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I Need You To Survive

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:08:00 +0000

I love this song by Hezekiah Walker. It fits well with things I've been hearing a lot about lately.

Song: I Need You To Survive

I need you, you need me.
We're all a part of God's body.
Stand with me, agree with me.
We're all a part of God's body.

It is his will, that every need be supplied.
You are important to me, I need you to survive.

I pray for you, You pray for me.
I love you, I need you to survive.
I won't harm you with words from my mouth.
I love you, I need you to survive.

It is his will, that every need be supplied.
You are important to me, I need you to survive.

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"This is Home" lyrics by Switchfoot

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:34:00 +0000

I’ve got my memories
Always inside of me
But I cant go back, back to how it was

I believe now
Ive come too far
No I cant go back, back to how it was

Created for a place ive never known
This is home
Now im finally where I belong, where I belong
Yah this is home, ive been searching for a place of my own,
Now I found it, maybe this is home
Yes this is home

Belief over misery
I seen the enemy
And I wont go back, back to how it was
And I got my heart set on what happens next
I got my eyes wide its not over yet
We miracles, and were not alone

Yah this is home, now im finally where I belong
Yea this is home, ive been searching for a place of my own,
Now I found it, maybe this is home
Yes this is home

And now, after all my searching
After all my questions
Im going to call it home
I got a brand new mind set
I can finally see the sunset
Im gonna call it home

Home, this is home
Now Im finally where I belong, belong
Yes this is home,
Ive been searching for a place of my own
Now I found it,
Maybe this is home
This is home

Now I know
Yea this is home

Ive come too far
And I wont go back
Yea this is home

Danny Silk Q & A

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:14:00 +0000

- the root of all evil in relationships is the lie that I can control other people. That leaves the other person scrambling to get free from you controlling them

- the most important thing you have in any relationship is your heart to heart connection to them. So if dragging them to church is damaging that then I let go of that and hold on to them. But I communicate what’s important to me and how it makes me feel in an honest way. Be such a supporter of them thatthey feel like a fool to ever endanger that. Somebody values your heart so much that they’ll change their options and freedom to keep from hurting you.

- Usually people who are emotionally distant and shut down are highlysensitive to manipulation.

- What you believe to be true is absolutely true to you. When you don’t like someone it’s often because they bring something into your life that you can’t control and it’s either hurtful or threatening to you.

- Relationships perish for lack of knowledge. When I have no idea how I’m affecting you I’ll never change it. I’ll never change what’s bothering you if I don’t know. The courage to be open and honest without being mean. You’re scared and just wanted space but didn’t want to tell them about you you just wanted them to back up. It’s so easy to tell other people about them when you feel scared or hurt instead of about you. “it scares me when . .

- If the threat of punishment is what we use to keep people from sin then we teach people that sin results in punishment

- Teach your children to control themselves. Do you want to control you or do you need my help?

- “you must be punished for sin” isn’t true.

- What are you going to do about the mess you just made with so and so?

- Mentality we’ve been taught is like a dog coming in the house and pooping on the carpet. We hit the dog and put it outside but leave the poopthere. The dog outside isn’t the goal but not having poop on the carpet. The goal is to reconcile the relationship through our mistakes. Leads to where we don’t know how to clean up our messes but only to harden our hearts so we aren’t hurt further.

- As long as I pretend like you’re powerless, you believe that and I believe that then it’s true and we build a relationship to keep it true.

- When dealing with someone that doesn’t realize they have a problem then hold up a mirror and ask “is this what you’re feeling”. Just ask questions and listen. Just ask “what are you going to do? How is that working out for you?” as long as they think somebody else has their problem then somebody else has their power. When I blame you for my life and circumstances I’ve given my power to you and I can’t change until you change and you control my life. When they say “I don’t know what I’m going to do” I’m going to ask “then what’s the problem?” and keep asking until we get to the problem.

- If you don’t learn how to manage your freedom your freedom will turn into a bondage. Whatever offers your freedom and victory you’ll have to learn how to manage and steward. When you attach shame or punishment to something you have empowered the devil in a situation. God is intent on giving you so much freedom that every bit of you destined to be glories, happens. People around you who are afraid of sin willtake away your freedoms. All things are permissible but not all things are profitable. You can do whatever you want but just a whole bunch of it is stupid.

- What are we gunna do if we get to heaven and everyone is naked?

- Perverted freedom causes destruction in your life

- How will you manage yourself to protect your love and your relationships?

Danny Silk: The Place of Honor; Understanding Levels of Intimacy

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:12:00 +0000

- when attending a wedding don’t take the place of honor but of lowliness so you’ll be exaulted and not demoted

- you being adjusted to your rightful place in the relationship can feel like dishonor or honor depending on where you first place yourself

- if you don’t understand the levels of honor you’ll either violate them or be confused by them

- honor allows trust to grow

The Place of Honor

- Allows trust

o We can meet the needs of eachother

- Allows intimacy

- Allows empowerment

- Honor = trust, intimacy & empowerment

HealthyRelationships

- Covenant

o I allow you to influence me

o You allow me to influence you

§ “I need to feel ____ in our relationship”

§ if responded to builds trust, if not builds anxiety

§ anxiety casts out love – love cast out fear

§ are you paying attention to the level of anxiety between you and the people around you?

§ We share our hearts with eachother and we both value it

o We are both willing to die to protect this relationship (connection)

§ I’m willing to face the fear of conflict to tell you what’s really going on in my life

§ By you not having conflict you’re really cultivating selfishness cause you are afraid what will happen to you.

§ I need to be courageous enough to love you and speak the truth in love and tell you what’s going on with me

§ When one person “dies” and the other does not …

· it creates an injustice

· vengeance enters the relationship

o protect yourself, take it into your own hands

o Romans 12:19-21 – overcome this by honor, self-control – turn over the justice to God. Surrender my right to punish you, avenge myself, and withhold love because I trust that God will work in this.

o So I stay focused and in control of me no matter what you do

o If you don’t do this you’ll become a victim that blames others for your problems

- Intimacy

o We’re afraid of this

o We have a need that’s gone unmet so I’m going to hide it from you and mistreat you until you guess what it is. When you guess wrong or quit trying I’ll treat you worse and get hurt and rejected thinking that you don’t value what I need. I think if I tell you what I need upfront and you don’t do it it’ll hurt worse.

o In-to Me-see

o Safety

o Vulnerability

o Acceptance

o Peace

- Boundaries

o Setting Limits

o Not rules

o Boundaries = to keep in what I want to keep in

o Keep out what I want to keep out

o To protect the priorities of my life

§ Time, energy, resources, relationships

§ It’s no one else’s job to protect my priorities but my own

o Set levels of relationships that you will protect

o Communication Levels

§ Cliché

§ Facts

§ Ideas/Thoughts/Opinions

· Where the problems start

· This is where the anxiety comes in cause we don’t know how to deal with 2 powerful people in the room

§ Feelings

· If you touch my heart with your head it’s gunna hurt like crazy

· Don’t try to correct my feelings

· If you understand this part of who I am then I can open the deepest level of communication

§ Needs

o I must be powerful if I’m going to be free and able t manage me no matter what’s going on with you and you will demonstrate your value for this relationship by how you respond.

§ Jesus said our love for him will be shown by how we treat our relationship

§ How do I treat what I know is important to him?

§ How is your behavior affecting God’s heart?

§ We can convince ourselves that Jesus is okay with anything and justify our actions

- eliminates anxiety, control, manipulation

- I tell you about me and you tell me about you

o Can you respond to what I showed you and not feel controlled or dominated by what I need?

Effective Communication

- speaker & listener

o “I” Messages

§ I feel _________(feeling)

§ When ________(action)

§ I need to feel ______(feeling)

· There are things you want me to do I don’t want to do

- if I don’t know how to communicate what I need to you, you won’t understand

- I’ll feel powerless and out of control if I overstep my boundaries

o If they are crossed I’ll communicate to you the anxiety and stress that I feel because of that

o Work out expectations

- Honor = How you communicate with people and the level of access yougive them to your life.

- Women, how dressed are you emotionally in your conversations with guys?

o If you don’t respect that inner place it’s like having sex several times before marriage

o Don’t be vulnerable until he will cover you, let him set the bar for emotional depth

- It’s not up to you what people do with their limits

o If people have a spirit of rejection and you are a peacemaker you can lie and perpetuate a false relationship and they will eventually get hurt

o You sound rejected instead of informed

o What are you going to do with that sensitivity and spirit of rejection?

o Fight fear with love

- Difference between a scar and a wound is if you touch it and it hurts, it’s still a wound. And if you let it go it will get infected.

Danny Silk - Confrontation

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:11:00 +0000

- Gal 6:1 – go and confront gently

- When I get to you I don’t need control of you

- I brought no judgement with me

- Goals for confrontation

o To introduce consequences into a situation that are thfor teaching and strengthening

o Bringing to the surface what people forget about themselves after they have failed

o An invitation to strengthen a relational bond with someone

§ Test of covenant and invitation to strengthen relationship

o Strategically applied pressure to expose areas that need strength and grace

§ Create internal pressure not external

- To maintain honor you have to remain powerful in the conversation

- Keys of confrontation

o Trust

§ If I don’t have trust you and need to confront you, job 1 is to build trust you and job 2 is to confront you. I may need to find someone you trust more and have them confront you

§ Trust vs. mistrust

§ The most pervasive human stronghold at the root

§ Relationships are the soil of revelation. The place where we manifest every drop of revelation or lackthere of. Heavenly revelation should manifest between people.

§ trust cycle = need – need expressed – responsive to need – need satisfied

§ mistrust cycle = need – need expresed – unresponsive to need – need unsatsfied

§ we’re either building trust or mistrust

§ we need to know what the other person needs so when I confront or apply pressure it should be to discover your need and apply a remedy to the unmet need.

§ What caused you to misbehave? Deal with the relationship not just punishment to regain control.

§ Intimacy

· Willingness to be vulnerable

· In-to-me-see

· Safety

· Vulnerability

· Acceptane

· Peace

o Self-Control

§ We need to control ourselves so we can be free. Otherwise we become anxious

§ Freedom/ Self control – self-respect/courage – integrity/boundaries

§ Honor is you knowing how to empower me and knowing how to control you

§ You lost control of you and gave it to the thing that put you in this hole

o Questions

§ Lead people to internal pressure and get past their defenses

§ Job 38:1-3 his friends pumel him with judgement for 38 chapters till God comes and tells them to shut up. “Prepare yourself like a man, and I will ask you, and you answer Me!”

§ A powerful force that stimulates thinking and you must trust people that they want to solve the problem

§ Genesis 18:

· God doesn’t know something “I’ve come down to see if what I’ve heard is true”

· If there were 50 righteous?

· Abraham confronts God and God changes His mind.

· If God is confrontable then who isn’t?

§ Questions allow the person to find solutions from the inside out

§ They create opportunities for the person to tap their greatness

§ It allows for the covenant between two people to manifest

§ They allow the confronter to remain an ally

§ Sample questions

· I am wondering if …?

o You realized how you affected ____ when you____

· What are you going to do? – great response for 99% of people

o Trust people with their life and their problem

o Help them from the backdoor

· How is this working for you?

· Do you want any help with this? What can I do to help?

· …didn’t it? …isn’t it? …wouldn’t they? Add question to the end of a statement

· Robin & Josh

o What’s the problem?

o Who’s been affected by it?

§ Godly sorrow leads to repentance and can’t be created from the outside

§ Reconnect to the value and honor they have for these relationships

o What are you going to do?

o When will you let me know that you’ve cleaned this up?

o Find out what the need is. The fear of man manifesting in differentways.

o She’s pregnant before marriage but the problem is deeper than sex

o What people need in a mistake is a remedy for the mistake not more shame

Respect the Crush - Dann Farely

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:07:00 +0000

I'm going through old school of ministry notes from Redding and came across these ones I thought I'd share

- God is not omni causal – in all things He’s working together for good vs. God causes all things to work together for good

- 60% of 1^st time marriages succeed, 50% of 2^ndmarriages, 40% of 3^rd marriages

- since we tend to marry the sort of people we date we should probably date the sort of people we could see ourselves marrying

- I didn’t say it wouldn’t hurt, only that it wouldn’t kill you

- When lust is killed it will be re-energized into desire

- People talk to their dogs and tell us what they are thinking – crushes, we project our world onto others and fall in love with our idea of the person

- I have a whole list of things I’ve been looking for and you kind of fit that so I’ll just put the whole list on you and imagine it’s all there

- Once you get exclusive you start to see some of the things of the crush

- Crush = projection, collapsing of boundaries = don’t make major decisions there but invite boundaries there. It’s painful to re-establish boundaries.

- time boundaries = “nothing good ever happened after 11:30pm at night”

- you are responsible to know where your pants are at any given moment

- lust will mess up a marriage, kill it and let holy sexual desire arise

- let yourself learn to fall in like before you fall in love. I feel love growing but I’m really trying to find in like.

- People aren’t like kitty cats, you can’t have one get run over and just go to the store to get another one and it’ll make everything better

- Your relationship should be consistent with your language. Actions and words should say the same thing. Don’t give yourself exclusivly to someone when they haven’t asked you to do so in word and deed

- We are bond buildingmachines but sometimes we play dumb with eachother about the bonds that we’re forming between males and females

- Bonds = emotional connections that energize us, motivate us, and establish our identities. Help meet our needs and the needs of other people.

- 2 types of bonds = love bonds & fear bonds. You will build one or the other because people cannot live without emotional connection that gives me identity and motivates action. That’s why people can stay in abusive marriages.

- “if you leave me I don’t know what I’ll do” = fear bond, manipulating and control

- sin makes you crazy, God hates it cause it hurts you and makes you crazy

- work on forming love bonds not built on control and manipulation

- We often see Christian men build relationships with closeness and distance at the same time

- Dating teaches us that relationships don’t last and to protect our heart so is poor training for marriage. A strength of courting is that it doesn’t do this.

- John Gray’s book men are from mars and women from venus: 2 people can be at different places at same time. Dial it back to where the lowest person is

o 5 stages of a relationship:

o Attraction

o Uncertainty: confusing but normal. Men become uncertain and women pursue the guy. A reason that men don’t hunt cows – like Elmer Fud trying to kill something and bugs keeps jumping in front of the gun. Don’t become overly available in the time of uncertainty. Men want to feel like they picked.

o Exclusivity: open up your heart to love: many men don’t know how to do this. You’ll love people you won’t end up marrying.

o Intimacy: Physical, emotional, mental, spiritual (creates love) chemistry

o engagement

- Christian community says if you date one you date all of us

- You’re not ready to be thinking about marriage till you’re ready to be a giver

- 3 principles for physical intimacy: Everybody keeps their clothes on, no pressy bodies, hands in nice places

Arts Shift Nations

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:37:00 +0000

This is sooo powerful. See how kingdom arts and creativity have shifted things all over the world!

Releasing Kingdom Creativity Testimonies

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:51:00 +0000

Sinus & Lungs Healed through Art Words of Knowledge

One of our team members got a word of knowledge that the Lord wanted to heal sinuses and lungs. Shedrew pictures of a nose and a set of lungs and called for those in the service to come up if that applied to them. A woman came who had a deviated septum in her nose and had been unable to breath for quite some time. As they prayed together our team member asked her if she needed to forgive anyone. She listed several people and, after they prayed through to forgive each one, the woman was able to breath completely normally! Another woman came up for prayer inresponse to the word about lungs. She had emphysema and several other issues which meant she could inhale but had difficulty exhaling. The team member had the woman hold the picture to her chest and, as she did, she felt light breaking forth inside her. She started breathing very quickly and found that she was able to exhale normally! She took the dance workshop the next morning and couldn’t stop dancing all day long. She gave testimony of her complete healing, released healing for others and even danced a prophetic dance over the congregation at our last service.

Salvation at Skate Park

We did an arts outreach and treasure hunt at a local skate park and one of our team members had a man with green shoes on his treasure map. He found his treasure within 10 minutes and started telling the young man with the green shoes how he was God’s treasure and how much the Lord loved him. The man said he had never had such kind words spoken over him before and had just been released from prison a few days before. Our team member asked him how he’d like it if he could have all his sins washed away right then and there. The man said that sounded great so he prayed to receive Christ at the skate park.

Other healing testimonies

We released a word ofknowledge for old sprains that hadn’t healed right. A man came up who had a sprained hip and, after prayer, said it felt 90% better. Many people experienced inner healing through sozo or shabar ministry during the prayerministry times after service. People received breakthrough in creativity indance, writing, music, and several other areas. Many people testified that previous blockages to creativity were lifted and they were able to express themselves in areas they had been limited in before. Many people received breakthrough in emotional healing.

An older woman in thedance workshop shared through tears that she had been set free from a fear of displeasing God and was now able to be released into freedom.

During ministry time a person had trouble receiving breakthrough from the Lord so a team member danced over them and that shifted things so they could receive from the Lord.

Someone on our team had back issues so another person prayed for her legs to grow out and even up and then her pain went away. Another team member needed prayer and, when we sang over her, the things she was struggling with felt like they melted away.

We released words of knowledge for people going into writing, music, video game producing, the education industry, hospital administration, farming breakthroughs, and several other areas.

Other outreach testimonies

We painted faces, made balloons, did drawings and writings for people at the local park. The teenagers who were there skateboarding were very open. Several of them prayed to experience the presence of God and felt heat or weight on their hands that they had never felt before. We got to prophesy into their lives and just love onthem. Many on our team did prophetic drawings for them and spoke into theirdestinies. A treasure hunt team found a lady and her two kids and were able to pray with the woman who shared that her husband had left her this week. They spoke life and hope into her and ministered to her kids as well.

We prophesied over a man that he was a dj and into mixing and sound media. He asked if we had been to one of his shows and thought it was odd that we just “knew” this about him having never met him before. We ministered to him and talked with him for a long time.

When we first got to the park there weren’t many people around. Then one of our team members started playing a drum and it changed the atmosphere of the place and people started coming up to us.

I would also talk about the painting that Hannah and Lilli did and how it ministered to Rose and how God high lighted her to the girls to give the painting to her. As you recall she couldn't quite talk. The girls prayed for her and blessed as did I. I talked to her some and mentioned through a word that she had a story to tell. She light up and said yes and was going to Nathaneals writing class. God was really moving on her she has had a rough go, but God is washing her clean and restoring her.

Another testimony was the word on color blindness that was mentioned at the end of ministry time. A lady came up to me with all these drawings about eyes and brail and it turns out she had a virus a few years back that has wrecked her eyes and one characteristic is color blindness. She was ministered to by the young boy who drew an eye with three crosses on it as well. Mike and I prayed for her and spoke life and blessed her. No immediate healing, but she will be recover!

Finally, on the treasure hunt we had a man with a blue sweatshirt and around children or by playground. Matthew came running up to me and said "there's the guy with the blue sweatshirt let's go pray for him!" So we walked up and was able to speak life into his family, recently divorced but now with a women of God, and his circumstances. Gave him a picture of a sun over a dollar sign and he said he was waiting on news if he has the finances to move into a new apartment, we declared it done and prayed a blessing, and blessed is stature of man of the house hold and what an honor that is...

Judy had a word of knowledge of something where it is hard to breathe and someone was having problems breathing, and Judy prayed and they were healed.

Mike did sozo on someone with a broken heart, and had a lungs problem and got healed

Sue and Matt prayed right sprained hip and got 90% healing

Nathaniel word of knowledge of left toe, someone had 6 toes on left foot, toe didn’t grow out but God was doing something, he got a word for the person that she is a song writer and this person has been praying and have a dream of record recording

Joanne got a word of condemnation, this person comes to her says she is a condemnation, Joanne prayed for her and led her through the forgiveness stuff and when they weredone, she was really happy.

Nathaniel and Amy didsome sozo stuff with someone, this person kept hearing lies when she asked God, so Amy danced and worshiped around her and the lies went away.

Christina ministered with Kristen and Kristen was praying and prophesying and when she was speaking and Christina got the word “explosion” and it was right on.

Matt got the name Tim and prayed over a Tom and God told Matt that was right to keep going so Matt went with it and he prayed and prophesied over him with business.

Ivanna prayed and someone was impacted by what Ivanna prayed.

Kristen - prophesied over a boy that he will make video games and his dad said that he already is designing video games

Kelli talked to a lady that doesn’t have a family but loves children and making a show that will be filming children around the world

Sue and Joanne going out of their box

Mike led a skateboarder that just got out of jail to the Lord

Kristen went to bikers and asked if they wanted to feel God’s presence.

Amy hasn’t written poems in a long time and didn’t know she could do it, she got a few words for this boy and made it into a poem and started prophesying over him.

Christina figured out a new way to make balloon crowns and remembered how to make the dog.

Julie made cards for people and gave one away that said freedom, and one that said dance and it meant something to the kid, the child likes to dance

“I’m ready for Christianity that ruins my life, that captures my heart and
makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so
captivating that I am considered wild, unpredictable and …well…dangerous!”
- Mike Yaconelli

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Jesus Fiesta

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:54:00 +0000

woot woot - a blast from last March at our Manila, Philippines Jesus Fiesta with the Bethel Team!!

Information Meetings for Dare To Believe School of Transformation

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:20:00 +0000

Dare To Believe School of Transformation

Information Meetings for the Upcoming 2011-2012 School Year

Are you ready for more of God and ready to serve Him more, but not sure what to do next?

DTB-SOT is designed for people who are available one evening a week for school

We utilize the curriculum from the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (Redding Ca)

Guest speakers will be coming approximately once a quarter to minister in the school

Quarterly weekend intensives will assist us in covering the full curriculum

The primary focus of this school is to equip believers to lead a naturally supernatural lifestyle, to embrace God?s Word and all that is in it, including signs, wonders, and power.

Dare To Believe is a ministry led by Pastors Kristi and Gary Graner. Kristi has over 20 years of leadership in church-based ministry and Gary serves in the marketplace as a manager, leader, and pastor.

When: Monday evening July 11
Where: The House Church, 12101 Nicollet Ave, Burnsville, MN
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Questions: kristi@dare2believe.biz
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testimony from a friend in Redding

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:39:00 +0000

Last winter a friend visited our Moravian Embassy home. Her left arm stopped just below the elbow, 6-8” shorter than her right arm & only 12 the width. Her “hand & fingers” were a ball with nubs. Over the past few months she has been calling Bethel healing rooms on skype. The arm has grown so the elbow's match & even the wrists match! And then the thickness of the arm doubled right before their eyes. Worthy is the Lamb!

Testimonies from the Releasing Kingdom Creativity Seminar

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Sinus & Lungs Healed through Art Words of Knowledge

One of our team members got a word of knowledge that the Lord wanted to heal sinuses and lungs. She drew pictures of a nose and a set of lungs and called for those in the service to come up if that applied to them. A woman came who had a deviated septum in her nose and had been unable to breath for quite some time. As they prayed together our team member asked her if she needed to forgive anyone. She listed several people and, after they prayed through to forgive each one, the woman was able to breath completely normally! Another woman came up for prayer in response to the word about lungs. She had emphysema and several other issues which meant she could inhale but had difficulty exhaling. The team member had the woman hold the picture to her chest and, as she did, she felt light breaking forth inside her. She started breathing very quickly and found that she was able to exhale normally! She took the dance workshop the next morning and couldn’t stop dancing all day long. She gave testimony of her complete healing, released healing for others and even danced a prophetic dance over the congregation at our last service.

Salvation at Skate Park

Other healing testimonies

We released a word of knowledge for old sprains that hadn’t healed right. A man came up who had a sprained hip and, after prayer, said it felt 90% better. Many people experienced inner healing through sozo or shabar ministry during the prayer ministry times after service. People received breakthrough in creativity in dance, writing, music, and several other areas. Many people testified that previous blockages to creativity were lifted and they were able to express themselves in areas they had been limited in before. Many people received breakthrough in emotional healing.

An older woman in the dance workshop shared through tears that she had been set free from a fear of displeasing God and was now able to be released into freedom.

During ministry time a person had trouble receiving breakthrough from the Lord so a team member danced over them and that shifted things so they could receive from the Lord.

We released words of knowledge for people going into writing, music, video game producing, the education industry, hospital administration, farming breakthroughs, and several other areas.

Other outreach testimonies

We painted faces, made balloons, did drawings and writings for people at the local park. The teenagers who were there skateboarding were very open. Several of them prayed to experience the presence of God and felt heat or weight on their hands that they had never felt before. We got to prophesy into their lives and just love on them. Many on our team did prophetic drawings for them and spoke into their destinies. A treasure hunt team found a lady and her two kids and were able to pray with the woman who shared that her husband had left her this week. They spoke life and hope into her and ministered to her kids as well.

When we first got to the park there weren’t many people around. Then one of our team members started playing a drum and it changed the atmosphere of the place and people started coming up to us.

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:25:00 +0000

Here's the song of the day for me. Maybe it fits for someone else too . . .

I wanna set the world on fire

Until it's burning bright for you

It's everything that i desire

Can i be the one you use?

I i am small but

You you are big enough

I i am weak but

You you are strong enough to

Take my dreams

Come and give them wings

Lord with you

There's nothing i cannot do

Nothing i cannot do

I wanna feed the hungry children

And reach across the farthest land

And tell the broken there is healing

And mercy in the father's hands

My hands my feet

My everything

My life my love

Lord use me

Lyrics provided by http://www.kovideo.net/

Source - http://www.kovideo.net/set-the-world-on-fire-lyrics-britt-nicole-211901.html

Philippines 3:3b, 7-12

rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, ⁷ But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. ⁸ Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which isfrom the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; ¹⁰ that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,¹¹ if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.¹² Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. ¹³ Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

40 Day Negativity Fast - Igniting Faith in 40 Days

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:20:00 +0000

Taken from Steve Backlund (www.ignitedhope.com)

What a Negativity Fast is Not:

1. It is not denying that problems exist
2. It is not "stuffing things" that are wrong
3. It is not critical of others who may be struggling
4. It is not irresponsible concerning things that need to be done

What a Negativity Fast Is:
1. It is determining to focus more on God's promises than on problems
2. It is learning to speak with hope about even the toughest of issues
3. It is becoming "solution focused" rather than "problem focused"
4. It is refraining from reacting and giving voice to pessimism, criticism of others, self-criticism and other forms of unbelief.
5. It is speaking about problems to the right people in the right way
6. It is replacing negative words & thoughts with positive words & thoughts based on the promises of God

The Supernatural Explosion with the BSSM

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:55:00 +0000

BSSM Conference 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:50:00 +0000

Update

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:46:00 +0000

Hi friends,

I have been in Australia for almost a week now . . . Landed in Sydney to spend time with a friend from woodland hills in mn who has moved here and married an Auzie . We went to the mountains and saw the famous opera house. We were given free tickets to a bill joys on conference and i also got to visit hill song which was powerful.

Now i am off to Tasmania to visit friends from redding. Other then speaking in one church, my whole time in Australia is vacation trip.

My last week in the Philippines I was honored to spend with destiny ministry international headed by paul and ahl yadao. I got to know almost all of their pastoral staff and hear the stories of the 20 plus years of revival that they have been walking in there . . . They currently have churches in 4 nations and oversee about 8,000 people. This movement has some powerful business models for missions and are really on the cutting edge of a new missionary movement. I hope they can soon get some more books and resources published to share with the world what is going on there.

Well that's the update for now. Personally my stomach is still a little under the weather but i am having a blast and excited for my last two weeks before i head home.

Love and blessings!

Kristen

Philippines update

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Hi friends and family,

Here is a brief update on how things have been going here so far. I arrived 2 days before the rest of our team and got to speak at church so blessed in Manila. Then I met our team of 36 from California and, the next day, we put on a 2,000 person prophetic arts event, training, leaders meeting, and slum community outreach. After that we ministered at 7 churches, prophesied to a chief justice and a senator, did an outreach to a women's prison, ministered to the staff of metro ministries that works with 20,000 kids throughout the nation and spent time with kids at a garbage dump. All that in 4.5 days.

We saw hundreds saved and healed. We had two cases where people who were mostly blind (I.e. They were blind but could still see some light) received their site and then were able to read supernaturally. Tumors dissolved, cysts and goiters evaporated, deaf ears opened, just to name a few.

After this I took 4 students up to the mountains where we ministered for 4 days. Our first day we went to a fishing village on the china sea where we did an equipping healing and prophetic training, met with leaders, prayed for the sick, ran a childrens service and lead and open air meeting at night. A man came in with a curled up hand and dragging his leg from a stroke. The next day he was working on a construction sight as his hand unfurled and his lege was strengthened. Kidney stones dissolved that night and probably another 20 people at least received healing. We ended with a fir tunnel and dance party.

The next day we ran a 3 session conference and a youth meeting. There was a powerful release of the father's love in the conference and many of the youth were activated in prophetic art during the youth service. We prayed for the kids for the baptism of the spirit and for tongues and many were either on their faces on the floor or leaping in the air.

The following day two of us ministered to the core leadership team of his heart ministries followed by leaders trainings for their house church leaders. We taught them how to give and receive in the spirit and had them all prophesying over each other. The rest of the team went to a mountain village to lead more meetings, do a children's service and pray for the sick. Every person they prayed for felt improvement!

On Sunday one of our team members ran a house church service and prophesied over every person there. I ran another service with the rest of my team. We commissioned all the youth and house church leaders as the prayer team and everyone that needed healing pretty much got healed within 10 minutes. After that we ran an arts outreach training time followed by outreach in a nearby park. A 13 year old girl prayed for healing for a fortune teller whose shoulder got healed. A pastor who came to the park to debate the bible with people got saved after a teenage girl drew him a prophetic art piece.

There are many more stories but that is the overview. The rest of our team of 36 went to 3 other cities in the country so there are so many testimonies.

The bethel team went home yesterday and I came to visit with friends at destiny ministries in Los banos (los banos = the baths). I will be here until Monday when i fly to Sydney Australia.

I would love prayer that the lord would continue to pour out his spirit on destiny ministries and also for my health as I am fighting off cold right now.

God is good and I'll try to send more updates now that things are moving a bit slower and I'd have time to be on the internet.

Much Love!
Kristen

Sunday update

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:13:00 +0000

Sunday
Our team divided up and spent the day with 7 churches where we saw about 500 people healed and 100 people saved. The church my team went to saw an outbreak of healing for respiratory problems, a breast tumor dissolve, backs and shoulders healed, and so many more. We had a powerful release of the father's love and our team ended up hugging every single person in the church and praying over all of them.
Other churches saw many blind eyes opened, deaf ears opened, and increased mobility in deformed limbs. One lady had her nub leg grow our a bit. A five year old boy led a treasure hunt team to find a man named alex wearing a red shirt who had a hurt wrist. There were two men wearing red shirts sitting my eachother and the boy boldly approached one and declared that he had a word from God for him. Alex got saved and healed and is getting connected with a local church now. Many many tumors dissolved and pain that had been on people for years instantly left.
Tomorrow is vacation day. I have just a short time for Internet now but will keep you posted!

Testimonies from The House (aka my church)

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:05:00 +0000

A few testimonies we have received lately...
*"I was at a Saturday Service and received healing in my hips. I have had pain for over 12 years. The pain used to be so bad that it would wake me at night with sharp shooting pain down to my knees. The pain was so bad it caused me to clench my teeth so much that I was doing damage there. Last night I slept pain free for the first time in 12 years. THANK YOU, Jesus!!"
*A man at the church was sharing a testimony during a Saturday Night Service of a healing that had occurred on his job as an EMT. (A man with a hard attack had been completely healed after prayer.) As this testimony was being shared, a man in the audience who had lived with irregular heartbeats and chest pain was completely healed!
*"I was at your service Saturday doing jumping jacks after being healed. The power of the spirit ran through me that night and now my spine is pain free. Almost a week has gone by, my pain is gone. Just wanted to let you know that for 6 years I had lived with 3 crushed discs and a pain that sent me through the roof. The last 6 years I have spent over 200,000 dollars on treatments and pain pills. It only took being in a place where the people have God's spirit in them and asking for healing in faith that it can be done by the great doctor, Jesus Christ."
*"I recently got to participate in the salvation of a family member. Praise the Lord!"
*A man who had been unable to work because of health issues was completely healed at a House Service and then offered a job the following week. He is now employed for the first time in years!

Kristen's Philippines Update

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:30:00 +0000

Hi Friends!

I leave in 11 days (March 21) and have some wonderful news to share about my upcoming trip to the Philippines!

All the funds have come in!! Any extra donations will now be used to help purchase resources for area pastors or donate to area ministries in the Philippines.

Ways to still get involved

Send an encouraging word! I want to bring encouraging/prophetic words for the different ministries that I’ll be with. Pray over these names and email me back with any words, pictures, or scriptures that you get for any or all of them: Metro Ministries, His Heart (Angela & Yasmin), Hands of Hope (Duane & Jenny), Destiny Ministries (Paul & Ahl), Mark, Susanne & Esther Leech, Brooke & David Rapic.

Pass on resources: Pass on your new (or like new) stellar books or teaching cd’s on healing, the prophetic, prayer or the supernatural life or some fabulous worship cd’s. There is a ministry that works with 42 area pastors in Manila and I’d like to bring as many resources over for them as I can. If you are interested in this please let me know!

Help build a childrens home with your spare change: Friend’s of mine are raising money to build an Iris Ministry children’s home in Africa and I will be delivering the US offering for this to them directly while on my travels. The idea behind this offering was to have people donate their spare change to change the world – so any amount is welcome even if only $1. If you’d like to donate to this you can give me your change in person in the next week or give via pay pal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GZ7DUN4WG8SXY

Jump on my prayer team if you haven’t already (email me back to join). I’d love prayer that I’d be tuned into the heart of God to know the best messages to bring to each group I serve, for wisdom in knowing how to prepare in this next week before I go, health (no headaches/back aches now and while traveling), wisdom in leading/co-leading with the Bethel team, etc

Australia/Tasmania
I’ll be in the Philippines from March 21-April 11 and will then take a personal side trip over to Australia/Tasmania to visit some friends. I’ll be back in the US in early May and we’ll see what adventures await after that!

Blessings!

Kristen

Kristen D’Arpa

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makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so
captivating that I am considered wild, unpredictable and …well…dangerous!”
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Words over Philippines Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:29:00 +0000

These are the words that our team got while in prayer over our upcoming trip. Lets agree with them in prayer!

Philippines

Wells are being dug.

Josh 1:3 every step you take you are taking the land wherever you go.

Strong governmental anointing on this trip. Prepare to meet up with government: picture, drawing, prophetic word. When a nation is shifted governmentally things will happen naturally.

Many people in the group have a ‘governmental’ anointing upon you.

Release of creativity: art dance drama.

Some will release words on how to shift the economy. Write this stuff down.

We are being set-up for favor and what we are all to bring into those realms

We are strongest when we are in unity and it’ll flow into the community.

Philippines are strong in ‘family’ and our team will be soo unified.

Unity especially between the generations.

Religion will disappear from the entire country.

Known for grace. Operate out of grace, you are accepted and flow from love.

Favor on you 100%

This is the year for Philippines

This trip has something to do with the 16 that were raised from the dead in Brazil. “Arise and live in the name of Jesus” all of the 5 praying said it all at the same time and the bodies started shaking and the 16 were raised from the dead.

People are praying and interceding for the Bethel team that will be heading out to the Philippines.

As praying see: child raised from the dead, see the first micro-loan, father embracing son, empty hospital bed, see empty leg brace, emotional ties to substance abuse LEAVING and replaced with connection to God and an addiction to Truth, people getting rocked by the Presence of God, prostitutes leaving the streets, poor have hope in their eyes, glasses OFF and seeing restoring, HOPE being released through balloons, revival being released through the youth, hearts that were torn are being healed, thousands of miracles released, a wave released: people riding the wave and them being released into freedom, saw land restored starting with the hearts of the people (hearts of people restored), revival breaking out in Catholic churches, priest getting ‘drunk’ through a prophetic painting, people having a new image of who God is, being an example of us being who we are and people seeing that and their value being released, love of God changing and transforming leaders in the Philippines, light covering darkness, God awakening people into their destinies, multiplication happening before our eyes, release of Alexander Dowies inheritance released. Divine appointments with counsel members. Increase of favor.

We thank God for the miracles.

Healing Rooms Weekly 3/4/11

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:45:00 +0000

Healing rooms testimonies from Redding

Healing Room Testimonies February 12th, 2011

Prayer Recipient Testimonies
*Ruben from Reno
In 2000, Ruben was in the navy, and the ship had been in a bad collision with equipment. It was really bad and he was on it. They sent the ship to the dry docks for repairs. There was a huge hole on the floor (4 feet by 4 feet). He didn’t know it was there because it was covered in tarp. There was a hole in the wall, too. The hole in the wall was five feet wide and 3 feet tall. He was told to grab the grinder and smooth the edges in the wall and the first step he took, he fell down two stories. He injured his left hip and thoracic back, the middle of the back. Last month, he was listening to Bill Johnson and at the end Bill was praying and he said “thoracic.” He said, “What’s ‘thoracic’”? Someone in the congregation said, “It’s the middle back.” So he said, “Stand up.” Ruben was in Reno listening on his iphone. So in his living room he stood on his couch and lifted his hand and said, “Lord, I am claiming this healing in Jesus’ name.”
Since then he has had no back pains. This was a month ago. That same day Bill had said, “All families will be united, and your thoracic back will be healed.” Two days later, his sister-in-law found her aunt’s grandson, whom she hasn’t seen in 33 years. Two days later, his sister-in-law found her cousin on facebook and he is coming to Reno in a month or so. Today he came for his left hip to be healed. It was healed 100%. He feels no pain.
For 11 years, the pain in his back would have been a 10 for others but was a six to him because his pain tolerance is high. He would twist to crack it to put it back in place. He could not do lunges before. Today he can do lunges.
*Tori Swan from Lake Tahoe

Tori has not been able to run for the last two years. Ten years ago, she was in a motorcycle accident and since then has had two surgeries on her knee! Although she has had two surgeries, the pain in her knee stilled remained. After receiving prayer, she was able to run down the hallway with zero pain!

*Frances from Georgia
Frances received prayer for arthritis and diabetes. Previously, she could not bend her knees to squat and now she has strength in both her knees and her hands! She still needs to walk for thirty minutes to test for pain, but she is already feeling stronger than she has in twenty years!

Christian from Chicago
Christian received prayer for a sinus infection and for his hips and knees that have been injured while playing sports. He began feeling better in the Encounter Room and was blessed and encouraged about plans for the future. Christian was refreshed and had an intimate encounter with the Holy Spirit and revived the relationship with him and the Father. He left filled with revelation and joy!

Luke

While receiving prayer, Luke received confirmation about many things that the Lord had spoken to him in the past! Luke also believes his groin muscle has been healed. He strained it two weeks ago. Also, in 2002, he tore his quad, and the lump still remains from the injury, but he said he was believing that his quad would no longer affect him in a negative way! He is also filled with the joy of the Lord! He confirmed his healing by going outside and running a few sprints! He experienced no pain.

Judith

Judith has had pain in her knees for the past ten years. She also has been experiencing pain in her right hip and back for the past four to five years. Her back pain was located around her kidney. While she was in the Encounter Room, the pain in her knees decreased! While she was receiving prayer in the Healing Rooms, the pain in her right hip and back completely left! She had been experiencing heaviness with a situation with her daughter, and the heaviness has been replaced with the joy of the Lord! She has been crying and is filled with a new hope!

Jennifer from Florida

On the flight from Florida to Redding, Jennifer had extreme pain in her tailbone from an injury that occurred while she was a teenager. While she was receiving prayer, there was a word of knowledge about tailbones, and she received it. After receiving prayer, she sat in a chair and felt some pain, so she declared that the pain leave and the pain left! Also, from years of taking care of her mother, Jennifer would experience pain in both of her knees. She is no longer feeling pain in either of her knees! Jennifer’s left leg was shorter than the other, and because of this, she had to wear a lift in her shoe that was about a half an inch thick. She had forgotten her lifts in her other shoes and the people in her prayer team asked to measure her legs without knowledge of one leg being shorter than the other. They checked and her left leg grew out without prayer! She also received clarity of mind and her “brain fog” is gone!!

Jason from Redding, California

Jason has had pain in his elbow for about a year, as well as pain in his neck and back from an injury that occurred when he was twenty years old. He received a word of knowledge saying that he needed to forgive himself and change his mindset of believing he had to do everything out of his own strength. He experienced God’s love and the healing of his elbow! Jason left feeling much lighter knowing he can walk in His goodness.

Kayla

Kayla was experiencing ankle, back, elbow and neck pain as well as headaches. There was a word of knowledge and she was completely healed of her back and ankle pain. The pain in her neck and elbow is minimal. Also, for the past week Kayla had been experiencing stress and anxiety to the degree that she carried a stress ball with her wherever she went. However, she had an encounter with the Holy Spirit and let go of the stress ball! During the encounter, she saw some bubbles and feathers as well as blue and purple lights. Kayla got completely whacked!

Norma from Sultana, CA

While she was in the Encounter Room, she could feel the presence all over her and could see Jesus dancing around the room with everyone. This is Norma’s second time to the Healing Rooms. She visited last year and was healed of numbness in the bottom of her right foot. Now she is experiencing stabbing pain in her back. After receiving prayer, she could bend over and touch the floor flat handed without pain! It has been at least ten years since she has been able to do that!

Annie from Santa Clara, CA
Annie has been experiencing back and shoulder pain for the past six years. While in the Encounter Room, she felt the Lord ask her to dance for Him. Although Annie is more of a reserved worshipper and her number had been called, she decided to stay and dance. After dancing for about five minutes, she heard the Lord say, “Well done.” She then received prayer in the Healing Rooms and was completely healed of her back and shoulder pain. Also, she has been discouraged because she desires that she and her husband would have kids. They are thirty-five and felt they were getting too old to have children. She received prayer and affirmation about her desire for children from a woman that hadn’t had children until she was forty-one!

Susannah from Chicago
Susannah received prayer for digestion problems caused years ago from taking diet pills. The Lord affirmed her identity, broke off lies she had believed and released her to dream! She felt the thick presence of God and received inner healing!

Richard from Oregon
Richard has suffered from lower back arthritis for a couple of years and grinding in left hip. He was supposed to go in for hip replacement last year but it’s been controlled with supplements and prayer. But it resurfaced and got worse in the last two to three months. The pain in his back was a level 9 out of ten. His stiffness is gone. His hip, which would be at an 8 or 9 is at a 1. The Lord said for him and his wife to dance together and they did, and the breakthrough came.
Ellen from Bend, OR
Ellen had tightness in her chest and couldn’t breathe well at all, and the tightness and difficulty breathing are completely gone. It’s been since Christmas that she had that problem. It acts like asthma, which she had as a child, and it seemed to be coming back. She didn’t want to go to the doctor because she didn’t want to know she had it and she wanted to be healed. She can breathe. She’s gone weeks without being able to take a full breath. She had a lot of things spoken over her, and her husband received the same words (he was with a different team) about dancing. She was raised in a church that prohibited dance, and she loves to dance. God wants them to dance.
Melissa from NY
Melissa has had chronic right knee pain for about 15 years. Every time she bent her knee, it hurt. It’s like a misalignment. Right away when they prayed, the pain completely left her left knee. Then, by the end, her right knee was 96% better.
Anne from WA
Ann had a non-malignant tumor inside the radial nerve in her left arm for about 4 years. It interfered with her strength and mobility. The interference was slowly taking over. It was hard to chop things. The muscles are atrophied. Today it’s quite a bit better. She can lift her hand, which she couldn’t do when she walked in. and stretch it out. She couldn’t stretch it as much.

  Baptism of the Holy Spirit   7
  Blessed   13
  Breathing Improved   4
  Digestion   1
  Falling out under the power   3
  (Father’s) love   3
  Feels better   1
  Feels lighter   11
  Forgave someone/self   3
  Freedom or Relief   9
  Generational curses   2
  Heat or warmth   7
  Hope or Encouragement   29
  Identity   4
  Inner Healing   12
  Joy   23
  Leg or arm grew out   7
  Mini-Sozos   4
  Mobility improved restored   1
  Pain Reduction(COMPLETE)   55
  Pain Reduction (some)   42
  Peace   19
  Presence of God   24
  Prophetic word   2
  Tingling   1
  Touched by God/whacked   7
  Vision Improved   5
  Had vision/picture   2
  Encounter   1

  Place of Pain
  Ankle   2       Hip   7
  Arm   5       Knee 16
  Back   29       Neck 17
  Ear   1       Prostate 1
  Elbow   2       Shoulder 4
  Foot or Leg   10       Stomach 3
  Hand   4       Tailbone 2
  Head   8       Tooth 1
              Wrist 2

Birthday Freebies

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen D'Arpa) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:38:00 +0000

I just turned 29 yesterday and discovered a whole host of fun birthday freebies that are available for you just because you were born! Here's what i've discovered so far. For pretty much all of these you have to sign up for their email list at least several days before your birthday.
For more links go to http://www.thefrugalgirls.com/birthday-freebies

Dennys - Grand Slam (you pick any 4 breakfast items). Good only on your birthday

IHOP - pancake breakfast (like a grand slam)

Caribou - coffee of your choice

Starbucks - coffee of your choice if you register a gift card online (i'd register at least a week before your birthday)

Famous Dave's - coupons for either free dessert, appetizer, or meal (depending on what coupon code you get)

Culvers - 2 scoops of ice cream

Buffalo Wild Wings - free dessert

Noodles - meal

Tony Roma's - entre

Benihana's - $30 gift certificate for joining their chef's round table. This place is so much fun!!! You just can't use the certificate for meals for 2 - it's only good for your meal which will cost about $30.

Brueger's Bagels - bagle & cream cheese & cookie

Dunn Bro's - coffee

Old Country Buffet - buy one get one free

Dairy Queen - buy one get one free blizzard

Arby's - free shake if you buy something

TGI Fridays - appetizer or dessert ($8 value)

Don Pablos - dessert

Chevy's - dessert & sombrero

Fuddruckers - burger

Joe's Crab Shack - appetizer

Orange Julius - buy one get one free

Giopannese Sushi - sign up ahead of time and get a $20 coupon for one entre

Lindy's Steak House - online birthday club - not sure exactly what they give you

Sonic - free medium tots, slushi, or drinki