As 2023 drew to an end, we were encouraged to dream big and to trust God with a big dream in 2024. Sure enough, we had the vision of the bigger trailer and God fulfilled that vision with our wonderful orange prayer trailer. For us, that was a huge dream. Then 2025 began and we found ourselves off the Roadside for many days at a time due to the extremes in the weather this year so far. It has been below freezing many many days and when it has been in the 20’s and 30’s, it has been extremely windy, too windy to take the trailer out. God gave us the idea of having Free Prayer graphics put on our Yukon’s back windows which has really increased our ministry opportunities just by us being out and about in it!

Now the Lord has given us our biggest dream yet—the purchase of a building in Sioux Rapids! It has been one of the two places that we set up in 2024. It’s a small car dealership and the owner has retired and is putting it up for sale for $165,000. Emil had a really good talk with the owner the other day, who is excited about the possibility of us owning it and using it as the Bikers with Boundaries headquarters and Free Prayer center. It has a large open room in front and an office and bathroom in the back, as well as three car bays. Two of those bays have garage doors tall enough to house both of our Free Prayer trailers, which would get them out of the elements. The huge advantage is it’s on a corner lot on the highway going through the center of town, extremely visible. Also we could have our growing Friday night home group there, which would be more inviting to the townspeople than taking the plunge of coming to our home!

Many of you may remember that we rented a store front in Storm Lake several years ago and it was a very busy ministry hub. This would definitely take care of our problem by us being available either in this building or set up in the trailer at our Spencer site according to the weather!

The more we pray about it, the more vividly we envision ourselves in it. So we believe this is a God vision, and we are looking to Him for His provision. We would love to have you pray into this with us and watch with us to see what God will do! We are excited and have great expectation as we dream this biggest dream yet because He is able, and nothing is impossible for Him!

Sunday we pulled into a gas station to fill up our Yukon which has our new bright orange Free Prayer graphics on the windows! As I finished filling up and was walking along the side to get back into the vehicle to leave, I heard someone call out, “Hey! Hey! Prayer dude!” I looked around the back and a man was walking towards our truck. The guy asked, “Is this really what you do?” and he pointed to the Free Prayer graphics on the back windows. I said, “Absolutely!” “He asked if he could get prayer right then and I said, “Sure!” We talked for 15-20 minutes, and the man wound up accepting Jesus right there at the gas pumps! Isn’t the Lord amazing?!

We set up in Spencer, Iowa yesterday at our usual site, The Commons parking lot, and were busy for 3 hours from the time we dropped the ramp on the trailer and put out the OPEN banner! We met 5 great people over that period of time and spent half of our time with a young couple who are not yet followers of Jesus…but will be soon! They have experienced many “Christians” through their retail jobs who advertised God on their shirts but left a bad taste in their mouths about Him. So sad and too common, but when they left, he said, “You’ve answered a lot of questions we’ve had about God, and thank you for taking the time to just talk with us and hear us.” The Lord had a word for each of them which they totally received. Each of them took one of our 90-day devotionals to get to know Jesus better. We expect to see them again when they are ready to ask Him into their hearts! Thank You, Lord.

We set up Free Prayer in Mason City IA for 3 days this week in the Ashley Furniture parking lot. It was a fantastic site with constant traffic going by and of course, our trailer can’t be missed! We were so glad to have the bigger trailer—we had 8-9 people sitting in it at one time! We started each day with 4 chairs and got out more and more chairs as people came in. Every one who came in commented on how homey and welcoming it felt. Over the 3 days 22 people stopped, and we prayed for 14, for salvation, deliverance, guidance, comfort and encouragement, and so much more! We even experienced God’s orchestration of His divine appointment when a woman stopped us as we were going into Fleet Farms. She was in a very bad place and saw the trailer, pulled up weeping and apologized, “I know you’re wanting to shop but would you pray for me?” Thank you, Jesus, for such a wonderful response from the people of Mason City! We look forward to returning!

Wow, August went by so fast! And already, our leaves are changing and falling–early this year. Our humidity dropped dramatically just yesterday and feels great to have our house windows open and the a/c off –for now, anyway. The weather changes weekly so we may still need it in the coming couple of weeks. It has also been great to be back out on the roadside again and people have been responsive. We’ve had at least one person stop almost every day we’ve been set up! Thank You, Lord, for all You’ve done in a short time. For instance, we had a woman with curvature of the spine which God healed when we prayed; and another woman who came in with both wrists wrapped and the doctors didn’t know where the pain was coming from–we prayed and all pain left her! Jesus is all for healing! We just have to believe that!