Spring 2019 · Trumpet Report
Music Opens a Door for the Gospel in Federal Way
Federal Way, Washington
- Pastor
- Hoyt Hutchinson
- Correspondent
- Dean Young
Hello from Federal Way! Jesus is alive and is still moving in His church!
We are so excited about what God is doing. For years, we’ve tried to shake the “fruitless” and “barren” monikers that have been used to describe the ministry in the northwest. We are here to emphatically DENY and rebuke those reports!
God is moving and we are on the brink of a fantastic revival. Don’t give up your investment into this area just yet, we’re stepping into God’s destiny, and we still need pioneers to brave the harvest fields here in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska.
We have seen, just in the last few months, a number of new families added to the church and an influx of families that haven’t come in a while, coming back.
We have a constant stream of visitors and on Sundays, we’re almost at capacity. Pray for us as we plan on moving into a bigger building this year!
In November, three of us men were able to join our pastor for trip of a lifetime to China. It literally changed our lives. Our pastor preached a revival in one of the churches and number of other services in other churches in Shanghai and Shunde, Foshan over the 10 days we were there.
We were able to bless the church in Foshan with a number of outreaches, including a concert and a magic show that drew over 100 visitors and left the building with standing room only. The gospel was preached and people responded to the altar call. You could sense that ministry was being stirred in the hearts of the disciples in that church.
We’re excited to hear about all that God is going to do in China in these coming years.
We have been busy in Federal Way this year. Hardly a Saturday isn’t occupied by either a concert, a magic show, door-to-door witnessing, or an impact team going out of town. We’ve been taking risks and swinging for the fences in hopes that we can see that key convert or family saved and locked into the church.
Our pastor challenged us at the beginning of the year that this year our church is going to bless our area churches. We are absolutely availing ourselves of that opportunity! We are outreaching for our baby church in Tacoma as well as for the other pioneer pastors and established churches in Washington and they are seeing people get saved and locked into their churches.
Pray for the city of Tacoma and for Pastor Maidesil and his family, that God would do His work and establish a core of spirit-filled believers in that area! Please, send us your prayers and your pioneer pastors and let’s take the Northwest for Jesus!
