As I traveled recently to Alaska, to minister in the villages, the Lord spoke to me the words “Chronicles of Faith”. Chronicles meaning “a record of event(s)”. As I pondered this statement, I began to think of all the “faith events” in my life. Many times when I share these faith events with people, I hear the response, “You should put these in a book it will bless people”. Although this is not a book, this is the first “Chronicle of Faith” in written form. This is a true record of how the whole Shoshone Reservation of Elko, Nevada was reached in ONE DAY with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The story of a faith in my life that will encourage you and equip you in the call of God in your own life.
JUST A GIRL WHO BELIEVED GOD –
In the year 2001, as a single Christian woman, I had been living in Alaska by faith for over 10 years. Believing God for everything. The Lord had me preaching His Gospel of Jesus Christ in the villages and that was my life. I lived it, breathed it, and still do! I had no paycheck to rely on, no husband to rely on, no special ministry partners, just me and God and whatever He said to do, I just did it. I just believed God. Every month, I believed God for rent, every month I believed God for food, every month I believed God for the bills to be paid. I was just a girl who believed God. There was nothing special about me. No great talents. I just knew enough to believe God.
After living in Alaska for several years, the Lord spoke to me one day that I needed to move out of the state I loved, and held dearly to my heart. Where would God be sending this girl to? The tangible presence of the Lord fell on me and said, “Elko, Nevada”. Elko-what? How do you even pronounce that? Is it even on the map? Why? Would you believe I didn’t hear anything after those questions? God doesn’t seem to feel the need to answer “why” questions. Have you noticed? He just wants obedience.
I have to admit, I didn’t take the news well. After living in Alaska one becomes quite attached 
to not only the majestic scenery, but the beautiful Alaskan Native peoples. I will admit… this girl cried. Then after I cried for a while longer, I cried even more! I didn’t want to move out of Alaska, and certainly not to the desert!
I’M JUST A GIRL WHO BELIEVED GOD…
I obeyed the Lord and made plans to move out of Alaska in June 2001 and headed down south to the state of Nevada. Not knowing what the future held or what God had planned. I had no plans. The only thing I knew was, I was moving to Elko, Nevada. This must have been what it was like for Abraham, leaving his homeland not knowing where he was going. He didn’t have a plan, he just knew God said, “go” and obeyed. So, my two kitties, Enoch and Shekinah and I hit the Alaska Highway in our little blue Toyota 4×4 truck. The kitties got so used to traveling by way of truck they learned how to jump in and out of the truck like dogs!
The three of us ended up in a single wide trailer in Elko, Nevada. Sage brush as far as the eye could see and a cowboy on every corner in town. A far cry from the beautiful snow capped mountain ranges that towered in Alaska.
It was amazing to see that as soon as I moved out of Alaska, the ministry itinerary exploded. God had booked me a year in advance! I had never been booked a year in advance! The Lord was sending me to several different Native America reservations in Nevada and some surrounding areas of California, Oregon, and Arizona. Traveling almost every weekend, preaching the Gospel with demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit. I met many wonderful new friends throughout the lower 48 reservations that I still hold dear to my heart today.
The Lord moved on me one day to do a “Chosen Warrior” outreach on the Shoshone reservation in Elko. 
When I had lived in Anchorage, God had me doing “Chosen Warrior” outreaches in the villages of Alaska. I would take out fresh produce to the villages and would bless the whole village with food. Most of the villages, especially at that time, found it difficult to get fresh produce as the tundra land out there doesn’t work well for farming. Most of the villages need to hunt, fish, and whale for their food sustenance. In these villages a gallon of milk costs $12-$15 and a can a soup $7-$9. It is hard to feed a family on those types of prices.
I received this strategy of taking the food out to villages by my spiritual mother and father in the faith in Pensacola, Florida. God challenged Drs. Christian & Robin Harfouche with a question, “Can a city be taken in a day?” As they taught and preached the Word of God on reaching the city of Pensacola they were able to gather over 3 million dollars worth of goods to give way, and in one day they reached a city of 65,000 people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and had over 53,000 decisions for the Lord!!! What an amazing day! When I saw this strategy in action, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Maria, you will no longer travel the villages and have just 10 people in your worship meetings, you will now reach the whole village.” I knew this meant that I would now send food out to the villages. How does a girl who lives by faith do this? She doesn’t have any money in her in bank account! Just a girl believing God.
CHOSEN WARRIOR OUTREACH – NOATAK, ALASKA
One of the villages for the outreach was Noatak, Alaska with Ps. Roland Booth. We 
took out over 5000 pounds of fresh produce. There are no roads out there, so each box of fruit and vegetables had to be packed properly and mailed out.
With the food distribution, the whole village attended the worship meetings. We couldn’t fit the village in the church, so we put everyone in the gymnasium. I went from having 10 people in my worship meetings to hundreds! (God has fulfilled His Word, that no more would there be just 10 people in my worship meetings!) As we preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the gymnasium, with a little karaoke machine, the presence of God filled the gymnasium. People’s eyes were fixed on me. I hadn’t seen anything like it. They were hanging on every word that came out of my mouth. Later we found out that Jesus had manifested Himself and was walking back and forth behind me while I preached. Well no wonder people’s eyes were fixed on me! It was really the Lord they were in awe of! We had several reports of adults and children who saw the Lord that day. What an honor for the Lord to choose to manifest Himself at one little girl’s worship meeting? The glory was so strong that when we had the call for healing and salvation, and the people lined up to be prayed for, I couldn’t get to them fast enough to lay hands on them
before they would fall out under the power of the Holy Spirit. The people of Noatak not only received potatoes, but a power encounter with the Lord!
CHOSEN WARRIOR OUTREACH – ELKO, NV
So here this girl is again, sitting in Elko Nevada when the Lord quietly speaks, (no booming voice), “Maria, I want you to do a Chosen Warrior outreach on the Shoshone Reservation”. I do not know anyone on the reservation. No connections whatsoever. I ran the Chosen Warrior outreach through the Shoshone tribal council, and even though they didn’t know me, they gave me the green light to hold the outreach. I immediately booked the gymnasium as there was nowhere else that could hold 600 people. After I booked the gymnasium I went around to the whole reservation and posted flyers that said:
“Chosen Warrior
Free food for every family
Free give-aways”.
Now I didn’t just say “free give-aways” generically on those posters, I instead listed things specifically we were giving away…I listed right on the flyers;
- Televisions
- Computer systems
- Mountain bikes
- CD Players
- Basket balls
- Electric guitars
- and toys.
Ok lets reflect for a moment. Single Christian woman, living by faith, eating top ramen, no paycheck, and believes God for everything. Even if I do obtain all these things, how am I going to do this by myself and pass out food to hundreds of families, pack the food, organize the food, preach, and lay hands on people and catch people. This is impossible!!!! There is no natural way for this thing so happen.
I’m just a girl who believes God.
OH GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE?
After I posted these flyers ALL OVER THE RESERVATION, I came home to my ugly, single wide trailer and everything hit me! What have I done? OMG! I don’t have any money in my bank account, I have no monthly ministry partners (today I have 4!), and no church support as I had still been looking for a church to attend. I immediately hit the ground in intercession! I cried out to God! You’ve never seen a white girl cry out to God as she did that day! I think all my neighbors must have heard my prayers to God. Oh God! Help me! Oh God send me food to feed these families! Oh God! Send me electric guitars, computer systems, televisions to give away! Oh God! I don’t even have a warehouse to put the stuff in! I cried out until I could cry out no more. I cried out until I knew that I reached a note of victory in my prayers, (as some of you know what I’m talking about!) Once I had that peace, I knew everything was a done deal. That’s what faith is. It’s not believing, it is knowing. Knowing God is faithful. Knowing God’s word is true. It’s not trying to reach a result in God, faith HAS already obtained the result in God. Faith has already obtained the outcome. Faith is a done deal!
Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, [a]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. Hebrews 11:1 Amp
I had the victory! The local business are going to give me whatever I need for this outreach. I knew it! I knew it deep down in my spirit. Reminder, single woman, by myself, no staff, no volunteers, living off top ramen… just me and God. I began to approach the business’ to encourage them to give into this wonderful Chosen Warrior event. Not one business would give. I was grieved to find there was prejudice against the Native Americans in that town. No one would give or donate any items for the event. I need to come up with food for every family, electric guitars, cd players, bikes and more.
I’m just a girl who believed God.
I turned my faith towards heaven, and said, “Father, if these people will not give to Your work, then I ask you Lord to send me the money so I can purchase every item on this list.”
After all that prayer, I again began to inquire where I might attend a good church in Elko. The only reports I got, was “Well, I don’t know where to tell you to go, but I’ll tell you where NOT to go to church, as this particular church is a cult.” I acknowledged this and made note of the name of the “cult” church in town so that I wouldn’t go to that one…
GOD DOESN’T HAVE A PROBLEM GETTING MONEY TO YOU WHEN HE CAN GET IT THROUGH YOU.
One day, as I was shopping in Office Depot in Elko, a Jewish man reached out to me and said, 
“I haven’t seen you in town before, are you new?” I responded, “yes”, and the Jewish man began to ask me questions… like “what brought you to Elko” – how do you answer that? It certainly wasn’t the sage brush scenery that brought me there! I began to tell him of the outreach I was doing on the Shoshone Reservation. He seemed VERY interested in everything I was saying. He was the first person that did not “shun” me for reaching out to the natives of the land. He then proceeded to tell me he was a pastor and what church he was a pastor of… it was that cult church I was warned not to go to! My heart pounded within me…oh my, it’s the cult pastor! This pastor invited me to join them that Sunday and share what I was going to do on the reservation. I didn’t know what to say, so I just said, “I don’t know if I can make it.” This way I was not committed to anything. When I got home, I began to pray and ask the Lord if I should go. I didn’t hear anything. No answer. Notta. I did have peace though. Since I had peace, I decided to go to
that church that everyone called a “cult” and see for myself. I came late so I could sneak in the back and observe without being noticed. As soon as I walked in the door, the glory of God hit me! I was so overwhelmed with the presence of heaven I could hardly contain myself. I immediately began repenting for even thinking this was a cult church. Often it is the church flowing in the things of the Holy Spirit that is ignorantly labeled “cult”. Come to find out it was a “Word of Faith” church!
At the end of the Word that was preached, the pastor sees me in the back and invites me to come up and share about the Chosen Warrior outreach. I came up, and just shared, that we are going to preach Jesus, we are going to give away food, and have really great giveaways. I didn’t mention that I had no money, I had no staff, I had no volunteers and that I was eating top ramen. I have notta in the bank account. But I have Christ in me! When you have Christ, you have everything!!! Glory to God!
After I shared the pastor asked me to hang out for a while. I noticed the pastor got in a huddle with several other people for about ten minutes. After the huddle broke, the pastor came over to me, and says, “Maria, we have been putting money away to buy our own church building. We believe that the Lord wants to instead build the church through people, and we are going to give Lifeline Outreach our entire building fund.” “Well hallelujah”, I said! With this church being obedient to the call of the Lord, I was able to purchase all those giveaways, and bring in $30,000 worth of food for the entire reservation! God even gave a warehouse for the leftover food to keep feeding the area on a regular basis. Now that’s the God I know! The God of abundance. The God who never runs out. The God who does exceedingly above all that we can think or imagine!
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Eph 3:20 NIV
God answered my prayer that if the local business’ would not give, then I asked God to send me the money to purchase whatever I needed. God doesn’t have a problem getting money to you when you have His Kingdom on your mind! God doesn’t have a problem getting money to you, when He can get it through you!
But first be concerned about God’s kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well. Matt 6:33 NISV
So now we have the money, but how in the world am I going to handle doing this thing by myself?
I’m just a girl who believes God.
This next part may be hard for some of you to believe…I don’t know… but on the day of the outreach itself, fifty people from five different states showed up supernaturally to help! We have people from Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona that came early in the morning and said, “what can I do?” Word had somehow gotten out about what was happening. I didn’t hesitate to put each one to work and there was plenty of work to do!
We were privileged to have Linda Prince and 120 Drums join us for this amazing time in God!
This reminds me of Elisha, after Elijah was taken up, he was given 50 servants that came to help do with the work of the Lord. (2nd Kings 2:16)
We had literally hundreds of people on that Shoshone Reservation that came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ that day, over 400 families fed, $30K worth of food delivered, and many awesome giveaways for the children. Every item listed on those flyers was delivered.
I’m just a girl who believed God.
You can see pictures in video format of what the Lord did at: (because its so old and we didn’t know what we were doing the sound is really bad! My apologies. )
or to view video you can view photos from this event at:
View Chosen Warrior PhotosAll glory to the Lord Jesus, for every miracle that happened to bring this outreach to fulfillment is certainly due to Him. Jesus said, “Without Me you can do nothing, but with Him all things are possible!”
NEXT MISSION: The Alaska Awakening – I’m still just a girl that believes God.
Lifeline Outreach is on a mission again in Alaska. Our assignment is to expose the spirit of suicide in every village in Alaska, by depositing one book per household of “Your Unseen Enemy Revealed.
Learn more how you can be involved in this assignment at:
I Aldo have a calling prophesy to go to the Shoshone!