So about 4 months ago I made a huge transition to Harrisburg, PA. The Lord opened up opportunity for me to come and join an incredible community and tribe that is on a journey of pursuing His presence and His face. I am apart of Burn 24-7 and Fire and Fragrance. We believe that through the presence of God and the powerful news of the simple gospel, families, cities, university campuses and even nations are going to be completely transformed and changed. Burn 24-7 is a global community and movement started by Sean and Kate Feucht, and consists of a people that have given themselves to see places or “furnaces” of 24-7 intimate worship and fiery intercession established all across America, and the nations! The headquarters of Burn 24-7 are in Harrisburg, PA and I am currently running with this community to see 24-7 vertical worship established here in Harrisburg as well as travelling singing, bringing worship to different places across America. We long to and have received the Davidic calling to “rebuild again the Tabernacle of David” so that the “rest of humanity may seek the Lord.” A huge part of our DNA with Burn is also NATIONS and MISSIONS! We believe God is raising up in this generation a huge wave of missionaries who are radically in love with this beautiful man named Jesus. With love smitten hearts and radical devotion they will be sent to the nations bringing a sound of worship and a culture of His presence that brings heaven to earth! With this in my heart I am also running hand in hand with Fire and Fragrance which is a Burn YWAM partnered community doing just that, raising up young radical laid down lovers who have a desire too see revival come to America and the nations. A huge part of the calling of this community is IVY League universities and college campuses in the north East!!
In the past 3 months along side of the prayer and worship in Harrisburg, we travelled to many different places. A few highlights was getting to be apart of a 40 day night and day worship tent in front of the Whitehouse in DC, a couple different trips to NYC doing worship at a New York University students rally and ministering at University of New York. Trips to Jersey, Maryland, “America for Jesus” in Philadelphia, and then recently Virginia for an awakening weekend at Liberty University where we saw 150 students on fire for Jesus and go out and see salvations and crazy healings on their city streets. We took a road trip to Harvard University and Cornell University, where we met with many on fire students who are ready to see revival on their campuses. God divinely set us up! SO EXCITED for what God has up His sleeve this next year! We also have moved into this huge house in the poor area of Harrisburg, where we live and desire to see transformation in our neighbourhood! Two big community parties have been a highlight for me as well, where we fed almost 300 people, played games, painted faces, shared the good news of beautiful Jesus and made connections with many families in our neighbourhood. At the first party we took family photos for 38 families and it was truly beautiful. Life Center International is the church we are connected with and I am truly honoured to serve here!! The pastoral staff have really empowered us as a community to run whole heartedly after Jesus, pursuing His presence and revival here! They help facilitate so many things and were huge in supporting the community parties in our neighbourhood! Amazing family they are!
There are so many more amazing highlights, but those are just a few for now. 🙂
As we start 2013 the harvest is at the forefront of our hearts and mind!! “Then He said to his disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to SEND out labourers into His harvest.” Matthew 9:37-38
The harvest is ripe, and we believe God is saying EKBALLO to his body!! EKBALLO is the greek word used in this scripture and it literally means to forcibly expel’; ‘to thrust out violently’. We believe this EKBALLO thrust is a baptism of the Holy Spirit upon His Sons and Daughters with empowerment to be the fragrance of Christ to the ends of Earth!
Day by day I am getting more and more moved by His beautiful heart that is madly in love with those He created. He is longing that all would be saved and know His perfect unconditional love and presence. It is His presence that heals every disease and brings to joy to even the most downcast of hearts!! He is a lover and a perfect Father, and as a daughter of this incredible man, I am moved to action as I pursue the things of His heart~~
This year as a community we felt God say that this year of 2013 was the year of the IVY leagues and that a “National movement was about to land on our heads”. Located in the heart of the North East, we are in a super central location where there are literally 100s of universities within a couple hour radius. . .and specifically most of the IVY league schools. SO with this the strategy of the Lord is CAMPUSES!! We desire to partner with students in universities who share radical faith to see revival come and the Love of Jesus invade their campuses. Riding to different schools we are seeing awakening happen among the saved and the lost coming to know their amazing Saviour. God is so jealous for His Bride!! He has said that 200,000 sent into the nations as full time missionaries, and 80,000,000 saved in America and God is totally doing it!! He is so in love!
Along side campuses, we are taking trips to the nations, as I am planning on going to India for 2 weeks with Burn 24-7 to see worship released and encouragement come to the church of India. As well I am leading a team to the Democratic Republic of Congo in June. If you know me, you know I burn to see war zones, brothels, and the poor completely changed by the love of Jesus!! I lived in the DRC for a couple months in 2011 and am in love with this land. So excited to take a team of worshipers into this nation to bring justice, praise, and hope. It is in the darkest places that His promises shine so brightly~
I mentioned earlier that we have placed high priority on the presence of Jesus and spending time beholding and seeking His face. So in Harrisburg we have prayer sets Monday-Thursday as well as every friday night a 6 hour burn of vertical worship!! In Psalm David talks about the Lord being enthroned on the praises of His people and that the foundation of His throne is righteousness and justice. We want this in Harrisburg!!! Along with this, we are running a month long worship intensive school called, “Hillside Intensive”. This school is a month long musician focused training school designed to equip, and release musicians to birth revival and awakening everywhere they go!! Super stoked for this, as well as the next day following our Hillside Intensive, we will be running a week long “The School of the Circuit Rider” in Lancaster, PA. Circuit Rider schools are being birthed all across America, and spreading internationally!! Cultivating a generation of leaders, wholly given and surrendered to the will of the Father, living for a purpose greater than themselves, and sent as laborers of the Gospel to the hardest and darkest frontiers on the earth. We want to see so many people trained up to see a reviving to the body of Christ, to be able to clearly proclaim the amazing SIMPLE good news of the gospel, and to go and make disciples!! These are just a few things coming up this year that I thought might be good to mention!!
Ahhhhh I am overwhelmed when I think about the love of my Papa for those He created. He loves to release His presence of those who seek His face and He is jealous for the hearts of the LOST. The answer is so SIMPLE and it is JESUS!! He is speaking NO DELAY, NO DELAY, NO DELAY over us, that we would be moved with a radical EKBALLO to pursue Him and go where He leads!!!
This is a just a tiny glimpse of this next year! I am going to try and update this blog as often as I can to keep everyone in the loop and also to release the testimony of what God is doing here. If you want updates or want to know more information about what I am doing or what were doing here, please feel free to email me at kelsieplante@gmail.com! Also here is a link to Burn 24-7 website and Fire and Fragrance!
Much Love!!
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