The Walk Across America

Renovation Ministries faced a new challenge in 2004, joining others with Operation Save America on the Walk Across America. As its name says, it really was a walk across the country. Why was this done? It began in December, 2003, as Rusty Thomas, Director of Elijah Ministries of Waco, Texas received a clear direction from the Lord to walk -- with a horse and a donkey, no less -- from California to the White House in Washington, D. C., to call the nation to repentance. By God's direction we named our horse Judgement and the donkey Mercy, and both, along with others carrying a broken set of the Ten Commandments and a baby casket representing the millions killed in the U. S. by abortion, were a living parable visually showing God's message to an overwhelmingly apathetic America. I joined the team of about nine others as a support team member. I would not do any of the actual walking but carry water for people and animals, carry people when they were too tired or beset with blisters to walk, clean up after the animals when we were in cities, carry and operate the P. A. system, and other duties as they came up, which they did.

The Lord was with us on our 180-day journey, which began Tuesday, March 2nd in San Clemente, California, within 50 ft. of the Pacific Ocean, and ended on Saturday, August 28th at Lafayette Park, just some 200 yards in front of the White House. By street preaching, handing out thousands of brochures, media inteviews, and countless one-on-one conversations, we reached at some length, I'd estimate, some 300,000 to 400,000 or more. The Lord protected us physically and provided for our needs in many ways. My biggest impression was that despite that no church, and this includes the most "conservative" ones, or individual I could recall disagreed that God's judgment was coming against America, no one was really disturbed about it.

As we met people from all backgrounds we often shared the redeeming gospel when able. I well remember a serious discussion of sin and sexuality with a young woman named Tiffany, a professing lesbian. While she didn't like me pointing out to her that homosexuality was a sin, she learned that one of the ways God loves us is loving us enough to tell the truth. She thanked me for talking to her as I had to leave. Another major impresssion from the trip was how we have so marginalized God in America. More than once we were told you couldn't name Jesus Christ while preaching from public property. Believing the mythical separation of church and state really exists as codified law, police and the public increasingly try to restrain the mentioning of the Rock upon whom America was founded. Oh, America, you are so ashamed of the One who has blessed you so much! To the left and below, OSA Director Flip Benham is preaching from the steps of the darkness as dozens of homosexual activists daily tried hard to drown out the gospel of Christ with drums, whistles, cursing, and more. Below, we finally finish our trek in front of the White House on Saturday, August 28, having walked some 2,200 miles. God had been with us in countless ways and I could write thousands of words about our experiences.