Tomorrow morning we clean it and furnish it with chairs, Bibles, tracts, give-aways, and necessities like toilet paper and paper towels! Then to the roadside in the afternoon! Thank You, Lord! It’s finished!!!!!!!!

We drove the trailer home this evening with its new graphics, and we couldn’t be more pleased! Today the flooring is being put in and the total interior could be done by Friday. We pray so as we would like to be set up in it Sunday morning at the site where we have been the past few Sundays. It has been a good spot and several people have stopped!

Our new orange trailer is in the shop this week in Orange City! Solar is being installed as well as all the wiring for lights, etc. Next Wednesday the graphics will be applied.

And then our construction guys will lay the flooring and build out the room for the porta potty and storage. THEN we will be on the roadside with it! We are excited to see the progress!

We got a lot of visibility and drew a lot of attention Sunday morning when we set up Free Prayer at The Commons in Spencer at 10 am. It turned out the only business open on the whole huge strip mall parking lot was a drive-up coffee place and was it ever busy! There was a window on each side of the small building with 5-7 cars in line for each window, and the lines went out to the street at times. And what did they have to look at? Us!!! Our trailer! The lines didn’t let up until after 1:00pm, when they closed! One woman stopped and received ministry for the deep depression she felt when she came in and after the Lord ministered to her, she left feeling a heavy weight had lifted off of her. She experienced such freedom! There were several vehicles that went around the parking lot and by us a few times but didn’t stop. We will be out next week, same time and place, praying that those who are being drawn by Jesus will stop this time!

God gave us a vision for 2024 for a bigger trailer and a garage in which to house it! This trailer will be delivered to us next week, courtesy of ministry partners who provided the money to pay for it! We are so excited! It is 7’x16′, which is 6′ longer than our present trailer and 1′ wider. This will allow us more room for more people in the trailer at one time, and another team praying for people who stop! We are going to start setting up on Sunday mornings in order to BE the church. God has shown us it is going to be a very big year for salvations, deliverances, and miracles! We will update here with build out pictures as we did for our first trailer, which btw we are keeping to set up on smaller sites as needed! If you would like to give toward our new garage, we would be most grateful! See our Donations page.

We are setting up in Sioux Rapids again, starting yesterday! The Commons in Spencer has been great, but the Lord told Karen about a month ago, “Don’t neglect Sioux Rapids.” So we will be setting up Free Prayer there for the next two or three weeks and then back and forth with Spencer as the Lord leads. Emil has a weekly Pastor’s article in the Sioux Rapids Bulletin Press newspaper now which comes out on Friday so we are gaining more exposure. Last week’s paper came out with TWO articles “by him” although he had only submitted one! It turned out the editor’s weekly article was mistakenly attributed to Emil. When Emil called her about it, she laughed and said she saw that and said, “Well, you’re getting extra exposure!” Thank You, Lord!

We celebrated our 20th anniversary on the roadside September 12th! Our 21st year had a unique start to it! Tuesday, as we entered the parking lot of the shopping center where we set up, a guy in a pick up truck literally drove over a rock median and through some bushes and cut us off! It was a little freaky but it turned out he wanted to talk! After about 10 minutes, he waved and drove off!

It was 90 degrees Tuesday when we set up on the roadside, and yesterday it was 60 degrees and we wore heavy flannel shirts over our T-shirts! It is fall! And we are grateful for the cooler temps! People stop no matter the temperature. We’ve had 3 people stop this week so far and we look forward to talking to and praying with whomever stops today in response to the Lord’s drawing!

We made the front page, and we are so grateful for a very favorable article! We were interviewed almost 2 months ago, but we have just recently been hearing about people who are unsure about us, about what we do, about whether we are legit! As the weeks went by, we kept praising God for His perfect timing, and this must be it!!!

We have been busy this week on the roadside. Our site in Spencer continues to attract people to stop. Yesterday, for the first time in a long time, the weather was so nice we sat outside the trailer for 4 hours ministering to those who stopped. Today it was back to hot and humid! But we still had people stop. God wants to speak to people and we’re thrilled to be used by Him!