Burning Man 2005

Streams Ministry team
Recie Saunders, Scott Evelyn, Lana Whisman, Cindy McGill, Lisa Matschek, Rob Mazza, Marion Sack, Sheila Alford, Tyler Troutman Brian Kinne, Ron and Cookie Boyer

Sunday Aug. 28
Did protocol with the native Americans getting permission and blessing to go on the land and do ministry at burning man. Many prophetic words came and we prayed for physical healing for some. It was very powerful and you could just feel God honor this protocol.

Monday August 29
Arrived, set up tent. Got a feel for the land and began to receive instruction from God as to the direction of ministry and how He wanted it done. We unloaded 10,000 bottles of water to give away.

That night, we had a huge attack inside the women’s r.v. a demonic presence was felt, almost suffocating. I have never encountered such an attack on any outreach. with this severe of an attack, the thought crossed my mind that we would not be able to make it the whole week. The drum circle in the distance felt like they were calling up demons and the demons were being released. I woke up around 3am and began to cry out to the Lord for power and protection. Lisa cried out in her sleep, “stop it”. And Lana and I began to cry out in agreement in our spirits. Suddenly the atmosphere changed. The presence of the Holy Spirit was so strong, that lights began to appear. Even with my eyes closed, I could see the lights. It was overwhelming and comforting. I was so assured of the Lords angelic protection and favor that I instantly went to sleep in perfect peace. We staked off the ground and walked it anointing it as Holy ground. I felt the angels gather and station themselves around the marked off area.

Tuesday, August 30
We met to get God’s agenda of order for the week. We decided to put out a menu board where people could choose an encounter at the point of their need. On the menu there were several things. Dream Interpretation, Spiritual reading, Spiritual cleansing, Spiritual encounters, Destiny Direction words, Healing touch. Lisa had had a dream where she saw us all in a circle inviting the “White Light” to come and God gave us an open heaven over the tent.

We decided to use the language the Holy Spirit gave us and often call Him the “White Light”. We chose to honor the Holy Spirit in the tent and give Him free reign to move any way He wanted to. All of us chose to keep our hearts joined together and honor and prefer one another in love. Unity was a decided action and pursued with diligence.

That day, many encounters happened. The anointing in the tent was growing. People were drawn to the tent, avoiding other venues around us. The encounters were overwhelming. We watched the Lord reach into the hearts of His desperate hurting people and love them. We looked past their outward appearance (there were plenty of naked people around) and only chose to see what the Lord saw. God always looks on the heart. He healed their hearts and emotions. He gave us pictures of their lives as He meant them to be. He allowed us to see their broken places and ask for His healing balm to come over that and heal and comfort them. They would break down weeping. As the Holy Spirit came to them and enveloped them, they were radically impacted. Telling their friends to come and get an encounter for themselves. We heard comments like, “we have been coming to burning man for years and have never encountered anything like this before.” It was totally life changing for most of them.

One man who was on drugs came wandering into the tent in the early evening. He was disoriented and confused. He couldn’t find his group. We fed him and he laid down in the tent on the carpet to go to sleep. A group was set up near him and they were having a ministry time with a young woman. They began by asking the “White Spirit” or “White Light” to come in. As they did this, the demons in the man sleeping in the tent cried out, “They’re talking about Jesus”. At that time, Jesus’ name had not been mentioned. It was encouraging to know that the demons knew what Spirit we were coming in, no matter what name we used. God had given us strategy ahead of time and we were careful to use the language He had given us. POWERFUL encounters came on every team.

Every encounter we had on Tuesday was powerful. Many times, people would sit in the chair and just begin to weep before they even told us what they wanted. The Holy Spirit was so strong on every team. Leading us and guiding us every step of the way.

Wednesday – August 31
Two men came into the tent. They were involved in a homosexual relationship. One of the men had brought the other one in because he felt his partner was in need of a spiritual touch. He asked for a Spiritual encounter. As the Holy Spirit touched him, we began to affirm him the way God made him to be. Asking for the Holy Spirit to heal him and do a spiritual cleansing. As the Holy Spirit encountered him, he wept and laughed at the same time. He was feeling the love of God. He began to rise off of the chair. I thought he could have levitated, but he didn’t. the other partner was watching this and probably for the first time, experienced the unconditional love of God. We left him with the understanding that he could encounter God any time and that the spirit of truth would lead him and guide him on the right path.

A bare breasted woman came in with a friend. When she sat down in the chair, I instantly got a word of knowledge about her being a nurse or something to do with the medical field. She had embraced a very vulgar Playa name for herself, but God wasn’t moved by that. We just started to minister to her in words of knowledge. She instantly began to cry, but told us that the playa dust made her allergies act up. She ended up coming back several times, bringing her friends and her allergies never “acted up” any other time except when she was receiving ministry. God just reached into her heart and touched some very deeply wounded places. She brought her husband back then next day and a friend. Totally impacted by the love of God.

Two girls came in for an encounter. One of them was deeply wounded by her mother and as a result, she was closed off to any kind of spiritual anything. But as the word of knowledge flowed during a spiritual reading, she teared up. I did some identificational repentance. I asked her to forgive me (as her mother) for the wrong she had suffered. Then I asked her if I could give her a mothers hug. When I did, she broke and just sobbed. She asked if she could lay on the floor and just “soak” for a while. She was there for about 3 hours. Her friends kept coming back to get her, but God wasn’t thru with her. It was very powerful.

Thursday Sept 1
A young woman came in and when she sat down in the chair, she began to weep. She was so ready for an encounter with God. As we took her hands, she felt the heat of the healing anointing and received the Lord at the end of the encounter. She felt the Holy Spirit so strong that when she asked Jesus in her heart, she stood up and screamed a cry of freedom and joy. Her hands shot straight up in the air and she jumped.

By now, the anointing level was rising almost hourly. Every encounter was getting to be more powerful that the previous one. It was hard to keep up with all the things the Holy Spirit was doing.

In all, we figured about 50 people or so asked God in their hearts. Collectively, the teams were unbelievably synergizing and flowing in unison. God was able to do what He had sent us out there to do.

When it came time for the tent to come down, people who had come and been ministered to, almost begged us not to leave. They had gone around telling their friends about this tent. The reputation of what God was doing was growing and people were amazed at their God touches. We heard that next year, the rangers were going to try and get us to the inner circle so we would have more exposure. They were very pleased and intrigued by what God was doing in the tent.

Thank you a million times for the intercession and prayers you offered up for us.

In all of the outreaches we have done, I have never been so impacted and encouraged and seen so many people touched and converted.