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Special thanks to our friends at Fresh Fire Ministries for hosting Sean Malone for this in-depth interview. Sean Malone is Co-Founder of Crisis Response International, a disaster relief organization headquartered in Blue Ridge, VA. Come hear his story. Rescuing and saving lives. Interview by Freedom Fire Ministries. See more videos on our Vimeo channel.

Right now you are shedding the delays and trials of 2019. Stand firm, He is for YOU! 2020 is about getting focused and leaping into all He has for you!

But we thank God for giving us the victory as conquerors through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. So now, beloved ones, stand firm and secure. Live your lives with an unshakable confidence. We know that we prosper and excel in every season by serving the Lord, because we are assured that our union with the Lord makes our labor productive with fruit that endures. 1 Corinthians 15:57-58

 

Feel like you’re made for more? Do you see a broken world and want to bring the answer and run passionately with a tribe who are all in, all of the time?

For it is Christ’s love that fuels our passion and motivates us, because we are absolutely convinced that he has given his life for all of us. This means all died with him, so that those who live should no longer live self-absorbed lives but lives that are poured out for him.
II Cor. 5: 14 & 15

 

God is pouring out His Spirit. He is calling forth and sending out a new breed of mercy missionary to bring great demonstrations of His love and power into crisis.

But I promise you this—the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will be filled with power. And you will be my messengers to Jerusalem, throughout Judea, the distant provinces—even to the remotest places on earth!”Acts 1: 8

 

Take a leap of love into 2020. The ARC School Starts Leap Day – February 29th!

 

Now go in my authority and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19

 

The ARC School is an 11-week Crisis Response Missions Training School held at the CRI Base in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

 

ARC School is for you if…

• You want to be part of a transformational response to crisis so that cities and nations will be revived, restored and rebuilt on God’s Kingdom.
• You want to be quipped as a CRI Missionary and have the support and covering of a spiritual family.
• You can’t wait to be part of worship and prayer centered missional community that is passionate for Jesus.
• You want to join full-time CRI Staff and live on the CRI Mission Base. (Now Required)

 

Faith requires a first step!

Apply For ARC School NOW!

 

 

I want to share a testimony… Two days before I was commissioned to full-time missions/ministry, I was at a conference “Cultivating the Supernatural” at Crisis Response International’s mission base. Danny Steyne was sharing a powerful message, and afterward, he began to pray for each person in the room. When he came up to pray for me, I felt the overwhelming presence of God as I fell to my knees weeping and immediately went into an open vision.

I went from weeping to wailing, and travailing from the intensity of what I was seeing, feeling, and hearing. I saw myself flying over the earth, and I began to hear the earth groaning, moaning, and crying out, “WHO WILL GO? WHO WILL GO?” And then as I flew closer in flying over nations, I began to hear the same cries, moaning, and groaning coming from different nations from all over the earth, crying out, “WHO WILL COME TO US? WHO WILL COME TO US?” The screams and cries were so much worse than that of someone losing a close loved one. I could literally feel the pain and agony as the screams continued and intensified as they got louder as I got closer. As I was still in this vision, I collapsed, as my body went from being on my knees to being flat on my face laying under the table. I could not stop crying for over an hour. In the vision, I continued to fly closer in, I went from seeing nations, towns, cities, counties, to now seeing entire people groups, tribes, faces of people from different nationalities. As I saw them, I could hear their inner souls crying out, moaning in agony and in pain, saying, “WHO WILL CONE TO US? WHO WILL COME TO US? WHO WILL COME TELL US ABOUT JESUS?” The screams were like nothing I’ve ever heard before. So much pain and sorrow, I could literally feel it. In the vision, I then looked up towards heaven as if asking for help, and as I did, I saw an open heaven, it was like the sky was peeled back. And I could see the Father sitting on His throne. Looking down on the earth, searching the earth, saying, “WHOM SHALL I SEND? WHO WILL GO?”

I was messed up and left undone from that experience and Encounter. I, to this day, hear those cries and the moaning and groaning of the nations and the people. In that short moment of time, The Father allowed me to feel a little glimpse of His heart and love for His people and the nations that are lost and hurting, suffering dying. What I felt was only a glimpse, and it was more than I could bear. I cried out, “Here am I, Lord send me!!! I will GO!!!!”

The commissioning that followed and took place two days later at CRÍ was not planned; it was not talked about; it was not rehearsed. I had not shared this vision publicly yet. The commissioning was a last-second, spur of the moment, Jesus showed up in that morning worship session and began to move in a powerful way. It began with a burden for the nations that could be felt by all in the room. We began to intercede and cry out for the nations and for laborers to rise up. There were different nationalities represented in the room, as each took to the mic praying for the nations in their native tongue. It was a beautiful, powerful prayer meeting. And it was at that very appointed moment the Lord stirred the heart of Sean to pour oil over my head and officially before God, men, the angels, and the cloud of witnesses to commission me and release me into full-time ministry. I literally felt like Jesus Himself was pouring the oil on my head as I was commissioned as CRÍ’s first full-time missionary to the nations!!! I am wrecked by the things that broke in the spirit as I was released to full-time ministry! I don’t fully know or understand what that will look like for me personally I just know God is sending me to the nations! It was interesting that Right before I was to be commissioned, a truck pulls up and parks in front of the door flashing its lights, and on it, it says “cover the earth”. It was almost like a prophetic sign from the Lord saying, “cover the earth, Natasha.”

Later, that same day that I was commissioned, there was a double rainbow across the sky. As I was coming out of the House of Prayer and Encounter, this beautiful rainbow lit up the entire sky. I felt like Jesus put the rainbow there just for me as a sign of His promises and a seal to the covenant I made with Him to go to the nations as He has promised me the inheritance of the nations. That was almost a year to the day while I was in California deploying to the wildfires. It was on that deployment the Lord gave me a physical key and said this day I have given you the key to the nations.

“Then I said, ‘How [gloriously and honorably] I would set you among My children and give you a pleasant land—a wonderful heritage, The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father And not turn away from following Me.’”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭3:19‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Natasha Istomin

 

 

Here is a very special moment with Danny Steyne during the Cultivate Conference. The video captured a word that he shared with our community.

On November 18th, 2019 we ordained Natasha Instomin into full time ministry.

She is the first full-time, CRI Missionary commissioned to the nations! She will also be leading CRI’s new “missions department.” and relocating to the base in VA.

It was our joy to share this moment with Natasha and the thousands of other moments that led up to this.

It was time that we publicly recognize the mighty call of God on her life and take a step forward with her doing full-time missions work with CRI.

Haggai 1:7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.”

I had a dream recently where CRI was given the bricks from a demolished building. The bricks were historic and were of great value and of high regard to the Lord. The bricks were handed to us from the special needs kids that are part of the program next to the new CRI base (the sellers of the camp). It was elements of the structure that once “was” but that would now be repurposed for a new work.

I was so honored to receive the bricks from these precious kids. I felt responsible to make sure CRI builds with reverence and honor for what was done here in the past but that it would be entirely different.

Paul said it like this in 1 Corinthians 3:10, “By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

CRI has a non-negotiable mandate to keep Christ at the very center of all we do and the new mission base. That’s why we want every trainee and responder who steps on this property to encounter God’s love and power. We want to create an atmosphere charged with the presence of God and ignite responders to burn for Jesus Christ. It’s why we are making H.O.P.E. FIRST!

Days after I had this dream, a partner stepped forward and committed to match every dollar we raise for H.O.P.E. (House of Prayer & Encounter) up to $17,000.

With this matching gift, we have the opportunity to raise a total of $34,000 and pay for all the materials needed to renovate H.O.P.E.

Our deadline is May 11th!

We need partners like yourself to sow into this incredible opportunity. Help us spread the glory of God across the face of the earth. Isaiah prophesied that the whole earth would be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God. Let’s start with the CRI camp and every disaster ridden town and city!

Until the whole world hears,

Sean Malone

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H.O.P.E. First from Crisis Response International on Vimeo.