instruments they learned in their early years, some began to take lessons to learn to play instruments; the Lord stirred in the hearts of some to begin to use their God-given talents to make worship garments, some began to have dreams and visions about heaven and the throne, some started having dreams about banners they were to make and as the Lord took us to higher and higher levels, the music changed and the worship changed. This whole process continues on a daily basis. The Lord continues to open new doors, give new ideas, change us and we walk with Him from glory to glory. The Lord puts us in contact with various people at various times and our concept of Him changes. We are delivered and set free almost on a daily basis. The Lord placed within our midst the five-fold ministry. Among the brothers and sisters there are evangelists, pastors, teachers, prophets, and apostles. Each of these ministries continue to develop, but it is all being done by the Holy Spirit. It says in the bible that the Holy Spirit will teach you and He indeed is faithful. The Holy Spirit continues to give new revelation and confirmations in His Word on a daily basis. We are truly blessed to be living in these times.

As we follow the Lord, He follows us with signs and wonders wherever we go. People have been set free, healed, refreshed, renewed, and delivered wherever the Lord calls us. In 1998 the Lord called us to set up a tent and begin having summer tent meetings. Each year, the Lord shows up in power and people are refreshed and renewed. We try to move according to the Holy Spirit - most of the time we don't even try, it just happens. We just happen to be in the right place at the right time. That is only something that God can do. He sets up divine appointments, and has been networking us with the people with whom He wants us to be in contact. We often marvel at the grace of God and His mercy, and His timing. We literally stand back and watch the salvation of God.

Mostly, as you can see, we are about pursuing the Holy Spirit as He pursues us.