Up From the Ashes by Kenneth R. Walls & H. R. Schorr

Author:Kenneth R. Walls & H. R. Schorr [Walls, Kenneth R. & Schorr, H. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Religious, Religion, Biography & Autobiography, Christian Life, Inspirational, Men's Issues
ISBN: 9781936672318
Publisher: PublishNext
Published: 2012-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

I knew that we had missed God’s leading, and I knew that meant I couldn’t stay much longer. So I began looking around to see what possibilities for ministry existed elsewhere. Some places were seeking leadership, and I received a few invitations to visit. I was asked to present my ministry in Soap Lake, Washington. (It’s a cool place; the lake has a high mineral content, so it feels like soap.) I took Theresa, of course, and Leroy and his wife also joined us—we thought it might be cool if we all moved together to begin a work somewhere. We met wonderful people in Soap Lake, and I loved them immediately. I felt a real kindred spirit with them, and I thought this would be a great place to minister. But Leroy and his wife didn’t like it, and they convinced Theresa that moving there wasn’t a good idea. So that possibility fell through.

And then another door opened. I had connected with Eddie, a man who used to be my Executive Presbyter. He was holding a revival down in Vancouver, Washington, so we went down to participate. We weren’t looking to serve there or help with the revival, just to let the Spirit of the Lord refresh us. We found God moving there, and we loved it. So when another revival began soon after in the nearby city of Portland, Oregon, preached by a well-known minister from the powerful revival that had recently begun in Argentina, you’d have been hard pressed to stop us from going to that one too.

I connected really well with Eddie, and he kept saying, “You know, I’d really like you to move down here. We could start something really big, and I could provide an apostolic covering for you and help you get started.” (The apostolic covering he talked about is the same sort of authority the Assemblies of God leadership would have provided for Quinault Valley Chapel if the church had elected to join them.) At those same revivals, we met Eli, a pastor whose ministry was connected to Eddie’s. Eli had pulled out of the AG, and he also urged us to move to Vancouver and maybe join him in a more independent ministry.

One day soon after that, as I sat in my home in Quinault, I got a phone call from Eddie, who began to encourage me to leave the Assemblies soon because things were not right there. Then, soon after I hung up the phone, it rang again. This time it was my old pastor from Montesano. We hadn’t ended our relationship on very good terms, so you might imagine what a surprise it was to get a call from him. Well, he had heard that I’d been talking to the former Presbyter, and he’d called to discourage me from getting involved with him: “You don’t know about Eddie.” “He’s this,” and “He’s that.” “Don’t go down there.” But nothing he said gave me a good reason not to go.

When I got off the phone, I started weeping.

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