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Todd Hunter has started to blog again.  He was one of my favorite blogger's, although his consistency was much to be desired (I should talk!).  Check him out.

I spent last week at the MW Regional conference in Champaign, IL. I really wasn't looking forward to it (truth be told, I was looking for any excuse to miss it.) Over the past few years it seems like these have become more and more business and less and less ministry. Well, something has definitely changed. This was one of the best conferences that I have attended in quite some time. It felt like John Wimber was back! It was so refreshing!!! I think we are at a turning point in the Vineyard. There are three roads in front of us and I think we need to make a decision on which road we are going to take in the future. We can either go down the Evangelical road, the Pentecostal road, or the Kingdom road. Nothing against the Pentecostal's or Evangelical's, but I think we need to do what the Lord called us to 20 years ago. Back then, it was all about the Kingdom. That's where I want to be...that's what I signed up for...and that's what I'm hoping the future holds for us as a movement.

Still waiting on news from the building. Supposedly, the owner has our offer...he just needs to make a decision. I praying hard that something breaks. I think this is the place.

Sunday, after the service, two of our people went to the building to pray over it. While they were there, they felt the presence of something demonic one of the sides of the building, so they called us to come and pray with them. When we got there, I felt the urge to anoint the building with oil, so I walked to Walgreen to get some oil. Some strange things happened on the way to and from Walgreen. While I was entering Walgreen, I noticed that there were three people in the park across the street messing around with a djembe. I walked into Walgreen, only to notice that they were having a sale on these shirts. The shirts said "Bowling" on them, had a picture of a guy bowling, and then said "DeKalb" on the bottom. I thought it was funny, a sale on tee-shirts marked bowling...who would buy something like that. BTW..the building we are looking at was an old bowling alley. So I get the oil, and leave Walgreen. I decide to cut through the park to get to the building. The musicians started to beat on their drums stronger as I passed them...almost like a war drum. As soon as this started, something came over me. I started to pray aggressively in tongues, and walking aggressively towards the building. When I got there I started to aggressively pour oil on the side wall, as well as on the doors and fence posts. I ever anointed the building next door. While doing this, I was praying in aggressively praying in tongues. Cindy later told me (as well as the others who were there) that she had never seen me like that before. I'm not sure what came over me, but I think we took something in the Kingdom.

Oh well, back to praying and waiting...I'm looking forward to what happens next.