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The Music & Ministry Of Sally Klein O'Connor

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It was a hot-and-bush-was-burning day
When God said Moses look my way
You got to travel home and tell Pharaoh
Let my people go, oh no
Let my people go

Early this morning the ministry received an email from a woman requesting permission to use the lyric from our song Improbable People for Impossible Tasks. Two things about this request stuck out to me. First, we don’t often get these kinds of emails, asking permission to use a lyric or a song for something special—only now and then. Second, and more importantly, her email came the day before the 30th anniversary of our ministry, Improbable People Ministries.

There are moments in life when everything changes…

Coincidence? I think not.

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ATOR Kenora, FINAL UPDATE

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Your 2019 A Tour Of Roses Team
(L-R, Front) Sunny Lehman, Stephanie Weaver,  Yara Panther, Ammi Carranza, Sally O’Connor, Lura Olander (L-R, Back) Dave Panther, Jurgen Schmutz, Joan Appleton McBride, Christine Matchum

SALLY: Over the weekend as we were hastily cleaning, preparing, and carding the last thousand or so roses a random woman in the hotel knocked at our door asking if she could come in. Priscilla asked if we were the people handing out rose, which it became obvious we were. She said she had a song to sing and asked if it would be ok. I cautiously said yes. She sang over us in the most beautiful Hebrew the Aaronic Benediction (from Number 6–The Lord bless you). It’s on the back of our hoodies and t-shirts for ATOR.

 

I had the privilege of praying for one of the managers for the hotel we were in on Thursday night, when we held our little “service” in one of the function rooms there. She is pregnant and living with her boyfriend and was touched by all we were doing. So I prayed over her and her baby. Over the weekend I saw her again and she said, “You know, it’s the weirdest thing. Ever since you prayed for me I haven’t had any more morning sickness.” She told me later on that lots of people in town were talking about the roses all over Facebook.

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ATOR Kenora, Saturday In The Park

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Day 11

Christine: I got 2 hours of sleep the night before. And I don’t even remember most of worship or morning devotions. Stephanie prayed for me and they prayed that I would have a renewal of energy for the rest of the day and that’s exactly what happened. Lura also prayed with words from the Lord. So then we went to the market and passed out roses there. Me and Jurgen went to all of the vendors and passed out roses to most of them.

After awhile me and Dave were sitting near the entrance to the farmer’s market and passed out roses. We had a lot of fun sitting around, joking with each other and passing out roses. I loved passing out roses to people and saying, “I would like to give you a gift today?” And a lot of people said, “A gift or a donation?” And I said, “No. A Gift.”

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ATOR Kenora, A Team Aboot Town

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Day 9

Christine – I finally got outside and passed out roses. I felt kind of like a sniper. Like, where are the people. There’s someone. Let’s go get them! So I passed out some roses. It was a lot of fun. I like seeing people shocked when I ask them if I can give them a gift. Because when they see you on the street, they try to run past you because they think you are selling roses.

We ran into a woman that I have been praying for the last few days. She told me that the testimony that I gave last night really inspired her to a new tenderness to her own daughter that she had never had before.

Yara: Today we went to two schools and were allowed to leave roses with the staff. The elementary school worked on the Hearts of Hope project, placing encouraging messages on paper hearts all around Kenora. So it was neat to hear when Sally and Jurgen came back from the District Office that they people in charge understood that the roses were about reconciliation. And that they gave us permission to give them to the administrative staff and to the teachers and support staff at both the elementary and high school campuses.

Then we drove down the road a little ways and saw a First Nations School. So we parked and Jurgen and Sally went inside to ask permission. Lura and I prayed in the truck for favor. And they came out saying, “Come in! Bring some roses.” And we were able to give roses to the staff and the students. They were very happy. They asked what it was for. We were able to tell them, “It is a gift for you—to say that God loves you.”  Praise God for that! Then we went into town by the Sunset Grille and had a lot of fun giving out roses to people in cars by the waterfront. It never gets old to see a person’s reaction when you say, “It’s a free gift!” They seem very surprised and they also seem surprised it’s not for a donation even. You can see their face change when they find out it is absolutely free, no strings attached.

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ATOR Kenora, Two Days For The Price Of One

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As promised, due to circumstances Tuesday beyond our control we are combining the reports of Days 6 & 7 into

ONE BIG MEGA SPECIAL
DOUBLE ISSUE
(With a cherry on top)

 

Day 6

Lura: Spent most of the day cleaning roses, but it was good. Got to visit with Christine and Amy. And went to Casey’s restaurant and handed out a few roses. There was one older couple I handed roses to and the lady thanked me and then the man said, “Oh, for men too?” I said, “Yes. God loves you.”

And then tonight we went to the First Presbyterian Church. There was a lot of spiritual warfare  in the beginning. A lot of contradictions between what you see, like with pictures on the wall, etc. And then the reality of where the people’s heart are. But Christine did a beautiful job with worship tonight. Really felt the presence of the Lord and I danced to a song I never danced to before. And I appreciated the young man, “Sir Lyle” and his passion for music. I felt the Lord draw him through his music and it was very touching to have him singing with Sally. And I feel that maybe he might have really connected with the Lord.  Had a great day. Had some great prayer, but please keep praying.

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ATOR Kenora, Starting To Settle In

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Don’t let the shades fool you. By morning these gals are ordinary florists.
By afternoon they’re ladies of the light.
 Coming to CBS this fall:
The God Squad.

Day 5

Sunny: We gave out a lot of roses. There seemed to be a lot more native people in town. In the area we were at I would say it was kind of an inner city area where you have a lot of street drinkers and users. So people appeared to be burnt out in the morning. But most of them had seen us the other day when we were passing out roses in the area. And some of them came up to us and said hello to us and asked for more roses.

I think they were positively impacted because we smiled at them and tried to do something positive. And they responded with friendliness. Because people on the street don’t get a lot of kindness. There was a native guy who had some kind of church background. I think it might have been Catholic because he talked about his grandma taking him to church and he talked about finding pictures of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in thrift stores and taking them home to hang on his walls. And he told us he was a religious person because his grandma was a religious person and he liked God.

He took a rose from us. We went into a barbershop where the lady also refinished antiques and she showed some of her work to us and she said that she paints too, but she didn’t have any canvases at the shop. She let us love on her dog. She was pretty happy to see us.

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Where Is Love?

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A Full Day For ATOR In Fort Frances

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                                                                                                  SALLY H.

ATOR Team Sent To Hospital

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Day 6

It’s true. The team was sent to the hospital today. Fortunately, they were on a mission from God and the fruit was evident from the moment they stepped into the parking lot.

Here we come/ Walkin’ down the street / We get the lovingest looks from / Everyone we meet/
Hey, hey we got roses . . . 


                                                                            Wanna-Be Candy Stripers
                                                                                            KEN
I continue to marvel at the goodness of God in including me on this team. So grateful for the flow of praying with and for one another, supporting one another and worshipping together. The team meetings are such rich food for the heart.

                                                                                             YARA

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“You Are The Ones Spreading Love Everywhere”

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Day 5

 

 

ATOR TESTIMONIALS

 

                                                                                          SALLY H.

Today Thursday was a pretty full day. We finished tying cards on our first barch of roses (1500) and picked up the final 1500 that we will start preparing tomorrow. We went to the “Market place” in downtown Fort     Frances to distribute roses and information handouts about Sally’s concert tomorrow (Friday September 14).
Before the “praise service” tonight at the Evangelical Covenant Church of Fort Frances, I and 3 more team members handed out roses INSIDE Walmart! What a great time! Lots of First Nations People accepted roses and I loved the spontaneous hugs they freely gave!

                                                                                              LURA

Was a good day. I saw the man that we requested prayer for his wife, Tammy. His name is Greg. I told him we had prayed for her and he was pleased and asked us to pray for him. He was going for a job interview to change professions. He is hoping to get another job so he doesn’t have to drive truck. My testimony went well and I was able to minister to the young man, Chris again. And we really found some common ground in the grief issue.

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