Worship in some of the Cuban churches (Cuba June 07)

Click on the links below to see video footage.

Worship on Sunday night at a church in Jovellanos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W7NHAxoTeY0

Worship during one of the seminars for church leaders and pastors.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v3b8iRAsgAY

This one is hard to see, but beautiful to listen to. This was at a mission church at night outside.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MRYEUwTew58

These videos do not do the worship justice. We try and try and try to explain what it is like, but you can't truly know until you experience it yourself. So, come on......what are you waiting for? Come on a mission trip to Cuba with us and worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ. You will not come home the same!

MIA Staff (Cuba June 07)

This is MIA in the field. It was an absolute joy to work with these wonderful men and women of God whom I call Friends! You guys are awesome and I would happily go to the ends of the earth with you!

MIA & CCM (Cuba June 07)

No embargo here.....only LOVE!

This is the MIA mission team with the Cuban team we minister side by side with in Cuba.

They are a beautiful group of people who are extremely gracious and humble and love the Lord with everything they have.

Ministering to the Body of Christ in Cuba (Cuba June 07)

One of the greatest joys in the Christian life is getting to minister to the body of Christ. Here are some few photos taken during my mission trip to Cuba. (I'm not in many of these pics because I'm the photographer.)Enjoy!

Navigation Through Unchartered Waters (Cuba June 07)

This June trip to Cuba was definitely one for the books. This was my third trip to Cuba and MIA's tenth trip or so to Cuba overall. Well, as one person on our team put it so eloquently, "The honeymoon is over and the marriage has begun." This was so true for this trip. We experienced and had to deal with so many new things on this trip that were extremely challenging. Unfortunately, because of very serious and sensitive issues I can not go into a lot of detail. However, I learned so much on this trip that I could not have learned otherwise or in any other circmstance. God really taught me more deeply about what it means not to lean on my own understanding, but in ALL ways to acknowledge Him......and He did direct our path. How do you navigate through waters you have never been before? Or how do you navigate through calm waters that suddenly turn into a raging storm? Well, I think the best thing to do is to lean on the One who created the waters. Even before I left for this trip, I did not understand the full extent of what was going on in Cuba, but I took time out of the craziness and went before the Lord in intercession and dance. I acknowledged Him before it all, in the midst of it all, and praised Him in the circumstance and He directed my path. I gave it all to Him to carry because it was His burden (not mine) to work for good. I also learned more deeply to lay aside my expectations about what a trip is going to look like. This mission trip ended up being nothing like we thought it was going to look like because of very serious circumstances, yet God turned it around and did so many amazing and Kingdom advancing things . Looking back, I can see His hand in it all. Now, I don't know if what happened on this trip was what He originally intended, if He reordered our steps, or if it was just that He turned it into good. But, what I do know is that the Kingdom of God was advanced and we are following God through Gates that are being opened in Cuba and then ultimately the world.

My 30th Birthday in Cuba! (Cuba June 07)

Wow, 30! It's official. I turned 30 on June 13th and Daddy God blessed me with such a special birthday in Cuba. It was awesome!
A couple months before I turned 30 I was starting to think....whoa 30 that sounds old.....makes me kinda nervous. Now that I am 30, I am excited to be in this phase of my life. My twenties, as I think it was for most, was exploring and learning who I was in this world and in Christ. I have figured out a few things by now, but by no means have it all figured out yet. However, I am now excited to see what my thirties will bring. I feel such a maturing in the Lord and feel like 30 is a significant number for me. I can't really put it all into words, but I know this has marked something important in my life.
Ok, back to my special day when I turned 30! I was awakened by a knock at my hotel room door and when I opened it up there were about 6-8 team members seranading me with "Happy Birthday." We had the morning off on Wednesday so most of the team took a bus tour of Varadero to tour the penisula. On the walk to the bus stop I knew we would be passing by a tree that has my absolute favorite flower on it. I don't know what it is called, but it is what they make lays out of in Hawaii. Anyway, I asked one of my tall friends if she would grab a flower for me because I knew I would be too short to reach it. However, as we got closer it was clear the limbs were much higher than I had thought and it was way too high even for her to reach. But just as I was passing under the tree one flower fell right in my path in front of me. Thank you Daddy.....my very favorite flower just for me on my birthday. Then on part of the bus tour as we were passing a bay, I looked and saw two dolphins jump up out of the water. Sweet! I knew that there were dolphins around the island, but in all of our trips there none of us had ever seen any in person. Leanne treated me to a special lunch. In the evening we were ministering in a church and worship was really great that night. Leanne got up to preach and then pulled me up there.....she then proceeded to tell the congregation that it was a special day for me.....it was my birthday. Then the band and the congregation sang a special Spanish birthday song to me (this was not just Happy Birthday in Spanish), then they even sang Happy Birthday to me in English (the ones that could speak English). It was such a very special day and I thank everyone who made me feel extra special on my 30th birthday.

That's me on my birthday on the tour bus with

my favorite flower in my ear.

Me enjoying drinking a coconut with the MIA team on our day off.

(We are in the backyard of Al Capone's estate in Cuba; I think I could handle a back yard that looked like that.)

Open those Gates! (Pre-trip Cuba June 07)

Well, I am very excited. I leave for Cuba in less than 14 hours. The past day and a half has been crazy and intense. There is something taking place in the supernatural regarding Cuba that can't be seen with physical eyes, yet with my spiritual eyes I see the team busting through gates that have previously been closed. The demonic forces have been holding it closed......and there is a battle going on for control of this gate. Much of this has been confirmed several times through our intercessors. There have been many things that have happened in the preparation of this trip that have indicated to many on the team that the devil is doing his best to stop us....but God can not be stopped. He will accomplish what He wants accomplished and we are ready and willing to carry out what he wants to do. I want to share with you what a friend emailed to me yesterday:
Last weekend as we were praying over the team, a prophetic declaration rose up in me that this team to Cuba will be a sozo team (not the Dew's sozo, but the Greek) - Salvation, Healing, Deliverance. I received this newsletter this AM from Jill Austin that confirms that in me. It's the breaker anointing. With all that has taken place there in the last week, this just makes so much sense. This is just an excerpt from the whole newsletter.
Micah 2:13 - The one who breaks open will come up before them; they will break out, pass through the gate, and go out by it; their king will pass before them, with the Lord at their head.
What does it take for heaven to invade earth? It takes a breaker anointing! One of God's names in the Bible actually is the "Breaker." A breaker anointing is a catalytic deposit of the Holy Spirit where eternity breaks through into the natural realm. It is a holy invasion where the gates of heaven are broken open with visitations of salvations, healing and deliverance.
This type of anointing will break through every obstacle and hindrance to the furtherance of the Gospel. It shakes every shackle loose that holds individuals and the Church back from coming into their destiny and inheritance. Jesus promises that "the Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take it by force." The breaker anointing is the core anointing of the apostolic church for advancement.
Yesterday, in the middle of utter chaos in the physical realm, I escaped into a wonderful place of spiritual warfare and intercession for the nations and for Cuba. I put on this "battle" cd that I have called "Fireland." I began to dance and stomp for the nations. My mind could not comprehend all that was transpiring, but I felt the heavens stirring and the horses of the armies of the Lord were riding in. After about 45 minutes, the intercession lifted, and I went back to my responsibilities. About 20 minutes later I went outside to put something in my car......my dog ran across the street to the neighbor's yard. So, I walked over to get her. As I was walking back across the street I glanced up into the sky and saw a large bird soaring. It was so beautiful. Then I looked again and saw three. They just kept soaring. I was in total amazement. They were beautiful! As I continued to watch them, I walked around to side of the house to the back yard and to my amazement I saw four more soaring birds! That made SEVEN! "Whoa," I exclaimed. I kept counting...1,2,3,4,5,6,7.......1,2,3,4,5,6,7....I couldn't believe what I was seeing. They soared around my house for about five more minutes and then they flew off into the sky and over the trees and disappeared from my sight. I am utterly convinced that these seven soaring birds were golden eagles. After that I thought I could fly. The prophetic meaning of 1 is beginning, God, source of all unity, divine soverignty....3 is Trinity, divine completeness, perfect testimony....and 7 is completeness, perfection, day of rest, finished, or dispensational fullness. One of the things that experience said to me was that Daddy was in charge and he will complete the work that He wants to do.....we are soaring together at a higher perspective than what can be seen on the ground level.