Randy Strombeck and I just returned from speaking to an amazing group of young people at a youth conference in Cherkassy, Ukraine. This was one of the best youth conferences I have attended in years. Pastor Uri and Tonya Biviets of Cherkassy hosted the conference. They are some of the greatest people I know and their hospitality was overwhelming.

The conference started off with the youth leaders a bit nervous. However, this was to be expected by everyone. These young leaders did an incredible job leading us in worship throughout the conference. Randy and I spoke the first night on believing and walking in the Supernatural. The presence of God came and started opening the peoples’ hearts and many were touched by the His power. The next evening was something I haven’t experienced in years. In fact, the last time I experienced this type of power from God, I was in a Benny Hinn crusade. The room was packed with people and as soon as we began to worship the power of God fell. Randy went up on stage and started worshipping with the worship team and then began to minister prophetically to the people. As he was releasing words of knowledge for healing, people got out of their chairs and came forward for prayer. As they did, I leaned over to a friend that was with us, Pastor Darren Davis of the Harbor Church in Pompano Beach, FL., and asked him, “Do you have something from the Lord?” He smiled and said “Yes I think I do.” I told him to go up and share it with the people. When he got on the stage, he started to pray prophetically for Ukraine. It was beautiful to watch all the people pray for their country. It moved me in a deep way. By this time, most all of the young people that were attending were down in front praying for the country.

As Randy, and Darren Davis, started to minister individually, I walked up on the stage and worship came over me and I began to sing a prophetic song to the Lord. I felt the power of God’s presence start to increase in the building and the Spirit started to heal people all over the room. Randy started gathering some of the youth to pray for people who had crooked backs and their backs would immediately straighten up. We found out later that they had been diagnosed with Scoliosis and their bodies completely straightened. People who were contemplating suicide were completely set free from death. God literally saved their life! People gave their hearts to the Lord as well and received salvation. Most all of the youth walked away from the conference having confidence in Lord and in themselves that they too can minister to people and see God use them in a powerful way. All I can say is that Jesus Christ came in the building and healed, delivered, and restored peoples’ hearts, bodies, and lives that night! Thank you so much for your prayers and support. There is definitely an increase of power and anointing being released to draw people to salvation and to see their lives and bodies healed. The following pictures are some I took during the meetings. There are also pictures of the family that we lodged with while in Cherkassy.

(Editor’s note: To see all the pictures from Brad’s trip, visit http://lonestarministries.com/gallery.html.)

I want to apologize for not getting the update on our Ukraine Spirit School out sooner. My grandmother died right after I came back from Ukraine. When I returned home, a couple of my cousins and I flew to Rogers, Arkansas to help my two aunts with the situation. I have just recently gotten back from the funeral and am now in the process of catching up on things that have fallen behind in the ministry.

On April 24th- 25th, we graduated 350 students that attended our Spirit School in Kiev, Ukraine. It was wonderful! We began with worship before we started the graduation ceremony. The Lord’s presence showed up and people started dancing everywhere including Randy Strombeck and me. We both jumped up on the stage and began to dance and prophetically declare what God was going to do with all of us and in the region. It was a great time. I have posted pictures and some video for your viewing so that you can get a better picture of what we do and who we minister to.

This year has been a great and prosperous year for the Spirit School. I think we will be all amazed at how much ground we have taken. There are two particular teachings and times that were highlighted to me when we specifically started taking spiritual ground from the enemy:
1. The teaching of “Kingdom Business” and being “Kings and Priests” on the earth.
2. The teaching of “Restoring the Fallen”.

After teaching the students in these two areas, instantly strongholds started manifesting within the students of the school. This excited me to go after it even more, because I knew that it was a sign that the Lord was taking ground. When you start taking the enemy’s domain, he will manifest at times through accusation, intimidation, or even anger to try to stop man from taking what is rightly his. We can see this example in 1 Samuel 17. Israel was about to take ground from the Philistines. Goliath (which represents the accuser of the brethren) came from the camp of the enemy and started to accuse the army of the Most High. The power of the accusations coming from Goliath’s mouth caused the army of God to enter into fear and they stopped engaging the enemy. This example happens continually with those who have been called by God to take back spiritual or natural territories that have been stolen by the devil.

Any time we start taking Satan’s spiritual or natural territory, whether it be our own or another, the enemy will always try to intimidate us to not engage him. Nevertheless, we are called to engage the enemy as David did in 1 Samuel 17:48. It says that when the Philistine arose and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the battle to meet the Philistine. This is the type of attitude God wants to convey to us. We run to the battle instead of away from it. When strongholds start to manifest in the areas that you are teaching, we should bring it down by continuing to train and equip God’s people on the “real” principles that can help them grow in the spirit instead of backing off and doing nothing. We need to continue to teach even if it means losing our reputation. This is what Jesus did. He went after the enemy’s territory and made Himself of no reputation. If Jesus made Himself of no reputation then we should not be worried about ours. We are called to fight against the enemies of the cross even if it destroys our lives and reputation.

We feel the Lord has given us a mandate to train and equip people in areas of the Kingdom of God and raise up a family that will walk in power in these last days. There are a people that will have power to trample on serpents and scorpions because they are living far above all principalities and powers and rulers of darkness. Darkness will be under their feet instead of in their heads. They will take their rightful inheritance that Jesus gave them through the cross and rule and reign with Him on the earth as He is in the heavens.

There has also been a transition in the leadership of the Spirit School as well. Before I went to Ukraine for the graduation, I was in prayer and felt the Lord tell me that I no longer needed to be the “point man” for the job. It has now been handed over to Randy Strombeck. When I spoke to Randy about him leading the school, he and I and the Holy Spirit felt that it was the right thing to do. A few days after the verbal transition we had several confirmations from the Lord that this was in order of His will. Randy and I are looking forward to what God is going to do in Ukraine in the years to come. Thank you for your support and prayers this year! I hope that you continue to pray and support what this ministry is doing around the world and in this nation. If you are interested in supporting us, you can find all the information you need on our website.

We are off to a great start! The Ukraine Spirit School began September 19 and we had over three hundred students fill out applications, pay their tuition and travel for the first weekend of courses. Just that was a good sign for the hunger in the country. The expectation and excitement of the people was encouraging. They were ready to learn and be activated. Rick Stoker taught in the level two class on “Having God’s Heart for the Poor.” Rick was surprisingly pleased with what God released for these leaders. Before the first class started, a Christian TV program came to interview Rick and Betty Strombeck, Rick Stoker, and myself about the school. This gave us a small window to tell people in the area what we are all about and the vision of the school. The small video clips we posted will give you a bit of an idea of what we are doing in the school. They are not of the best quality, but we are working on it. The School will run from September 08 to April 09. If you have any interest in partnering or supporting what we are cultivating in Ukraine, do not hesitate to contact us through our website at Lonestarministries.com. If you want to financially support what we are doing, you can also go to our website and click on “Donate” and it will walk you through the process.

I again want to thank Rick and Betty Strombeck for allowing us to come along side and serve in this area of Ukraine. We definitely could not be doing what we are doing there without there help. For years they have had a School of Ministry that laid the foundation for the next level of ministry. I hope that we can do as good a job as they have done, one that the next generation can build upon. We all play a part in building God’s house in His people. The Strombeck’s definitely have been the “good and faithful servants” Jesus speaks about in Matthew 25:21.

This is an exciting coming year. It looks as though it is getting dark upon the face of the earth and gross darkness in the people, but that is the sign that the glory of God will arise on His people. Blessings on you and thank you for your support.

Brad and Jill McClendon

LoneStar Ministries