John and Lisa's Dayly News

The following is a detailed account of our whole year from when we left CA in March 2008 to when we arrived back in CA in March 2009.  

Back in September of 2007 Lisa found a guy on You Tube named Doug Perry. He runs a ministry called Fellowship of the Martyrs based out of Liberty Missouri. His You Tube name is fotm1. She watched some of his videos and he was really intriguing. They were feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and doing a lot of the things that we had wanted to do ourselves. But one of the videos was more impacting to us than all the rest. It had to do with the end times, the anti christ, the rapture, and the signing of the peace treaty. Through this video we discovered that we were inside the last 7 years of this earth as we knew it. We suddenly realized that we were within the tribulation. Through watching more videos we learned that Doug believed that Liberty, (a superb of Kansas City,) was suppose to be a safe haven for God's people to come and be protected during the tribulation. This was one of the key factors in our decision to move there. But along with the protection we also felt lead to be a part of the ministry there. Lisa and I had already been talking about how we could help the homeless here in our own community but we could never come up with anything solid that would work. What we saw them doing in MO was exactly the kind of thing that we were looking for.

Several days later Lisa did an instant message with Doug, and he called her and prayed with her. Through that prayer time she had some deliverance done. She had a chronic back pain that had been with her for a long time. Doug said there was a demon on her back that was causing the pain. She had also suffered from the effects from years of verbal abuse at the hands of her ex husband. She felt a lot better after she prayed with him. She was free and feeling closer to the Lord. It was wonderful. Well, a few days later as we were watching more videos, she said to me, "I wanna go there." (Liberty Missouri.) At first I thought she was just joking around. Having been born in Yreka with no desire to ever leave, hating big cities, I wasn't so sure about this idea. But as time went on and we continued to watch more videos it seemed to be something the Lord Himself was putting into both of us. We both felt as though we needed to be there and be a part of the ministry that they were doing. The Lord began to remove Yreka from our hearts. Especially mine. I was born here and had been here for 45 years. So on January 1st we began to prepare to move to Liberty MO. We gave away, threw away, and just tore down our entire lives in order to move from Northern CA to MO. We knew this was the Lords doing. At the time we thought it would be for good. We would later learn otherwise.

On March 3rd 2008 we set of for Liberty Missouri. We had mailed 12 boxes of our things ahead and we had been told that there would be a house waiting for us when we got there. We had thrown away or given away nearly every thing. Including furniture, cars, etc. We were throwing our lives into the wind and trusting God to meet our needs. We were going to be missionaries. We were trusting God totally with everything. It was a prime example of giving up everything for the gospel of Christ. It was Lisa, her son , her sister Pam and myself, off to do the will of the Lord. As I drove down the road and entered the freeway I couldn't help but think, I am seeing all of these sights for the very last time. I'll never see the mountains again. Everything that is familiar to me was about to become a thing of the past. I laid eyes on Mount Shasta for the final time, over 14,000 feet in elevation, and then it was gone. We spent 4 days getting to Liberty. We took the southern route across Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and then into Missouri. It was a long 4 days.

We arrived in Liberty MO on March 6th. We set up house, and began to take part in the ministry, trusting God for every little thing. From food, to clothes, to furniture, to money, to everything. It worked out really well for about 2 months. But in the month of May there was a split in the ministry. The two leaders of the whole thing had some major differences and separated. We had a town house of our own so we stayed in a lot and just prayed and tried to stay low. But along about 6 months into it all, we began to notice changes. Doug Perry was beginning to teach some really strange stuff. Unbiblical stuff. (Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6PuT79kpM Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulne_Uebqz0) We began to feel really uncomfortable there. Nothing was as it was promised it would be. Oh a few small things were, but the main things like feeding the hungry, or clothing the naked, it just wasn't happening the way we thought it would. Feeding and clothing consisted mainly of a ping pong table full of clothes in our garage and boxes of canned food which for the most part ended up being used by Doug or us. In the last month that we were there it seemed to pick up a little but not much. All in all the ministry was nothing like what it had been made out to be.

Finally in September of 08 Lisa and I saw enough false teachings to where we decided it was time to move. We felt the Lord speak to us about the west coast. We weren't certain yet as to where. We just knew we had to head west. Well we began to tell a few people a little at a time. Finally it came time for us to tell Doug. When we told him he instantly told us we were NOT hearing God, and we were going to be out of His will, in fact he even told us that if we were to ever leave it would go "very badly" for us. He was manipulating us into staying. Well, later on there was a big blow up at our house about this whole issue. Doug thought we were going west to follow another member of the ministry who was also leaving. He told us that we were following man and not God.

When the split happened back in May, Doug had moved out of the main house where the ministry was at, and took up residence in another house just a few feet away. Well this alone created a riff in the whole ministry. It was growing more and more apparent that Doug was hearing a voice that was not God's. His house was not a peaceful place. There were movies being watched there that were not of God, and there was an aversion to worship there as well. Our house, (right next door,) was quiet and peaceful. But there was a growing darkness over Doug's house. All the while he kept claiming to be hearing the Lord speak clearly to him, and everyone else was wrong. Doug has a degree in psychology and he knows how to use it against you. He will attach it to scripture so that in the end you are always wrong and he is always right. He's such a smooth talker that no one can verbally debate with him because he's so quick. He knows the word really well but he twists it so as to fit what ever he wants. He kept telling everyone to come to him and tell him what it was that was so wrong about his teachings but no one could because he just wouldn't listen. He had an answer and a scripture for everything and was able to justify anything he said.

Finally in the last week of October Lisa and I made our decision and began to pack our things to leave. The split had grown into little pieces. We were dis-fellowshipping ourselves with Doug. We had been hearing him teach things that were false. He was very angry that we were moving away.

One of the weird things that happened in that last week in Liberty was when I received a phone call from someone who had known Doug for a few years. he began to ask me what had been going on there with Doug and everything. I couldn't understand why he was calling me. He NEVER called me. So I began to open up and tell him all of what had been happening. How Dougs house was dark and dreary, and even how when someone else had tried to pray for him his hands were ice cold, like DEATH cold. Well, after about 10 minutes of telling him everything that had been going on, I hung up the phone. About 5 minutes after that Doug came in and said, "Well, I guess we all ought to have a meeting since everyone wants to talk about me behind my back." I was SHOCKED. The guy wasn't calling out of concern. He was an INFORMANT. He had called me to get information and then he called Doug right back, and told him everything I had said. Either that or else I was on a three way call and didn't know it. It was at that point when Doug was at our house when we told him that we had been noticing a lot of false teachings. But like I just said, we couldn't confront him on any of them without him explaining them all away through his "smooth as honey" talk. He had a scripture for everything. He knew just how to twist it around to make it sound just right so it would apply to what ever situation he needed it to apply to. While he was there another guy, (Andrew, about 20 years old,) came bursting through our door screaming at the top of his lungs about how the body should be one and to stop fighting RIGHT NOW. He was screaming so loud and was so angry Lisa and I both tried to get him to leave. He was causing a HORRIBLE disturbance. It was a really ugly scene. This incident proved to us all the more that it was time for us to leave. We couldn't stay any longer. This was getting to be too much. The whole thing was turning into a cult with all the false teachings and the twisting of scripture. So we decided it was time to get out. But HOW?

So Lisa and I made a video explaining our situation for all of the You Tube Christian community to see. We went on there and renounced the entire ministry, and then we asked the Christian community on You Tube for help to move. We had been in full time ministry for the last 8 months straight and we had no money with which to move. You can also see this video on You Tube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgHz9FaqINk)

So we asked for help with money to move, and suddenly it was like the whole Christian community came running to our aid. In a weeks time we received over 700 dollars. Oh, by the way, one other thing. Our rent had not been paid for the month of October either. All the money came from Doug's paypal account. He was the one with all the videos on You Tube and he was the one who had all the connections and had lots and lots of people supporting his ministry. If the rent was going to be paid it had to come from him. There was a court date set for the 10th of November for an eviction for both of our houses. We had already been to court once. Back when we first came to Liberty Doug gave my wife the job of answering some of his emails and such. So she had access to information about his Paypal account and how much money was going in and out of it. She checked it one day in late October and found that Doug had a $1,600 dollar payment to his paypal. That was almost enough to pay rent on both houses. But instead of coming over and giving it to us he withheld it. So we were up against a wall. We needed to get out of there, but we just didn't have the money. So we did the video, the money was coming in, but not enough. We would have needed about $1,500 to move clear back to CA again. But we were up against a wall where we needed to be out by the first of November in order to keep from having to pay another months rent, (which we didn't have anyway.) The money wasn't coming in fast enough. We had the 700 dollars, when I got an email from a guy in the Chicago area offering us his place to stay at. He, (Jonathan: http://www.youtube.com/user/specilum) was even offering to drive over 500 miles to come and get us. We had a car but it wasn't big enough to fit all of our boxes, and we didn't have enough money built up yet to rent the size vehicle we would have needed to fit all our boxes in. So I called Jonathan in Round Lake Beach Il, and we set it all up.

On November 1st, he drove 515 miles to get us. He arrived at 11:30 that night in the fog. No one saw him arrive. Only two people knew when we were leaving. We had had no communication with Doug what so ever. We didn't want him to know where we were going or when. Jonathan and I packed up all our boxes in his pick up truck, and went to bed.

Next morning we awoke and started out at about 6:30 a.m. (Again in the fog,) The Lord protected us totally. He didn't allow anyone to see us go. We didn't want anyone knowing where we were going. Had anyone seen his license plate they would have known where we were going because Jonathan had been to Liberty once before and had gotten to know Doug a little and if he would have seen his plates he would have put 2 and 2 together and known exactly where we were going. So the Lord kept the fog real thick that morning for us to escape. I felt like we were in some spy movie sneaking out of town. We drove out of there, and I was never so happy to leave a town in all my life. I recalled back to the first 3 months of the year when we were preparing to leave CA. I couldn't wait to get to Liberty. Now I couldn't wait to put it all behind me.

We spent the day driving to Round Lake Beach IL where we would spend the next 4 months. Jonathan, his wife Shelly, and their new born baby Noah, along with their hairless cat named Miss Kitty. Living with them was like spiritual detox. Jon hadn't been saved more than a year and a half but the Lord seemed to have spiritually microwaved him. His beliefs were right on target with scripture with no weird or twisted stuff thrown in like Doug had. They live in a beautiful 3 story house with 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. We lived on the third floor where the Lord began to reveal to us the calling He had for us. It was in Round Lake Beach where I had a complete change of heart about the timing of the rapture. I use to be pre-trib all the way. But the Lord got a hold of Lisa and I and showed us the placement of the rapture. Not the day or the hour, as no one knows that, but He showed us that it was definately AFTER the tribulation, and in fact, at the 7^th trumpet. The scripture for that comes from 1^st Cor. 15:51-52 which says,

51-Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52-In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

At the last trump. The last trumpets are mentioned in Revelation. There are 7 of them. These trumpets consist of things like water turning into blood and fire and brimstone falling from the sky and stars falling to earth and so on. Even beasts that roam the earth with stingers like those of a scorpion that sting people and leave them in a state of torment for 5 months making them want to die but they can't. These are the trumpets of Revelation and according to the scriptures we are not due to be raptured until the 7^th trumpet. Therefore, we are going to be here for the tribulation. This is the teaching that the Lord has called Lisa and I to teach. In fact, it was while we were in Illinois that the Lord showed us exactly where we were suppose to go. Right back to Yreka again and share this teaching with all the churches. We were laying on our bed one evening talking about everything we had learned and how the Lord was directing us. Somewhere within that conversation it came to us that Yreka was where we needed to be. There are so many dead churches that need to know this. So many of them are all pre trib rapture oriented, and they have no clue what they are in for. They are all waiting for Jesus to return at any second, thinking they will escape the anti christ and the mark of the beast and all the rest but the truth of the matter is, we will all be here for all of it.

Somewhere in late January we started communicating more with a man in the Dallas Texas area. He had been supporting us financially since before we left Liberty. One day we got an email from him asking us if we would be interested in coming to the Dallas area to be a part of a ministry there. He and others there had heard my music before and had been following us via our You Tube videos for quite some time. He told us that anyone who got involved with this ministry would be known world wide. And because of being known world wide, my music would be known world wide. There were people coming from everywhere to be a part of it. We emailed and talked on the phone a lot about all of this. He wouldn't give us any details until we committed ourselves to coming there. Lisa and I talked about it and, at the time, I realized that this just might be what I had been praying for for a long time. The chance to have my music exposed to the whole world instead of just a few here and there. I had dreamed and prayed for this for years. Having the music thrown into the world spotlight would create an income for us that would more than support us. I had always wanted to see that happen. Once we realized that this just might be the way God wanted to do it, we emailed our contact man in Dallas and told him it was a go. We were going to Dallas.

After that he began to open a few small doors and show us what was on the inside. It was a television ministry with the potential to rival TBN. I was gonna be on TV? WOW! Lisa and I sat and talked about what that would be like. We had been offered 2 months free rent, 2 meals a day and possible part time work along with 2 months of discipleship training. It all sounded wonderful. We were focused totally on going to Dallas Texas for at least 2 months. And after the two months, Lord willing, we'd be heading back to Ca.

Suddenly something began to change. Down deep inside both Lisa and I there was something wrong. Something uncertain. We couldn't quite put our finger on it yet. But the Lord was about to make it very clear to us. We went to sleep one Friday night and the Lord gave me a dream. Now I don't have too many God given dreams so when I get one I know it. Most of my dreams are weird, flaky, and down right strange. But this one was clearly a word from the Lord. I dreamed that Lisa and I were walking down a street together in Yreka, and this lady came up to us and asked us where Dallas Street was. I pointed in the direction of the street and I simply said, “It's that way.” She thanked me, and then Lisa and I turned around and walked the opposite direction. When I woke up from the dream it didn't stay with me for very long. I didn't think about it again for quite a while. Later that morning when Lisa and I got on the computer we were checking my mail and we found an email from our contact man in Dallas. Within that email was a question. “Where's your heart?” He wanted to know if our hearts were set on coming to Dallas, or going back to California. Suddenly the memory of the dream popped back into my head. Lisa and I had walked AWAY from Dallas Street. I didn't say anything to Lisa about the dream yet, but after reading this email she and I stopped everything and realized that Dallas was not for us. Our hearts were truly in California, and more specifically, Yreka. It took about one minute for us to make the decision. Suddenly our entire plan changed direction. The Dallas idea came to a screeching halt and Yreka was back in the picture. Even when we were back in Liberty we knew that the Lord had called us to go back to the west coast. We were suppose to take what He had shown us about the end times and take it back to the churches there. The whole Dallas thing with my music going world wide had been a distraction. It was a ploy of the enemy to stop us from doing what the Lord had called us to do in the first place. The idea of my music going world wide totally side tracked me from our end times focus. It was the perfect set up from the enemy. He used the very thing that I do the best,(music) and he caused me to look at what I could “get” from it. It totally threw me off course for about 3 weeks. But when we read this email that morning it caused me to stop on a dime and realize what was happening to us. Our hearts were truly NOT in Dallas, but rather in Yreka. So the decision was made right there on the spot. I looked at Lisa and said very softly, “It's time for us to go home." Both of us started to cry and we hugged, and from that point on our focus was on California, and what the Lord had called us to do, and we never looked back. 

Around February Jon and Shelly's house went up for sale so it made Lisa and I pray all the more for an opening to leave. When we had gotten there the Lord showed us that March would be the month in which we would leave. As March got closer and closer we began to appeal to the You Tube community once again for help. We had used the $700.00 we had received on gas and food since we had been there. Now we needed more to go home. And once again the Christian community stepped up to the plate and hit the ball. Money began pouring in and we had enough to have some work done on the car plus enough to move with. We spent two weeks just packing everything away and preparing the car for the trip. I had to get a safety inspection, an oil change, and a different left rear tire for the car because the one that was on there was separating inside. It never would have made it. I was told that the right rear needed to be changed too but we just didn't have the money to get another one. We were gonna have to trust the Lord to get us home with the one we had. We spent all of Saturday February 28^th packing the car. By the time we were finished that thing was so tightly packed that if we rolled down one of the rear windows stuff would fall out. The trunk had more in it that I ever imagined would fit. We had computers, monitors, blankets, bags of clothes, more electronic equipment, and by the time we were done I had no vision out the back window what so ever. Side mirrors only. Thats all I had. Lisa spent the evening before we left making over 30 peanut butter sandwiches for the trip. This is what we would eat on the way. We had just over $600.00 for the trip now. We were pretty sure we would have to sleep in motels so we were planning on taking the same southern route that we took to Missouri nearly a year before. This way it would be a bit warmer. But as we looked at the up coming temperatures for the week they didn't look too warm. 30S and 40s for most of it. We determined we would have enough money for at least one motel. The rest of the time would probably have to be spent sleeping in the car.

The night before the trip we prayed, and made sure all was ready. We spent some time with Jon and Shelly saying our final good byes as they would not be awake in the morning as we left. It had been an interesting 4 months. Some things went according to plan while other things didn't. We had watched videos, shared dinners together, shoveled snow together, and Jon and I dealt with a man who had demons. But now it was time to go. It had been nearly a year now since we had seen Yreka, and we couldn't wait to get back again to begin to tell everyone what we had learned and start doing what God called us to do. It had been a long year, and we were more than ready to go home.

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