Pictures from the trip.

This was during our time in worship. Joseph (my drum) was taking a little vacation due to the high humidity in Poland- he had no voice, so I had to find other means to worship and minister... This was effective as well.
This is not what it looks like, although it was very warm in that room and I was jet lagging pretty heavily, I was not asleep.







I used the brooms because of the humidity and not wanting to stretch the drum skin by beating it with something heavy and hard.














This is warfare here- The Brazilian Christians sent missionaries to Portugal and the Portuguese thought of them the same way most of the world sees missionaries from the US who are excited by their new revelations.
Denny Hurst on the left, who has recently moved to Lisbon, Portugal and was there to represent Portugal and Olgalvaro Bastos of Brazil in the red shirt doing warfare on the drums

contending for unity between the nations

Todd Adams I don't know that we'll have internet access in Madrid, but bless you all and thanks for praying. Athens was a success. On to Madrid. This is going to be really fun when these reports are about worship gigs 8^)

Todd Reports:

In Athens now... Not picking any fights- but seeing some amazing things happen. Chatting with new friends from Kaliedjeskope (how did they spell it and why that way?) {It's Polish for the one that you can't spell in English, either} Poland was hard to get around in because of a different alphabet... Greece isn't any easier... I wonder how Brazil will be next year...

There is a necessary tension between definitions, language, boxes and freedomto redefine ourselves. If we call ourselves apostle, prophet, evangelist, etc, we give others the right to define us, tell them what to expect from us- and yet their definition or understanding or definition of a word may not line up with how we ourselves would want to be defined with regard to the tasks set before us.

Our discussion leaned more toward definitions in secular terms so that the church wouldn't have the ability to "pigeon hole " us while the world, we in and those of, would have the freedom to express our callings and visions unfettered by tainted and deficient language.

Hello! the roundtable is going well and growing each day as more delegates from around the globe arrive. Brazil, Germany, Macedonia, Greece, India, Portugal, Venezuela, Czeck-Republic, Hungary, Thailand and even Poland! Many friends being made, many friendships getting deeper and you can see the river of youth that is going to shape the church as it responds to todays cultural necessity.

There is an excitement for nations that is papable in the eyes of these young men and women dedicated to the cause of Christ. They have already been broken before the cross as they witness the church missing people groups and cultures and they are dedicating their lives to pursuing a healthy church body in their home nations as well as those that hear the whispers from the Holy Spirit wooing them to be todays model of Abraham's servant drawing the Bride to the side of the Master.

I am encouraged by there hearts and their longings. Bless the Lord for a hope and a future.

Last night I heard an incredible band called Masala- I think that they are in the "pre" stage of life, but my gosh they were fun. Eclectic Southeast Asia, Jamaican dub urban hip-hop throat singers. Absolutely WILD!!! And in a short time a band called The Violet Burning, for those of you who have been around for a day or two... and Elisabeth ;^)

Hello from Poland! weather is nasty, drum has no voice, jet lag is killing me- I'm having a great time!!! Connecting with ministries from Brazil, Greece, Portugal, Beijing, London... The next step.. is Sunday moving on to Greece, and then Spain. Slotfest is an amazing event done every year here in Lubiaz- you should come next year if you get the chance! Next update when I know something new LOL

Well, that went well. For us. But I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I was getting dirty looks from everybody.

I was trying to figure out whether it was the pious look of a Polish supplicant or if I just incited something deep within people to distrust strangers, or just what it was.

Then I thought that I may have an idea... I'm a skinhead. Well, I'M not a skinhead but I look like a skinhead. To someone who doesn't have eyes to see.

At the end of our assignment we sat in the courtyard and felt the peace roll in.

I watched the clouds roiling, and when I went to take a picture or a video, they would slow.

And then the swallows came in and chirped and flew in circles around the courtyard- they looked full of joy unspeakable. And there were more of them flying about the compound as we walked out.

Anyway, we completed our assignment there and got good and thoroughly lost on our way back. I didn't mind... It was autobahn... How fast is 170 KPH? I'm just wondering. I'm pretty sure that I had never driven that fast before.

We missed the airport exit because the sign was hidden behind a big truck. We looked to find our way to Lubiaz, and couldn't figure out where we were for most of the trip, but we did find our way and then finding our way to the Retreat House where we are staying, well let's just say it's kind of satisfaction you feel when after you have been lost driving around and then locals get lost looking for a place not far away from where you are.

Poland is beautiful, the people are beautiful and I'll be happy to come back someday, but- it's a big world with a lot more to see. Some of it has come here to see me, and more of it is waiting for me to come there.

But today belongs to Poland... WIECEJ RADOSCI!!! MORE JOY!!!

It's 03:30 a.m. and about 6:30? there. 9 hours difference... and I'm jet lagging, sleep deprived a little and going to attempt to say a little, so...

The adventure so far: a little more detail.

I'm pressed for time so it's still not going to be hugely detailed, but-

AMTRAK wouldn't take my case, or the amount of luggage that I was biging up with me, and so I ended up driving up with Ramona and Andrew. This was Ramona's first act of ministry since her ordination 4 hours before we left.

We met Trevor on the US side and he took me across because of passport insufficiencies.

Then Trevor saw the second incarnation of the box to send Joseph in (very large drum, actually almost the size of the restrictions for air travel) and so we took two rubbermaid boxes and destroyed their usefulness for anything else and successfully covered Joseph and the Lord protected its coming and going and the enemy was foiled in his attempts to stop its travel...

I was up all night building and 11:oo pm to 04:30 am and our ride to the airport arived at 05:00. We got to the airport and went to check in with our electronic boarding passes and there was a problem that they didn't want to explain until we got checked in.

The plane that we were originally booked on was not going to malke the trip and they changed it to a smaller plane which meant someone was going later.

This was not an option for us as we had two other connecting flights and we didn't know that Toronto to Duesseldorf was going to be a forced march for a little over half a click. Crazy. We arrived at the gate in time to hear the final boarding call announcement.

We are now in the city of the black Madonna and have been praying about our part.

We covet your prayer as well. Amen

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Posted By Brother Bear to the toad less travelled at 7/06/2009 06:14:00 PM

We are safely in Wroclas! After leaving Vancouver yesterday at 0800, we are in Poland at 1100. Thanks for praying us through!

David McLain here. I'll be posting updates on Todd's status from time to time as well.

If things are going according to plan (and I think they are), then Todd & company is on an airplane right now, winging his way over - let's see, I guess he'd be heading over northern Canada - on his way to Poland.

It will be a long ride. Please pray for rest (they were up most of the night re-building a drum case), for strategy, for perspective, and for all the usual "travelling" stuff: health, good connections, great relationships, etc.

Also, I will be updating my blog via text @ http://ecclecticecclesia.blogspot.com/ It's a blog I've been keeping for a while, so there is some stuff in it from long ago, and some from not so long ago. And THANKS for your prayer- I'll be needing it.

Final Roundtable Update

Finally, the 2nd Global Roundtable begins one week from today, Wed. at 10am and we have a really cool group of leaders coming. We have a number of Festival Directors, Network Leaders, Pastors and Church Planters, Missionaries, Bible Translators, Editors, Musicians and Creative Ministry leaders. I think we will have an amazing time together.

The newly update delegate list is below

Also, we have some great news, Violet Burning will be leading our worship session on Fri. morning and Michael Pritzl will lead the Fri. morning roundtable session.

Festival fee free for all Delegates

Also, the leadership of SLOT told us this week, that they have decided in appreciation for the work we are doing, the distance some of us are traveling and because they really we feel privileged to host Kalejdoskop, that they would like to make the festival free for all delegates, not just those who have scholarships.

Morning Roundtable Sessions

We have a few updates on our Morning Roundtable sessions.

Wed. - Wolfgang Fernandez - "Creative ways of funding your ministry"

Thurs. - Andrew Jones - "Going Apostolic" - Focus on igniting movements to reach your country

Fri. - Michael Pritzl - "Altar Building", making our offering to God, wherever we are on the earth, in our rooms, at church, at colleges, clubs, festivals, wherever we are making music, we are building altars and offering our lives, our hearts, our praise to the Living God.
Sat. - Olgalvaro Bastos Jr “Inspired, not Copied”, discussing about how ministries, nowadays are copping successful weapons, but are not seeking for revelation on how to work on God’s Behalf.

Morning Worship times

Please remember to bring an indigenous instrument from your country, to join in with our drum intercession focusing on different regions and issues.

Newly, update Delegate List

Global Andrew Jones - Boaz Project -

Poland Radek Grygoruk - SLOT Festival Director -

Poland Krzysztof Słaboń - SLOT Program Director

Czech Republic Tomas & Monika Koblasova, Freakfest,

Czech Republic Sasa Flek - TaCesta -

Czech Republic Lukasz (Jumper) Firla - Godarchy ministry

Czech Republic Darek Firla - Tentwork ministry

Ukraine Oksana - UPfest

Ukraine Slavic - UPfest

Romania Olga

Macedonia Scot Brower - 24/7 prayer

Macedonia Alpin Ponikolov - Glasnost Church

Greece Philemon Armenis - Fusion

Spain Carlos Laborada - Coverbacks Motorcycle ministry

Portugal Denny Hurst - Rock on Rock

Portugal Claudecir Júnior Church planter

Portugal Nuno Soars England

France Simon Bourn - Associate Director of OM in France

Netherlands Max Paans - Jesus Freaks International ?

Germany Hajo Muller - Jesus Freaks

Germany/USA Annika Mongan - The Refuge Florida

England Martin Brown - Asylum

England Jonny Baker - CMS, Grace, Alternative Worship

England Ian Nicholson - The Matrix Trust/ 24-7prayer

England Adam Dyer Yeovil Community Church / Urban Warriors

Brazil/England N - Rodrigo Veiga Tribal Generation Missionary

Brazil Olgavaro Bastos Jr. - Tribal generation

Brazil Deniz & Andrea Vargas

Brazil Ronei Jr. - Sao Paulo

India Ravi Joseph Landge - Wildfire Tribe

Thailand Gary and Ineta Lansdowne - YWAM

Far East Wolfgang Fernandez - Next Step now

USA - Becky Garrison, Senior Contributing Editor for Sojourners and The Wittenburg Door

USA - Todd Adams, Olympia WA - Drum Intercessor

Canada Trevor Macpherson - Underground Railroad

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"Using a gift that God's given you, while in prayer, your connection is broadband now."

TLA

Up all night building a third case for Joseph. This one is pretty Red Green looking, but I think it will get me through to Poland. Maybe someone will help me build a new one there... Me thinks someone is afraid of the power Joseph packs

The war is not yet begun but the battle is begun. I can't take the train north so I must drive. Keep praying.

If I fall to the flesh I am not that momentary man, but still a child of the most high God. I am born of the second Adam who chose, though He had knowledge of good and evil, walked a perfect path without defect or deviation.
It has been said that you could capture a flea and out it in a jar with a lid on it and it will learn not to jump so high as to hit the lid. Then when you remove the lid, it's life is dictated by it's experiential limits.
This is how it is with me. I was born into a jar with a lid on it being taught the constraints and limits caused by sin, the fall, my flesh instead of the knowing the freedom of ownership, stewardship of the earth, the kingdom I was born to rule in.
I learned to walk within the boundaries of the world fallen filled with traps and pitfalls. Born to live by the sweat of my brow, not the authority I was born for. Born to live within the same boundaries that those who taught me are bound to, emulating their interaction, their fear, their bondage imagined.
Now I have been born of the spirit. Born of a second Adam and I, too, am now without defect, though my flesh has memories of it and longs the for the safety and security the bonds.
Now I am free from the natural boundaries and definitions that were sides on the box. I am learning evermore to walk out from beneath the curse that I was born under and into a world of freedom from sin and fleshly hungers. Born again with a natural mind, learning to invoke His harvest and be the lord over it in His name. Learning to rule and reign over every creature as I am given a choice to reign or die the pauper that the despiser hopes with nothing but empty pride, a bell with no clapper

If you've known me for any length of time, you'll know that I am a passionate guy. I am pretty quick to over-react, but I'm also pretty quick to apologize. I don't believe that I'll need to apologize for what I am about to say.
Raise your vision.
Sounds pretty simple, eh? You'd think so. But in this day and age where all the little churches have we have to raise our vision.
I live in a state capitol where you would imagine that every politician is vying for position. I'm not quite the insider there and so for me to say would be pure conjecture, BUT I am an insider in the church. And I have ears to hear.
We have at least two pastors claiming to be the apostle over the city. One went so far as to invite people around town to kiss his as- er- rin-uhhh-apologize for doing things without his approval.
People who have lived here for a long time and have the city and it's welfare deep in their heart.
A city where evil runs rampant. There are black houses, owned ostensibly by a satanist whose strategy to take over the town is to by real estate and have a voice by virtue of literal ownership.
Many of us have been concerned because the man using the strategy has purchased two houses and painted them black across the street from one of the churches.
This church is now for sale.
Some friends of mine stopped in to see what the scoop was and while I was very happy that they hadn't been run out, but they weren't interested in the least about holding the ground, either. That joint is for sale and if the dentist wanted to buy it they might be willing to sell it to him to extend the vision of the that church.
Now we went in to pray a blessing on the church and after moments I knew that I should get out before they ask me to agree with them in prayer because my integrity took a hit. I couldn't think of anything other than how their vision was about their own church. There was nothing about how it would seriously affect the city.
They referred to the pastor as the CEO and it was all about his vision, but it wasn't about any future but there own.
There are a large number of people who don't know why they moved to Olympia other than they were lead here. I'm one. I came to Oly for Oly.
I can see, I believe that God would make our fair little burg a place where people could come to hear Gods voice clearly. Answer questions about what is the best way to touch the throne and hear destiny. People enabled by the Spirit of the Most High to hear about their value and get clues to success.
And we have men claiming to be the watchers on the wall who are sitting like Humpty Dumpty looking over their own backyards as tho' it's the apple of God's eye.
Who am I to say so, but I think that there are many on the wall whose eyes face outward, watching for the work of the enemy and anxiously awaiting destiny.
Lord, We're here! Look here! What would you have us do? Raise our eyes to destiny greater than we can conceive!

So, Obama's in office, Jon Stewart masterfully pointed out that the content of his speech was remarkably familiar to his predecessors, I have both found and lost the first girl my age that showed a little interest in me (- and broke my heart)and I am trying, no- realistically, it's more like hoping, to learn everything I can in the midst of the storm.
Yesterday when my heart had swelled and and the scabby part broke open again and the longing within came spilling out, the oddest thought came to me.
I shared it with my good friend Dave and he immediately became concerned for (and I appreciate him for it) my life.
I called him on the phone and it went something like this...

Dave: "Hello, Tumwater City Zoo"

Me: "I don't think dying as a consequence even enters someones mind when they contemplate suicide"

Dave: " "

Me: "I think that their only consideration is to stop hurting because it has become unbearable"

Dave: "Uhm... "

Me: "Just thinking about a disturbing thought I had yesterday"

Dave: "What kind of thought would that have been?"

Me: "The thought came to me that carbon monoxide would be a pretty painless way to go"


Now, my friend needed some assurance that I wasn't looking to do anything drastic and I was happy to provide that, but the realization is that people who take that road aren't really thinking of its permanence. It's about making whatever they are reacting to stop.
I don't know quite why I got this revelation, but there it is.
There is more to this, but I haven't gotten it yet. Probably like most times I'll be driving and won't be able to go anywhere with it, but then again, it will come up when it should.
Don't solve a temporary problem with a permanent solution. Jesus is there and has made the way for you to talk with His Daddy- try that first. It's a little more flexible application.

Scared yet? I have hit the wall on being afraid of the most powerful man in america. I was so very worried when the clintons toook office- I was sure that the end of days was just around the corner.
Since then I have watched as some pretty amazing prophecy has been fulfilled, and saw it done in ways that are counter to what I would call correct... but I can see part of what God was doing in the midst of working it all out. Not the perfect thing that I had in mind, but where do I get off having thoughts about perfection. I'm as small minded as the people that I have so readily labled scarey.
I am being challenged to see Gods' hand moving (because I know that it is) and to suss out what His hand is on.
There was a prophetic word that was interpreted to be about Huckabee (my candidate of choice) that I could easily interpret as Obama-
Wanna know which one?
"The next president will come in a plain brown bag"
The interpretation was that he would be a plain sort of a guy, and not particularly special, when in fact it could easily have meant that he would be a brown man. I am convinced that the heart of the ruler will be lead by our God like the course of a river by the hand of God.
I'll have more to say about this, but it's something to think abput.

I saw Horton Hears A Who today. It Was a great movie! I really enjoyed it. And I have a little different take on it in the prophetic sense than most folks I have talked to. I see it as a picture of the church and its need for reformation... Of course that's where I see most everything.
Horton is the church that has a heart for the youth of today that doesn't judge. Doesn't need to mold the coming generation into a static form that has no life or ability to change.
The next generation has already rejected that scenario, and I am with them.
A rainbow mohawk to say, "We are here!"
Black fingernails to say, "We are here!!"
Piercings and tattoos to say, "We are here!!!"
Meanwhile, there is a kangaroo court set up on any given sunday that is judging prospective members according to standards that these upright citizens who follow the letter of the law as it pertains to the culture of the church dictated by the western mindset.
Are we okay so far?
There are a lot of people out there that are happy to say that, "I had to do it it's only fair!" and so are happy with maintaining a status quo that attracts no one who didn't already say that they would come to the church when they got old but wanted to live first.
Nothing fun in the church. Everything is what it was. No changes, no growth, always looking for a new way to make what we do, how we serve the church, what we give our identity instead of who we have become through submitting to the blood of Christ and learning that He has honored us for receiving Him.
Not how we have accounted for our money, nor how much we give to the "body" that we belong to. Not how we have mowed the lawn at the church or filled a sunday school teachers void, but how we trust that His sacrifice paid our and got us in right standing before the Father. A God who is set apart from all that is imperfect, shattered, bent- has gathered all those who will acknowledge His great love for them seeing the price He paid in pain and suffering, in a world that He created, So that we could be friends.
So believe me when I say that I can hear a Who and I long to give them a safe platform to go about their daily lives on in safety.
I hope that works for you.

I spent a a few minutes the other day talking with someone about a decision that they have made and they kept their own counsel making it. Amidst this discussion they shared that a friend recently did the same thing. They went underground (sort of) to make a life altering decision and they left the church body to make their decision.
Now there are two things that I have to say here.
First is that I heard a prophetic word in the last few years saying that there were going to be weddings that would occur suddenly, and there have been a few so far that have fit the bill. They have been surrounded by interesting circumstance and I cannot say whether right or wrong, but God will bless them if they that have committed will remain committed. They will have a marriage of testimony if they keep their eyes on the One that blesses and follow His lead of dying daily.
Now number two. These young folk didn't trust the church body that they were apart of to bless them in their motion, nor in fact, to even give it a chance. They felt that the body would or did judge them in their quest for happiness.
The failure that I see in this, and I'm not through meditating on it, is that the church body does in fact judge. We look at a situation or an appearance and call it what it would be if it were in our experience.
Neither party in this is free from guilt and both party's need to repent and get into right relationship with each other.
How can the older teach the younger if all that the younger expect to hear is that what they are doing is dangerous?
And why should they listen when all the elder do is meet their expectations?
We pray for the prodigals to come in and and it is immediately incumbent on us to start acting like dogs and smelling their butts to recognize them- who they are, where they've been, what it is that they have consumed, both intellectually and physically.
I preach Jesus the Christ. Him crucified and me grafted into His resurrected body that is not slave to sin and stands for nothing to stand between Him and fellowship with His Father.
I am no slave to sin. Neither I, nor anyone else who has turned to Jesus for completion, have any fellowship with sin. Nothing is sin except that which separates us from the Father and we are the ones who define that by allowing it to be used to shame us.
Children know no sin, and we are to come to Him as children- I suspect that this means we come in innocence. Clean and pure because we think on the things that He instructed us to... Whatever is clean whatever is pure-
This is hard, a hard word, but more because it irritates us like sand in our pearl making bits.
I don't have this yet, but I submit it here for a comment or two.

add: Part of the thing in the church is not to stumble others with our nonsense and this is why we are to be careful what we do and where. If we stumble someone, if we give someone with a propensity to judge something to judge, perhaps this makes us guiltier than they for we can consider and know better.