Dear Friends,
We have some very important announcements:
Melchizedek Conference: our long-awaited teaching on the Melchizedek Priesthood begins next week! June 16-19, 2020 from 5-7:30 PM PST! Please note, the first part of these sessions will be teaching, the second part will be prayer over the current crisis in our nation.
These sessions will be taught by Nita Johnson, Ricci Wilson, and Kin & Debbie Clark! The Melchizedek Priesthood is the end-time priesthood, understanding what this mantle is, along with the various offices that will function alongside the priesthood will help you prepare for the days ahead.
We will have simultaneous Chinese Translation available.
Kansas Gathering of the Eagles: due to the social-distancing restrictions handed down by the Missouri governor, we need to reschedule our GOE. Under the current restrictions, we would be limited to 120 attendees. We have more than double that registered and this does not include our staff or volunteers. As such, we are working with the hotel to reschedule this event, however, it will likely be next year. We will notify you as soon as we have those dates secured. Most airlines will allow you to change your flight or use the funds toward the purchase of another ticket. We apologize for the inconvenience this is posing, we are all feeling the effects of this while at the same time, aching to intercede on behalf of the nation. As such, we will hold a Phone Gathering in lieu of the Kansas GOE. Details coming soon.
DC Gathering of the Eagles: Our current plan is to proceed with our DC Gathering of the Eagles October 5-9, 2020. Given the criticality of the upcoming elections, we want to be on the ground in DC this October. Please pray with us that things will flow smoothly leading up to this event.
WorldforJesus.org Website: our website has been down all weekend; the host domain inadvertently pulled our SSL certificate resulting in errors and warnings when some users attempt to access the website. I worked with the company throughout the weekend to resolve the issue. Our website should be up and running shortly and I will upload Nita's message from Thursday at that time. Thank you for your patience.
Finally, I want to ask you to continue to press in on behalf of our nation. The enemy is hard at work in his efforts to bring this country down. Please know, there is so much occurring behind the scenes and we hope to share some of that with you very soon. Pray for truth, pray for exposure, and pray for justice.
We appreciate and value each one of you. Thank you for continuing to stand in the gap for our Nation through prayer, your time, and your support.
Blessings & love,
Ricci Wilson
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DID YOU KNOW?
We've added the download feature to our website! You can listen online or download from our media log and listen on the go!
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"Embracing the Shaking of 2020"
Part 2 (transcription from October 2019)
Ricci Wilson
I was really young when I had my first child, only eighteen, but I was very excited to be a mom and honored that these two women, one an in-training Lamaze coach I had known for many years and my aunt, who was just learning to be a coach, would go on to take me under their wings and walk me through this process. Everyone was excited Side note: here we are almost thirty years later and I can honestly tell you that I was not a student, I was more of a guinea pig at the time, and they were figuring out how to teach someone who was just eighteen, how to give birth without losing her mind. Week after week, we went through the classes, they would explain to me how if I would just breathe slowly, then I would stop feeling the physical pressure of the contractions, as if I didn't breathe. Since I had the breathing thing down since birth, I thought this was going to be a piece of cake. They were both there when I went to the hospital, but I did quite a bit of the birthing work at home and afterward went into the hospital. I was a young mother who had a child out of wedlock, with a bit of a tumultuous life as a teenager, making these big adult decisions. I am not squeaky-clean this is part of my story. Regardless of my path, I refused to have an abortion. I know many would have, especially in the 80s and 90s. As you know, I have always been very outspoken when the opportunity to speak about Pro-Life!
Now, back to the birthing when I passed my daughter's father in the hall at home, he said, "you'll be fine, you have got hours and hours." But when the contraction hit, I grabbed his shoulders and we both went to the floor. So, it was at that point that he decided that it was best that we headed to the hospital. We called my aunt, we called Vivian the Lamaze coach in training got in the car and headed to the hospital. By the time we arrived, I was in the worst pain that I ever thought that a person could physically go through. I thought I was going to be ripped into two pieces and because I was in such pain, I thought that I was absolutely, without a doubt, very near giving birth. HOWEVER, when they checked me in and I learned that I was at about four or five centimeters, I very quickly moved into panic. I honestly could not imagine continuing like this for any length of time. The doctors told me I probably had a few more hours which I did not feel capable of and I felt myself move deeper into panic, pretty near terror, and my aunt and the Lamaze coach were telling me to keep breathing so the pain would subside. By this time, I doubted every word they said the last 8 hours and it was only getting worse! Panic was morphing into terror. I distinctly remembered when my doctors told me I would be there for several more hours. He decided to break my water and then told me that he would be back in a couple of hours, but I assured him all of his medical training was irrelevant, I would not be there for a couple of more hours! My aunt and her friend, the Lamaze coach trying to calm me down, Breathe, BREATH they shout quickly moving into full-on panic with my arm around each one of their necks breathing through my face. It is one of those things that happen in a made-for-TV movie hey were both breathing in my face and I am hyperventilating and then they are about to start hyperventilating and I am just at the point where I am about to lose my mind. Why? Because nobody told me that this would be the worst pain that I experienced in my lifetime, yet I would survive! What they did tell me is that if you just breathe, then it will not be that bad. It is really funny to me to think that that really came out of people's mouths, but it did and so by this point, you know, I really felt like I was going broke to lose my mind. Fortunately, when the doctor my water and it really turned things around very, very quickly. I went from zero to sixty and boom, s and it was at that moment, when I held my baby, I remembered the words of my mother who said, "honey, I just want to warn you that when you first look at your precious baby and you are holding that baby in your arms, do not be alarmed, because you were a very ugly baby but within a few days all the swelling will go down and when yours went down, you were really quite beautiful."
Well, I looked down at my daughter and she was beautiful, she was quite possibly the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I remember looking in her beautiful blue eyes and her beautiful blonde peach fuzz and thinking, are quite possibly the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen in my life.
That was the moment I decided that I would never do that again because it was the most painful thing that I had ever experienced, and I could not even imagine going through it again!
For two years I shuddered at the pain that that labor experience brought me through. Two whole years I shuttered if I thought about it if I looked at her newborn pictures I literally shuddered at the pain, it was that bad. I have four children now, as you know, but at that point, I was determined not to get pregnant again, and I thought it was because I was too weak for it. However, the Lord had other plans for me and a few years later I was blessed with another child.
To be continued next week...
Blessings and love,
Ricci Wilson
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