at age thirty-three. They would ride horseback
and go house to house, city to city, to preach
the gospel until whole cities were reached and
people were being discipled. That’s why they’re
called circuit riders because they would literally
get circuits and ride them.
So we went, “Lord, what are you saying about
this? Why are you highlighting this?” And
that’s when He began to speak about college
campuses and sending a team from YWAM
Kona to do full time campus ministry. And He
likened it to circuit riding, there will be teams
that will ride circuits of campuses. Every year
from January to May, we have ten teams on
the road that ride circuits of campuses. We
do events where we do worship nights, we do
discipleship groups, we do women’s gathering,
all sorts of stuff. And we do that every year.
That’s called our Carry the Love Tour.
That’s how Circuit Riders came about. So when
we moved from Kona to Southern California
(we were all sent out from Kona so it wasn’t
a separate thing) it was so hard to say we
were from YWAM Kona. We decided we were
just ‘Circuit Riders’. Now eight years in, it’s an
actual thing.
[WM] It seems very spontaneous when you
lead worship. It is like you have much more on
your agenda than just running through some
worship songs…
[Lindy] It’s funny I was just at Oral Roberts
yesterday and they were asking me this (about
being spontaneous). And I said it took a lot
of trial and error and a lot of messing up. But
because I was so passionate about evangelism
we’re all just out in Kona, Andy and Holly none of us knew what circuit riders were. So
Byrd started leading at YWAM Kona. A couple our leader started looking up what circuit riders
named Brian and Christy Brennt moved there, were and why was God saying that He’s raising
and you could just feel the strength of the up circuit riders again, what does that mean?
Holy Spirit that something was about to break So, they took a year and just studied the life
out, and no one had language for it. And then of circuit riders. Frances Asbury, John Wesley,
people began to hear from the Lord, “I’m and they were fascinated that what marked
raising up circuit riders again.” People were the circuit riders was that they were so driven
having dreams and encounters, and honestly by love, at any cost, that most of them died
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and I was a worship leader, I remember going
into worship sets thinking, “God, I just want
to lead people to worship you, but I also want
people to know you more. I want to lead this
worship set and have people going, ‘I did not
know that side of Jesus’. Or to have a fresh
revelation of Jesus”.
Songs can do that. Lots of songs do that. That’s
why we write songs, to open our eyes to who
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