NEWS FROM THE MARCUM FAMILY!

May 2013

Hello Dear Loved Ones,

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FIRST! We are bringing a team from IHOPKC for another Worship & Prayer Weekend in Joplin! We are coming the weekend of May 24-26, and well be having worship, prayer, and ministry meetings at 3 different locations. Please see the end of this newsletter for the details of where and when we will be ministering. Please invite others, and please come! The team is very excited about what the Lord is doing in Joplin, and the privilege we have of coming and sowing into that! Well, I realize Im about a week late with our newsletter this month wow, things have been amazingly busy for us, which means we have so much news to report so its another long newsletter! We really appreciate all of you taking the time to read our newsletters, and so many of you who let us know you are praying for us. And thank you SO much for those who are partnering with us to support us financially what a blessing you are! We do want all of you to know that we truly take seriously the prayer requests that you are sending us. We spend many hours a week in the prayer room(s), so please know that we are praying for you! Our first bit of news this month is a repeat of last month ha! Yes, we are moving yet again! What a challenging and adventurous season this is for our family to be on the move so much, but it has been really good for us to trust the Lord in new ways. We have talked about it a lot as a family, and we just keep praying for each other for grace in this new season (actually I think I am the one who needs prayer the most!). We were able to go as a family to visit Jordan & Sarah at Mercy House of Prayer in Alma, AR on April 10-12. While there in my morning devotions time, the Lord spoke to me from these verses: And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." (Matthew 8:19-20) The Lord spoke to me that this season we are in as a family He knows all about it! This is a part of uniting our lives with His, following His leadership even in times when we do not have a nest to f ind comfort in. It has never been that weve had nowhere to lay our heads for He has been providing places for us to reside though we do not have a permanent home right now. This presents various challenges, but those challenges are worth it, because we are learning to lean more upon the Lord and draw our comfort from Him. We also feel like this is preparing us for a season coming upon the earth when housing arrangements may be changing for many if not all of us who are following the Lord. Right now we are being so blessed to stay for a few days with Steve and Ann Anzelc, and Chris & Megan ( and Luke!) Whitehead. They are such an awesome family, and have been such a blessing to us since our move to KC. In a couple days, on May 19, we are moving to a nice, 3-bedroom, furnished house in Grandview where we will be for the next 6 weeks. The sister in Christ who owns the house is a part of the IHOP community, and she is going to Thailand on a missions trip for 6 weeks, along with her roommate who lives in the house. Its nice to know the money were paying them is actually funding the missions movement! Praise the Lord! The next bit of news relates to this our house in Joplin has sold! We actually had a contract on the house within a week of placing it on the market which was a great blessing from the Lord. We are scheduled to close on the house on Tuesday, May 28th. Please pray wisdom for us from the Lord concerning how to use the equity we are receiving from the sale of the house. We incurred quite a bit of debt in the closing of Citywide & JOPHOP last fall, which we had to take upon ourselves personally. We also have some debt of our own that we (unwisely) have taken on during the final few months in Joplin and our transition to KC, as income was not meeting our expenses. So please pray with us about this, as we feel the Lord has been

page 2 correcting us about relying on credit and being in debt. He has been speaking to us to pay off all our debts (and stay out of debt!) even though doing that will cut the equity nearly in half that we are receiving from the sale of the house. We believe weve a lso heard the Lord speak that He will provide housing for us debtfree as well! Actually while we were in Alma, there was kind of a suddenly that happened in one of the internship training meetings we went to, and Damon and the interns saw and prayed prophetically over us that we, as a family, are coming into a season of financial abundance. Pray that this will be manifested in Gods timing, and that we will be generous givers! The Lord had a brother speak a word to me when we were at Hope City recently, he said, The hidden key is in the offering. The Lord is teaching me (us) to give generously, no matter the season were in financially! Speaking of Hope City, let me give a report from there. Joy, Melissa, and I have been going to Hope City on Monday nights now for a few weeks, and it has been so amazing! As most of you probably know, Hope City is a ministry of IHOP that is located in the inner city, and is an outreach to the poor and homeless. They pretty much do all the types of ministry a rescue mission does with one added dimension. They have a prayer room at the heart of the ministry that operates 70 hours a week interceding for inner city KC! It is such a blessing, and in fact is humbling to see many of these people coming to the mic and praying during the prayer meetings their prayers are so raw and so real! Our first Monday night there happened to be the final day of a 21-day fast they had been on, and they had a Night of Consecration. Several of the people and families that receive ministry at Hope City took part, along with some staff members, in bringing up 12 large flat stones, one-at-a-time, and placing them before the Lord. Each stone had a significant phrase on it that is foundational to the ministry Hope City is doing. They were setting into the foundation these 12 prophetic truths and consecrating themselves to them. Here is a picture of the stones, along with some other pictures weve taken recently at Hope City:

Front entrance to Hope City

The 12 foundation stones

Cafeteria at Hope City

The Prayer Room at Hope City

Lisa Stribling Hope City Director

Joy (far left) singing recently at Hope City

The picture of Joy singing in the prayer room at Hope City is a reminder Joys back from Pasadena! It is such a blessing to have her back with us, and she has hit the ground running here on the missions base, continuing to sub as a singer in the prayer rooms and ministering as a part of leadership at Student Ministries. She meets as a mentor with a few of the young girls weekly, and helps in providing oversight and direction to the ministries that are going on among the teens. She is now also going to be a part of the staff for the 8week Student Ministries Summer Leadership Program that Jessianna is doing this summer, so her summer will be busy serving the Lord!

page 3 Here are two pictures of Joy, and of Jessianna singing in the Global Prayer Room. One thing that was mentioned recently at one of the Mission Base staff meetings is that even though the Global Prayer Room here in KC is in just one location, the webstream is going out 24/7 to OVER 200 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD! They have tracked this, and there is never less than 1,000 people around the world who are tuning in to the Prayer Room webstream. There are over a million unique hits a month on the Prayer Room webstream.

The last picture (far right) is a picture of Jessianna leading with her youth worship team in the JPR (Justice Prayer Room). She and Jonathan only have 1 more week of youth teams, and then the teams take a summer break. All of the teams have grown really close together over the past few months, and have really grown in their hearts of worship and in their skills as singers and musicians. It has been great for Jessianna and Jonathan to serve on the youth worship teams in the evenings, and we have really enjoyed spending much of our prayer time there with them. But for Melissa and I, we are also looking forward to spending more time in the Global Prayer Room this summer! The Bound4Life chapter here at the Missions Base holds Life Townhall Rallies monthly, which are gatherings for those involved in various ways in the Life Initiatives going on regularly (silent sieges at abortion clinics, IHOPU justice track, small prayer groups, volunteering at Womens Clinic, etc). We have been to two of the Townhalls, and they are always so encouraging and unifying! Well, the next one is on Tuesday night, May 28th, and we have been asked to tell the Joplin story that night. Of course, this is the story of the dreams that Joy and I had before the Joplin tornado in which I was depicted as meeting the President and pleading with him to end abortion in America. Joys dream gave the code of 52911, which ended up being a date May 29, 2011 which was the date President Obama came to Joplin for the memorial service after the tornado. I met the President that day, as the dream foretold that I would, and I spoke to him, Mr. President, Remember the Unborn. Please pray the Holy Spirit will move among us at the Townhall as the story is told, and that He will galvanize and unify, even more so, the prayer movement for LIFE and the ending of abortion. Most of the time, when we share this story, a deep spirit of intercession comes upon the people for President Obama. Pray that we will be able to give place to that, and continue to pray with us for our President and his family, and the changing of their hearts in this hour. I know I need to close this newsletter, but let me share just a few more things. I mentioned in the last newsletter that Jessianna was asked to do a special at the Sunday Forerunner Christian Fellowship (FCF) service on April 28th. Well, both she and Jonathan contracted chicken pox (oh, brother!) and so she was unable to do the special. But, it was rescheduled for THIS COMING SUNDAY May 19th. She will be singing a song she wrote called Fill Me Up. If you are able, you can watch her sing live this Sunday morning; there are two services 8:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and she will be singing at both services. You can watch at www.ihopkc.org/weekendservices. (You can also watch the archives later if you miss it live). The IHOP graduation is today (Saturday) at 2:00 p.m., and we know a few students who are graduating so we are going. We have heard that IHOPU graduation is always an amazing time of commissioning and that the Holy Spirit always shows up so were excited to be there. (Also, we went to Megans graduation from Community College two nights ago, and are very proud of her!) Our school at Bethel is coming to a close as well, and we will miss being with the students every weekday morning. It has been great to sow into the lives of these children, most of whose families are a part of the IHOPKC community.

page 4 This weekend has been the Israel and the Church in the End Times conference, so weve had a lot of guests on the Base for the conference. We heard Wes Hall speak last night his message was on Israels Great Trouble out of Jeremiah chapter 30. It was a great message, and I told Melissa that I have never heard anyone say the things he said so clearly and boldly about God s disciplining of Israel. But he spoke with such a spirit of tenderness and love. It was really a great message if you can watch it on the archives. We are attending again tonight, its the final session of the conference Mike is speaking, and Misty is leading worship. Okay, here is the scoop for this coming weekend! We are so excited to be bringing another team from IHOPKC to Joplin for a weekend of worship, prayer, and ministry. The last time we came, we had a wonderful prophetic flow, and words were being spoken over so many people! We expect the same this coming weekend, so come to as many of the meetings as you can. The schedule for the weekend is listed below. We will be at Impact Life Church on Friday night at 7 p.m., and at Joplin Family Worship Center Saturday night at 7 p.m. We will also be at Watered Gardens Saturday morning fixing breakfast, and then we are going to do TWO morning worship sets upstairs there in the upper room, 7-9 & 9-11 a.m. Come and join us even come as a singer or bring an instrument and join the team! Also on Saturday at noon we are planning a cookout on the grounds at Watered Gardens. We will be not just eating with those who come, but playing guitars and djembes outside, worshiping the Lord, and talking to people about Jesus. The cookout will start at noon, or you can come early and help us prepare the food. Just come and join in on the fun!!! Then on Sunday morning we will finish our weekend by returning to Watered Gardens to lead the worship and bring a message at their Sunday morning service. We have a young man coming with us who is 21 yrs. old, who has a wonderful & powerful testimony about being pronounced dead when in his late teens he had a rare, sudden heart failure. Something amazing happened to him during the time he was clinically dead. We plan to have him share this testimony on Sunday morning at Watered Gardens. The schedule:

SCHEDULE FOR WORSHIP & PRAYER WEEKEND IN JOPLIN!

FRIDAY, MAY 24TH , 7 10 PM Impact Life Church, 1601 S. Wall Street. IHOPKC team leading worship, followed by time of prophetic prayer teams praying over everyone who comes who wants prayer! Dont miss this kickoff to a great weekend together! SATURDAY, MAY 25TH, 7 A.M. 2 P.M. Watered Gardens, 531 Kentucky Ave. Two morning prayer sets @ 7-9 & 9-11 a.m. Cookout & outdoor worship @ 12 noon 2 p.m. Come to the morning sets and join us as a singer/musician! Come join the fun at the cookout! SATURDAY, MAY 25TH, 7 9 PM Joplin Family Worship Center, 5290 E. 7th Street. Worship & prayer set with David Carnine leading worship & IHOPKC team fueling the prayer & worship. Rapid fire prayer & prophetic intercession for Joplin dont miss this! SUNDAY, MARCH 3RD 8:30 11 AM Watered Gardens IHOPKC team leading worship, powerful testimony & word shared, and BREAKFAST together! Must close for now! The Lord Jesus be with all of you! We are praying for this scripture over you! Psalms 20:1-4 (1) May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! (2) May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! (3) May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah (4) May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! Because He is worthy of it all, Jim & Melissa Marcum & family Our contact information: The Marcums P.O. Box 1099 Grandview, MO 64030 Phone & text: 417-483-6723 (Jim) 417-825-0841 (Melissa) Email & paypal: intercessorymissions@gmail.com