Freedom Foursquare Outreach Ministry
Our Humble Beginnings

In February of 2003, Freedom Foursquare Gospel Church was a new church plant in the inner city of Las Vegas. We had our first church service inside a musical instrument rental store where they also operated a rehearsal studio.  They offered the studio to us on Sundays to plant our church free of charge!  We were blessed to grow the church from 5 to 50 in our first year.  My wife and I learned quickly the dynamics of the type of church our Lord Jesus needed us to minister in as we followed His directions and stayed the path.  We worked with the poor, destitute, homeless, individuals with all manner of addictions, the mentally challenged, demon possessed and eventually those incarcerated in the Clark County Detention Center (CCDC).  The Las Vegas Inner City atmosphere had blossomed God’s new ministry, Freedom Outreach, out of Freedom Foursquare Gospel Church. 

In February of 2006 I received a call from an inmate’s sister who happened to attend a Foursquare Church in New Jersey. Before that call was over, I was parked in front of CCDC ready to enter in to comply with what turned out to be very complex policies and procedures as I visited her brother.  But we serve a powerful God, and from that one phone call He opened doors for Freedom Outreach to share the Gospel with those incarcerated, simply by my agreement to visit one inmate.  CCDC has as many as 3500 to 3800 male and female inmates on any given day. 

Prior to this first phone call, I had no experience in visiting anyone who was incarcerated, so I asked the caller how she found our little church, out of all the hundreds in Las Vegas. Her response was simple: “your church address was the closest to CCDC!” Of course, I was only thinking of visiting this one man, one time.

God had other plans!  It was at that moment I heard God’s voice say to me "this is where I need you".   This is when I began describing these unexpected events as 'phone calls from heaven'.  And there have been many more since.