CHICKAMAUGA TOWNS OF CHATTANOOGA NORTH TO HIAWASSEE RIVER, SOUTH INTO NORTH GEORGIA, WEST INTO NORTHEAST ALABAMA

• Team List
• Day by Day Reports in the Chickamauga Towns
• CPI4 Maps and Pictures
• Complete Prayer Site Guide
• CPI 4 Team Debriefing  See what they thought about the trip from three Questions:

  • How has this week affected us corporately?
  • How has this week affected me?
  • What about this week could be improved?
• Main Cherokee Prayer Initiative Page

• Phyllis Bargo (Belleville, MI), White - Melungeon
• Gene Brooks (Clinton, SC), White Carolinian
• Nancy Cheek (Cobb, GA), White Georgian
• Bob Ensign (Greensboro, NC), Chickamauga Cherokee - Choctaw
• Linda Fulmer (Lindale, TX), White Carolinian - Etiwan
• Wardell Jones (Columbia, MD), African-Cherokee-Choctaw
• Bettye Lundquist (Chattanooga, TN), White Tennessean
• Rosemary McConkey (County Londonderry, Northern Ireland), Ulster Scot Irish / Andrew Jackson
• Fern Noble (Oxnard, CA), Cree - Scot
• Day Parker (Valparaiso, IN), Overhills Cherokee
• Christy Lynn Poe (Columbia, SC), Portuguese - White Carolinian
• Mark Rodgers (Cookeville, TN), Wataugan Tennessean
• Daphne Swilling (Chattanooga, TN), White Georgian settlers, Trail of Tears Association
• Amanda T. Brooks (Clinton, SC), White Carolinian
• Lana Whisman (Cleveland, TN), White Tennessean - Ulster Scot
• Ada Winn (Tulsa, OK), Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma)

 The team members began gathering in Chattanooga over the weekend and even some ministered on Sunday in Spring Place, GA.

 On Monday morning we gathered for a great time of Briefing.

 After lunch the team went out to the Brainerd Mission where Day Parker and Bob Ensign, Chickamauga Cherokees, prayed over each person and Cherokee Beloved Woman Ada Winn read Scriptures over the team. Once inside one of the most incredible things happened since I have begun prayer walking.

 From two of the trees, Day Parker noticed water dripping from way up in the top and called me over. I thought, "This sometimes happens in Spring but never Fall. Sap rises in the Spring, not the Fall. Sure enough, the idea that we were hallucinating rain falling out of the trees on a cloudless day was voided. The water began to hit us in the head and on the arms. We called the team over, and several had differing interpretations: latter rain, tears of the great cloud of witnesses. Whatever it was, it was supernatural. We took communion and when we took the cup, Fern Noble asked the Lord to allow us to drink the cup of the anointing for representation of our peoples. 

 After more prayer, the team went out with joy. Brainerd Mission was a major sending forth place among these missions of the American Board of Foreign Missions. Missionaries went from here all over the Cherokee Nation.

 From there the team went up on Lookout Mountain to pray over the city as the sun set in the West, the direction in which the Cherokee were forced to remove.

 Afterwards we had a wonderful meal provided by intercessors from Chattanooga.
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 Today was an incredible day! Yesterday evening the team got together for the first time. Several team members came in early and ministered to intercessors in the area (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). Sunday several of the team members who came early led a church service in Springplace, Georgia. Sunday evening the team got to spend time together. Monday we got to work. We began with the logistics and things we need to know about in praying for this area, got to know each other, and just spent some time together until about 2:00. Then we went to the Brenaird Mission. We prayed and the Lord led us to an interesting situation...we had Day Parker, Bob Ensign, and Ada Winn open the gates of the Brenaird Mission to us, which is considered the East Gate of Chattanooga. 

It is similar to the prophetic statements of Jesus entering the Golden Gate(East Gate) of Jerusalem. We prayed that the Lord Jesus would enter into Chattanooga in a powerful way. These Cherokees opened the gate for us and we went in with African Choctaw, Wardell Jones, led the way. Then as we gathered, Day Parker noticed water falling out of two of the trees. It seemed to be like tears...none of us had seen anything like this before, but it was water(or tears) falling on us, on a cloudless day and the Lord began to show us how we should celebrate in joy, take communion, andread a procolamation of repentence. We took communion and asked the Lord to allow us to drink the cup of the annointing for representation here, in this area. 

We have an incredible team and I am so impressed by everyone on the team. Yesterday evening the team got together for the first time. Several people came in on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and were able to minister to some of the intercessors in the area. On Sunday, several of the team members who arrived early led a church service in Springplace, Georgia. Sunday evening, the team spent time together. Monday morning we began work. Half the day, until 2:00, was spent on logistics and the things we needed to know about in praying for this area and we got to know each other a little better. Then we went to the Brainerd mission and prayed. The Lord led us to some interesting situations there. Day Parker, Bob Ensign, and Ada Winn (three Cherokees), opened the gates of the mission to us. Brainerd is considered the East gate to Chattanooga. This is similar to the prophetic statements of Jesus entering the Golden Gate (or East Gate) of Jerusalem. We prayed that the Lord Jesus would enter into Chattanooga in a powerful way. These Cherokees opened the gate and we went in with Wardell Jones, an African Choctaw, leading the way. 

As we gathered an unusual thing began to take place. Day Parker noticed water falling from two trees. It seemed to be almost like tears. None of us had ever seen anything like this...It was water on a cloudless day. Tears, or water, were falling out of the trees onto us. As we gathered under the trees and prayed, the Lord began to show us that we needed to celebrate in joy, take communion, and read a proclamation of repentence. We took communion and asked the Lord to allow us to drink the cup of the annointing for representation here in this area. We have an incredible team and I am impressed with everyone on the team. Then since Brainerd Mission was a mission that sent many missionaries all over the Cherokee Nation as Cherokee leaders began to request for missionaries to come we, in the same way, went out with joy. 

Day Parker was in the lead, dancing with all his might before the Lord, as we exited the Brainard mission to go out all over the Chicamauga towns and North Georgia, bringing on our feet (fitted with) the good news of the Gospel of Peace, the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Afterwards we went up to Lookup Mountain, where the team watched the setting sun and prayed over the city of Chattanooga, the Tennessee River, and the areas of the Chicamauga towns. It was a most beautiful day and we had a wonderful supper tonight. 

 Thank you so much for your prayer. You are very much a part of this team because you are holding up our arms in prayer. We have a couple of things that need prayer:
 1) One of our vehicles, which belongs to Mark Rogers, suddenly came down with problems. It had an electrical problem. When they got to looking at it they found that the universal joint was in danger of not working, which is very dangerous.
 2) Fern Noble has had a word from the Lord that there would be obstacles in our way. We have encountered a few and gotten around them as we've prayed.
 3) We've also had some minor difficulty with the housing situation here at the hotel. We just ask you to pray that the Lord's favor would be on us and that the hotel staff would gain confidence.

 Again, we thank you so much for your awesome prayer. Please pray for our protection. The highways are very dangerous and we're on them a lot and thank you so much!

 God bless you,
 Gene Brooks 
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 The CPI team today headed into a beautiful fall day and into northeast Alabama to begin prayer in the five lower towns of the Chickamauga Cherokees. We started at Crow Town near Stevenson, AL, then headed north to Long Island Town near Bridgeport, AL, both of which were burned multiple times by Tennesseeans during the American Revolution. We prayed at Russell Cave National Monument; we sang an honor song to be obedient to the commandment to honor thy father and mother.

 Then the team went to Nickajack and Runningwater Towns just off I-24 in southern TN where we repented for the destruction of those towns. As the team stood on the side of the river in Council, the Beloved Woman pardoned our Scot-Irish team members who represented the arsonists of the towns. 

 Then on to pray at Chatanuga Town between Chattanooga and Lookout Mtn. From there the team met at Ross' Landing, a site where Cherokees left voluntarily and involuntarily to be removed west. 

 Lastly, the Cherokee team members became nauseated as we drove over a large area of Chattanooga (in bad neighborhoods) where the Citico Death Camp was located. They were so overcome we couldn't pray. It was too much and we just drove back to break for supper.

 Excellent day of prayer overall. Keep up your excellent prayer!!!

 Gene Brooks
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 Today the team headed up to Signal Mountain, TN where we prayed at Signal Point near the Cherokee Lower Town of Tuskegee on Williams Island on the Tennessee River just just west of Chattanooga. There the Lord led us to open the Western Gate of the Chattanooga area. We had prayer, songs, dance, repentance, waving prayer shawls of all the Cherokee Colors of North, South, East, & West of Blue, Red, White, and black.

 From there the team returned to Citico death camp in downtown Chattanooga to pray there. We gathered at a Church of Christ on Dodson and Laurel streets, and the Lord used Phyllis Bargo (Cherokee & White) of Michigan and Wardell Jones (African Choctaw) of Maryland to deeply intercede there.

 Then the Lord led us to Fort Payne, AL, where we repented at the Fort Payne Internment Camp in downtown Fort Payne, then thanked the Lord for the faithfulness of Sequoyah in inventing his syllabary there so that Cherokee could be written as well as the incredible translatioin in three years by Cherokees David Brown and John Arch of the whole New Testament from Greek to Cherokee.

 Then the very tired team crossed Lookout Mountain to Rome, GA, where we gathered at the confluence of the Etowah, Coosa, and Oostanaula Rivers to deal with the Battle of Hightower 1793 between John Sevier and Kingfisher and Fort Rome Removal Fort in 1838. 
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 This morning the team rose a little later and left at 9am for Rome, GA, where we visited the home of Major Ridge, now called the Chieftains Museum, where the Treaty of New Echota was negotiated. The Treaty of New Echota (1835) was an illegal treaty that forced the Cherokees to move West. After lunch the team went to Etowah Mound in Cartersville where, because of New Age and occult groups, they forbid religious activity of any kind. So we just quietly prayerwalked. Then the team drove to Fairmount, GA, to ask forgiveness for a treaty ceding lands in Georgia between the Savannah and Chattahoochee Rivers. Then on to Coosawattee, now under Carters Lake, where Baptist missionary Evan Jones and Cherokee pastor Jerry Bushyhead led great revivals and established a mission there. John Sevier had burned the town in 1793. Toward evening the team repented at Fort Gilmer, headquarters of the Georgia Guard, where they arrested and detained missionaries who refused to be licensed by the State of Georgia. It was also a concentration camp for about a month. Then the team ended the day asking forgiveness for the witchcraft activity at Fort Mountain near Chatsworth and singing praises to the Almighty.
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 How Awesome the prayer was today! Our team began at New Echota, the Cherokee National Capitol, where we repented for the signing of the Treaty of New Echota (1835) where an unauthorized group gave up all title to lands in the East for lands in Oklahoma. Then the team moved to the Mission Station headed by Samuel Worcester, the missionary arrested and famous in Worcester vs. Georgia. In this case the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokees, but President Jackson did not enforce it an forcibly removed the Cherokee. Then the team convened court in the Cherokee Supreme Court building at New Echota in our case: Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia. Prosecution led by Day Parker convinced a three-judge panel of Wardell Jones, Fern Noble, and Ada Winn that the Georgia prisoner, Daphne Swilling defended by Ulster Scot, Rosemary McConkey who was guilty as charged. Her sentence was to pray blessing over the Cherokee Nation, the corporate sin being covered by the Cross of Jesus Christ. From there the team prayed at the Moravian Mission at Spring Place, GA, thanking God for the root of righteousness there, and taking communion. Next the team repented at removal stockade Fort Hoskins in Spring Place. From there we went to Red Clay the last Council of the Cherokees, where we spent a long time blessing the Cherokee Nation.
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 The Lord indeed saved the best wine for last. Today we began with a team meeting in Cleveland. Our first prayer time was of a continental assignment at the site of the signing of the Jackson-McMinn Treaty of 1817 on the Hiwassee River. Cherokees from the four directions faced Rosemary McConkey, in the center, who represented Andrew Jackson as the Cherokees released a torrent of anger on her followed by honor and gift-giving to her. It was simply amazing. 
 Then the team, following lunch, went to Candies Creek Mission near Cleveland, TN to thank God for the righteous root of believers and discipling of Jesse Bushyhead, the great Cherokee evangelist.
 Afterward the team drove to Charleston, TN, headquarters of the Removal and Fort Cass, where 13 -15,000 cherokees were incarcerated in a 49 Square mile area. We had a tremendous prayer time in the churchyard of an abandoned Cumberland Presbyterian Church followed by a drive through Fort Cass, followed by a time of blessing the land and the Cherokee people, at the site of the last Cherokee Council Meeting at Rattlesnake Springs. Then we followed the Removal Route to the Cherokee National Border at the Tennessee River and Hiwassee Rivers at Blythe's Ferry at dusk and watched the sun go down in the West, which is the same direction the Cherokees went. Then, like the first day at Brainerd Mission we stood as a light rain began to fall on us, symbolic of God's tears. What an awesome end to this 2-year assignment. Hallelujah!!

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Phyllis Bargo

1) It has changed the spiritual atmosphere of the nation(s) to the extent that change will begin to happen in the physical atmosphere.  I believe that there was strategic times (3-4) when all of heaven was connected/joined with us and eternal changes/shifts took place.  We will see and hear more reports of things (evil) uncovered and people will be able to hear and respond to the Truth (Salvation).  Cherokee will begin to come out of the woodwork.

2) It has stretched, changed, shifted my mind, heart, soul, spirit, and emotions.  It has enlarged my thinking and my ability to experience God's heart.  Given me a greater understanding for identificational repentance and given me many new friends and family.

3) From a personal perspective– perhaps more time on the site.  Corporate worship
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1) The Lord has heard for the first time in some places repentance to remove blood-quilt and cause Him to be able too hear the prayers of the people of the land.  We will see unlocking of prisoners holding Natives across North America in bondage.  I'm looking forward to seeing more conversions among Native Americans.

2) I have walked out in obedience the assignment I was given in Spring 1997, and have a profound sense of accomplishment, thanksgiving, release, and relief.  I did not grow weary in well doing.  I am happy to have finished the race, kept the faith, finished my assignment.

3) Email capability improved and streamlined to keep intercessors informed better.  Plastic bomb Daphne's phone.
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1) I believe there has been healing for the nations in roots and we will see life come forth in Jesus name in due season from our obedience to the Lord.

2) I feel at peace from this last week because in my spirit there is such an expectancy of healing God is bringing about.  Even though I know the work is only beginning I feel a sense of closure on areas of my own life and what we have done to help in the healing of wounds personal and corporate.

3) Explain well ahead to team members and those helping of why we aren't able to include friends and prayer partners etc. to come along for a day so we avoid wounding people that are interested and want to help pray at sites.  Gene handled the situations well.
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1)  We have opened gates that will allow healing to begin to flow through Cherokee Nation and to also begin affecting all other nations throughout the US and Canada.  Nations will begin to rise up to take their places among the Kingdom of God.

2) I have come to feel settled in my place as a Cherokee since arriving here in Tennessee and walking on homeland territory.  I have been wanting to be baptized again for a long time and "I" never knew that it would be here as a Cherokee, by a Cherokee, but it was very good and right.

3) Accommodations were messed up a bit, but otherwise okay.  A group setting like we have had before is more conducive for fellowship and efficiency.  Perhaps next time we could bring along a port-John on wheel so we wouldn't have to make so many pit stops.
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1) Powerful prayer, directed by the spirit, has made gates open up to receive reconciliation and healing for land and people.

2) I am encouraged to trust Him more as I have seen him rearrange schedules, open and close doors for our good.  Releasing the anger and pain of the Cherokees on the last prayer journey has been a new dynamic.  I have seen this time that repentance is more difficult looking at anger in the faces of friends.  The beauty of the land and trees has been refreshing.

3) Communication is better this trip, but we could still probably do better i helping people prepare for prayer sites.  More music/worship time would be good.
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We do not have Wardell's report. We think she may have taken it home with her.
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1) Gates have been opened for revival, reconciliation and restoration of both Cherokee and non-Cherokee.  Revival wells have been dug up and the land cleansed. I expect to see Cherokees literally returning to this land, their land, to apostolically lead the Body of Christ here into worshiping God in Spirit and in truth.

2) This week has been life-changing. Most important, I see God more clearly because I have seen His image in my Native American and Irish brothers and sisters. Second, I have new covenant friends– friends for life.  Third, I have a new understanding of spiritual warfare through identificational repentance and honoring.  Fourth, teamwork has a more clear meaning than ever before.  My heart is full and I am blessed.

3) It could last 2 weeks!  And you could come once a year!
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1) Repentance and forgiveness have removed barriers in the spiritual realm, opening some gates to revival.  The stack of broken treaties blocking the way to the gospel is ever diminishing through our prayers.  We will never be the same.

2) I am coming to terms with who I am, learning to accept my cultural identity and heritage.  I am overawed by the grace of God, but it is very hard to leave this family behind and cross the ocean.

3) Going to Red Clay a little earlier so we could go inside to look at the stained glass windows and exhibits!
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1) Only the Lord knows what happened in the spirit realm but I believe God somehow allowed our tears to touch-with healing-the deep wounds of blood-quilt in our country-I seemed to sense the election-somehow we were allowed to touch that issue also when we battled the covenant breaking spirit.  God's anointing of tears at the beginning and end were a huge miracle to me (a fresh anointing).

2) I sensed a new unity come inside myself as I stood Saturday facing the Andrew Jackson issue with such a real sense of one foot in the US and one in Canada.  I understood why God has allowed me to be a dual citizen.  I also understood why my Mom had insisted on me obtaining my Indian Status card– for such a time at this.

3) My spirit is overflowing in gratitude– so I can't see any improvement at this point.
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1) The Lord has removed the sin from the land and used some "holy landfill" to replace it.  He has torn down unholy alters and built His Kingdom in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia as well as the whole Cherokee nation and NATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2) Use human words to try to explain would hardly do what the Lord has done justice.  He has blessed me more as this time has gone on.  He has blessed me to identify with Jesse Bushyhead's anointing and taught me to dance for Him.  He has taught me to follow His word and not worry about what man may think.

3) I would have loved to spend more time here.  I would like to see the team draw closer to God personally– tracking with God and not worried about what they know or want.
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1) It has brought healing to the Cherokee Nation which affects the Nations.  God answers prayer and He has heard our blessings, prayers of repentance, and prayers of forgiveness.  From scripture we know that this has an affect in the spiritual realm.  I believe we've touched Father's heart by telling and showing Him we're sorry for what has happened.  Prayerfully, the door has been opened for more salvations.

2) I'm not really sure yet....  I spent time observing, which comes with the recording job.  I learned from that and the Lord gave me a great appreciation for the wisdom and spiritual maturity on this team. 

3) I need to be more spiritual (says Day).  Some play time...just to be together
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1) The legal grounds under which the enemy has plundered successive generations have been with drawn over this issue.  Martin Luther said "Satan is a mad dog on a leash."  I believe,  we have taken out a few links in the chain.

2) I see with new eyes the issue of "the land."  I see with new eyes the Cherokee people and the atrocities which my ancestors perpetrated.  I see with new eyes a nation of people which has escaped my prayerful consideration.  I feel with a new heart for people I love.

3) More weeks just like this.
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1) Sin, never before dealt with corporately has been forgiven and cleansed.

2) I sense a relationship or a stewardship to the land that I have never before embraced.

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1) I believe this week has opened a way for the healing of the Lord to come.  Much blood was washed of the land and I believe we will begin to see the Lord answer prayers that people have spent years and years and years pouring out before the throne (because the blood that had hindered their hearing was removed).  I also feel like this week was a cap or seal for the whole of CPI and prayers from the other 3 segments will be answered.

2) I see things and people differently after and during these walks.  My sight has changed.  I have more understanding of the Lord's communication with me.

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1) A continental shaking occurred.  The waters were healed and as their vapors evaporate they seeded the heavens, the healing will be scattered across to the world to bring healing to the nations.  We prepared the way for the Cherokee to return to their rightful place in Creation to fulfill their destinies.  Something in the earth made way for spoken prophecies and God's desires to be realized.

2) It humbled me and taught me how little understanding I have of Native pain.  It taught me to pay attention and trust what I hear the land say.  I've often heard the land through the years, but didn't trust what I heard.  I thought it was just my  imagination.  I felt the earth move under my feet– how could I be more profoundly affected than that?  Respect every living thing.

3) Toilet paper in hotel room.  I missed the team worship and prayer times those mornings we prayed on the road and would have been willing to have gotten up an hour earlier for them.
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1) The captives have been set free.  Abba Father really showed off His grace and mercy as we, His vessels yielded to His will in our repentance and forgiveness.  The signs He gave at each site and the spiritual breakthrough felt as the angelic activity arose to meet our requests make this known

2) The continuous warfare by tears and honor will forever remain in my heart and remind me of this awesome team (family) the Lord has given me.  The seeds sown by this team honors God and the Cherokee Nation.  I will be able to use this experience in my healing ministry.  I am ready to take up my scepter for the next assignment.

3) You did great and the people that helped put all this together (housing, food, lodging) .  We could use more praise in the van
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