CPI OVERHILLS TOWNS OF EAST TENNESSEE
Daily Reports from the Cherokee Prayer Initiative's Overhills Towns Segment completed Spring 2000. Select by location or date.  Click here to see the East Tennessee prayer team.
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    Day 1 - May 6 & 7, 2000
    Team members began arriving on May 6, and we have been showered with favor and grace from Grace Church in Knoxville which has helped us by providing housing, airport runs, meals, and a wonderful service of worship today at their church followed by a meal.

    Today's service was phenomenal.  The church dance troupe did a special, choreographed presentation in which dancers in buckskin ephods representing Cherokees and green ephods representing Irish wept and prayed and  reconciled and danced before the Throne of the Lion of Judah.  Without knowing Cherokee culture of the Reconciliation Feast, they reenacted it, with the dancers exchanging ephods as the Cherokee warriors would exchange clothes to mend broken relationships and start on a new slate.

    We were signally blessed.  Our Ulster contingent made a big splash at the service with their grace and anointing pouring forth in the gathering.

    Worship and their commissioning of us lasted over two hours, the entire service over three.  Then we had Tennessee Barbecue for lunch.

    Tomorrow after our important Team Briefing, we will begin our prayer assignments.  The number is staggering -- over 150.  We have selected about 60 to try to manage. (We were only to reach 32 of them.)
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    Day 2 - May 8, 2000
    Wow!  What an incredible day!

    Our team started out this morning for our Team Briefing in the conference room at Fellowship Church in Knoxville.  I  taught on identificational repentance and reconciliation followed by a strategy session and practicalities of the intercession.  We have a number of new folks on this team. 

    After lunch, our team went to our first prayer site, and it was enormous.  We arrived at the Treaty of Holston 1791 site in downtown Knoxville, and after surveying the area, the Lord launched us into deep intercession, repentance, weeping over this broken treaty.  Here, 41 Cherokee chiefs led by John Watts and Bloody Fellow came at Governor Blount's invitation.  They hoped that this time the United States government would finally redress some of the Cherokee grievances.  When they arrived, they found that the US representatives for President George Washington only wanted more land -- which they intended to pay only 1000 poounds for.  Chief John Watts protested that 1000 pounds would not even pay to buy a breechclout for all their Nation's children.  He also protested the killing of his relative Old Tassel under a flag of truce -- a heinous breach of faith in the Cherokees' eyes.  He was so broken up that Bloody Fellow had to finish the proceedings.

    Day Parker, an Overhills Cherokee, was filled with such rage that his countenance changed, and he looked like he wanted to kill Mark Pate from Knoxville.  Day went through a long list of wounds that the whites had caused his people, then he willfully gave up his right to be angry, forgave, and blessed.  Pastor Brad Getz of Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church and Debi Knight of Grace Church were also powerfully used in the intercession as well as Joe Hultquist of Knoxville.  They repented to the Cherokee for the broken treaty, the deception, the greed, and many other things.

    Other repentance connected with this treaty occurred, then the team drove to west Knoxville to San Souci Apartments on Walker Springs Road.  Here in 1793, Cherokee leaders John Watts, Doublehead, and Bob Benge were lending a 1000 warrior expedition to liquidate the entire white population of Knoxville.  On the way, they began to argue over who was in charge.  After hearing false rumors of a white army led by Sevier in Knoxville, they desisted and surrounded the 13 member family at Cavett's Station.  After agreeing to set the women and children free, Doublehead killed everyone in bloodlust.

    We began to pray by placing Edd Stovall and Daphne Swilling back to back, then surrounding them with Native Americans. Immediately the intercessors were shocked by the fear that came over the whites and the bloodlust that the Natives spoke out against these two representative whites.  Then after a long time of reenactment, the team redeemed the actions by Bob Ensign's opening a way in the circle for the whites to come out free as the Beloved Woman Ada Winn in Cherokee fashion waved a swan's wing over the freed captives saying, "You are free, free indeed by the truth of Jesus Christ."  The swan's wing was carried by the Beloved Woman of the Cherokee as a symbol of authority and setting captives free.  Beloved Women decided the fate of captives. Ada Winn, who we felt led to ask to be our Beloved Woman team member last fall, is a relative of the last Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, Nancy Ward.  What a picture of an intercessor.

    We ended by praying for the residents of San Souci Apartments, a crime-filled complex in a quiet, nice neighborhood.  We asked the Lord to deliver the captives and draw them to Himself, sending disciplers and evangelists to win the harvest into the kingdom.

    A great day -- some of us are learning many new things. Others of us are surprised by the favor and divine rush of intercession coming over us.
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    Day 3 - May 9, 2000

    TREATY OF DUMPLIN CREEK
    Today was another banner day as the team headed out early to the site of the Treaty of Dumplin Creek between the Cherokees and the State of Franklin.  It is located in Sevier County.

    The state of Franklin was a short-lived break away republic from North Carolina.  Led by Governor John Sevier, Franklin was the first European 
    experiment in constitutional democracy west of the Appalachians.

    The Cherokees could nto figure out the different groups of whites of British, American, North Carolinian, and Franklin representatives continually coming to ask for more land.  Who was really in charge among these deceiving whites?

    When we began the prayer time we hit a block immediately in regard to Franklin-Cherokee repentance.  Because Franklin, which covered East 
    Tennessee, was largely Scot-Irish, Rosemary McConkey of Northern Ireland stepped up to repent to Cherokee Mark Pate of Knoxville.  But she couldn't Ironically, she was feeling the hatred and bitterness of Scot-Irish Franklinites who had been rejected by James I (the bisexual KJV English king) and sent to Ulster in Northern Ireland, then rejected by North Carolina at the Battle of Alamance in 1775 during the War of the Regulation.

    So we shifted gears.  Linda Fulmer repented as an Englishwoman to Rosemary the Scot-Irish, who claimed to have been robbed of her identity (like the Cherokee were robbed later on by these very Scot-Irish.  PRINCIPLE:  Wounding breeds more wounding in our lives and cultures.)  As that healing prayer traversed the Atlantic, other Scot-Irish like Roberta Pfanstiel were healed deep within.

    Then we turned again to the Dumplin Creek Treaty.  Day Parker (Overhills Cherokee from Acworth, GA) and Carol Smyth (Northern Ireland) dealt successfully with it.  The Cherokees did not know they were signing away land because they could not read English.

    FORKS OF THE RIVER AND IDENTITY ISSUES
    From there the team drove to the Forks of the River east of Knoxville where the Holston and French Broad Rivers come together to form the Tennessee River.  It was here that the team dealt with the woundedness surrounding mixed-bloods.  Because of the dederal government's blood quantum rules later on in our history, there has been shame associated with mixed heritage.  At the site of the first Scot-Irish Presbyterian church in Knoxville, we prayed regarding these identity issues.  In 1790 the day the church was formed, the Cherokee were not allowed to participate in the service.  We prayed many prayers regarding honor of our forebears, biological and spiritual.  From this place of the confluence of rivers into a new identity, we prayed for restoration of Cherokee and Scot-Irish identity in Christ.  We call it Warfare by Honor.

    FORT SOUTHWEST POINT
    From there we continued to Kingston, TN, to the site of Fort Southwest Point, the gateway to Middle Tennessee.  Here our team repented for the 1805 treaty.  The Tennesee state government, in a deceptive move to get Kingston, at the confluence of the Clinch and Tennessee Rivers negotiated a land cession under the guise that they wanted to move the state capital there.  Once they got the land cession, the state government met there one day to fulfill technically the terms of the treaty, then adjourned back to Knoxville.

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    Day 4 - May 10, 2000

    SPIRITUAL RESISTANCE
    Today our team traveled from Kingston to Top of the World, TN, on Chilhowee Mountain.  We made an intermediate stop in Maryville where we had lunch. There we encountered a stiff spiritual resistance.  Several of us also got headaches and began to hurt in our stomachs.  After prayer and calling on help from some key intercessors across the country, the resistance collapsed within two hours.

    CLINGMAN'S DOME
    The team then drove to Clingman's Dome on the NC/TN border, the highest point in Tennessee.  Many occultic groups and some Christian prayer groups who come there do some pretty strange things, but our prayer team looked for God's redemptive purposes of Clingman's Dome in regard to the Cherokees.  On Monday someone put a Knoxville newspaper article in my hand about the Cherokees which noted that the Creator whom they called Yowah had called them to come to Clingman's Dome to receive a set of laws and principles by which to govern their people.  It was kind of like a Cherokee Mount Sinai.  Wow.  We prayed and read Hebrews 12:  "You have not come to a desert mountain, but to Mount Zion, surrounded by thousands and thousands of angels."  And we prayed for the Cherokee to indeed come to Mount Zion, to Jesus their King.  Less than 5% of Native Americans have a vital, growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
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    Day 5 - May 11, 2000
    Another incredible day of prayer on CPI3.  The weather is beautiful thanks to your prayers.

    TALLASSEE
    Today the team rose early after not much sleep overnight overall.  After a wonderful team meeting we headed toward the north bank of the Little 
    Tennessee River where we first prayed at the uppermost Overhills Town called Tallassee once located near Calderwood Dam.  Burned three times by Tennessee armies, a horrible massacre took place there in 1788 when young John Kirk, Jr. avenged his family's death by bringing five honorable Cherokee chiefs into a house and tomahawking each of them in cold blood in the forehead.  Among them were Old Abram of Chilhowee, a friend of the settlers, and Old Tassel, the most respected of the chiefs for his fairness and integrity.

    CHILHOWEE
    Then the team moved downstream to Chilhowee where Abram's Creek enters the Little Tennessee River.  This town was burned several times.  Here a group of Chilhowee warriors once headed off to fight the Shawnee, they told their chief, but actually they went and killed members of their own tribe near Cowee (near Franklin, NC), and came back to do a scalp dance.  A gunstocker from Cowee was at the scalp dance in Chilhowee and recognized one of the captured guns as a fellow Cherokee's.  This betrayal brought shame on Chilhowee.  This situation is reminiscent of the church situation in East Tennessee, where believers betray one another over and over.  We repented and prayed over these issues.

    CITICO
    Then on downstream to Citico or Settico where the team prayed at this town  which was burned several times as well through the years.  Here Rosemary  McConkey of Ireland prayed powerfully for the Cherokee Nation asking God to  grant them favor and make them warriors for Christ.

    TELLICO BLOCKHOUSE
    At the Tellico Blockhouse, the team prayed over the TVA issues of stealing land and flooding ancient tribal lands despite the cries of the Cherokee.  We also repented over two Tellico treaties in 1794 and 1798.  We sat in Cherokee council on the grounds next to the Blockhouse.  Edd Stovall of West Union, SC, sat as the Peace Chief with Day Parker of Acworth, GA, as the Right Hand Man and Ada Winn as the Beloved Woman on the chief's left hand.  It was amazing intercession.  We were not only repenting for corporate sin, but sensed a peculiar Christlike, culturally appropriate authority to legislate in prayer in the heavenly realms.  Linda Fulmer's repentance for the Tellico treaties brought about her reception into the Cherokee Nation by adoption of the Beloved Woman Ada Winn.  Incredible prayer time uplifting the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

    THREE STATIONS (Forts)
    From there the team moved up the Great Indian War Path which runs from Great Chota, capital of the Cherokee Nation, on the Little Tennessee River, to Fort Chiswell, VA, on today's I-77.  We repented for the massacre of the Kirk family on the hill where we best ascertained its location.  The local property owner was happy for us to pray for her and her property.  From there we moved on to Houston's Station and David Craig's Fort, places where John Sevier gathered troops to attack the Cherokees several times and where many bloody battles occurred through those years.  We had much repentance, took communion, and enjoyed the presence of the Lord.

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    Day 6 - May 12, 2000
    FORT LOUDOUN
    Today the team went to the south side of the Little Tennessee River to Fort Loudoun, a British fort erected in 1756 by the Royal Government of South Carolina to have trade with the Cherokee and "protect" them from the French in Alabama. 

    The real motive was that the Cherokees were good business, and it was best for the English to keep their monopoly on trade.  Fort Loudoun was the end of the road from Charles Town, the capital of the Royal Colony of South Carolina.

    Once the Cherokee War broke out in 1760, Fort Loudoun was besieged by the Cherokee Overhills warriors and cut off from English aid in Charles Town 500 miles away.  An army of Scot Highlanders under Colonel Middleton had been shot up and beaten back in a ravine on the NC/GA line on its way to liberate Loudon in 1760. Governor Byrd's Virginia expedition failed to reach the fort in time. 

    One hundred forty soldiers, women, and children negotiated a treaty by which they agreed to give up the fort and all its cannon in return for safe passage to Charleston, SC.  They marched out of the fort after furling the British flag, and marched 17 miles south.  That night the Cherokee escort disappeared into the woods.  The Cherokees had found cannon pushed into the river to prevent its use.  The British had broken faith again. 

    At dawn the Cherokees surrounded them, and killed 23 men -- the tribal "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" for the 23 sachems who had been brutally butchered just weeks earlier in a prison cell at Fort Prince George.  The rest of the army and families were captured under tribal law and taken back to the Cherokee villages.

    Our team gathered on the bank of the river between Fort Loudon State Historic Site and the town of Tuskeegee (today underwater).  We declared the Lord's court in session and read the prosecutor's report:  Isaiah 59:1-8. 

    Then we called a defendant to plead guilty or not guilty.  Daphne Swilling stood and plead guilty to the charges that the British had consistently lied, stolen, deceived, tricked, and broken faith with the Cherokee people, stating that they were guilty of iniquitous sin before the Righteous Judge, the Ancient of Days. 

    Then local Cherokee Mary Ogle stood as plaintiff and announced that even though indeed the British were guilty of these injustices, that she asked for the charges to be dropped on account of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who has already paid the price for this terrible and iniquitous sin deserving death. 

    They then struck hands and hugged in a New Covenant in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Mary Ogle then blessed the British people to be bearers of the gospel as their purpose had been from the beginning, to be fair and right as their ideals called for, to be good fathers and mothers to the peoples of the earth.

    Then Mary Ogle broke a curse on the waters which the Cherokee had placed when later forced off the land, and we poured consecrated water into the lake as a symbol of blessing and healing.  With this done, Gene Brooks stood and declared the war for the land to be over, declared the court case dismissed, and declared the old covenants of deceit gone and a New Covenant under Jesus Christ in force in regard to the peoples of the land.

    CHOTA AND TANASI
    From there the team moved to the Chota and Tanasi Memorials.  Chota was the great capital of the Cherokee Nation.  Nancy Ward was born there.  We gathered under the leadership of Beloved Woman Ada Winn who led us in prayer and blessing of the Cherokee people to come into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and for the healing of the land and the peoples.  Trey Williams of the Bird Clan of the Overhill Cherokees and Overhills Cherokee Day Parker had specific blessings to pray in the name of Jesus over the Cherokee People.
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    Day 7 - May 13, 2000
    COYATEE - HANGING MAW'S TOWN
    The team rose and left early for a long, good, exhausting but awesome day. First we went to a spot near the Tellico Dam where the Little Tennessee and the Tennessee Rivers merge. Here was the town of Chief Hanging Maw named Coyatee. Here we repented for a broken treaty and Captain Beard's massacre of Cherokee and Chickasaw chiefs in retaliation for the massacre of the Cavett family at Cavett's Station. 

    FORT LOUDOUN MASSACRE SITE
    From there our team moved on to a site south of the Tennessee River in Tellico Plains area where the British garrison of 200+ who had surrendered Fort Loudoun were surrounded at dawn on August 20, 1760, and 23 killed in tribal blood revenge for 23 Cherokee sachems being massacred at Fort Prince George in SC. The rest of the people were taken prisoner. Captain Demere, the commander, was tortured. The young warriors said, "You white men want land. Here -- have land!" and they stuffed his mouth with soil and choked him. 

    Just before Bob Enisgn (Cherokee/ Choctaw) and Melanie Robinson (white Tennesseean Wataugan / Cherokee) led in repentance, a local Cherokee man drove by and stopped on this backcountry road near Belltown, TN, and said, "Thanks for caring." We asked where he lived. He said he was moving out of a house up the road. "The landlord for my house and this massacre site was recently killed, and his son came and told me he didn't want any d--- Indians living on his place. So we are moving out."

    TELLICO PLAINS
    On to Tellico Plains where Day Parker (Overhills Cherokee) led the prayer time in the little town of Tellico Plains. We repented for gender issues 
    regarding especially Native women and white trader men. Often these men would leave their white wives, go to the Cherokee villages and take a common law wife, then leave her and go back to the white wife when the job was done. We also repented for women's controlling the family in Cherokee culture and not allowing men to fulfill their Biblical role in the home as priest.

    OLD FORT MARR DEATH CAMP
    Thence down to Benton, TN, to the only remaining part of any of the death camps or removal forts from the time of the Trail of Tears in 1838. Here Rosemary McConkey (Scot Irish) and Daphne Swilling (white Georgian) and Day Parker (Overhills Cherokee) repented and forgave.

    NANCY WARD'S GRAVE
    Ada Winn, a descendant of Nancy Ward, led in prayer and blessing of the Cherokee Nation at Nancy Ward's grave. She read the blessings of Deuteronomy 28. 

    We are all very exhausted but happy. We know we are doing the Lord's work anddoing our best. Now is the time to push through to victory. 
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    Day 8 - May 14, 2000
    LIONHEART FELLOWSHIP
    The team ministered today Sunday at Lionheart Fellowship in Maryville.  This church provided our team with lodgings at Eagle Rock on Chilhowee Mountain the last four days.  It was an awesome service which refreshed and encouraged the team for its final leg in northeast Tennessee.

    DRIVE TO NORTHEAST TENNESSEE
    After the wonderful lunch provided by Lionheart, our team drove to northeast Tennessee for our final prayer days.

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    Day 9 - May 15, 2000
    Today was an awesome day of prayer.  The team focused on the Elizabethton, TN, area.

    SYCAMORE SHOALS TREATY SITE
    After taking in the historic presentations at the Historic Site, the team moved down onto Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River.

    We prayed on the rocks in the Shoals for over three hours. Here was the Gateway to the West.  Here was the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals of 1775 in which Daniel Boone and Richard Henderson basically bribed some Cherokee chiefs (and forged the names of Attakullakulla and Oconostota) into a treaty "selling" 20 million acres of today's Middle Tennessee and a large portion of Kentucky for 2000 British pounds plus 8000 pounds' worth of "considerations" for the chiefs who signed.

    Here Dragging Canoe, the young chief and son of Attakullakulla said, "You have purchased this land, but you will settle it at the price of your blood."  He prophesied that it would be a "dark and bloody ground," and Dragging Canoe did his best to fulfill that prophecy.

    We immediately hit an obstacle in prayer and could get nowhere.  So we stopped and opened up the time to confession of any offenses among the team during the trip so far.  We had a few express some minor confessions of offense to others, and forgiveness was swift.  That overcame the obstacle, and we moved into powerful corporate intercession.

    We prayed reconciliation prayers of young Cherokee chiefs and old Cherokee chiefs, Cherokee leaders and Cherokee people, Wataugans and British, Wataugans and Cherokees.  It was a long and great prayer time.  In the words of Mark Pate, "We hit a grand slam today."

    From there our team went to lunch, then Linda Fulmer led prayer at the real site of Fort Watauga on G Street in Elizabethton.  Then we moved to the central location of Watauga Old Fields at the end of Main Street, Elizabethton where Doe River runs into the Watauga River where Ada Winn read a passage out of Isaiah as a blessing over this site which has been continuously inhabited for 12-15,000 years.

    This awesome team then took a break.  We went to Blue Hole Falls near Doe Mountain and just enjoyed one another, the falls, and the Lord.

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    Day 10 - May 16, 2000
    Today the team took a long meeting to deal with personal issues.  Several received healing.  When you deal with the kinds of issues we are working in, issues which are linked to the territory and lands of rejection and hopelessness, team members often find things coming up in their lives which need healing.  Often they thought it was all taken care of or never knew it was there.  This was a morning to deal with some of these personal healing issues.  It was wonderful and drew our team together more closely than ever.

    LONG ISLAND OF THE HOLSTON, KINGSPORT
    The team then drove to Kingsport to Long Island of the Holston, a sacred treaty ground of the Cherokee where four treaties were concluded with the Cherokees -- 1761, 1776, 1781, and 1806.  The team sat in Cherokee Council.  Edd Stovall was the Peace Chief, with Day Parker serving as the Right Hand Man and Ada Winn the Beloved Woman at the Chief's left hand.

    All the other team members sat down by the seven clans of the Cherokee.  When we have sat in council like this in honor of the Cherokee heritage (This is called Warfare by Honor), we have shifted from a sense of pleading in a court room to a sense of a legislative intercessory body with authority in Christ Jesus to rule and reign with Him in these injustices against the Cherokee people.

    We dealt with each treaty, with each of the Scot-Irish from Northern Ireland standing in the gap to repent and ask forgiveness for these iniquities.  After forgiving these broken treaties, the team then moved into a time of dealing with male-female reconciliation and then the abortion issue.  Southeastern Native peoples practiced intentional miscarriage for centuries before European contact, and we have wondered whether this is a root of the abortion problems in our country or not.  This was deep and emotional repentance before God.

    Then the team took communion together, establishing a holy covenant in place of the broken covenants, then singing praise to God, offering holy sacrifices on this holy altar. After these 3 1/2 hours of prayer, the team was exhausted. Some went to a waterfall across the North Carolina line. Most went home to rest.

    On Wednesday May 17, our team spent the morning nine to noon in Debriefing, a very important part of the journey which will help every team member leave healthy emotionally, spiritually, and mentally.

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    TEAM DEBRIEFING: SEE WHAT THE TEAM THOUGHT

    CHEROKEE PRAYER INITIATIVE III
    Debriefing May 17, 2000

    1) What effect has this time had on the Cherokee Nation and on East Tennessee?
    2) What effect has this time had on me?
    3) In one or two sentences state for an outsider what this trip is all about.
    4) What about this plan can be improved?


    Gene Brooks
    1.  This CPI 3 has facilitated the healing of the Cherokee and East Tennessee peoples and helped remove obstacles in God's eyes to His invitation to move in spiritual awakening and Kingdom expansion.
    2.  This trip has made me learn hupomone– to abide under, and to keep moving forward and continue preparation, continue research, put away the thoughts that this whole project is a waste of energy and time and keep moving forward like a workhorse though weary.
    3.  CPI 3 is a Christian prayer journey of repentance and forgiveness asking God to heal the wounds of the Cherokee people and East Tennessee so that the Kingdom can grow.
    4.  Smaller team; monitor accommodations instead of allowing someone else to handle it.
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    Bob Ensign
    1.  Many old wicked alters torn down and new "Holy" alters erected.  Have broken the curses, both generational and in the land of selfishness, deceitfulness, haughty pride, deception, confusion and set free the voice of the women of the Cherokee Nation and of Tennessee and elsewhere.  We have set in motion the work of the Holy Spirit to now have His way in this area by opening up Holy Gates of prayer and worship.
    2.  This time has brought me even closer to home than the others. To understand more of my history and the history of the Cherokee Nation, and of the land they lived in, and of the many, many issues that underly why this nation is the way it is today, and of the Scots-Irish history and the role they played in making this history.
    3.  A time of prayer and repentance at significant historical sites of the Cherokee people with the intention of breaking the curses off the land brought about through sin and unforgiveness.  This in order to heal the land and set the people free to worship the Creator as they should.
    4.  A pre-check by someone of facilities that we will be staying in.  ie.  Bunks and mats of Eagle Rock, small beds for big guys at Roan Mountain.  Time off– rather than try to fit a time off in after some prayer, make it a day off specifically with no prayer in the middle, those that need rest can sleep all day if they want and be much more refreshed for the rest of the trip, maybe extend the trip a day or two on each end for this purpose.
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    Linda Fulmer
    1.  This prayer journey has encouraged and imparted vision to pastors, Markand Mary–a sense of passing a baton for them to continue healing prayer.  We have addressed deep wounds in the land and people–identity issues and doublemindedness, betrayal and rejection, gender issues, and innocent blood in the abortion prayer.  To have such deep prayer over bloodguilt in a sacred place could have huge ripple effects.  For Cherokee Nation–hope.
    2.  Even with all the preparation and resources, I found myself able to be more trusting of the Holy Spirit to lead us into strategies–not so much dependence on lists.  I was surprised at the times I could pray into the inner healing of other people.  I am still processing the times the Lord touched me with healing–over mental illness, some grief and from a very distant Native ancestor, Gaelic identity, and Mark calling out women's voices.  I know those things were very significant, But I don't understand it yet.  Identifying British was also a surprise.  I feel connected to Watauga land in my generations, and that was not expected either.  Being adopted Cherokee was pretty overwhelming.
    3.  We gathered a diverse group of intercessors to pray what is on God's heart for the land of East Tennessee and the Cherokee Nation.  Our focus was to pray healing over the wounds and violence committed in the land.
    4.  Possibly more personal sharing at the beginning to help team bonding.  This might have helped Irish women.
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    Chrissie Henshaw
    1.  Because of the sins of our forefathers the Cherokee Nation was in captivity, they had no honour in this nation, they had no hope.  A depressive oppression was heavy upon them.  I feel through this event this has lifted.  Regarding East Tennessee, I feel a curse has been lifted and ears unblocked.  Mercy has triumphed over judgement.  Blood and injustice has been crying out from the land, but we have learned that when appropriated Christ's blood speaks louder.  Altars have been torn down and new ones erected.
    2.  I have learned a great deal through the teaching and working alongside other intercessors especially identificational repentance and how evil alters are established and holy ones are built up.  I feel what I have learned shall be of great worth to us intercessors in Ireland.  I also have learned how to work on a team appreciating other people's giftings and diversity in the Body of Christ.  I personally have been much impacted by this event and I know Northern Ireland has been too.  Northern Ireland has reaped what it had sown: broken treaties and covenants, lawlessness, rebellion, and identity crises.
    3.  Pulling down evil altars and building up holy ones, taking captivity captive in Jesus' name and appropriating the blood covenant of Christ after standing in the gap through identificational repentance so that a curse of judgement can be lifted and freedom regarding salvation can be preached effectively.
    4.  A time of sharing about ourselves at the start would have been helpful to see where we're all coming from.  A bit more information be known what to expect concerning identificational repentance aspect.  Also being more specific about clothing requirements.  Also need to know the day before where we are going the following day.

    Wardell C. Jones
    1.  I believe the Cherokee Nation is being given back the land and the restoration of the land.  I believe East Tennessee residents will see that the Cherokee Nation has a vital role to play in reestablishing God's covenant in the land.  I believe many of the land issues were settled in the Heavenlies.
    2.  I know why I have been feeling I am not to be boxed in my home church.  I need to be available to move when the cloud is moving that He wants me to be under.  I will be looking at more closely what I spend my time and money on.  It has made me look more closely at the above.  I am feeling things that God has asked me to do.  I will be able to put a handle to it now.  For example, the two teaching ideas for children He has given me.  I will be looking very closely how I use my time.  It made me more tolerant of other cultures and behaviors.
    3.  Restoration and healing of our land and nation so God can inhabit the land or live in the land and reestablish His covenant in the land.
    4.  Better communication of directions and events of the day amongst the group.  Sometimes we were asking each other what was going on.  No one was clear about what we were doing.
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    Rosemary McConkey
    1.  It has assaulted the works of the enemy which have kept the people blinded and bound–there will be release to see and freedom too hear and receive more of the truth.  It has removed the blindfolds put on the people by the weight of broken treaties and bloodshed obscuring the Word of God.  Something inexplicable happened in the spiritual realm through repentance which brought release. [I need more days and more pages to write to think/ponder these things and understand more and better what has happened.]
    2.  So much that I can't say it all in this space!  One of the things is that it has given me a much deeper understanding of my own national identity.  For a   long time I rejected my "worldly" culture thinking that as a new creation and citizen of the Kingdom that national identity didn't matter.  That is true in a way, but the Lord has really been showing me that there is also a rich inheritance which He has given us, not only to use in His Kingdom, but also to relate to other people through, to reach out to others through.  This is just one of the effects this time has had on me.  It has given me a greater understanding of my own nation and culture–its strengths and weaknesses.  I have learned so much.
    3.  White and Cherokee Christians journeying together in a journey of repentance, reconciliation and healing.
    4.  To have known what sites I was going to visit long before I come here, so I would have had more time to study the specific history and understand the issues better.  I found it hard to study while I was here because there was so much going on.
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    Fern Noble
    1.  As we entered the courtroom of God (our tears of repentance gave us entrance), I felt like some very ancient charges against East Tennessee were cleared off God's book–I feel like the clearing will help the captives-the Cherokee-be set free to enter the Kingdom, repentance opens the way and will help bring revival to East Tennessee.
    2.  My mind takes me back to Sequoah's birthplace and the vision and revelation God brought, about a new anointing–even yet I cannot think it through clearly, but I know God will reveal His purposes–it seemed to be to cut the lies off people's minds with His sword-His written Word-His truth replaces the lies of generations.
    3.  Because God is Alpha and Omega, we come in the name of Jesus His son to speak our confession and forgiveness over the deep wounds of the past generations.
    4.  I might explain my quiet nature first.  Because of the different ones feeling left out, maybe just handing out the daily devotion assignments to help each one pull together.  Also I feel like we should devote one whole day to orientation.  Maybe more of each sharing how they came to be here.
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    Day Parker
    1.  I feel that will be seen in the fruit.  This team has been used to open the gates that were once chained by innocent blood, hate, and the enemy.  And we've asked the King of Glory to return to the hearts of these people groups.  That they would open the gates of their hearts to Him for His glory!
    2.  The time and this group have brought me to a deeper place than I ever thought possible at this point in my life.  The Lord's blessing on this time has shown me His heart for the First Nations People as well as the Irish.  His love for me has never been so clear.  For His sake, I feel I've been a tool in His hands.  I feel I can sense Him more easily.
    3.  Christians called by God to pray in and for East Tennessee asking Him to heal the land and it's people.
    4.  The communication between and to drivers.  More preparation time to focus the team for what lies ahead.  Intercessors who are rich and will sponsor CPI.
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    Mark Pate
    1.  I think that God has given mercy first on the innocent blood issue, and will see a drop in the shedding of blood in this area and the Cherokees will become more fruitful.  Second, I believe eyes and ears that have been blind and deaf will be able to see and hear the   gospel and the 2-5% rate of knowing Christ will explode.  I also believe there will be healing and acceptance of identity issues.
    2.  The Lord has shown me grace and mercy and most of all healing in deep rooted submission area.  I know He will continue to work on my heart and to try and be more of a team player and not a me player. 
    3.  Reconciliation between God, the land, identities, and His people groups through repentance individually and corporately.
    4.  Not waiting to shepherd start earlier.  This is still a mobile church on a task.  People still need to be touched and held.  To demonstrate to leaders on how to lead.
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    Roberta Pfanstiel
    1.  I believe this time has broken strongholds that the enemy has had in many vital areas of the Cherokee Nation and the people of East Tennessee.  Places where the enemy has been able to keep sacrifices to his throne of iniquity in both people groups.  I believe this will have a far reaching effect for both groups as well as the Irish.  The dealing with the sins of broken words, treachery, rage, vengeance, retaliation, mass bloodshed, greed will help to build a bridge so that trust and the redemptive purposes of God may once again be released in the Cherokee people, the East Tennesseans and the Irish.  Also much needed, healing of the land would stem from these prayers and repentance.
    2.  This time has opened up my awareness and understanding of some of the key areas in my life of rebellion to difficult authority figures and the root of some of my heart need for vengeance and resulting sin of rage.  It has also shown some of the deep roots of refection from a people group who were also rejected and thus rejected others.  Some of this awareness I had never dreamed might stem from these strongholds in the land and the people groups.  I believe it will also have a redemptive effect on future generations.  Cherokee and White.
    3.  A group of intercessors, who represent the people groups involved, going to various sites where offenses between the groups have occurred.  There they offer identificatonal repentance to god and each other which breaks the Satanic hold on the people groups and the land.
    4.  It would help for there to be more communication between the leaders and team before each site and changes in plans.  At the beginning it would be good to let people get to know each other (more about each other).  Separation between new comers and old prayers.
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    Christy Lynn Poe
    1.  I think some wicked altars and strongholds have been torn down and holy ones raised up.  From scripture, I know that all the repentance must have put a dent in the devil's schemes.  Prayerfully, it has brought the Cherokee a step closer to revival by touching God's heart.  If we ask we will receive.  And the prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much...what about 18...I don't know but I know God heard those prayers and repentance for some things that have never been brought before Him.
    2.  The Lord has allowed me to understand what we're doing a little more.  He's also used someone to help me learn to hear Him better...he freed me from some things like always having something going through my head which I thought was normal before so I struggled to just sit before the Lord.  Father also opened up some deep hurts   that I thought were taken care of and I now feel like I'm beginning that process again.  Father also allowed me to know what it's like to have a brother...that's huge...Day has helped me see that which gives "brother and sister in Christ" a whole new meaning.  Father has just let me be really nurtured among this team.  Most of the time, I felt like I was about 14 instead of 20 and that literally impacted my life!  He has satisfied some of the desires of my heart.
    3.  Bringing the hurts and sins of the Cherokee and other peoples before the Lord to ask His forgiveness and mercy in order to bring healing.
    4.  Make sure everyone has comfortable beds if possible.  I felt bad that some people slept on the little cushions out of the chairs.
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    Melanie H. Robinson
    1.  A way has opened in the spiritual realm so that in the natural we can remember and repent for our sin against God and one another; a way through Jesus to come into the destiny of unity and honor.  I think there will be an increase in understanding of one another.
    2.  God has let me see myself more clearly.  I've had to own up to sin in my life–pride, self-righteousness, rebellious self-reliance, selfishness.  I've been convicted about my sometimes thoughtless and careless speech and deeds.  I don't want to walk in these things anymore.  He's given me a hunger to know His Word and train in "swordsmanship".  He's deepening my understanding of confession and repentance–going to the root and not just plucking off the leaves.  He has changed me.
    3.  We went to sites where we confessed our sin and our ancestor's sin, so that God would bring the gift of repentance in order for the land and the people to be freed from the curse of sin.
    4.  Have a core-group of worship songs.  Perhaps one of Jonathan Maracle's tapes (that could be sent out to team members in advance) would be good.  This way the team could learn the songs before the next phase.
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    Carol Smyth
    1.  Because "we" have stood as representatives of those that "sinned" before God (all those who were involved with the Cherokees) and confessed our sin before God, repented and asked for forgiveness God has cleansed that sin.  Sin allows Satan to have legal ground to work but that has been broken.  Repentance, forgiveness has released the Cherokee Nation to hear and see the salvation of God.
    2.  Warfare by honor is the main revelation for me.  This time has given me greater insight for prayer strategies for Ireland.  During teaching on strongholds and altars God gave me "revelation"concerning this within my own culture.  I have also identified further personal issues which need to be dealt with within my marriage.  Being a small part of God's plan for the nations has overwhelmed me of God's grace in my life.
    3.  This trip has been about identifying and resolving before God, tragedies in our history to enable God to change the future.
    4.  Perhaps an opportunity to share more often as to group the events of each day (ie.  the prayer sites).  An explanation to "newcomers" that in dealing with corporate "issues" there are personal issues that will arise.  A full day of orientation to enable team members to "bond" (ie. know one another).
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    Daphne Swilling
    1.  Removed obstacles that have thus far prevented a move of God to this land and to the Cherokee Nation.  This time has been preparation of the land to receive the seed of revival.
    2.  I am much more aware of how the sins of man effect the land.  I am more sensitive to issues of the heart and the consequences it brings and I am set free in these revelations.  I have been given a key for future ministry.
    3.  On the job training to discover the high purposes of God for land and people and with the cooperation of the Holy Spirit calling them forth.
    4.  More communication concerning what site we are headed to so that we can better prepare.  Sometimes we didn't know where we were going until we got there.  Great job Gene!
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    Trey Williams
    1.  It has brought healing of the land, torn down strongholds that the enemy had, built altars to the Lord and begun building new strongholds.  Also, it may have allowed the Cherokee people to be able to hear the word of the Lord more clearly, because of the repentance of the broken treaties and the formation of new covenants with the Lord.  There is probably much more that I have missed, but I don't think I will ever understand the impact of our time spent here.
    2.  Well, all of this is new to me.  I have learned more about intercession, and repentance.  I have learned the importance of knowing history and how it plays into prayer.  Some of my mindsets have and are being broken down and the lord has taught me much.  I have gained more understanding in spiritual warfare (worship warfare, honor warfare).  Things I never knew existed, I learned about.  I experienced the power of the Holy Spirit like I never have before and I experience just a smidge at what Jesus experienced on the cross by means of the representation anointing.  It will still take me several months and probably even longer to process all that God wants to teach me through this.  One thing I do know, I can't continue my walk with God at the same place I was before I come here...I must move on and continue stepping forward into new things that the Lord has prepared.
    3.  This trip is about reconciliation between the Cherokee people and the Scots-Irish as well as reconciliation to God with these people.  All of this done through repentance, of specific events at specific periods in history, by prayer (confession, repentance, forgiving).
    4.  Well, since this is new to me I don't have much knowledge or anything to compare this to.  I will state what little that I noticed.  Maybe the leadership communicating better with the rest of the team (ie.  where the next site is; what is the tentative schedule for the day).  There seemed to be some confusion there.
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    Ada Winn
    1.  There is more networking among various churches and plans to become more involved in reaching the nations and tearing down strongholds.  Also, it's a blessing to know that "Agagees" are rising up to continue this warfare against the strongholds being identified in this area and it will certainly have an effect on the salvation of the tribes.  I can see the numbers changing already.
    2.  Learning to do spiritual warfare by honor– This can be implemented in our intercessory group as well as our church body.  The honor bestowed upon me–I accept for the Cherokee Nation as a gift from god.  The continual growth, learning and building of relationships with others are gifts I will treasure. 
    3.  Identifying curses on the land which keep the people from hearing and accepting God's Word.  Then tearing down and rebuilding holy altars through repentance, forgiveness, and God's Word.
    4.  Short review of sites prayed over after evening meal to help people keep up with their journals.  Take a full day to recoup and put in more sites on the day before and after.
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