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2 Prayer Warriors that RockArkansas!

Name: Fernando Ramos

From: Puerto Rico

Current Location: SiloamSprings, Northwest Arkansas

Occupation: Forerunner

First Ministry: Crisis Response InternationalCrisis Response International was created to raise up mercy missionaries for the end times. Theydo search-and-rescue, wilderness first aid, and FEMA work. They work with HOPs to makethem self-sustained, “cities of refuge.”

Second Ministry: The Pointe MinistryThe Pointe Ministry is a combined house of prayer and church. It is also a refuge center.

Ministry Contact Info: http://thepointeministry.org, or www.thepointenwa.org

God Story or Life Purpose: Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Fernando is fluent in both Englishand Spanish. He moved to the United States at age 19.

Fernando and Eric (see next page) have been friends since 2009. Both went to missionarycollege, and “the Lord provided the whole way.” They then became mentors at Bethany Collegeof Missions in Minnesota. After leaving school, Fernando did “off-grid” training in the MojaveDesert with Crisis Response International, learning to be part of a self-sustained community andto “minister in the midst of crisis.” The crew used generators and a mobile kitchen. At the timeof onething, the ministry was in New York helping those affected by flooding.He moved with a crew to Arkansas and now works for a day-and-night praying church that has acrisis response unit.

“I came here [to onething] asking for clarity and my life’s vision to really be clear,” saysFernando. He is not sure exactly what God has in store for His future—whether that will bereturning to a Latin American country, or something else—but he does have a heart formentoring.

“My role is to raise up [mercy missionaries] and equip the next generation.” He would tell them,“This is what you’re facing, and this is what it’s going to take to go. The heart that you are goingto need is going to be of prayer, of intercession, and also knowing that perfect love casts outfear… but also having the discernment to not jump in right away, to assess the situation.”

“Don’t be afraid of being radical for Jesus… Let that be something you leave behind on theearth, a legacy.”

2 Prayer Warriors thatRock Arkansas!

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by Nicole Pettit

Name: Eric Rainwater

From: Fort Smith, Arkansas (in the River Valley)

Current Location: Alma, Arkansas (in the RiverValley)

Occupation: Full-Time Intercessor

Ministry: Mercy House of Prayer in Alma, Arkansas

Mercy HOP had its grand opening at the end of January. Besides growing as intercessors,contending in God’s throne room for His mercy, they desire to show mercy in practicalways to a hurting world in the end times. They also proclaim the mercy of the blood of theLamb due to Jesus’ death on the cross, which cleans us.

“The Lord’s throne in heaven is called the mercy seat,” Eric points out. “He wants Hisintercessors to cry out for mercy.”

Every Saturday, they have a justice prayer meeting that emphasizes adoption and the endof abortion. Human trafficking is also an issue dear to this ministry’s heart, and theyrecognize it is a problem even here in the United States.

“What we are crying out for in Arkansas is that there will be no orphans, that they will beadopted… There is a spirit of adoption that will take those babies.”

Ministry Contact Info: www.mercyhop.org

God Story or Life Purpose: When Eric was working in the mountains in New Mexico in2007, God “wrecked” him, giving him a “Mount Sinai” experience.“Since then, it has been a journey of being called intomissions. I have been given a vision to go to CentralAsia [Mongolia], and I have a heart for Jerusalem, forseeing the King glorified on His throne in Zion. In thepath He has shown me, part of how He will do it (justlike He said in Amos 9:11) is raise up the tabernacle ofDavid. He is doing it in the earth… You can’t stop a God-sized vision, because we are not in charge! He is incharge.“The next season will hopefully be hooking up with somecowboy missionaries that have a heart to ride horses andlive with nomadic people, to live kind of like Abraham, bea forerunner like John the Baptist, and have a heart ofworship like David.”

by Nicole Pettit