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The Making of A Ministry / History of Shacklebusters
I guess the place to begin is not so much with the calling, the impartation or the preparation or the actual start date but rather with the name and its purpose. The year was 2000, the place was Heartwood Elementary School on the then McChord AFB. I was the president of the PTA and I was attempting to do this doctor thing at the same time. If that wasn't enough I had three children in three different schools, High School, Middle school and elementary school. We were in the process of the Christmas Shoppe fundraiser and I believe that I had not slept in about a day and a half. So much so that I was beginning to frighten myself. The teachers of the school the majority of whom I still have great relationships with decided that for a Christmas present they would make a donation to the base charity in my name….the catch, I was to be arrested by the “Santa Police”. This might seem funny but without warning, the base police came into my daughter’s classroom, asked for me, handcuffed and shackled me and led me to the patrol car. The rest is not important it was for charity, but one thing rang out in my spirit, there are many people walking around out there shackled in their mind. They have been hurt in the house of God, they have been used and abused in and out of the house of God, and they are looking for answers and love... they are afraid to trust. They have come to God to receive deliverance and find themselves back in the same place that they started out. Why? The shackles in the mind have made it where they can not even grasps the fact that God has come and made a difference in their lives. The shackles were taken off of me. The freedom was so wonderful that there are not words to describe it. “Listen,” the Lord said, “Remember this feeling.” He said, “ I want you to provide a platform where my children can have this experience of being set free in their mind so that they can walk in the freedom of their deliverance.” Not understanding the full extent of this tremendous assignment called Shacklebuster Ministries, the conference was born.
Year after year the Lord added to what this ministry would entail. It grew to be a traveling conference taking deliverance across the globe. Then he added a platform for the men and women of God to have a safe place for the men and women of God. I have to say that I have been to a lot of conferences in my life and I have never attended anything quite like this. These mighty men and women of God come together with the purpose of breaking shackles, yet the atmosphere is of such that they can lay out before the Lord in the strength of their brothers and sisters and receive rest, re-creation and a recharge to go back into the battle. Then the Lord instituted the newsletter and prayer line followed by the mandate to break the shackles off of those who are bound by any means necessary and that is exactly what we have yielded ourselves to do.
The Lord had me to begin a child evangelism component to the ministry Because Kids Have Shackles Too! From that the Marcie Mouse Series was born to minister and reach the children and the parents who may share the book with them. An outlet for empowering teens was birthed out in Raising Up a Nation. Rising with the Son and Miracle, Healing and Deliverance services were added to each conference. A certificated workshop: Called to Care was birthed out in the midst of treatment for cancer so that the children of God would be able to learn how to love on and minister to those special populations that sit with us in the pews service after service. The Lord continued to grow this work with Shacklebusting Scripture Studies, a Prayer Clinic, the Fresh Fire Women's Retreat and its young ladies counterpart Sparks, Speak to My Heart Fridays, Wednesday Word as the Lord to this ministry to the nations and much much more.
I am still humbled and amazed that the Lord chose me for this awesome task. This assignment is something that words will never be able to adequately describe; you simply have to…experience it. Once you do, whichever way you do, you will understand why there is no turning back. Much like the day in which this all was birthed into manifestation so it is today and the mandate that was given on that day remains as it did on that day, "The Yoke SHALL be DESTROYED...By Fire...By Force!"