TASHA'S VIDEO UPDATE

check out these 2 video update on youtube

this is mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3jYPxUltxk

this is my team update

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg3xELlwcN8

Update from Tasha :)

God is so Amazing; I just can’t say it enough! I wish you all could be on tour with us to see how God has been blowing our minds on a daily basis.


SO big news. God has called me to go full time as a missionary with Redeem the Shadows! I know right!!!! I'm gonna be a missionary full time. He has also called me to head up their prayer team! I will be praying night and day for these victims. Just tonight I asked God where he wanted me to intercede in prayer and Sarasota, FL popped into my head through the Holy Spirit. So I prayed for them and then googled it and turns out that their is a trafficking coalition that we can connect with their to fight human trafficking with. I will also be connecting with prayer houses, churches, and just people to pray with us. I will be the prayer support for our team for their personal needs. I will be sending them encouraging messages. The Lord has been equiping me how to pray and fight spiritual warfare. Boy is the enemy attacking us on this tour, but God is prevailing b/c no weapon formed against us shall remain. I am in the process of putting together a full time prayer & worship team. Please contact me if the Lord is laying this on your heart! Man I can't wait to share more as God shows me what he wants me to do for His kingdom with this calling!!!!

1. PROVISION

We have not slept in the car one night on tour

We have been provided meals everyday

We have been blessed with funds to fix our vehicle multiple times (just last night we went to a church and unexpectedly spoke and then they raised 1,000 dollars for our team. They didn’t know that our team was out of money and that we would have a big bill to pay for the next day to put new tires on our van)

2. CONNECTIONS

We got to sit down with a wonderful lady who prepares presentations for google and Apple. She blessed us with her time and created a clear vision on where Redeem The Shadows is heading. We are so excited to share our new vision with you which will be in the next bullet.

We have connected to church planters all across Seattle, WA There was one church in particular who’s heart is to fight human trafficking!

We had the privilege of connecting to Bethal University in California. Our team met with the head of their justice department and healing ministries. While we were at Bethal God awakened Anna’s call to go over to London to work on a campaign to raise awareness for the trafficking that will be going on at the Olympics. We made a major connection at Bethal that has a huge connection in London that will equip Anna to raise up a team and connect with the necessary people in London for this vision! (see anna for more details)

Tomorrow morning we will be on Moody’s Radio Station. ( you can check it out online at http://www.moodyradionorthwest.fm/

3. VISION

Our new vision is to inspire the body of Christ to use all their resources in their church body within their community to start their own rehabilitation home. We want to use the rehabilitation home that we are starting in California as the model of churches to adapt to start their own within their community. We are so excited for this new vision.

Our new 4 quadrant Model which noel will be writing with some more detail is below

commUNITY :

Awareness, Prevention, Rescue, Rehabilitation

We have so much more to share with you and can’t wait to tell you the new vision God has put on our hearts!

Psalm 57:11
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.


Litasha Davis :)

But thanks be to God, who always leads

Things my team and I have done the last couple weeks.

1. had our car break down for 2 weeks in colorado
2. stayed with David Crowders brother In Colorado
3. felt major spiritual oppression in Las Vegas
4. Saw the Bellagio fountain in Vegas
5. connected WYAM
6. Drove To Cali
7. Spoke at a church with 40 people and raised $1,400
8. found our 4th location for a rehabilitation center in cali from this same church
9. met with the president of the a company that makes presentations for google
10. saw the most beautiful scenery ever in cal
11. got invited to Biola university mission conference with 6,000 attendies
12. met joe jonas at a restraunt in Hollywood and he has my postcard in his hand :)
13. we also changed our area of focus to rehabilitation through the arts
14. most important I have been praying and the Lord is leading me to be a full time prayer intercessor for human trafficked victims! Please pray about supporting me as a missionary for Redeem the Shadows.

This trip has been so good despite the spiritual warfare. God always triumphs over the enemy.

2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.


tasha

RTS VIDEO LINK

http://vimeo.com/20360969

PRAYER FOR A VEHICLE

I HAVE A HUGE PRAYER REQUEST. So, the enemy decided he would like to pull out an old trick and destroy our van. We were half way up a mountain yesterday when our van decided it would go no further. The transmission blew, but we are learning to have JOY and praise the Lord even more in our situation.

We are stuck in Denver at the most beautiful artistic guest house. We got hooked up through this site called Ryfo that houses Christian music artists and we are their first exception to add to the site as missionaries. So, we get to stay in these sweet homes all around the USA.

Guess what else I'm going to be speaking at my college (Dordt) April 7 WAHOO!!

Also, I was so excited I got to have lunch with a college friend this week.

So please pray for funds and a new vehicle b/c it cost 1,500 to 3,500 to fix our current van.

Oh, and you know the artist David Crowder? well we had lunch with his brother today and met Gungors drummer last week.

so many awesome crazy stories.

Love you guys!

God is good all the time!

Tasha

Continually Blessed

In the last week we have traveled from Dallas San Antonio Texas to Oklahoma. Today will be our longest drive all the way to Colorado Springs.
While we were in Texas we visited the Alamo and Noels Aunt who provided us a lovely place to sleep. In Texas we connected with the Organization "Trade in Hope” We also got an interview with a lady that was sold by her parents as a prostitute when she was 15 to government officials. She talked with us about the healing process and the forgiveness process. She said it's only through Gods grace that he redeemed her. There is a documentary coming out about her life soon!

God has been continually blessing us with speaking engagements and places to rest our heads. Yesterday, I was extremely grateful I was able to sleep all day since I had a fever in the FLU. I took a Nyquil and I was out all day. I only woke up to transport myself to the bed and I woke up for dinner. LOL Today I feel much better thanks to everyone praying for me. Now I just need to get rid of my cough.

Lessons of the week.
-God is with me wherever I go and I never have to feel alone at any point on this trip.
-the enemy is at war with our group and we must pray to stand firm against the enemy and keep the unity of our team
-Love others even when you don't feel loved back

Fun Facts of the week
-For valentine’s day:
Julia and I went to Cracker Barrel
Then Jesus sent me a beautiful Pink Sunset
Then we went to an amazing Coffee house that had an awesome concert
Then a puppy gave me sweet kisses to end the night

-Noel thinks he has found my husband in each city until he finds out they are not single or to young. lol

-I ate the more Mexican food in 1 week than I have eaten in a lifetime

-I found out that not everyone likes to hug me back. Though, Julia my teammate who fits this mold gave me a gift this morning. She gave me 4 free passes to hug her for the trip. LOL

I'm going to attach some photos of the last week.

Blessing
Tasha :)

TRAFFICKING IN TEXAS

http://vimeo.com/19718607

copy this link and check it out. it's a small clip from my tour

I'm in Texas now. God is doing big things.

Noel went undercover as a band manager into these store fronts that were disguised as "massage parlors" Actually he went into one place in a strip mall called "7th Heaven" When he walked in the doors 3 girls lined up in front of him. He said they looked drugged. bruised. dirty. and he said they were all staring at their feet. He was shocked and called the human trafficking hotline as soon as he saw this. This building was not hiding but right out in the open 3 miles from where we were sleeping in a good area of town. After I saw this was happening 1st hand my heart stirred with a righteous anger. I could not believe this was happening and nothing was being done about it. Their were parlors like this on every street corner. Why aren't authorties taken more action I thought. It turns out some of the cops are using this business themsevles quotes a church in the area. Also, the cops say they have no where to put the girls and when they do take the girls in for questioning they ask them for their massage licence instead of asking them for their passports. Most of the time the cops will charge the girls $300 and then the pimps will come and pay for the fine and then take the girls right back into prostitution. The hard part is some of the girls don't know they are in bondage. They think they came to america and now these men say they are in debt to them. So, they tell the girls the only way to pay of the debt is to be a prostitute for them. It makes me sick what is happening. Housten Texas is one of the biggest areas for this and we need to take a stand and make this injustice stop now. We also need to pray bigtime for this spiritual warefar that is happening!