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Stand4Life & S.O.S Cry By: Leah Ramirez Director, Resound Missions
We did it! After 7 months of eating, speaking and dreaming Stand4LIFE, I can’t believe it’s finally over. We gathered and prayed at S.O.S. Cry... and then we scattered and prayed at Stand4LIFE. Over 1,800 people prayed in front of Florida’s abortion centers. The amazing thing is that most of the 1,800 have never taken a stand for life before!!! Although all of the reports have still not come in from, we know that there were at least 8 babies saved on May 1. We have cried out for revival, and I believe this may be the first sign of an awakening in our region. To be sure it fit the description of what we have longed for: A nameless and faceless army taking responsibility for their region before God! This is the beginning!
On April 24, when I pulled up to the University of Central Florida field, I was overwhelmed as over 37 pro-life tents and tables were being put up along both sides of Memory Mall. S.O.S. Cry was historic in that never have so many denominations, pastors, leaders and pro-life activists gathered together for prayer in unity. Heaven recorded a victory for Florida.
Leah Ramirez and David Uth at Tampa Ave for Stand4lIfe
God released a strategy. We did the Word. And we know this, He will be faithful to release the blessing: Life forevermore. I believe our region has been changed because of these two
God gave us a scripture for S.O.S. Cry//Stand4LIFE. These few verses have been and will continue to be our strategy for revival and overturning abortion. Psalm 133 says, “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.”
Praying over Reverend Thomas Wenski
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Resound is a movement. Our mission is to raise up a generation who knows their God and does great exploits. Our mandate is to not only stand, but declare and perform justice. Our faith is this: Revival in every sphere of our culture. This is our hope: Jesus is coming soon.
House Of Prayer We believe that God is raising up a prayer culture that goes way beyond putting sets on a schedule. In the book of Acts, the disciples were directed by visions, prayer and direct encounter. The Holy Spirit was the leader of the church. The Apostles gave themselves to prayer and reading the Word. We have asked God for an outpouring like what is recorded in Acts, and He has asked us to position ourselves like the apostles. If He could find a people who would wait, then He would send a baptism that would turn the world upside down. We’ve decided to wait!
Church Resound Church exists as an expression of pastoral ministry for those involved in any of the ministries of Resound Missions Base, including the ministry staff and any other believers embracing the vision, values and mandate of Resound Missions Base. Our church vision is to call people into the love of God, resulting in passion for Jesus and compassion for people. To serve Orlando by building families that function together as an Apostolic Missions Community committed to prayer, fasting and the Great Commission.
School Of Ministry Resound School of Ministry is a full and part-time Ministry School which exists to raise up messengers who resound the atmosphere of Heaven and demonstrate its power. We are a hands-on training center and believe in not just searching out the scriptures but applying them to our daily lives. We have been ruined with accounts in the Word of ordinary men and women who believed God and saw their generation saved. Our desire is to see an entire body of believers addicted to the Word and bent on obeying...no matter what the cost.
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Page 3 Though we may forget, He will never forget. Let us remember the pledge of allegiance. Let us come back to it’s simple truth. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Praying in front of Planned Parenthood Tampa Ave on May 1st
Revival isn’t asking God for more goosebumps. although I am sure that goosebumps will be present. Revival is a turning back to the ancient paths. It is a recognition of the covenant our forefathers made with God on behalf of the land. God takes covenant seriously.
Let us come back to our foundation. Let us be the people who call a nation back to stand for justice for all. Let’s make this true in our generation!
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Ride4Life:
The Watchmen On The Street By: Nicole Hawkins
Transparent. Friendly. Faithful. These words best describe Chris and Taylor Oltman. This year, Chris formed Ride4Life, a pro-life motorcycle club that visited three clinics and stopped to join the others standing and praying silently on May 1st. Chris Oltman discusses his entrance into the pro-life movement and how this led him to start Ride4Life. Two years ago, Chris got involved with Resound, helping out with sound during Friday night services. He felt like he was serving those who actually believed what they said. “I think that’s what drew me in, because I see the truth in their lifestyle,” Oltman states. And once his in-laws’ family, the Thorsells, were involved full-time with the Mission Base, he and his wife followed their lead. Chris and Taylor have known about Resound since its inception, and have known the students as well. When personal struggles overwhelmed them, Chris realized
he could turn to their leadership. They walked him through deliverance and established accountability. As Taylor attends the Part Time School program, he and his wife are now upholding the same standards as fulltimers. “It definitely inspires me to watch her prepare her sermon, do her reading, plus all the school requires, and spend time with me.”
Chris and Taylor Oltman
Through personal time with the Lord, Chris discovered God’s heart on abortion, something he didn’t hear growing up in the church. “For me, coming back to church was entering into Resound. And with their whole emphasis on the standards of the Lord, it brought me to the abortion issue. It’s a black or white subject, especially in
THE WATCHMEN
Proverbs 6, where the Lord hates the shedding of innocent blood. You really don’t think about abortion with that filter a lot of the time, so it’s pretty intense when thinking about God’s standards.” So how did this lead to Ride4Life? “A church member, Debra Wynn, said to me one Sunday, ‘Coming here I thought, God we need bikers!’ And as I pulled in, there you were with your bike!’ I inquired of the Lord and thought, ‘We have a Stand4Life, we did a Walk4Life, why not do a Ride4Life and include the biker community?’ ” As Ride4Life has taken off, it has given the Oltmans access to penetrate a community long ignored by the Western church. “We have to
Amplified go after these people; Jesus hung out with the prostitutes and the tax collectors, and those who didn’t fit in. So I know it’s doable.” In becoming a biker couple, they had to confront the stereotypes, but challenge others. “I explained that abortion brings judgment to our country with innocent bloodshed on our hands. It’s a call to Christian and pro-life bikers to draw them into the unity God has called them too. It’s an ongoing thing to patrol the city, so I call to the bikers to ‘Come and take your place!’ Wear those tattoos up to your neck, but show that there’s no standard on how it looks to stand for life.”
On May 1, they met at 9 at the base, prayed together, then set out for Planned Parenthood on Tampa, then Lucerne, and finally Epoch, stopping at each location to pray. “I thought about people who will stand at Planned Parenthood and their mind will wander saying, ‘Am I doing God’s will or am I crazy?’
Page 5 Then you hear the cavalry arrive due to the rumble of the engines. And that’s the focus I want to put out there, that the “standers” aren’t alone.“ And that is exactly what they did! Chris made it clear, if 150 people came or none at all, he would still ride on May 1st and that’s exactly what he did. “God did it with Gideon; he had a whole army but it got dwindled down and they still took the city. This time we get to do it for the unborn.” They did it with nine bikes and 16 people…..and what an impact it made!
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THE WALL By: Kendall Thorsell Youth Pastor, Resound Missions Base surrounding them daily. Students get ready…revival is coming!
I am surrounded by some of the greatest youth that I have ever known in The Wall. Between our Sunday night service and going out to the public schools, I have seen leaders rising up to show their generation what a true Christian looks like. I’ve never seen anything like it before! We have witnesses in Lyman High, Lake Brantley, Apopka, Freedom, and Pine Castle Christian Academy that are not ashamed to be whole hearted. I have been personally blown away watching them share their faith with their friends and classmates
In The Wall youth group this month, we have been going through a series titled “LivePure”, where we are breaking down what it really means to walk out a life of purity. Purity of Words, Purity of Your Mind, and Physical Purity are just a few we have gone through. God has been so faithful through this series to reveal to us the standard of Jesus, and how we are supposed to be wholehearted in every area of our lives, just as He was. This series has two weeks left, and then will be available for purchase at the Resound merchandise table and online. I want to encourage you to take some time to listen to this series and share it. Jesus has a standard and is requiring us to live into it.
“Live Pure, were going to break down what it really means to walk out purity.”
We are also so excited for the SUMMER SESSIONS coming up. Our expectations are high for what God is going to do in the hearts of the youth that are participating. If you ARE a youth, KNOW a youth, or WISH that you were a youth… you should find a way to participate in this incredible summer coming up. SPREAD THE WORD! This is a chance to hold your best up next to God, and let Him show you how much greater He is. The testimonies of the past summers have been great… but maybe this year it will be you? Are you ready to change your life?
Will you join with me to pray for this generation and for our youth group? I believe that God is doing so much, and has so much He is still wanting to do in the hearts of our youth and in the school system. If we partner together in prayer, we will begin to prepare the way for Sundays 5 P.M. the work of God in Resound Missions Base the youth. Thank you 7303 Monetary Dr for your prayers and servanthood… I hear Orlando, Fl 32809 the sound of a generation crying THEWALLYOUTH@Yahoo.com “We’re about to rise www.resound247.com up!”
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A Journey Through The Health Care Bill By: C. Clemens
There are several “milestone” days in US history. March 23rd, the day President Barack Obama signed the Health Care Bill and its companion reconciliation package into law, will be such a day. I must confess, I did not know how I felt about the bill, or what to do about it. I discovered there are several opinions as to the benefit to Americans or the detriment to society as we know it. I did not want to be one who built my opinion around my political party without ever having read the bill itself. So I faced the daunting task of reading the 1,017-page bill! To be honest with you, I was completely exhausted by page 200; the use of "legalese" was overwhelming. I was not so much interested in reading how they would reform the pathways connecting insurances companies, patients and doctors, as much as I was interested in finding out what it specifically said
about abortions. Using the search feature on my web browser, I searched "abortion"… nothing came up. I searched for "pregnancy" and that too was a dead-end. I started to wonder if it was even in there. Being technologically savvy as I am, I googled "actual abortion verbiage in HR 3200" and, after scrolling through two or three websites, one pointed me to Section 1714 of the Bill (pg.769). Section 1714 is named "State Eligibility Option for Family Planning Services." As soon as I read that I thought, "Aha! There it is!" So often abortion is disguised under "family planning" or other equally innocuous sounding
The Health Care Bill * photo provided by Google images
phrases. I was forced to wade through another 40+ lines until I came to pages 771-772. Mixed in with definitions, and references to previous sections and laws, I found things like, "In the case of an individual described in section 1902(hh), such medical assistance shall be limited to family planning services and supplies described in 1905(a)(4)(C) and, at the State’s option, medical diagnosis and treatment services that are provided in conjunction with a family planning service in a family planning." Now, that might not seem like a federally funded death warrant on the unborn to someone just scanning the bill, but the fact, is a lot of times "family planning" can be simply translated into "abortion". I determined to follow up on things I had read in the bill and had heard on CSPAN. Among the things I searched out were other laws and the Presidential Executive Order. Following the rabbit trails of laws to which the bill referred, I found that the family planning services may be accepted by anyone who is sexually active, including minors. The Presidential Executive Order says "...it is
Amplified necessary to they can be establish an rendered adequate invalid by a enforcement subsequent mechanism Executive to ensure Order; and I that Federal found it funds are not interesting to used for discover the abortion President is services seemingly except in opposed to the cases of rape Hyde or incest, or Amendment. when the life So, in a nut President Obama signs Health of the woman would shell, the law (which Care Bill. be endangered will take effect in *(Photo provided by: Google images) consistent with a 2013) still allows for longstanding Federal statutory federally funded abortions; and I restriction that is commonly known guess time will tell if it can be as the Hyde Amendment...” expanded to include all circumstances of conception. Now, maybe I’m out of the loop After looking into this bill, I because I’m young. Isn’t a human formed my opinion: The blood of being still conceived even in these innocence is now and will be on types of circumstances? I found my our hands as we pay taxes. answer in testimony. Mathew Although it seems tragic, and as if Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel there is very little we can do about and the Dean of the Law School at it, the truth is as Christians we have Liberty University in Virginia, the most powerful tools to use in shared personal testimony of the effecting our Nation. Fasting and Lord’s redemptive power in Prayer are just as impactful as they standing on the side of life in these were in the Old and New circumstances. I heard the Testaments. We must be diligent in testimony of adults who were partnering with the Lord, our real conceived by rape or incest, and they looked and sounded pretty human to me.
Page 9 Hope. Most of us have heard 2nd Chronicles 7:13-14 used in similar contexts… " If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name (that’s us!) humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land." The promise of our sins (which could even be our National sins) being forgiven and our land healed, is pre-ambled by us humbling ourselves, praying earnestly, petitioning the Lord to act, and repenting and whole heartedly turning away from our "wicked ways". I stand with William Wilberforce when I think of the days ahead of us: “I must confess equally boldly that my own solid hopes for the well-being of my country depend, not so much on her navies and armies, nor on the wisdom of her rulers, nor on the spirit of her people, as on the persuasion that she still contains many who love and obey the Gospel of Christ. I believe their prayers may yet prevail.”
I thought, surely the Executive Order was significant, but Press Secretary Gibbs was at a loss to state exactly what the Executive Order accomplished, other than “We reiterated (the Hyde Amendment)”. Another short search told me Executive Orders do not override or amend laws, and *photo provided by Google images
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Holy Takeover By: Zerimar Ramirez
I believe that revival is upon us. This generation is hungry for something eternal and is no longer willing to settle for the goose bumps that satisfied our forefathers. We are on the apex of a paradigm shift in the hearts of the youth of America. The fire is being fanned into flame by high school students who are praying and fasting to see an awakening like that in the book of Acts. The Joshuas of our day are taking their place, in the pulpits of the greatest cathedrals of the day‌ our public high school campuses. They refuse to be indoctrinated into humanism and post modernism and are rebelling against the standards of the world, to reach the tangible power offered by whole heartedly following the man Jesus. A “holy takeoverâ€? is in progress!
Abby Pritchard and Daniel Mironichenko are two of the most radical high school students around. Both have said that settling for the status quo is not acceptable. This is an all out spiritual war. Lyman High School was the prototype of the Repent Wall. Shortly after Daniel began his repent wall, Abby started hers at Apopka. I personally had the pleasure of standing at the first repent wall at Apopka High. Let me tell you this was serious weight. The Lord himself was present at this line. I felt the presence of God so tangibly. More than words can express, I believe that Apopka and Lyman High are going to experience revival. As staff members of the Wall Youth Group, Kendall Thorsell and I have the amazing opportunity of being on 3 public high school campuses. We are currently active on Lyman, Lake Brantley and Apopka High. God has released unprecedented favor on us to get on these campuses. We are currently doing
worship and prayer during lunches on Lake Brantley and Lyman High. We have also been able to get onto Apopka high to have wonderful conversations and make great student connections on that campus. I believe that the Lord has allowed us to have such favor on the campuses to help our student leaders advance the kingdom of heaven there. God is truly releasing himself in new ways. We are seeing boldness released upon our student leaders. We also believe with them to see revival happen. God is releasing his heart through a generation that is unashamed and relentless. I believe that we are privileged to be a part of the remnant that God is raising up in these last days that will be completely unyielding until we see the gates fling wide on every campus.
Nicole Perez, Abby Pritchard, Jessica Jivanjee, and Jori Sulyma Standing for LIFE at Planned Parenthood on Tampa Ave.
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Page 11 The Byway workshop is a hands on , fully interactive training week that consists of inner city ministry, class, prayer, and discipleship. When: July 12-July 16; 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Where: Resound Missions Base and The Inner City How Much: $100 Contact Info: www.resound247.com Email: Resoundorlando@mac.com Address: 7303 Monetary Dr. Orlando Fl, 32809
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Staff Snap-Shot What is your favorite place to spend time with Jesus? "I like to change my experience by changing locations."
What is your favorite Bible verse? Isaiah 43:2 "When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you."
What is your favorite food?
DANNY SANTIAGO
"Chipotle Burritos, I take donations!"
What is your favorite smell? "Grama's cooking!"
If you were digging a hole, and found a treasure; what would you hope it to be? "Twenty new sponsors sitting in a treasure chest, all holding the things I need. For instance, toothpaste, clothes, a macbook pro, and... a guitar."
What is the most important thing you have learned in the past three years? "I am still learning, but I'd say trusting Jesus. Learning to trust Him in the press; this is why Isaiah 43:2 is my favorite verse."
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DANNY "He is a man of faithfulness, support, and genuine love." "Danny is pretty much a rockstar."
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The Elementary Doctrines Of The Faith By: Leah Ramirez The writer of Hebrews described some of the foundational teaching s of the church including the repentance from dead works, faith in God, instructions on washings, the laying on of hands, resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgement. There are 6 teachings included in this series as well as a copy of all the notes in pdf format. Cost: $25.00
Fire In The Field By: Leah Ramirez Doing what you are called to do where you are called to do it. Missed the conference? No worries, we recorded it. There are 3 recorded sessions, and 5 discipleship session notes included. All the notes are in pdf format. Cost: $20.00
The Greatest HA HA Commandment By: Resound Staff By: Leah Ramirez Jesus called this the Greatest Commandment, A look at the powers not the great option. We that have invaded take and in-depth look at America and the what it means to love the response the church Lord with all our heart, mind, soul and strength as must make in this hour. Class includes 7 CD well as loving our neighbor. There are 8 teachings audio courses and their included in this set as well notes. All the notes are as a copy in pdf format. of all the notes in pdf format.
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Resound Summer Sessions By: Leah Ramirez and Staff
Prayer Echoes By: Marcia Thorsell
The Evidence Of The Spirit By: Marcia Thorsell and Staff
This is our complete Summer program. The program includes 30 audio classes and corresponding notes. We have also included the notes from 48 discipleship sessions, which cover all of the basics of being a disciple of Jesus. For those considering starting a Summer Session at their own church or missions base, we have included policies, procedures and our Summer schedule.
“There was no plan or rehearsed music when this was recorded,” said Marcia. “We simply prayed, anointed my hands, pressed record, and I played for awhile. Whether you are praying, reading, searching or just listening, I pray you find Him.” Improvisational piano worship.
As disciples of Christ, there are qualities that develop from walking in the Spirit. These are not our qualities, but the very qualities of God birthed in human vessels. Class includes 7 CD audio courses and their notes. All the notes are in pdf format.
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Holy Revolution: Sermon on the Mount By: Leah Ramirez A detailed look at the longest recorded sermon of Jesus...The foundation of our faith and how to live into it. Class includes 13 CD audio courses and their notes. All the notes are in pdf format. Cost: $35.00
Matthew 24: End-Times By: Leah Ramirez
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Letting scripture interpret scripture, we use Jesus’ discourse on end-times recorded in Matthew 24, to study the themes related to the final generation. If we can trust Jesus for salvation from sin, surely we can trust that He is wise to prepare us. Class includes 6 CD audio courses and their notes. All the notes are in pdf format. Cost: $25.00
Gripped by God looks at the biblical accounts of men and women from all walk of life who were apprehended by God in their generation. Some were kings, some prophets and some were unknown by man...But they all had one thing in common: they moved the heart of God. There are 6 teachings included in this series as well as a copy of all the notes in pdf format.
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