Azusa, Ward Life and Moving

Simple Obedience Changes History 

Standing on the stage looking out at thousands and thousands of people worshiping and loving Jesus in a stadium in Los Angeles was one of the most humbling and amazing moments I have had. 
By the grace of God I have spent the majority of my life giving my “yes” to Jesus to see a generation on the earth radically in love with Jesus. There are these moments along the journey where you see the fruit of your “yes” and in those moments everything dulls in comparison and all the sacrifice and all the current screaming circumstance fade and in that moment your undone and humbled. Jesus is worth it all! 
Most of this last season was leading up to Azusa Now that was held in the LA Coliseum on April 9th. What a historic day to be apart of! The ten days leading up to Azusa Now the Circuit Riders put together tent and field gathering all across LA with thousands of people from Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, YWAM, and many other ministries and places doing outreaches across the city  with “Flood LA”. Los Angeles was flooded with the Love of Jesus with so many surrendering their life to Him with all types of miracles and healing’s happening! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!!!! 

During Azusa Now Over 65,000 people attended. #AzusaNow was the #1 tweet in the world, #3 #4 on Facebook, #2 on Instagram and top 5 most impacting hashtags on April 9th. We had over 500,000 views on YouTube. 290K viewed on our AzusaNow2016.com livestream. Hundreds of millions of people around the world, as it was broadcast entirely by GodTV, and additional live coverage by TBN, CBN, Juce TV, Daystar and newly launched Holy Spirit Network.In addition, the entire day was translated in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese. As well, in Arabic and broadcast to millions of homes in the Middle East via The Way TV network.

​Ward Life

We celebrated 1 year of marriage in Dec and then spent the holiday season in Alaska as a family with family, it was good to be in Alaska again even if it was cold. Then heading into 2016 Phillip stayed back in Petersburg, Alaska and worked a job driving piling for 3 weeks and I was home in Pasadena with Bob. Hard to have chunks of time away from each other but thankful for the work and provision. The beginning of February Phillip and I went to Knoxville, TN for a week getting time with our friends and consulting business we are working with out there for our business True North Sons.

I headed to Kona after that with Mekennah to teach in the Fire & Fragrance DTS. A few days later I went to Norway to speak at the National Prayer Conference there. Norway continues to be a key nation the Lord has called me to pour into. 
In March I spent a weekend in New York City speaking at a conference with my good friends Jamie and Emily Galloway. It was held at the Justice House of Prayer and in that time I found new friends and the Lord moved in a powerful way, I know I will be back. 
I have had couple local speaking and ministry engagements her the LA area.
Then the 10 days leading up to Azusa Now we ran Circuit Rider training in the day, outreach in the afternoon and tent and field events every night. It was wild ten days but so much fruit and fulfillment that only leads to more momentum with so much more to come!

Looking forward as far as ministry goes I have Brave Love, Circuit Rider schools coming up, Together 2016 in Washington DC on July 16, 21 Project, Weddings etc… There is no getting back to normal this is the normal of our lives! Now is the time for harvest! 

​We Are Moving to Huntington Beach 

In the fall of 2012 I moved to Pasadena with a team from Kona pioneering a YWAM plant on the US Center for World Missions campus (now Frontier Venture Center), at the same time Lou Engle and The Call to plant there bas as well. Its been wild and fruitful three and a half years. We have been in full collaboration here on this campus starting with the YWAM, the Call and US Center for World Missions and now there are many ministers and people apart of this collaboration that is on the campus. Its only growing and strengthening. Our simple obedience as a team was catalytic for this to happen. Since then our core team has moved on in different directions led by the Lord and people have come and gone and we have kept going. There have been many changes and I got MARRIED! At the same time our Circuit Rider base in Huntington Beach has only grown. It has really become our national headquarters and where the bulk of our community lives. It is 40 miles from Pasadena (a hour drive with no traffic and 2 hours with). As you know from previous letters and for those that know me better, getting married and having teenage children and going through very hard circumstances, well its been pretty challenge on all fronts. We have been praying into it and we felt from the Lord and with counsel and prayer with the people we walk with that in this season we area going to move to Huntington Beach to be with our community there. Living in Huntington Beach enables us and especially me to be able to pour into Circuit Riders and lead more effectively. With everything growing and increasing I need to be able to be more present. We also feel it will be the best for our marriage and family. We don’t know how long this season is but we are going until the Lord sends us back to Pasadena or somewhere else. Although we will not be living in Pasadena I will still be apart of the collaboration here and in as many of the weekly collaboration meetings as I can. Some of our team will still be living here for now. So things are the same in our desire to see this campus coming into all that the Lord designed it for and seeing missionary’s trained and sent out into that nations. 
We are starting to actively look for a house to rent and share with another couple and we hope to move in June, once Bob gets out of school.

​Need a Breakthrough 

With all that is going on, we are in need of a real increase in monthly support! Phillip has been looking for permanent work but nothing has opened up. He has been working with our business True North Sons still building furniture and we have had little jobs but we have not broken through in any steady income. A huge part of his business is raising up young people out of the inner city and with all the outreach we have been doing there we have some momentum going on but we still need the income. I have been working hard on consolidating bills and being faithful. In this season of life we just really need a increase of provision especially now that we are moving to Huntington Beach and our rent will greatly increase. So much time, energy, emotions, stress go into this area of trying to figure out how to do make this all work. We trust the Lord and He has been faithful to us! I am praying for a financial breakthrough for Phillips business and or monthly support so I can spend my time and energy doing what I am called to do. We have also had a sent back… two days after Azusa Phillip was in a motorcycle accident when a car pulled out in front of him. He has a very badly sprained hand (which he needs to work) and abrasions and bruises all over and still in a lot of pain. We are hoping he can get back to work soon. I am so thankful thats all that happened! Divine protection for sure!

We are in immediate need of raising $2000 more a month. 
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Amy & Phillip Ward