Huge News: We are moving to Colorado Springs

This is a long story but it is so worth hearing and by cutting it I would be removing the testimony of Jesus in our lives and the lives of so many others! So here is to whole thing!

As I sit here in Colorado Springs in awe of the wonder of the mysteries of God I am blown away by his winds of change that have swept over Lindsey and I. A week ago we were getting ready to head back to kansas city and start our new roles in the Intro to IHOP program as Core Leaders. Yet His destiny and ageless plan had already unknowingly caught us by the coat tails. 3 months ago as we were determining our plan of action for the birth of Croy God laid it on our heart to take time to establish our family, go deep in the knowledge of Him, how to equip people for our generation, and the book of Revelation. Also during that time we inadvertently started noticing that close to every time we drove anywhere in kansas city a colorado license plate would be in front of us (on a car of coarse not a floating license plate :) )

This continued to happen whilw other peculiar signs started to appear. "random" billboards advertising-"Come to Colorado" were everywhere and not only that we started running into people that were from Colorado. God finally got our attention I would say. We had decided in March to take a trip to Colorado in June to show off baby Croy and it was obvious that God had bigger plans for this trip.

So we started asking God where, what, or who we were suppose to meet. One afternoon in late April as we were walking trying to get baby Croy out of the womb God told us to talk to Murry and Deborah Heibert at Every Home for Christ. Lindsey knows of them because they are related to David Perkins and used to work at IHOP. They had just started a prayer room at this missions organization and that was about all we knew. The winds started to blow on us as Croy was born, we started going deep in what he had asked us to do, and our Colorado trip neared.

So last week we headed to Colorado and our house floods in KC while we are gone forcing our beloved roommates to frantically move all of our stuff upstairs and eventually box up into a storage unit. As the week progresses we try to get ahold of the Hieberts but to no avail. Finally last Thursday we got ahold of a friend that works with them but we found out that they had just left for kansas city for a wedding..oh no...well we went to Every Home for Christ (EHC) just to check it out anyway and to have coffee with our friend. She gave us the Hieberts number and told us they would love to connect with us when we went back home to KC.

So we meet with them on Sunday morning over coffee and we hurriedly tell them all of this and who we are (they only had 30 minutes to meet with us inbetween meetings) and then we awkwardly opened it up and said we didnt know why we were meeting with them so we were wondering what God was doing at EHC, at the prayer room, and in their lives.

They quickly shared about the convergence of Prayer/Missions/ and church planting with IHOP-KC, YWAM, EHC, and others, pioneering this prayer room in Colorado Springs and starting an internship that would equip people to go and plant houses of prayer all over the nations. As they are speaking the presence of God falls on us and we could feel Him so heavily. He whispered to both lindsey and I- to pay attention to what they were saying. We had shared with them our hope to one day return to the glorious mountains and they mentioned that we could come and join there staff.

So we left there totally not sure what God was doing but we knew He was up to something. So we go to the closing celebration for our Internship and I get a text asking to meet again- Murry had a few questions to ask me. Sitting down with him again at the coffee shop he stares at me and says something to the effect of," you dont really know me and I dont really know you but God has highlighted you and we want you to run our Internship" God laid it on both he and his wife as we were talking the first time.... WHAT? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? He continues to tell me that they have been looking for a family to run the internship and could not find anyone with the IHOP DNA of 247 prayer, trained in missions, people that know the Colorado culture, and we knew much of his staff already. As I sit shell shocked he tells me the catch- the only time for new staff orientation this year will be next week and the internship starts next month. As the weight of it all hits I ask questions about the internship and it is the beginnings of something similar I have been journaling about for weeks! Our God is so beyond comparison! We ask to pray about it til Wednesday but knew we would need to know sooner to get this massive ball rolling.

Lindsey and I are in the prayer room sorting all of this out with God and we feel it is time to head to the house we were staying at (cause or other house was flooded) and we got in the car and started to talk about everything that had just happened. We look up and there is a colorado license plate in front of us so we laugh a little til we realize it is the Hieberts and then we are struck. WE FOLLOW THEM for 3 miles and then pull up next to them at a stop light. We awkwardly roll down our window and say hey we were just talking about you funny that we are following you all..and they laugh and say we were too sounds good why not keep following us :) So as all of this concludes we call and talk to a few people and get on our faces and pray to God. He confirms over and over that we are suppose to go so by thursday morning we are re-packed up and headed to our first staff meeting at EHC. We will be back in kc the first week of July to officially move and have a huge party before we leave!

Crazy what happens when you follow God :)

As we establish here what it looks like to be missionaries and start up this internship next month (JULY 22) please be praying for us for clarity 1Peter 4:7, peace and joy in our hearts-Romans 15:13 (we are freaking out a little as you could imagine) provision and help to find a house here to rent and so much more -Ephesians 1:17-19 is a good blanket prayer to cover us :)

We love you all and we will keep all of you up to date on this crazy God drama and will post new pics of Croy soon! Keep letting us know below how all of you are doing cause we really do love to hear from you

check out EHC on our link to the left and look at our internship under prayer!

til later - shalom

CROY IS HERE! Lindsey was such a trooper and after having labor all night little baby Croy Joshua Lujan was born at 7:06 am weighing 7 pounds 6 ounces; 19 inches long! He has beautiful strawberry blonde hair and has a wonderful little cry that makes your heart melt.

Make sure to post how you are doing and how we can pray for ya!

Baby update: NO BABY YET:( We have had some pre-labor stuff but the big event has not started.... Pray over Lindsey's delivery that she would encounter the love of God through it!

As we wait for baby Croy to come God has been sharing his heart on his birthing process for his kingdom coming to earth! So many days go by without us pondering the thought that God is coming back to earth to reclaim his rightful place as king :O My heart lights on fire as I type!

Matthew 24: 4-14

⁴Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ, and will deceive many. ⁶You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.⁷Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸All these are the beginning of birth pains.

⁹"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. ¹⁰At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, ¹¹and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. ¹²Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, ¹³but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

As Lindsey gets prepared for the birthing process we are brought to the idea of truthfully what it will look like for the earth to give birth to Jesus' Millennial Kingdom. As the western church we shy away from anything that brings pain but pain is required in birth for the body to be ready and for the new creation to be birthed! I love how in everything on this earth God points back to himself. How can people deny that He exists?

One thing that struck our attention was that researchers have found that the baby actually initiates the birthing process and tells the body when it is time to give birth. I will let you draw the conclusions.

Intro is going well and our new interns are amazing! Keep praying that God would restore them body, soul, and spirit.

Please email us or leave a post with updates of how you all are doing!

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Quick Update!

IT IS ALMOST BABY TIME! So at our appointment this past week they were measuring lindsey and think that the first due date of April 23rd is more realistic than May 3rd! That is next week......I cant believe it is time to meet baby Croy :)

Lindsey is doing well with a little swelling so keep praying for her and for the delivery!

The intro program is doing well as we are starting our next group! Pray that God will come in and encounter them with his healing hand spiritually, physically, and emotionally.

Mat is doing great but allergy season is in full bloom and he has been struggling so pray for healing!

We love you all keep us posted on how you are and email us if you can at treegateministries@gmail.org

James 1

2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. ⁴Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

This has been the verse for the week as God has continuously tested Lindsey and I as we settle into Kansas City! So often it is not the big things that shape our faith but the daily choices and reactions to life; say you come back home after driving 10 hours to sell your car and you find your sink is clogged and leaking everywhere at 1 am....it makes for a beautiful breading ground for mature reactions....or lack there of...but having to struggle in your inner man to find joy during such times has us grateful that we are learning it now so when the big things do come, say an earthquake, we are found able to reach out of a heart of peace and joy rather than the numerous other unhelpful ways that get us nowhere in that day!

Anyway beyond that Lindsey is doing great! Continue to pray for her delivery and that swelling stays down as she is entering into the last few months. Mat has been sick all last week and is trying to kick the sinus head cold that is going around. Our team is doing well and God is breaking into their lives pray that each of our interns will be able to walk out the healing, joy, calling, and heartbeat that God has been giving them over the past two months!

We love you all so much and are honored to have you all by our side! Dont forget to let us know how you are doing below. Oh and we are trying to collect addresses and emails from people so if you want us to have your address please send it to www.treegateministries@gmail.com

Hello after so long!

Hello all of our beloved friends and family! It is us the Lujans...I am sure you can still remember us if you think hard after our long absence from this blog! So much has been happening and in rapid succession coupled with no internet access provides for the perfect storm of NO INFORMATION! Gladly we are back in Kansas City and in our new house with internet that we borrow from the neighbor:)

But first let us get to business: baby news! Lindsey is doing well and baby Croy is growing rapidly inside her. He is due to come into this world on May 3rd so pray for Lindsey as she rounds the bend of the last trimester and also that her delivery will go smoothly ( never to early to cover her with prayer)! We have amazing 4D image of him below for you all to check out!

This new year has found us settling down in Kansas City as missionaries at the International House of Prayer! The Lord has called us both to join the Intro to IHOP program staff where we are teaching, training, and equipping all those that come to ihop with intentions of joining staff or desire to gain the heartbeat of the prayer movement. As missionaries God has called us to gather people around our ministry as partners which took us to Iowa in the beginning of January and Atlanta at the end of last month. God moved mightily and we cant wait to see everything God is going to do in us and through us during this next season!

We will update again soon with more encouragement and thoughts as God molds and shapes all of our hearts!

It's beginning to feel alot like Christmas....

For those who do not know we found out last week that ITS A BOY!!!!! Baby Lujan's new due date is May 3rd, 2010! We have been having some problems with scanning the ultrasound pics but they will hopefully be up soon!

We are currently in Colorado and the snow is beautiful as it reflects off the sun coming down from the clear blue sky! Praise God for this mountain air! We will be heading back to Kansas City on Saturday to attend the ONETHING Conference (see more at ihop.org) As the awakening meeting ( the move of the spirit that broke out here at ihop with physical and spiritual healings) have grown stronger leading up to the conference I cant wait to see what God is about to do as 20000 + people all join together to worship, learn, and cry out for Christ's return!

More huge news: We just ended our INTRO program and God has led us to join staff here at IHOP as Intercessory Missionaries! We were greatly honored to be asked to join staff of the Intro program (which we just went through) here at IHOP. More specifics to come after the conference and an anouncement we are going to be visiting a city that sounds like matlanta :)

LOVE YOU ALL

the lujans!