Repent Amarillo's Spiritual Mapping and Vigilantism

[Joanne98]

Repent Amarillo, a Texas ministry which refers to itself as an "Army of God," is making news for its spiritual warfare and vigilante tactics. The ministry has "spiritually mapped" the city targeting businesses deemed as evil, Masonic Lodges, the Islamic Center, a Buddhist Temple and even an Episcopal church accused of being "gay friendly." (I have looked at the map several times but just noticed the shooting sounds that start after the music ends.)

Repent Amarillo is headed by David Grisham, a part time pastor and security guard at a nuclear facility, but the ministry is part of RAVEN International headed by Troy Bohn whose RAVEN Amarillo site takes credit for the spiritual mapping and other activities. According to their biographies at RAVEN (which stands for Restoring A Vision & Evangelizing Nations) both Bohn and RAVEN leader Alex Hill were part of Amarillo's Dayspring Dream Center affiliated with the LA Dream Center led by Matthew Barnett. Bohn and Hill developed Dream Center ministries in Amarillo such as "Adopt-a -Block," before starting RAVEN International as an evangelizing arm of the ministry.

Pastor Hill describes their Dream Center Adopt-a-Block program.

"This servant evangelism ministry served as the life-blood of Dayspring as it mobilized a small army each Saturday for a time of invading an area encompassing forty-eight adjacent city blocks surrounding the church."

Like most para-ministries today, RAVEN is described as non-denominatinal, but both Troy Bohn and Alex Hill list their ordination from Church of God (Cleveland). Bohn is now based in Daytona Beach and RAVEN International has expanded to include ministries in New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, and several Texas locations.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/3/6/95620/29842

[eleny]

1. Scary business

[MineralMan]

2. The leader's a mall cop?

"a part time pastor and security guard at a nuclear facility"

For Jebus sake. I should have figured.

[The Night Owl]

3. You know, I bet AM General would not be happy about Repent Amarillo using an image of...

...the HMMWV on its front page. We should start a movement to complain to AM General.

[Caretha]

4. Who is AM General?

[The Night Owl]

5. AM General is the manufacturer of the HMMWV, the vehicle depicted on the RA site. {EOM}

[teknomanzer]

6. These people want spiritual warfare?

I say bring it on. I can easily dispense with any and all forms of courtesy while debunking thier absurd fairy tale fantasies. War is hell. Lets see how people like it when the fight is brought to their churches.