The A-Team Has Returned!
A-Team #18 just rolled back into town and ended their 3 month tour of duty on the road this week. All of the members of the team looked tired, yet thrilled to have been on such a life changing trip. This team, led by Hayden Davidson, and made up of David Thomson, Brielle Isaac, Elizabeth Holcomb, and Camilla Swasey was one of our greatest A-teams and it was a joy to watch them in action.
We sat the team down as soon as their debriefing sessions were over so that they could spend some time reminiscing and reporting about their experiences while on tour. These are their stories...
Training was remembered as a draining, yet life-altering three weeks. But hey, you trying spreading three week day and night getting a fire hose of revelation from Rick Wilson, Kevin Ford, and Wayne Anderson and not get wiped out. Haha. What was unique about this team’s training was that just 25 miles east of Dover, full blown revival was taking off in the city of Lakeland. This presented the team an awesome chance to journey to Ignited Church and present themselves ready to serve the move of God in any way possible. They were immediately taken up on their offer and were recruited to help the staff of Ignited Church in the early week’s of the revival with some much needed able bodies ready to be used. The result of this serving at the revival quickly became apparent throughout the rest of their tour.
As soon as training ended, the team hit the road for a trip across Tampa Bay to Flowing River Church in Clearwater. Flowing River, led by Kathleen and Stephen Peck, is a church that is passionate about worship and loves to reach out to the poor and sick. Sounds like a perfect stop for an A-team. The team helped out at the church’s weekly food bank ministry getting several chances to pray for people. Later in the week, the team stepped into the church’s Healing Rooms and got to use the prayer model on many who were sick and afflicted. One testimony that stood out to the team was a woman who wanted to sit in for her friend who was in the hospital suffering with a kidney infection that was shutting her kidney’s down. The doctors had given the woman a 50/50 chance of living. But after releasing the prayer of faith, the woman later reported that she had a full recovery. Praise God!
After a week in Clearwater, the team came back to the ROC to serve at the 2008 IAM Family Convening. As the lead administrator of the Convening, I can clearly testify that this was the smoothest Convening we’ve ever had and that was in large part to this A-team. They were eager servers, pressed in during worship and during meetings, and helped all of our guests feel loved and welcome. I’ve told Wayne that I don’t want to have another Convening without a A-team like this one.
As the Convening wrapped up, so did the A-team’s time in Florida. They loaded up the beloved green van and headed north along I-95 up to our nation’s capital. It was here that the team was asked to serve at a conference with Georgian & Winnie Banov along with Heidi Baker and
others. This conference, entitled Gloriously and Wonderfully Made quickly became a staging ground where the A-team’s eagerness in looking for opportunities to take initiative caused a great impact on everyone they came in contact with. The team admitted that going into their time on tour, they figured that the majority of their time “in ministry” on the team would be spent preaching, prophesying, and laying hands on people. But they quickly learned that their time they spent cleaning, straightening chairs, and serving others opened doors of ministry that other avenues couldn’t have. Karen Vangor, Georgian’s administrator, reported that they loved having the team with them. Her exact words were “they did whatever was asked of them with a great attitude and a smile.” Of course, weeks on end of serving can cause a physical tiring after a while. It was during one of these times that the team went off to another part of the church to do the prayer model on each other to cause a refreshing. But of course the pull of the anointing being released started to cause a commotion which in turn started a line of some 20-30 people wanting prayer. It was here that the team as a whole began to see in a whole new way. They could see the chains binding people and were able to remove them through the prayer of faith. They could also see other afflictions damaging people in the spirit and come against them with the power of God. One woman, who has been to dozens of conferences over the years and sat under countless ministers declared that this team’s prophetic words were the most accurate she has ever received. It was with the help of these prophetic words and leadings of the Spirit that the team was able to act upon and they actually helped direct the entire flow of the conference. Signs and wonders were following them wherever they went.
Thanks to a gap in their schedule, the team was able to come back to Florida to once again serve at the Florida Outpouring in Lakeland. Unknown to us, the team was actually in high demand and those in leadership at Lakeland were very excited to see the team’s return.
For a final leg of their tour, the team once again left the sunshine state to head to North Carolina under the guidance of Hope & Rodger Reeder. Here they first met up with an evangelist who ran a food bank ministry in the Charlotte area. At the service, some 20 people gave their lives to the Lord for the first time and another 20 rededicated and came back to the Lord. It was a powerful time. What was cool was that the team was asked to pray with all of the people responding the altar call. There were great words of prophetic affirmation that resulted in people’s destinies being activated. Good stuff! The team spent the remainder of their time in North Carolina with Hope Reeder and others at Morning Star. Morning Star is a large ministry who in addition to everything else they do has a 24/7 prayer center going. Hope, being scheduled for one of the 2 hour shifts brought the A-team along with here to assist. The team recalled it as a very impact full time as both Hayden & David got to play along with Hope as they led worship. But the team wasn’t content to keep the outpouring of the Spirit inside the walls of the church. While in the Charlotte area, the team visited a local IHOP. No, not the International House of Prayer, but the International House of Pancakes. They decided that this IHOP was as good a place as any to release prophetic words. There target this time was their christian waitress who despite being a believer had never heard of prophesy. The team just shared with her what they saw in the spirit and really turned the woman’s day upside down. She was spotted as they left sharing what was said to her to her co-workers. Its these seemingly small encounters that can sometimes cause the longest lasting effects. And these team had plenty of them.
Even though this team’s tour of duty is over, the memories and impacts they had will last for an eternity. Who knows that the future holds for Hayden, David, Brielle, Camilla, and Elizabeth, but we do know that this world will never be the same because of them. If you know any young people who would have that servant’s heart displayed by this A-team, then have them visit www.a-teams.org for more info.
We sat the team down as soon as their debriefing sessions were over so that they could spend some time reminiscing and reporting about their experiences while on tour. These are their stories...
Training was remembered as a draining, yet life-altering three weeks. But hey, you trying spreading three week day and night getting a fire hose of revelation from Rick Wilson, Kevin Ford, and Wayne Anderson and not get wiped out. Haha. What was unique about this team’s training was that just 25 miles east of Dover, full blown revival was taking off in the city of Lakeland. This presented the team an awesome chance to journey to Ignited Church and present themselves ready to serve the move of God in any way possible. They were immediately taken up on their offer and were recruited to help the staff of Ignited Church in the early week’s of the revival with some much needed able bodies ready to be used. The result of this serving at the revival quickly became apparent throughout the rest of their tour.As soon as training ended, the team hit the road for a trip across Tampa Bay to Flowing River Church in Clearwater. Flowing River, led by Kathleen and Stephen Peck, is a church that is passionate about worship and loves to reach out to the poor and sick. Sounds like a perfect stop for an A-team. The team helped out at the church’s weekly food bank ministry getting several chances to pray for people. Later in the week, the team stepped into the church’s Healing Rooms and got to use the prayer model on many who were sick and afflicted. One testimony that stood out to the team was a woman who wanted to sit in for her friend who was in the hospital suffering with a kidney infection that was shutting her kidney’s down. The doctors had given the woman a 50/50 chance of living. But after releasing the prayer of faith, the woman later reported that she had a full recovery. Praise God!
After a week in Clearwater, the team came back to the ROC to serve at the 2008 IAM Family Convening. As the lead administrator of the Convening, I can clearly testify that this was the smoothest Convening we’ve ever had and that was in large part to this A-team. They were eager servers, pressed in during worship and during meetings, and helped all of our guests feel loved and welcome. I’ve told Wayne that I don’t want to have another Convening without a A-team like this one.As the Convening wrapped up, so did the A-team’s time in Florida. They loaded up the beloved green van and headed north along I-95 up to our nation’s capital. It was here that the team was asked to serve at a conference with Georgian & Winnie Banov along with Heidi Baker and
others. This conference, entitled Gloriously and Wonderfully Made quickly became a staging ground where the A-team’s eagerness in looking for opportunities to take initiative caused a great impact on everyone they came in contact with. The team admitted that going into their time on tour, they figured that the majority of their time “in ministry” on the team would be spent preaching, prophesying, and laying hands on people. But they quickly learned that their time they spent cleaning, straightening chairs, and serving others opened doors of ministry that other avenues couldn’t have. Karen Vangor, Georgian’s administrator, reported that they loved having the team with them. Her exact words were “they did whatever was asked of them with a great attitude and a smile.” Of course, weeks on end of serving can cause a physical tiring after a while. It was during one of these times that the team went off to another part of the church to do the prayer model on each other to cause a refreshing. But of course the pull of the anointing being released started to cause a commotion which in turn started a line of some 20-30 people wanting prayer. It was here that the team as a whole began to see in a whole new way. They could see the chains binding people and were able to remove them through the prayer of faith. They could also see other afflictions damaging people in the spirit and come against them with the power of God. One woman, who has been to dozens of conferences over the years and sat under countless ministers declared that this team’s prophetic words were the most accurate she has ever received. It was with the help of these prophetic words and leadings of the Spirit that the team was able to act upon and they actually helped direct the entire flow of the conference. Signs and wonders were following them wherever they went.Thanks to a gap in their schedule, the team was able to come back to Florida to once again serve at the Florida Outpouring in Lakeland. Unknown to us, the team was actually in high demand and those in leadership at Lakeland were very excited to see the team’s return.
For a final leg of their tour, the team once again left the sunshine state to head to North Carolina under the guidance of Hope & Rodger Reeder. Here they first met up with an evangelist who ran a food bank ministry in the Charlotte area. At the service, some 20 people gave their lives to the Lord for the first time and another 20 rededicated and came back to the Lord. It was a powerful time. What was cool was that the team was asked to pray with all of the people responding the altar call. There were great words of prophetic affirmation that resulted in people’s destinies being activated. Good stuff! The team spent the remainder of their time in North Carolina with Hope Reeder and others at Morning Star. Morning Star is a large ministry who in addition to everything else they do has a 24/7 prayer center going. Hope, being scheduled for one of the 2 hour shifts brought the A-team along with here to assist. The team recalled it as a very impact full time as both Hayden & David got to play along with Hope as they led worship. But the team wasn’t content to keep the outpouring of the Spirit inside the walls of the church. While in the Charlotte area, the team visited a local IHOP. No, not the International House of Prayer, but the International House of Pancakes. They decided that this IHOP was as good a place as any to release prophetic words. There target this time was their christian waitress who despite being a believer had never heard of prophesy. The team just shared with her what they saw in the spirit and really turned the woman’s day upside down. She was spotted as they left sharing what was said to her to her co-workers. Its these seemingly small encounters that can sometimes cause the longest lasting effects. And these team had plenty of them.Even though this team’s tour of duty is over, the memories and impacts they had will last for an eternity. Who knows that the future holds for Hayden, David, Brielle, Camilla, and Elizabeth, but we do know that this world will never be the same because of them. If you know any young people who would have that servant’s heart displayed by this A-team, then have them visit www.a-teams.org for more info.