Anna Needs Some Help Today

Anna Needs Some Help Today

Imagine being an air-traffic controller, without enough runways, landing planes all day, every day…They… keep… coming…   heeeEEELP!!  

  WE NEED SOME HEROES!!  

I’ll get back to this, but first…  

Let me introduce to you Anna Keener!

She is at the tip of the spear for David’s Tent.

Anna grew up in Albania (her parents were missionaries) then lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After completing her Discipleship Training School (DTS) and staffing in YWAM Charlotte, she came to DC in 2015. 

No one is counting, but it’s highly probable that she has lead worship at the tent more hours than any other. She has been faithful!

She also wears a lot of hats…

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Currently, Anna is on night watch…
(midnight-6am) and either leading worship or present onsite every night. Besides this, she is the Tent Scheduler! That’s like the pitcher in baseball or quarterback in football or an air-traffic controller….

Each week, she weaves the David’s Tent schedule together to be sure someone is ministering to Jesus and (at least) 3 staff members are present, every hour, every day. She builds the schedule around the State Week teams and finds a way to fill in the rest… somehow…

Right now, Anna’s job is super high-pressure because the hours keep coming and there’s not always enough volunteers to take their stand.

She sure could use some heroes….

First, let me say, you’d never know about this pressure if you stopped in at the tent!

It’s all amazing there! God’s presence and peace is so easily known. 

Did You Know…?
We have a Facebook group called “David’s Tent Local Heroes” where Anna posts the most needed gaps each week. A SPECIAL THANK YOU if you’re one of our heroes!

But truth be told, much of the schedule has fallen on our full-time YWAM staff who are currently onsite 8hrs a day (besides responsibilities back at our mission’s base). We are fighting for each sacrificial hour and Anna is in the dead center of that mayhem.

Thankfully, we have a relational base of local volunteer staff and worship leaders from the DC region. However, our small team simply cannot do what the Lord has called a nation to do with excellence.

If we only had more heroes… 

So… Can you be a Hero? Can you help take pressure off Anna and our whole community?

Here are 3 Ways You Can Help:

1. The 50 State delegation teams have been small during the winter. Please help us rally your state for your week. If your delegated week doesn’t work with your schedule, then come another week.

 

Sign Up for Your State Week

2. Our full-time DC residential staff team that was once over 40 people is now down to less than 20. Please consider moving to DC and jumping in with us for a season as a full-time volunteer.

– OR –

3. We’d like to expand our relational pool of DC, Maryland, Virginia worship leaders and local volunteers. Part-time is helpful! Let us know if you can be counted with “David’s Tent Local Heroes.”

 

For information, housing options, staff, worship leader and volunteer applications, please email Anna at   volunteer@davidstentdc.org
We need your help to revive the vision of David’s Tent DC. Over the past 4 years, the newness and romance of the vision may have worn off a little. Many of the first wave of volunteers have moved on…

But Jesus is still worthy! We still love Him! We need America to rally to David’s Tent and have a revival of the vision!

We want to keep going! FOUR! MORE! YEARS! And then some more…

 

We Think God is Up to Something on Capitol Hill

We Think God is Up to Something on Capitol Hill

Did you ever look at the events surrounding your life and suddenly have that wide-eyed revelatory moment, “God is up to something!”? I just had one of those. I want to be sure to give a report on what’s happening on Capitol Hill on January 1, 2020. A wild inter-generational convergence is happening in a synergy of prayer. 

The Holy Spirit is raising up a second 24/7 prayer watch in DC, to harmonize with David’s Tent, which will begin at midnight, at the beginning of 2020. The location of this next watch is as significant as the National Mall has been to Davids Tent.  

You have to hear this God-story!!! His-story is being made. I don’t want you to miss this next part of the journey. Read the full blog post here.

This will double the stewardship of the YWAM community that has been door-keeping for Davids Tent DC for the past 7 years.  Thank you for supporting us so graciously in the trenches! This will stretch us, but with all of you in our corner, and God leading the charge, we are excited to see what breakthroughs are coming.

May the fire on the altar never go out!

Happy Thanksgiving from Capitol Hill

Happy Thanksgiving from Capitol Hill

Happy Thanksgiving from the Tabernacle of David in Washington DC! 

A governmentally sanctioned holiday to celebrate and give thanks to God is not something to take for granted. I look forward to the day that our government codifies a perpetual 24/7 lamp of worship and prayer to the Lord like David did as King. Jesus is worthy. 

For now…  it’s grassroots. This Thanksgiving, I’m thanking God for the thousands of people that have given their offering of worship, talent, time, service and money to Davids Tent over the years. It’s taken a nation to bring forth this 50 State perpetual memorial of thanks to Jesus in our Capital. 

You are the glory. The glory cloud of witnesses that have surrounded Davids Tent DC on earth, I’m sure makes the heavenly cloud of witnesses thankful too. 

May God hear OUR prayer offered with thanksgiving and heal our land. 

Thank you Jesus for all!   

Friends, the whole DavidsTentDC Team in Washington DC gives you our all, with a heart of Thanksgiving! 

That’s What I’m Saying…

That’s What I’m Saying…

It’s Oklahoma week!

 

-Next week is New Jersey.
-Last week, Michigan week, we made the tent a bit smaller for the winter, reconfigured the stage and brought in the heaters.
-Impeachment hearings and 24 hour worship to Jesus are simultaneous spiritual realities in DC this week.
-As impeachment becomes frequented word in DC, chart topping record by Kanye West is released in America entitled “Jesus is King.” Ironic.  The lead off track, “Every Hour,” is a song about singing every hour, second and millisecond until the power of the Lord comes down.

THATS WHAT I’M SAYIN! That’s Davids Tent! Thank you to all who have taken part in this!

Things are clearly being stirred in the United States. It’s time to throttle up David’s Tent like never before. Be sure to not miss your states week in 2020. It’s important that every state is well represented before the Lord. We don’t want to do this without you.

The next Davids Tent Discipleship Training School (DTS) starts January 9, 2020. You are invited! Every young person should take a GAP year for training and missions. May the youth of America rise to take their place on the walls of intercession and in global missions.

And my wife Kimberlee gave birth to our newest little girl, Arrow Hope, this past week. We have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!

Our next DTS training school is January 9-May 31 2020.
Get all the Info 
HERE.

All Tribes DC is Happening Now

All Tribes DC is Happening Now

Friday, Nov 8, 9-5 pm
AllTribesDC IS HAPPENING NOW!

COME ON DOWN TO THE TENT TODAY.  ALL TRIBES IS RUNNING TILL 5P

The new floor came just in time for AllTribesDC!  This Friday, November 8 from 9am-5pm Davids Tent will be hosting AllTribesDC for the second year in a row. Last year over 300 people from over 40 First Nation tribes from North America gathered in DC for this wonderful day of worship and prayer. 

Indigenous people have a unique governmental authority over the land where they were the first to live.  Acts 17 declares that God appoints the times and places we live so that we might seek and find Him. There is something unique about the geographic realities of where we live that create the perfect petri dish to cause us to seek Him and then also find Him!  The people and their land go hand in hand. As the First Nations of our continent are brought into the fullness of their destiny in Jesus, so will the rest of us. 

I have noticed that since the Native Americans brought their blessing and prayers of establishment over Davids Tent, we have not had to move the tent since!  The first several years of Davids Tent were riddled with constant interruptions to move the tent to different locations on the mall by the ever-shifting realities of the National Park Service.  It now seems that David’s Tent has come to a resting place at our current location. I can only attribute that to the blessing of the Lord that was brought uniquely by AllTribesDC last year. I felt that after 3 years of pre-gathering 24/7/365, that AllTribesDC actually brought the final commissioning to David’s Tent last year! 

For all those that hunger for revival in America, I want to encourage you to join AllTribesDC at Davids Tent this Friday.  This gathering will be a watershed moment of governmental blessing for all of the United States, simply by merit of the authority they carry, with the purest of hearts of love for the Lord Jesus. 

Our next DTS training school is January 9-May 31 2020.
Get all the Info 
HERE.

DavidsTentUpdate Nov 2019

DavidsTentUpdate Nov 2019

DavidsTent New Floor Arrived Today! 

Thank you for all that have given in the fall fundraiser to provide this major upgrade. No more mud.

The new floor came just in time for AllTribesDC!  This Friday, November 8 from 9am-5pm Davids Tent will be hosting AllTribesDC for the second year in a row. Last year over 300 people from over 40 First Nation tribes from North America gathered in DC for this wonderful day of worship and prayer. 

Indigenous people have a unique governmental authority over the land where they were the first to live.  Acts 17 declares that God appoints the times and places we live so that we might seek and find Him. There is something unique about the geographic realities of where we live that create the perfect petri dish to cause us to seek Him and then also find Him!  The people and their land go hand in hand. As the First Nations of our continent are brought into the fullness of their destiny in Jesus, so will the rest of us. 

I have noticed that since the Native Americans brought their blessing and prayers of establishment over Davids Tent, we have not had to move the tent since!  The first several years of Davids Tent were riddled with constant interruptions to move the tent to different locations on the mall by the ever-shifting realities of the National Park Service.  It now seems that David’s Tent has come to a resting place at our current location. I can only attribute that to the blessing of the Lord that was brought uniquely by AllTribesDC last year. I felt that after 3 years of pre-gathering 24/7/365, that AllTribesDC actually brought the final commissioning to David’s Tent last year! 

For all those that hunger for revival in America, I want to encourage you to join AllTribesDC at Davids Tent this Friday.  This gathering will be a watershed moment of governmental blessing for all of the United States, simply by merit of the authority they carry, with the purest of hearts of love for the Lord Jesus. 

Our next DTS training school is January 9-May 31 2020.
Get all the Info 
HERE.