CHEROKEE PATH, LOWER TOWNS OF OCONEE & PICKENS COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHAST GEORGIA

• JoAnne S. Bailey
• Descendant of Upcountry SC settlers
• United States Spiritual Warfare Network
• Anderson, South Carolina
• Gene Brooks
• Descendant of Upcountry SC settlers
• Mission Carolina
• Clinton, South Carolina
• Nancy Cheek
• Christians Walk Together
• Cobb, Georgia
• Peter Dunn
• British intercessor
• Love, Incorporated
• Edgecliff, NSW, AUSTRALIA
• Bob Ensign
• Cherokee & Choctaw Nations
• As Eagles Wings
• Greensboro, North Carolina
• Linda Fulmer
• Descendant of SC Royal Governor & Lowcountry planters
• Research Division, Intl Reconciliation Coalition
• Lindale, Texas
• Dottie Morris
• Brookwood Community Church
• Simpsonville, South Carolina
• Fern Noble
• Cree Nation
• International Reconciliation Coalition
• Oxnard, California
• Christy Lynn Poe
• Presbyterian College
• Columbia, South Carolina
• Betty Pulver (did not debrief)
• Yuchi Nation of the Muscogee Confederacy
• Morningstar Evangelistic Center
• Mounds, Oklahoma
• Henry Redding
• Cherokee Nation & Muscogee Confederacy
• Cherokee United Methodist Church member
• Otto, North Carolina
• Ada Winn
• Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
• Morningstar Evangelistic Center, Two Rivers Training Center
• Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Cherokee Prayer Initiative (CPI) Team arrived in Charleston safely, some very tired from their trip here.  Please pray for supernatural strengthening from Our Heavenly Father.  Linda Fulmer and Fern Noble flew in from Israel on a prayer journey regarding the Crusaders.
 

This morning the CPI team went to Ashley Hall Plantation.  This is on private property, and we had an open door and favor from the owner and the Lord Jesus Christ.  This is the site of the 1761 treaty ending the Cherokee War.   Later this afternoon, they will go to Charles Town Landing.  Here in 1670 the Kiawah Chief told the British to come and live in peace with them on this 12,000 year old ceremonial site.  This did not happen.  This friendly invitation was used against the indians, and they were betrayed.  Linda Fulmer, a team member, is a descendant of the tribe Etiwan; and a descendant of the Bulls (an aristocratic family who owned Ashley Hall Plantation where the treaty of 1761 was signed).  Special prayer for Linda this afternoon and the team. Please pray that they will Wait on God, and not be impatient.  Psalm 25:1-5 Psalm 27:14, 123: 1-3 

The owner of the Ashley Hall property came forward and treated the team with great favor.  He took them on a tour, they prayed at an Indian Mound, and at the site where in 1761 the Cherokee Indians signed a treaty with the royal government of South  Carolina.  This treaty was to end the Cherokee War which had devastated the Cherokee nation through ethnic cleansing. This afternoon they were going up Meeting Street to Meeting and Calhoun Street where the old city wall was in Charleston.  This is the place where the Cherokees were forced to camp outside, because the city would not give accommodations because they were not good enough.  Later this afternoon, the team was going up to Moncks Corner. Please join in this Concert of Prayer for the team. 

Tonight, in Oklahoma City, 1000 Native Americans from many different tribes will be praying for the CPI team in the Oklahoma Concert of Prayer.  Let us join the heavenly hosts and lift up this team to our Heavenly Father. This past Monday and Tuesday, the First Nations Forum (many different Indian organizations of ministry) prayed for the CPI team.

LATE EVENING UPDATE
Greetings from the CPI team. 
Everywhere we have gone, God has provided us a person that has opened his arms wide to receive us and show us great favor.  At Charles Town Landing, a locked area was opened to us, and again we were shown much favor. Later today, as we prayed at the remains of the old wall of Charles Town, we had a Mighty Move of God in our midst.  We covered 30 miles today, and will cover 34 miles tomorrow to Eutawville.   The place we are staying tonight is Wonderful. A big Thank You from all of us for all your prayers on our behalf.  We can feel your prayers for us.  God is with us!!!!!  Walking and Praying for Jesus, The CPI Team
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The team is in Santee tonight.  Please pray for their physical strength.  They are all very tired and it is a draining from their work in the spiritual realm that is causing this.  Please keep them lifted up continuously.  Also, please pray for Fern Noble, she has a bad cold and this is just an added discomfort.  So lets join together and
pray for her healing and for supernatural strength for her and the rest of this team. 
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Greetings from St. Matthews on the Cherokee Path! 
For those on the list who are not in Carolinas, we are having a quite crazy  weather pattern.  It is a stalled system over South Carolina with  temperatures in the 40-50's, sustained winds around 15-20 mph, and rain rain rain.  Because part of the storm is over the ocean, it is picking up moisture  and dumping it on SC right over the Cherokee Path.  It is like late November  here.  We are 30 degrees below normal.  We were not able to walk today  because the winds, cold, and rain were so dangerous on the highways.  If Anne Chick is correct in saying God's Psalm 133 dew from Hermon is coming  down, WOW what an anointing He has put on
this walk!  There's a lot of dew  falling!

Here's evidence:  This morning we prayed at the Santee Indian Mound (Fort  Watson) on the grounds of the Santee National Wildlife Refuge on Lake Marion. 
Incredible.  The Lord gave us a strategy from Luke 5 on evangelism not to grow weary (we are weary) in well doing, but to cast our nets again (i.e.. we  are not wasting our time doing this project.  We are in the Lord's timing.)   We then saw the strategy for the five of us to each stand in representation  of one of the five-fold ministries of the Body of Christ taught in Ephesians 4:11-12.  We all stood in representation as a declaration of the Unity of the Body of Christ which preaches the gospel to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places (Ephesians 3:10). 

Then Fern Noble, representing the  office of evangelist, called the principality for the region of Santee into  audience in the name of Jesus, not to challenge it or to bind it or do any attacking warfare, but to preach to it the Gospel of our Lord Jesus through  the recitation of the Apostle's Creed, the most cogent, succinct statement of  the gospel the Church has ever conceived.  We did this to proclaim defeat to  the enemy and prophetically to call the Native Americans to the Good News.   We believe that if we are faithful in this call to this project, we will see  the nets full like Peter's nets in Luke 5.  As we finished the prayer, Henry  Redding looked into the sky and saw clouds rolling from either side of the  sky and gathering, rolling and billowing in over the Santee Mound.

That time of prayer in the pouring-down cold rain opened the door for the  afternoon's big event.  We knew the Lord had called us to an "appointment" in  Four Holes Swamp.  We knew there were supposed to be "Indians" down there,  but for over 6 months I had been unable to locate anyone with whom to pray in  that place near Holly Hill, SC.

So we just drove to Holly Hill in the blowing rain (By this time the storm  had assumed a hurricane rotation on the weather maps.)  without knowing where  we were going or with whom we had an appointment.  We stopped at the post  office and asked where the Indians lived around Holly HIll.  They didn't  really know, but the postal carrier for the little town told me about a group  of homes out near a Church of God which receive "material from Indian  organizations."  She told me "some of them claim to be Indians."  She was  helpful and gave us the name and number of a local historian who verified the  location and gave us the name and number of the Santee Indian Chief.

We then drove out to the rural community looking for this man.  We knocked on  a few doors asking for him and found him in about 20 minutes.  He was home  from his construction job b/c of the rain!  We prayed with him and spent a  good hour or so with him.  These people took the name Santee Indians, but  they have lost their
heritage, their language, and their culture.  They just  know they are First  Americans.  That's all.  Awesome time of prayer.

Greetings Prayer Warriors, 
The team had a difficult day today due to physical conditions.  It was very cold, rainy, and high winds. Most of them did not bring clothes for this kind of weather.  They have really entered into real identificational intercession, in that they are experiencing in the natural and in the spiritual what the Cherokee's and all Native Americans have experienced.  Due to the intensity and sensitivity of this Mission, please keep them especially covered today. The Holy Spirit has revealed that we need to intercede for them against the spirit of Death, Destruction, and a Destroying spirit.  If you would just join with us and raise up a standard against the enemy on this. "Greater is HE that is in US, than he that is in the world."  (I John 4:4)   "So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." (Isaiah 59:19 KJV)

And continue to pray Psalm 3:3-4 for them today.  Thank you everyone who is being faithful to keep this CPI team in prayer.  This task is impossible without the intercessors on the wall.  I will send you a late night update tonight, if I have one. God's Blessings to you all, Joan
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The CPI prayer team left St. Matthews on Saturday morning at 9am walking  toward Cayce, SC, just south of Columbia.  The rain held off in the morning  and the team accomplished its morning mileage of 13.5 miles an half hour  early and decided to walk to a local hamburger place in Sandy Run for lunch  about 3.5 miles up the road.

As we were finishing this extra 3.5 miles, Henry Redding's vehicle with Fern  Noble and Linda Fulmer pulled into the parking lot of Cornerstone Christian  Center, and two ladies ran out of the building yelling, "Are you Mission  Carolina?  Are you Mission Carolina?"  When we replied in the affirmative,  they looked relieved and
said, "We have lunch for you!"

This particular area was on the Operation Restoration route three years ago  (for more information on OR, see  (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/6240/or.html), and that spot at that  time was a local barroom.  Gene Brooks remembers praying with Linda Graham as  they passed it saying, "Lord make this barroom into a church."  Now three  years later, it has become Cornerstone Christian Center, the people who were  providing lunch for us!  It was wonderful, and the prayer time after lunch  was especially good.

The team then walked about 6 miles or so before the rain began to pour down  again.  We got in our vehicles to keep dry and healthy, and prayed the rest  of the route from our vehicles.  Every time the rain has forced us off the  road on this trip, it is because the Lord had a special assignment for us.

This time the special assignment was at St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana,  SC.  When the Operation Restoration team passed that location in 1996, St. John Baptist Church on the Cherokee Path had been a burned church.  Nothing was
there but the  front steps, a small cemetery, and a sign denoting the name of the burned  building. We had prayed in repentance there, taking communion on the spot  and asking the Lord to restore that place totally.  (See how the Lord answered our prayers by clicking here.   Now we had returned  nearly three years later to find a new brick building -- with someone's van parked outside.

We knocked on the door and Pastor Roosevelt Robinson answered the door.  Once  we had told him what we had done on the spot in 1996, he invited us in to  show us the facility, and we prayed with him and another church member who is  Native American.

From there we drove slowly up the Path along Old State Road (usually dirt,  but today a mud road) to the spot of Fort Congarees where in 1759 British  troops betrayed 24 Cherokee sachems by arresting them there on their way back  to the Lower Towns after they had come to Charleston demanding punishment for  the commander of Fort Prince George at Keowee Town for participating and  allowing rapes of Cherokee women there.  We also prayed over the 1721 treaty  signed at the Congarees where the Cherokees ceded the first tract of land to  the Carolinians.  We also repented for abusive trade practices, shortened  yardsticks used by the skin traders, and the colonial tax of ten deer skins a  year required as tribute of every Cherokee warrior.

From there we moved on in the rain to the Cayce Museum to see and pray over  the Native American collections there.  With great favor upon us, the museum  curator gave us a grand tour despite our arriving ten minutes after closing  time.

On then to the wonderful hospitality of George and Joanie Staples in  Ballentine, SC, at their home.  Some places in the earth are meant for rest  and refreshment.  The Staples home is one of those few places.
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On Sunday morning the team attending Living River Church pastored by Dennis  and Susan Wells.  Gene made a short presentation of the expedition.  After  the service the church had a covered dish dinner in our honor.  It was great.

At 2pm, the team converged with several local intercessors to pray at the  State House.  When the OR team came through Columbia, the team could not get  close to the State House b/c of the renovations (they were laying bare the  foundations and restoring them literally)  Now we could pray inside.

We dealt with the following issues:

• breaking the curses connected with the Buddhist pilgrimage last year, adding to the prayers of many others
• repentance for driving the First Americans out of South Carolina and 
• prophetically inviting them back in through reading and praying Psalm 24.
• repentance for South Carolina's state policy that there are no Native Americans in SC so that the state will not have to pay money due them under Federal mandate.
• calling forth the Lieutenant Governor's Native American heritage to be affirmed.
• repentance over deep issues in which the Native American experience is connected with the gambling issue in SC
• repentance over the Indian Removal Act of 1836 and other ethnic cleansing perpetrated by native South Carolinian Andrew Jackson.

We then sang with drum accompaniment around the third floor gallery level of  the inside of the State House:  "We come in Your Name to reverse the curses.   We come in Your Name by the Blood of the Lamb.  We come in Your Name to  reverse the curses.  We come in Your Name by the Blood of the Lamb."

Then back to the Staples to finish washing clothes, have a wonderful meal,  nap, and have a good heart-to-heart team meeting which was filled with  awesome unity and love.

Thanks so much for your intercession. 

Tomorrow we head to an area which has been a ceremonial (worship) center to  other gods since 12,000 BC.  The last time I was there by myself scouting the  land I felt like I was in the mouth of the lion.  Before we get there,  though, we have 33 miles on dangerous highway to prayerwalk.  Lift us up unto  Life.
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On Monday morning the team went to the site of the second Fort Congaree on  the Congaree River near the historic site of Granby in Cayce, SC, just south  of Columbia.

Here the Lord led us to repent regarding women's issues, especially of  driving Native women into prostitution to pay their debts to the white  traders.  We repented of the word "squaw" which means "vagina," and asked God  to restore to Native women the dignity they deserve.

Then we prayerwalked out US1 and Old Cherokee Road through West Columbia and  Lexington, driving the dangerous section with construction on US378 to the  traffic circle just beyond the Saluda County line.

From there we went to a wonderful meal and accommodations provided by the  Penningtons of Saluda.  We had never met them, but they made us feel like we  were at home.  While there, Henry Pennington the head of the household, knelt  down next to Fern during the after dinner conversations, and told her that  her grandmother was a Cherokee, but that his nieces would force her to wear a  veil and gloves in public to conceal her Native heritage.
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With new team member from Oklahoma, Cherokee intercessor Ada Winn, the team  arrived onsite at 7:30am at the gate to Saluda Old Town, a major ceremonial  area of SC.  Here in 1755 the treaty of Saluda Old Town was signed.  The landowner was kind to us, driving us to the spot as close as anyone knows the  site (within 400 acres).  We prayed for him and he answered questions, giving  us the run of the property.  Then he left for a dental appointment.

We felt led to reenact the signing of the Saluda Old Town treaty.  Therefore,  with a small table and two straight back chairs reminiscent of the first  treaty, we placed the table in the middle of the field with the two chairs  facing the table and each other.  On the table was placed the items of the  last treaty:  a handful of earth, a handful of corn meal, and arrows.  We  added a jar of oil that Fern Noble had brought back from Israel.  (The mural  of this treaty in Saluda, SC, shows corn, wine, and oil.)

In 1755 the Cherokee used these as symbols of alliance by placing them at  Governor James Glen's feet.  Glen and the British read the gesture as the  Cherokee giving them all their lands.

We first tore down the wicked altar there of a covenant breaking spirit  through repentance for sins in regard to the treaty and the area.  Then we  erected a holy altar there through laying the corn meal, earth, arrows, and  pouring out the oil at Jesus' feet.  It was the most awesome prayer yet.  I  can't even get close to describing it.

We then walked mostly dirt and tar&gravel roads through Saluda County to  Ninety-Six where the team repented for trading abuses and the debt the  Indians incurred at Gouedy's trading post. 

Next we went to the ditch in front of the 96 stockade and repented for the  1760 Cherokee War event described below in my paraphrase of a letter from  Captain James Francis to the SC Royal Governor: "We have the honor, sir, of  informing you that we engaged 200 Cherokees in battle on the 11th inst. (of  March) and we dropped a few of their number. We are now feeding our dogs on  their carcasses."

We stood in the ditch where probably these Cherokees' bodies were thrown for  the dogs to eat, and we released the anger inside the Native Americans.  Linda Fulmer then repented for these white ethnic war crimes. Henry Redding,  who is coming into his identity with the Cherokee, prayed with great unction  in this ditch.

The team was utterly exhausted after the Saluda Old Town site, walking 21 miles, then this terrible event at 96, but we headed to one more: The Long Canes Massacre Site in Troy, SC, where 100 Cherokees killed and scalped at least 23 whites in a refugee wagon train heading to Augusta for safety. We again released anger that the 23 whites buried there in a common grave after an Indian attack had historical markers and signs pointing to the deed, but none for the thousands of massacres of Cherokees and other Native peoples. One of the people buried there is John C. Calhoun's 76 year old grandmother. Then the Cherokees repented for the attack and the whites forgave. The whites then repented because the people attacked by the Cherokee on this refugee train were living illegally on Cherokee land to start with.

Then to Joanna, SC, to the home of John and Lisa Patrick and their wonderful hospitality.
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 Here Ada Winn went into high gear in intercession, releasing the resentment of the Cherokees toward British agents and traders who act as if the Cherokee are children who did not have minds of their own. Tears were profuse on top of this lonely hill in rural Laurens County. Linda Fulmer repented for trader abuses and cheating. The First Nations people on the team (3 of 6) could hear the shouts of "Betrayal! Betrayal!" All up the Cherokee Path we have heard the same words. No wonder Mary Lance Sisk told me in 1996 that there was a spirit of betrayal over South Carolina.
 While we were eating lunch on the courthouse square in Laurens (also home of the KKK museum), there was a bank robbery on the corner of the square. Police and television crews were everywhere when we came out of the restaurant. All this activity just shows that the enemy is angry b/c he cannot attack us b/c of all the intercessors' prayers, so he is creating havoc wherever possible as close as he can. Thanks so much for your prayer. (On the California Prayerwalk we had a bank robbery the day before we came into Sonoma and a security guard and a customer were killed in a gun battle there, so we know the enemy can do crazy things like this.)

 >From there we began at Ninety-Six, but with three scratchy throats and one recovering from a cold, we thought it more wise not to walk when the rain and lightning started. We drove up the trail to Due West and spent an hour repenting over the CB radio between our vehicles in prayer together at the site of the 1777 Treaty of DeWitt's Corner with took basically the entire Upstate from the Cherokee with their towns, etc. including Greenville, Anderson, Pickens, most of Oconee counties. This was done after the American patriots had created a blood bath and destroyed the Cherokee Nation in the fall of 1776 in order to knock the Loyalist Cherokee Nation out of the Revolutionary War. The American cause of liberty has the blood of hundreds of Cherokee men, women, and children on its hands. Therefore we repented long and hard.

 All day we have struggled to keep our eyes open. This could mean sheer exhaustion, or it could mean we are in an area of a lot of witchcraft. We don't know which.

 The words hope (patience, waiting on the Lord), grace, shalom, peace, and joy have been key words for us so far on the trip.
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 It was a beautiful spring morning for prayerwalking through the countryside from Due West to Anderson. As we got into the city of Anderson, the lightning started, so we drove the last 2-3 miles into town, had coffee, dried off, and at noon arrived at the county council chambers for the National Day of Prayer observance.

 When we arrived, we found out we were on the program for the closing prayer, so our team got to bless Anderson City and County in closing out their Natl Day of Prayer observance.

 From there we had a wonderful luncheon at JoAnne Bailey's house followed by (you guessed it at her house!) lots of prayer.

 From JoAnne's we rushed to meet our new team members at a local restaurant. These new reinforcements came in to join us for the Lower Towns segment. They are:
 Peter Dunn, Sydney, Australia (British) Bob Ensign, Greensboro, NC (Cherokee/Choctaw, French Canadian) Dottie Morriss, Simpsonville, SC JoAnne Bailey, Anderson, SC Christy Lynn Poe, Columbia, SC (joined on 5-7) Betty Pulber, Tulsa, OK (joined 5-7) (Muscogee Creek/Yuchi)
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 We awoke this morning to a severe thunderstorm warning. We are sure the Lord has been using the storms to keep us hidden. We don't quite understand this, but we know the storms are being used to keep us hidden. Still, we can't prayerwalk with lightning and heavy rain. So I called Joan Stephenson for prayer alert. By 11am the rain had quit. We walked to Pendleton (10 miles in one hour!) for lunch, then out to Fort Rutledge where we could not get a leading for prayer. 

 From there we went to the Hopewell Treaty site of 1785 where the United States made its first treaty with the Cherokee and reaffirmed all the British-negoitiatied boundaries with small land cessions. The broken part of this treaty was the promise of the US to "Bury the Hatchet" and that no more would war or injury be done to the Cherokee. The US pledged perpetual peace and mutual defense against enemies. Ada Winn, a descendant of Nancy Ward the famous Warwoman of the Cherokee, stood in the place of identification. Nancy Ward had said at the signing of this treaty that she hoped that now the white and Cherokee, which mingled in her blood, would now live in peace forever. 

 At this treaty site is a huge witchcraft altar built in the last year or so. Through repentance we did our part to dismantle that wicked altar and then to establish a holy one to the Lord Jesus through praise and worship on new drums consecrated to Jesus. Bob Ensign in a prophetic act buried his pocket knife in order to rebury the hatchet so that Peace would reign in this Land, declaring that the War for the land would be over and finished.
 From there we went to the Keowee Town/ Fort Prince George site on Lake Keowee, then on to Walhalla where area Christians are providing our housing and two meals a day while we pray here in the Oconee area. 
 About a month or more ago, the pastors who meet weekly to pray welcomed our team into Oconee to do the work of intercession. 

 Tracy Williamson and The Stovalls have been an immense blessing.
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We are utterly exhausted. Today we prayed at 8 massacre sites in the Cheohee  Valley around Tamassee in Oconee County, SC. Then we ended the day  proclaiming Scripture and Native American Christian blessings over the  Upstate from the pinnacle of Caesar's Head. It was a beautiful day, perfect  temperature. 

We had (according to Betty Pulver) some of the first on site Native to Native reconciliation. Betty (Muscogee Creek) and Ada Winn, Henry Redding, and Bob Ensign (Cherokee) repented and forgave for the destruction and raiding caused by the Creeks in this Cherokee territory. Betty also repented for the word, "Cherokee," which is really a derisive Creek term meaning, "Cave dwellers."  The Cherokee call themselves The Principal People.

We also had a lot of repentance for the 1776 burning of all these towns in the Cheohee Valley by Colonel Williamson's expedition.
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On Sunday the team ministered at United  Assembly (www.extremechurch.org) in their morning worship service. Ada Winn, one of our Cherokee intercessors, received a standing ovation from the 1000+ in attendance when she said, "I don't want this to sound like I'm angry, but  I have wanted all my life to see  the Cherokee Homeland here, and now I understand why you all wanted to take this land. It is so beautiful, and I am grateful to be home."

Instead of praying at scheduled sites today,  the team took a much needed rest as Betty Pulver (Muscogee/Yuchi) made Indian  tacos for everyone, and we enjoyed being together.

The unity on our team is awesome. We laugh a lot. This is a serious battle, but we are having a good time fighting it with the Joy of the Lord. The   leadership is withstanding a withering fire from the enemy, but the prayer is   awesome nonetheless. We are getting along really well, and that is a result of your prayers.
                  Sick: Linda Fulmer (no change)
                  Nancy Cheek (persistent cough)
                  Gene Brooks (some better)

We are very encouraged by your messages. From several sources we have ascertained (however rightly or wrongly) that witches in the area are trying to locate our position and movements. Please continue to cover us with hiddenness under the Shadow of the Almighty. Witchcraft is prevalent in this area.
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                  The CPI team spent all day today on a prayer pontoon up Lake Keowee. We  prayed and repented and forgave at seven sites which are now underwater. The  towns of Little Tunnessy, Susantee, Woostana, Eustanare, Keowee Town, and  Fort Prince George. And how powerful that prayer was! We called forth the  Cherokee evangelists and declared them to be like Hephzibah, "Sought After"  by other Nations for the Light and Truth they reflect of Jesus Christ. At  Fort Prince George we took communion and put some of the elements in the  water, symbolic of the healing of the land, water, and the peoples' wounds  connected with that place.

                  It was a tremendous time of prayer. We came home properly worn out -- always  a good sign to us of a good day of prayer. The good unity on our team  continues unabashed and free flowing. We are so grateful to our coordinator  Tracy Williamson and the wonderful job she is doing to serve us while we pray  in this area.

                  The enemy still tries the petty things. The hot water where we are staying  went out yesterday, and today the power people had to replace a whole  transformer which had gone out. Our phone lines were down for a significant  period today as well.

                  Sick List:
                  Linda Fulmer (much improved)
                  Gene Brooks (improved)
                  Nancy Cheek (still coughing)
                  Betty Pulver (sore throat)
                  Bob Ensign (coughing some)
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                  Today the team prayed at nine Cherokee Lower Town sites, most of them having  little or no documentation as to why they were abandoned. Some were  definitely burned or massacred. Others we just do not know, but we know the  Cherokees left their cities, and great upheaval was the cause. In others we  are well documented that the individual town was massacred or burned two or  three separate times from 1750 - 1785.

                  We spent the bulk of our time at Tugaloo Town on the Georgia/SC line. This  city had been in existence since 500AD, and may have been a broker border  city for the great Mississipian era empires of Ocute (an empire between the  Savannah and the Ocmulgee in Georgia) and Cofitichiqui, the great  Carolina-sized empire headquartered near Camden, SC. The Cherokee took up  residence there around 1450. Here in 1716 a Charleston army camped under  Maurice Moore of 200 whites, 100 Negroes, and 100 coastal Indians. The South  Carolinians were courting the Cherokee to keep them from joining a proposed  confederacy with the Muscogee Creeks of Georgia and Alabama (Including the  Yamassee) to wipe out the Charleston colony. It was here that a root of the  covenant-breaking spirit was lodged. 

The Cherokee were offended that the  British wanted them to go fight the Creeks but did not want to send in a  white army to join them. To the Cherokee, if the whites wanted to fight the  Creeks, they should do it themselves and not ask the Cherokee to do it for  them. This offense was taken also because the Charlestonians and the  Cherokee had signed a military alliance treaty in Charleston just a few  months previous and now were already breaking it. When a party of eighteen  Creeks entered Tugaloo Town under a white flag, the young Cherokee warriors  (b/c of the visiting SC army) killed them. 

This led to a thirty-year state  of war among the Creek and Lower Cherokee which ruined many of the Lower  Towns. The whole Nation took offense that the British army left for home as  soon as it looked like war would result from the assassination of the Creek  legation when the Cherokee needed the military assistance that the British  had promised. End of history lesson.

                  We had great prayer at the lakeside. It seemed like about 20-30 minutes went  by, but when we finished, our watches marked 2 1/2 hours had transpired! We  had Creek-Cherokee repentance and British-Cherokee repentance and  Creek-Cherokee-British repentance followed by setting up a new holy altar of  stones and taking communion with praise and worship. Whew!

                  Then we prayed at eight other war crimes or atrocity sites including Old  Estatoe, Brasstown, Noyowee, Toteme, Toxsaam, Toxashuaw, Ecny, and Echay --  all near Lake Hartwell in southern Oconee County. At nearly all of them we  had brief repentance for any atrocities for which we had documentation, read  a Psalm or prayed the Lord's Prayer and poured out oil on the ground symbolic  of the healing of the wounds of the land and its people.

                  Sick List:
                  Linda Fulmer (almost full steam now)
                  Gene Brooks (better)
                  Betty Pulver (sore throat and hoarse)
                  Bob Ensign (coughing)
                  Nancy Cheek (cough)
 

                  The team is doing very well considering the spiritual strain. Most Native  intercessors cannot stand one massacre site a week well. These (through your  prayers) are making it through an average of seven a day! We have now prayed  at 23 sites.

                  Betty Pulver and Ada Winn leave the team tomorrow, and we will feel the  weight and loss of them, especially the other Native intercessors on the team  who will bear their prayer weight for the duration now.
 Gene Brooks
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                  Wow! What a day!

We began at Essenacca Town on the practice fields of the campus of Clemson  University. Today's Seneca, SC, gets its name from this Cherokee city. The  city was large, a mile long along the Seneca River. 

The town was destroyed in 1760 but rebuilt by refugees of the towns  demolished in war crimes in the Cherokee War. In 1776 when the Americans had  begun their rebellion against the Crown, Colonel Williamson with the  Ninety-Six Regiment marched into the Nation up the Path and began their  depredations at Essenacca. Here they were trying to arrest and assassinate  Alexander Cameron, a British agent who was inciting the Cherokee to join the  British forces b/c of the treaties they had signed with them in the past.  Williamson was ambushed by Cameron the next morning with Cherokee warriors  and whites dressed as Indians in order to keep their identities secret.

When Williamson had run the small Cameron force out of town, he destroyed all  the corn, torched the houses, and even cut down the orchards so there would  be nothing on which to subsist. While here news came in from a rider that he  had discovered a Cherokee town over near Table Rock. Socony was only about  two miles from Pickens, but Williamson detached a force to destroy it.

We also prayed at New Keowee, where British troops surrounded the village in  the Cherokee War of 1760-1, in Serbian fashion killed all the men, then left  the women and children without roof or food by burning all the homes and corn.

We prayed about two hours at Essenacca on the Clemson practice fields,  dealing with many issues related to curses on the land and waters, deceit on  both sides, interncecine strife, etc. 

                  We also prayed as near as we could get to another town located on the Keowee  River at Bombing Range Road in Pickens County in the Clemson Forest.

                  We ended the day by leading in worship at Hosanna Fellowship. This wonderful  church has continually blessed us. It was awesome to be with such loving  Christian people. Hosanna Fellowship has been the one to host us all along.  It is Tracy Williamson's church.
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                  What a great day of prayer! The CPI team prayed today in the northeast  corner of Georgia. First it was off to Toccoa's Traveler's Rest where a rock  there has petroglyphs. We prayed that the redemptive gifts of Toccoa/Tugaloo  of hospitality, a refuge, and a bridge to the gospel (evangelism) would be  realized, as well as calling the Native American arts into submission to the  Lord Jesus Christ and for His glory.

                  Then on to Toccoa Falls, an 184 foot waterfall on the campus of Toccoa Falls  College. Magnificent. The Cherokees repented of occultism in the place and  we all affirmed God's glory here, praying many Psalms and praising God.

                  Next to Helen, GA, where the Nacoochee Mound is located where there burned a  never-ceasing fire. Burned by the Americans in 1776, the town was later used  as a concentration camp for Cherokees in preparation for the Trail of Tears.  We had significant repentance here among Americans for ethnic cleansing and  Cherokee for occultism as well as affirming the Cherokee belief in one  supreme Creator existent as three Beings who desired to be the friend of the  Cherokee and revealed Himself as the Holy Spirit of Fire.

                  Next stop: Tallulah Gorge, GA, a 1000 foot canyon near Clayton, GA. Awesome  in proportions for the Southeast, the scene gives you a "Yosemite" feel,  though not nearly as large. Here the "Little People," a race of invisible  spirit beings who help the Cherokee are said to make their home. We dealt  with this situation through Cherokee repentance led by Henry Redding in  renouncing the help of the Little People or Nunnehi, and welcoming the help  of the Holy Spirit. We also felt that this area is some kind of Gate.  Therefore, we prophesied Psalm 24 from the canyon's rim as our four redeemed  and consecrated drums played.

                  After praying for the nearby Cherokee towns of Stecoy, Chichoroee, and  Tockareechee, the team moved on to Warwoman Dell where every spring the  Warwoman of the Cherokee would come out and prophesy the Nation's future for  the coming year. Well, our team has its own Warwoman JoAnne Bailey, and she  came out to prophesy to the Nation that they would have a great revival and  many would come into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, that the fire would fall on  the Nation and many leaders would be raised up.

                  Leaving there, we drove to Chattuga Town at Hwy 28 and the Chatooga River  where Gene Brooks repented for the burning of Chattuga in 1776 as Fern Noble  poured oil out on the ground. Bob Ensign forgave.
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                  Today the team prayed around Seneca and Walhalla at four sites. First was  hard to get to, but we managed to get close by praying from across the river  near Newry. Next we went to the park in the Port Santorini development to  pray at Cane Creek Town, Torsalla, Tricentee, and Coweeshee that were torched  by American forces in 1776. We had awesome repentance at this place where  all the Americans and our Brit Peter Dunn joined hands across a line with all  the Native peoples present: Henry Redding, Bob Ensign, and Fern Noble. The  repentance and forgiveness was gut-wrenching and ended with great rejoicing  as we took communion together by the lake.

                  From there we prayed at Coneross Town near Rockcrusher Road where Americans  in 1776 found the place deserted but burned the homes and corn supplies. 

                  The last village was in the hills overlooking Walhalla, another town  destroyed by the American rebel-patriots in their quest to ethnically  eliminate the Cherokee Nation from the Revolutionary War.

                  In the afternoon we gathered at beautiful Isaqueena Falls to sing praises  over the valley, enjoy the majesty of the glory of God in the falls, and  enjoy a well-deserved afternoon break.

                  At supper we prayed with the members of Ann Hope United Methodist Church in  Seneca where we found two men intercessors most interested in what we are  doing. 
 Gene Brooks
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                  The team started off the day with its usual praise, prayer, read the email to  the team, pray more, read Scripture, hear from the team members in the  morning.

                  Then we headed to Lake Jocassee where the team prayed over two submerged  Cherokee towns: Ellijay and Charix under over 300 feet of water. We took  communion after Bob Ensign led us in repentance to break the snake heads off  a Native ring someone had given him recently. Fern Noble and Peter Dunn each  cut off a snake head from the ring, repenting for idolatry and witchcraft.  Then we took communion after Henry Redding blessed the land and waters as a  Cherokee man.

                  From there we drove to pray at Toxaway Town, burned by American Colonel  Williamson in 1776. During the Cherokee War of 1760, the city of Toxaway  functioned as a refugee center for burned out or massacre survivors of  British depredations. During British Colonel Montgomery's campaign in 1760,  a detachment of the 77th Royal Foot came upon three Cherokee eating  watermelon in the vicinity of Toxaway and killed two, wounding a third who  ran away. Here the team repented for the ethnic cleansing and called that  land and its people into its God-ordained purposes to be a place of refuge  and hospitality.

                  After lunch and an history lesson at Keowee-Toxaway State Park, the team  moved on to Estatoe, a large city of nearly 700 persons in 1721 situated in a  beautiful valley in western Pickens County. Here we wore ourselves out  dealing with trader abuses (the town had a trading post), the 1760 and 1776  burnings of the city, and the subject of alcohol consumption and  encouragement by the whites. Fern Noble, in stressing that this forcing of  alcohol on the Native peoples is a continental issue, not just Cherokee, gave  Pine Ridge Reservation (Lakota-Sioux) as an example. The barrooms there sell  more alcohol than anywhere in the nation. The Natives are drowning their  worldly sorrows in the strong drink. Oh, tough and far-reaching repentance. 

                  Afterwards part of the team adjourned to a waterfall in the Estatoe  community. Local legends are rampant in these foothills of Cherokee women in  love with white men (never the other way around!) and the cultural difficulty  of the elders accepting the marriage proposal with the result of a leap of  suicide from the crest of the falls of either the Native woman or both  lovers. We had repentance over these intercultural (and sometimes racist)  relationships that were many times no more than mistress relationships. We  had repentance between Native and white men of the obvious alienations caused  by the abuse of Native women. We had Native woman/White man reconciliation  as well. We only just touched the wound, but we believe we opened it for  further cleansing by other prayer groups at other times. 

                  Could you imagine we'd be exhausted after that kind of a day? We were. It  was our last day of on-site prayer.

                  On Sunday we minister at Faith Center Church in Walhalla, then we have an  important end point team meeting: Debriefing. It is extremely important for  us to depart healthfully, so please pray over Sunday afternoon's meeting if  you can.
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Here were the questions asked to every team member:
  • What has this prayer journey done for this area?
  • What has this prayer journey done for me?
  • What kinds of improvements need to be made?

1)  Believe the Father has released a spirit of repentance in the land– and His Holy Fire will be released in this land.

2) Father constantly reminds me to stand in all He has taught me– and to take on more revelation from Him and each other.  Simply say continue yielding to Him and each other.

3) Possibly, a native guide to speed up directions in unknown areas.
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1) God has released souls from the pit and spiritual darkness among Oconee and Cherokee.

2) I recognize a new level of regional authority/anointing that I have since OR.  A team (friends) I can trust.  Learned more about battlefield strategy and confidentiality of command.

3) BETTER COMMUNICATION before prayer journey.  More scouting, more Cherokee intercessors, more worship
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1) I believe He has removed the curses from the land and they will see abundant blessings of the Lord in souls for Jesus, opened eyes towards their brothers in the churches and that a deeper peace will reign than they have ever known because of Jesus' blood on the land reversing the curses.  Hebrews 12:15

2) I believe that the lives of each intercessor had an effect on my life and I grew through the many ways God has used each such as Fern with worldly and godly sorrow and Gene's watchful eye of responsibility to God's call.

3) I really feel the Lord did a good job of teaching flexibility, patience mixed with all the fruits of the Holy Spirit and I thank Him for His grace to all.  Be prepared for God to grow us more.
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1) Change Oconee/Cherokee– Doors are open for reconciliation; release and gathering in.  Praise the Lord.

2) Changes/effects in me– Renewal of team, membership disciplines, enhancement of the recognized need of mutual submission.  Challenges to established operating patterns.  Much learned for betterment for others in other situations.

3) Improvement– It's good that there seems to be a growing emphasis on worshipfully waiting on God in each situation.  Zechariah 4:6 
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1) He has released curses off the land of Oconee and is loosing His blessings and healing into the land and its inhabitants.

2) I received a greater and more in-depth understanding of the Cherokee and this land that was once theirs, and of my heritage in the Ani-Yunwiyi (Cherokee) Nation; depths of feelings and insights I had not had before.

3) Not eat out every night, but have one or two (or more) where we, just as a team, fellowship around the (a) table at wherever place we are staying.  (Would give extra time these days to stay out longer if needed,) and/or make the dinner time more flexible.
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1) How CPI has changed Oconee and the Cherokee Nation– I believe we will see evidence of curses being broken off the land in the county and people here rising up in their native identity in some new way.  I hope God has had victory in removing hindrances for Cherokees to receive the Gospel and in ministry.  I hope also, that grief is broken off the land in this county.

2) How PJ changed me– Becoming part of a team, and challenges to relationship have shined light on a little more of the "self".  The miracles of answered prayer and corporate revelation have strengthened my faith.  I believe I experienced a little of God's heart in a new way at some sites with the longing for the two cultures to be side by side.  I feel more connected to my SC roots.

3) Improvement– saw value in going back to face to face repentance as we did on OR– made it more real, personal.  Suggestion for future host situations– later evening meal time would give more prayer time at sites.
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1) "I have poured out my blessings upon the land."  I believe that strongholds have been broken and renewal will break out in some churches.  Hebrews 12:15

2) A deeper love for all the Native Americans or a nation.  A greater heartfelt awareness of the atrocities against them.  More sensitive auditory acumen to the sounds of the land and the waters.  As an intercessor learning the differences between worldly and godly sorrow.

3) Maybe start out earlier?  Better directions to the site? Zechariah 4:6 Teaching tape of identificational  confession and repentance.
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2) As we walked and prayed– I felt the corporate repentance– bring me renewed hope for the healing of the nations– it seemed over and over I could [feel] the ripple effect to the 500 nations plus the people who live in the land now.  Psalm 115:1-3

3) I, noticed the great ease in our group the day Mr. Ed led us– So–Maybe getting someone in the area to scout out and plot the path on paper or take us around like a Mr. Ed.  Also maybe a mini teaching on Identificational repentance. To the new members before they join us– perhaps- one of Gene's tapes or notes sent out. 
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1) I "think", from what I've seen during the week, that spiritual blinders and walls have been removed which will allow people to be drawn into the Kingdom.

2) 
 • It gave me a heart for Native Americans
 • Gave me more insight into what intercession is; spiritual warfare; blood and curse on the land (people group)
 • Individual teaching from the members
 • Understand a tad bit more about hearing God, Godliness, Christ-centered thinking
 • Character building
 • Training!!!!!

3) More scouting or get a guide
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1) By confession of sins, repentance of these sins plus thanksgiving and praise to our Heavenly Father, we were given a window of opportunity to change the curses instigated by the devourer and proclaim blessings upon the homelands of my ancestors.  Hebrews 12:15-17 Root of bitterness broken for natives and South Carolina.

2) It gave me spiritual connection to my Cherokee ancestry and place a greater desire to see worldly sorrow turned into repentance leading the native peoples into eternal salvation to all tribes and tongues.
Hear the breath of His Spirit upon His creation.  Talk to storm in natural storms and see God act. 

3) On site wait on the Lord more, be more patient.  Let others know you need site help don't take everything as a burden you alone must bear.  I must personally pray harder, longer and more for these sites before hand.  Local Native Americans if possible.  Pray cleansing of team members after each repentance.
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1) What has this prayer journey done for Oconee and the Cherokee nation?  Another confirmation that the "Principle People" are being set free to worship in freedom.  During the prayer journey, we called forth the redemptive gifts of the Cherokee nation (leadership, prosperity, mercy, education– Cherokee syllabary, sharing).  "The people" are coming into the identity that our Father had planned for them.  We see the gifts of the 5 fold ministry rising up to fulfill God's desires for His people.

2) What has this prayer journey done for me?  Increased awareness of the responsibility I have as an Intercessor for the nations.  I must be on the wall watching continuously so Satan does not get through any crack.  Must speak prophetically and remind our Father of His promises.  "That all of Oklahoma and the Carolinas will be saved."

3) Ways to improve?  We needed to be there for orientation and debriefing (will know next time).  Would have been good to have soup and sandwiches some evenings. More fruit and salads at meals.  I enjoyed what we had and am very thankful to all who provided for us. 
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