A View From Crown Peak

It's September and the aspen trees are beginning to change to brilliant yellow. It's my favorite time of the year in the mountains. Cool breezes, cold starry nights, sunshiny warm afternoons, crunchy leaves, snowcapped peaks, brilliant blue skies...I LOVE Colorado. It truly must be one of God's favorites!!!!

Official BSSM Year 2 graduates!

Since graduating from 2nd year at BSSM (Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry), Rick and I have re-settled in a new town - Parachute, Colorado - in a little area called Battlement Mesa under a peak called Crown Peak.

Happy to have jobs!

Rick is working in the natural gas fields and is happy to be working again. I am almost finished with the first draft of my book and this week will be rewriting and editing. I can't wait for you to read it! I'm also associate editor for Kingdom Life Magazine, a new magazine published by Dr. Myles Munroe's team and distributed throughout the world. In addition, I am editing for a fiction author and a children's author. Both of their books will be published soon and are amazing. Stay tuned for more information on how to find them. I also am doing some writing and communications work for our long time home church, Kremmling Community Church. What a blessing they are and it's fun to watch what God is doing there. Rick and I were honored this summer to be able to speak to them about our time at school - and to talk to them about intimacy with God; healing ministry; and their identity in the Father as adopted sons and daughters. It was a precious time for us.

My creative dream is to be able to write books and use them as tools as I travel and speak to groups about hope and destiny and our good God.

I love my writing, editing and author coaching. It is so fun, and exactly what I want to be doing. My prayer is that eventually it will prosper us, too. God has promised that! So, meanwhile, I take what He sends and love every moment. I am so thankful for Rick's new job, our pretty rented home, and being close again to some of our family.

God is a techie

God loves technology. Did you know that? We are keeping in close touch with our Bethel friends who are now located all over the world. We Skype with our grandchildren, and we text and email daily with our kids. What a world we live in. When I was a young mother, I could barely talk to my mom once per week because long distance calls were very expensive. I have a collection of letters she wrote to me, mailed with a postage stamp. She also gave me the letters I wrote to her before she passed away. I love them.

With our present day technology, I feel so blessed to be able to stay in closer touch with my family. I also love that I can do my work from my pretty home office and have it read around the world. I'm amazed at how many people are reading this blog from nations I have never even been to. I love you all!

Talk to us!

We welcome any questions or responses from you regarding our time as students at Bethel and what God is doing now after we have been in two intense years of equipping. God is about to do something big. There have been many signs. If you are seeing them, you know it too. Signs can include what we used to think were coincidences. Numbers lining up on the clock, people speaking into our lives, dreams in the night. I feel our Papa God has placed us strategically in this area of the country and is allowing us a time of rest and regrouping. We are presently visiting local churches and seeing where He would like us to serve. Meanwhile, we love ministering online with our friends. (Find us on Facebook: Christine Krohn Tracy.)

We have been thoroughly equipped in the prophetic, in the healing and prayer ministry, in leadership, in life coaching, in kingdom creativity, in kingdom financial training, and even dream culture and destiny coaching. These are good and beautiful - promising and effective. They all have God's anointing and thumbprint of power and grace on them. And they are for everyone who is hungry to receive.

Could that be you? We pray you take the risk and enter into this amazing life God has planned on your behalf.

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Take our hands across the miles and countries. Let us pray for you. We have so much to tell you. Rick and I will be writing more as the weeks go by. We pray that God opens your hearts and minds to receive all the riches in glory He is right now pouring out upon you.

Many blessings and much love,

Chris

P.S. Don't forget the SOZO Basic Training being brought to Colorado from Bethel Church in Redding, California. The team will be teaching at Kremmling Community Church in Kremmling, Colorado. For information, or to sign up, go to: www.kremmlingcommunitychurch.org

Yay Colorado!

The Randy Clark Healing Conference in Colorado totally rocked. It was great to see many of our friends at the conference get charged up for Jesus. They all got a little taste of what Chris and I get to see on a daily basis - people getting healed and set free. Yay, Jesus! It's fun to see people's eyes light up when they realize Jesus still heals bodies today.

I actually felt cartilage being restored in a woman's knee, and watched as she was able to rapidly move her knee and leg for the first time in many years. But the greatest joy came from the people in the conference when they realized they could pray for others and witness God's healing for the first time when they took a risk and prayed for someone.

It's just a fun day when people realize that we don't just get freed from sin and bondage in Jesus, but we get freedom to live in a new life in Christ Jesus, bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to this kingdom on Earth.

Colorado will never be able to reason why it doesn't have any bread any longer. Once you witness a miracle, it opens Heaven up for more of God's grace in our lives.

Chris and I can't wait to get back home and catch up with everyone. The last two years have been totally renewing for us. Blessings and thanks for all who sent us and poured into us during this period of training and equipping.

Chris and I will be heading back to Colorado very soon. Yay. The Lord made way for a job for me.

We were able to make some great connections in Tecate, Mexico also this month. Chris and I have plans to return to the orphanage (hopefully with some of our grandkids) and work on some projects, and help in the hospice house to pray for the terminally ill. The Lord is doing some very interesting work in this little complex.

Maybe some of you will join us and be overwhelmed by some south of the border hospitality, love and fun. You can't help but fall in love with everyone at the orphanage. I can't wait to tell you all in person. Only 4 more weeks. Yay!

Blessings and my love to all.

In His service,
Rick

Churches come together in Tecate, Mexico

Something big happened in Mexico when we were there. It's difficult to know its ramifications, but our team was privileged to witness and participate in a weekend that brought churches in the Baja Peninsula together for the first time. Our leaders, Eric and Candace Johnson joined pastors from La Paz, Tijuana and Tecate for a conference hosted by the ministry school at Rancho de Sus Ninos in Tecate.

We also helped dedicate the new hospice / healing home - a beautiful building that will care for the terminally ill with expectations of releasing them fully recovered by the healing power of Jesus.

The children who live here at the orphanage are all ages, living in group homes under the care of a house parent. They are beautiful children and are much loved here at this place, where they have built schools for the children of the orphanage and the surrounding community.

We spent many hours during the conference ministering in prayer over the people at the conference, giving them words of healing, encouragement, and love. We joined one little boy from the orphanage who was praying for the sick and seeing miracles. His name was Brian, and he and Rick became pals while we were there.

Our team saw miracles of pain and disease disorders disappearing from bodies, and many were touched by the power of God's love. Messages of life and declarations of goodness over the region and over Mexico brought an atmosphere of hope to the people in this border region that has seen much despair.

It was fun to worship in Spanish with our friends of Mexico - the same songs we sing at Bethel. The trip culminated with some fun playing with the children, who were delighted with gifts of frisbees and small toys Rick brought from our dollar store in Redding. These kids are growing up at the orphanage, either because their parents are dead; they were abandoned; or the parents could not afford to take care of them. There are many miraculous stories of God's provision for this place - and sometime I hope to write the stories as I learn more.

Rick and I are hoping to go back with a team of friends someday to help with a construction project. This place used to see many people come to visit and help. These mission trips helped fund the orphanage and mission, but since violence in the border region due to drug cartels has been so publicized in the U.S., numbers of guests have dwindled. The whole time we were there, we felt very safe. Walls around the complex provide security, and our dorms were secure, clean, comfortable and safe. (We had to get used to bucket showers and port-a-potties, but we just learned that the complex received funding for a new plumbing system. Yay!)

Trip to Orlando

Greetings! I (Chris) just returned from Orlando, Florida - my first time to the Sunshine State. It was beautiful. We ministered at a Healing School put on by Randy Clark and Global Awakening. Also speaking was our Bethel Senior Pastor Bill Johnson, and Bishop Mark Chirona.

Team of 9
I was with an awesome ministry team of Bethel students who provided support to the leaders. These students were from Germany, England, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. They are incredible revivalists - so happy to minister the Lord's love to whoever He highlights to them.

God shows up!
We all were commissioned to minister hands-on healing to those that needed it at the conference. We also prophesied over many, and gave words of knowledge that God was giving us as He showed His precious ones that He wanted to heal them. We had many healed of decades-old pain from injuries; missing cartilage restored; migraines gone; old injuries healed; cancerous lumps gone; and even metal in limbs that had kept joints stiff, now being bendable and without pain. I'm sure there were many more healings that people won't know about until they see their doctors.

Bunny story
One day, I had a word of knowledge for a person named "Bonnie." A word of knowledge is something God shows you, or a pain or sensation in your body He gives you, that He wants you to know about someone else. We say things like - does anyone have a pain in their right shoulder? (Because God has just given you a pain in your shoulder as a "word of knowledge.")

I had several words of knowledge. The only one I was able to give publicly to the crowd was for an injury to the chin - as I had felt a kind of nudge on my chin. I felt like it was an injury from a hit or accident and had caused some facial and jaw damage. No one came forward. I was kind of sad because I was the only student whose word of knowledge no one immediately responded to. But after the meeting, a tall man came up to me and said "I was the one your word of knowledge was for. I fell off my bike and on my chin when I was 8, and still have problems." I asked him why he didn't raise his hand and he said he'd already raised his hand for other words of knowledge and he felt shy about it. So, I prayed for his chin and his injury. The next day at the conference he came up to me and said it was better. And the next day, he said it was much better. Yay, God!!!

Now, back to "Bonnie." I didn't get to give this word of knowledge to the crowd. But I really felt I was supposed to give it. I saw a man whose name tag said "Bunnie." I thought, maybe that was for him. I couldn't find him for a couple of days, except to glimpse him here and there at inopportune times. During lunch break on Friday, I was looking and couldn't find him. I said to God - "If you want me to pray for him, you are going to have to bring him to me because I can't find him." I went through the doors to the sanctuary and there he was! I asked him if he had pain in the left side of his neck. He said "no." So I told him I felt like God wanted me to pray with him and asked if he needed prayer. He said "yes, I have an invention and would like some prayer about that." It "just so happens" Bethel has an inventors group, so I went to get information for him about it. When I returned, his friend told me Bunnie had something to tell me. (These are two older men - in their late sixties I think.) Bunnie told me he didn't have pain in the left side of his neck, but the right side of his neck; that he had been in two serious accidents, and the last one his wife had died in. So - I prayed for his trauma, for healing for his neck and body, and for blessings and favor on this invention - that it would provide jobs, prosper him so he could give into the kingdom of God, etc. He was so touched and amazed that God would have me seek him out like that. God is so good!

The power of blessing
There are more testimonies, too. I was able to speak over several pastors, giving them words and pictures I thought God was asking me to give them. When they told me their stories, it was amazing how relevant and encouraging the words were for these people. Life in God is such an adventure and so much fun!

Starbucks chat
Our team of 9 got to have coffee at Starbucks with Bill Johnson. I think that was such a highlight for me. He answered some of my questions on writing, and other students' questions. We chatted and it was like being with an old friend. I told him that, after listening to his messages and reading his books for so many years, I feel like he's a best friend and a father. All the students agreed with that. He is a very nice, humble, and wise man. He's very much the same over coffee as he is when he speaks to thousands. I don't know how he keeps up the travel schedule he does. He is under a lot of grace for it.

It was also a thrill to be so close to Randy Clark and Mark Chirona - the other teachers at the healing school - such mighty men of God and purveyors of truth. I just finished reading 1 & 2 Timothy - and I feel these wonderful leaders are much like Paul - with such a mandate on their life that they are willing to give all to see everyone come into the Kingdom and understand that God is good. What a privilege to work alongside them.

Tecate bound
Next week, we are with Bill's son, Eric Johnson, in Tecate, Mexico. Eric is the leader of our 2nd year school of ministry. He is a lot like his dad, and we are excited to get to know him. We will be serving at a ministry conference and orphanage and staying in dorms there.

Rick in Colorado
Rick will be at the healing school in Castle Rock with Bill J., Randy Clarke and Leif Hetlund April 5 - 9. He will be with an amazing team of other students, too. I'm excited for him and wish I could be with him there, too. For our Colorado friends, if you want to attend or need more info on this awesome Healing School conference open to all who want to learn more about healing ministry - and / or want to just come and get healing - go to http://www.globalawakening.com/Articles/1000098194/Global_Awakening/Global/Events/School_of_Healing.aspx

We still do not know what or where God is sending us to after school, but both Rick and I know there is something taking shape. We are not worried, but eager with anticipation.

We are so excited about all that God is doing in us and for others. He is so good - and kind - and powerful - and wants us all to partner with Him in advancing His Kingdom on Earth.

Blessings to you all. Thank you for your prayers, your financial support, and your love.

Grace and peace to you and yours!

Would you like to support what we're doing?

The whole school is preparing to go on mission trips all over the world in the next two months. A few groups have already traveled and returned, bringing with them amazing stories of ministering to people so hungry to know the love of the One who gave His life so they would be truly free. We are hearing testimonies of healing and revival; of students praying over leaders of nations, and the presence of God bringing mighty transformation as His Kingdom advances.

These are exciting times as we are involved in what has been prophesied as the one billion soul harvest. It has already begun!

Rick and I are getting ready to go on three different trips. We will be traveling to Tecate, Mexico with a team under the leadership of Eric Johnson, ministering to a school, an orphanage, and a community. I will be going with a team to Orlando, Florida with Bill Johnson, ministering at a Global Awakening healing conference. And Rick will be heading to Castle Rock, Colorado, ministering with a team led by Bill Johnson at another Global Awakening healing conference with Randy Clark. We are anticipating being able to minister to hundreds of people in our own nation and in Mexico, and we can't wait. We are bursting to share what God has been pouring into us this past two years. And we are going to learn so much.

We thank you for all of your prayers, and we pray that you, too, will receive from all that we are learning as your spirit is open to be blessed by the God who loves you!!!!

If you would like to sow into these trips and our ministry, we still need to raise about $1,000. We would be ever so grateful for your prayers and financial support. You can make a tax deductible donation to:

Kremmling Community Church
P. O. Box 1330
Kremmling, Colorado 80459

Please make your check out to Kremmling Community Church, and attach a note to your check, stating it is for Rick and Chris Tracy.

Thank you for supporting us and our mission to carry the love of Jesus to the nations!

We love you all so much!

The Equipping

Jan. 30, 2010 - .

God has us on an amazing journey. The other day, while sitting by the pool on a beautiful 70 degree day, I was reading through my journal entries from this past fall. My prayers, my struggles, and my hopes are all woven into those pages. If I hadn't looked back, I would not have seen how far God has taken me in just the past three months. Prayers answered. Struggles vanished. Dreams beginning to be possible...

Our thanks to all who have prayed us through this year. We are doing well as we have a little over three months left. The homework load is huge - and of such quality that even our studying is transforming us and strengthening the daytime hours of lectures.

Rick and I have both been accepted to ministry trips over the next two months. I will be traveling and ministering with Bethel senior pastor Bill Johnson at a Randy Clark healing conference in Orlando, Florida. And we both will be traveling with Eric Johnson, Bill's son, to Tecate, Mexico, for a conference at a school and orphanage center. We are very excited. Rick also has more opportunity to minister on weekend trips with the Global Legacy teams.

These trips literally give us hands-on experience in ministering the love of God and the culture of the Kingdom to people so hungry to enter into the abundant life of victory and freedom. (I'll let Rick tell you more about his recent trip to Oregon in his blog entry - coming soon!)

Here is just a taste of what we are learning...
- God is good and in a good mood.
- The power of generational blessing far outweighs any power of generational curse. Let's focus on what God has done and is doing and will do - on the promises he so lovingly speaks over us. Our part is offering up praise and thanks with a joyful heart.
- This generation's ceiling must become the next generation's floor and we must equip them to do the same - so the present revival and move of God can continue for generations to come.
- No matter what our age, we have purpose and there is all hope to accomplish what God created us for. We can know it. We can live it. We are allowed to dream and expect God to partner with us as we pray for His hand upon our destiny.
- We owe the world an encounter with God - the lover; the healer; the compassionate one; the provider; the protector; the One who sees us.
- God loves community and relationship. His very being is relationship: Father, Son; Holy Spirit. We also should live in close relationship with family and friends. We are the manifestation of Jesus to each other, and to the world.
- Church is not a Sunday morning service. It is much more. We are the Bride of Christ - His Church - and we bring the atmosphere of God into every place we go: home, business, and marketplace. Our lives are "a letter from Christ...written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts." 2 Cor. 3:2-3.
That's it for now. We have so much more to tell you and can't wait to see you again!

Matters for Prayer
- Please pray for our health.
- Provision for Chris' ministry trip to Tecate.
- For focus and clarity as we seek jobs and a home after graduation.
- Protection and blessing for our family.
(Thank you, God, that our trust is in You!)