 My parents were Jesus Movement hippies when I was born in Paia, Maui. My father lived in a commune, and my mother would invite hitchhikers to come home and live with her. I always felt a call of God on my life and remember writing worship songs from the age of 5. When I was six, the famous hippie evangelist Lonnie Frisbee (who helped to start both the Calvary Chapel and Vineyard movements) was speaking at our church, which doubled as a Christian commune. That was when I responded to give my life to the Lord.
Later, at the age of 15, Lonnie was at a home group meeting I attended. I remember him calling me out specifically with a word of knowledge and I was baptized with the Holy Spirit. I fell to the floor shaking. I was the only one in the room that this happened to, and I didn’t know what hit me. I had never been around this type of thing in my teenage years. I was not expecting it, and I remember crying a lot. When the power of God hits you, you don’t care about anything else in that moment.
As a teenager, I remember leading worship for a short while at my youth group. As a teen ager, I served as youth director for Christian Surfers International. I was even arrested once for protesting at an abortion clinic with some friends, and I remember preaching to my high school speech classes. But a lot of this was just religious activity. Ironically, I fell away from the Lord when I was 17 and I soon ended up pregnant with our first daughter, who John would later adopt. I really lacked a sense of respect and value for myself. I believe the Lord allowed this to happen to keep me from falling further away from Him. At that time I moved to Alaska, and I soon reached a very low point in my life where I became extremely depressed. It was then that I recommitted my life to the Lord.
Soon after this period of time, I met John, and the Lord was restoring my sense of value and worth. He also restored a very sweet, childlike relationship that I always remembered having with Him. Since then, my main focus has been on raising a family, which I consider to be my main ministry. Our children are already prophesying and seeing angels at the ages of 7 and 3, and even our 1-year-old daughter will lay hands and pray for you, although she can’t speak English yet. The Lord has given me creative ministry avenues outside the family as well. I had a women’s massage business where I would often lay hands on my clients and prophesy over them – most of them unbelievers – as I was giving them a massage. Some of them were brought to tears as the presence of the Lord surrounded them. The Lord has also given me a heart and the equipping to work alongside John in prophetic evangelism and healing ministry.
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