People talk about my ministry, deliverance, the voodoo, and different things, and people say, “Oh, Don, such a great job.” He came for me. Do you like anything I say? Anything I do? Jesus came for me, and I wasn’t looking for him. I didn’t think I needed him. I thought I had him.

The Power of Jesus

I did not feel the glory of God coming into me. I did not feel demons or a legion coming out of me. Even though I spent years making porn, I didn’t feel that. I just witnessed this thing. And then rapidly, the next day, I woke up and I said, The hole is gone. That feeling, that ache, I don’t know where it went. It went away.

So we lived in New Richmond, Ohio, at this time, up in the mountains. We’re back in the hills, and to get reception, you’ve got to put the antenna up in the tree. There was no satellite dish. So one of the only stations we could get was Trinity Broadcasting out of Richmond, Indiana.

There was a pastor in LA, Dr. Fred Price, a black pastor, pretty much a black church, very near one of our pornography companies. I used to make fun of him. He had airtime everywhere in LA, and I’d watch this black pastor. It was entertainment to me. There was nothing at all drawing me into it. I thought the whole thing was silly.

After I prayed this prayer, guess who’s on Trinity Broadcasting in my house, Fred Price. So Fred Price is preaching the message, and I walk by the TV and I’m watching it. He stops his message, and he says, “Someone out there had something supernatural happen to you, and you don’t know what it is. You write to me and I’ll tell you what happened to you.”

He’s a televangelist, so you’ve got to put $10 check in the mail. So I put my check into the mail and sent it to his ministry. I’m working in television at this time, and I have left pornography. I came home from my job, and there was a package in the mailbox. It’s Fred Price’s little booklet.

I do not have a Bible yet. I just know this experience happened to me, and it touched me somehow, but I don’t know what happened to me. So I read through this booklet, and it’s talking about accepting the Lord, but it talks about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so I know about baptism with water. It doesn’t talk about baptism in water. Talks about baptism with fire. It doesn’t sound good to me.

It talks about speaking in tongues. Okay, well, I got one tongue. I don’t have many tongues. I don’t know what that means. I don’t understand it. I go through the scriptures that talk about power. I don’t get it. So I close this little booklet. Down on the back of the booklet, there’s a prayer, a 4-sentence prayer. It says, Yes, I believe I’m born again. Yes, I believe Jesus is the baptizer of the Spirit. Give it to me, amen.

Now you just heard my salvation experience. It’s pretty incredible. That day when I prayed that prayer, is when he began working in my heart to change how I saw women, how I saw money, my addiction to drugs, my addiction to a little bit of everything out there, the whole worldly system. That’s the day that the power of the Spirit came into me and began changing how I saw things.

Finding A Church

After that happened, I said, I’ve got to find me a church.   I went to my traditional church. All I can tell you is that the experience I had was not happening at that church. I didn’t feel that there, not that I had to. It’s not a judgment. It’s just that this Jesus, who is so big that he came into my life, I couldn’t find him in the two hymns and the sermon that I didn’t really understand.

I ran across a lady named Lorna Scharringhausen. I want to get a T-shirt and I am going to put I want to be like Lorna Scharringhausen, when I grew up. When I was a little boy, she would always come up to me and say, “Donnie Adamson, are you born again?” I’d say, “Lorna, that scares me.” As a teenager, I didn’t know what that meant. I didn’t want that.

My dad had a gas station, and she would come in every day and buy $2 of gas. Now she could have filled the tank up and seen me once a week, but every day she got $2. She saw me every single time she got gas, and I had to wash the windshield. It was full service back in the day.

So after this experience happened to me, I’m trying to figure out Bibles. I’m trying to figure out church. I’m trying to figure out who this God is. I’m at a Kroger food store. I’ve got my food, and I bump into a lady at the cashier. She turns around, and it’s who else but Lorna Shernhausen. Of course, she says, “Donnie Adamson, are you born again yet?”

I said, “Lorna, listen, I don’t know, but let me tell you what happened to me. This light came in, dark came out, and I felt the power of God come, and I was speaking in another language, in prayer. I don’t even know what this means. I sound stupid. I sound foolish.” She said, “You got saved.” I said, “Saved from what? Saved into what?”

She’s said, “You’ve got to come to church with me.” She grabbed me by the ear and she sat me in the front row. Love and faith, Christian Fellowship in Cincinnati, Ohio, a charismatic church. I had never seen a bass guitar or a drum in a church. They had the whole thing. Their people are happy. Never saw that in church before.

Initial Church Experience

I’m surrounded by all these people, and I wore a suit and a tie, and everybody was dressed more casually. I was so ignorant of the Bible that they would get up and ask for an offering. They’d say, “This is the time to give out tithes and offerings.” I thought they were saying ties. So I thought, for the poor, we’re taking our ties off.

If one person took their tie off, I’d have done it too. I thought I was gonna be holy here. And so I had my tie on. I’m watching the plate get passed. I thought if anybody took their tie off, I’d take mine off too. So that’s how ignorant I was of everything. But people were happy. They’re talking about Jesus, like he’s someone in the room sitting right next to them.

Lorna would not let me go. Within just a few weeks, Lorna’s husband, Ron Scharringhausen, passed away, and so we’re in this church, and the pastor says, “You know, Lorna, we’re sorry. We’re praying for you and your family and for the loss of Ron. But we have a problem now, we need a sound man, because Ron did all the sound system stuff.”

Lorna Scharringhausen stood up and she said, Don Adamson is here. He will do your work. He does television work. He’ll do your sound for you. So Sunday morning, Thursday afternoon, leadership teachings on Saturdays, everything that they did, I had to be there because they needed me as a sound man.

Searching for A Ministry

I was working downtown in Cincinnati in television, running out to the east side, to do the sound system for an hour meeting, just to come back to work again. But the Holy Spirit began building me and building me.

I thought, Okay, I have quite an incredible testimony. God came into my life for a reason. So I have to try to figure out what God’s called me to do. So I thought, youth ministry. I’m gonna be the next great youth pastor.

I’ll tell you one description of clothes that’ll bring everybody around to who I’m talking about: parachute pants. I had purple parachute pants with yellow lightning bolts. Red Converse gym shoes, white t-shirt with members only, black jacket rolled up, hair greased straight back. They introduced me as pastor Van Halen, Pink Floyd, I think he said.

When they laughed at me when I was walking across the parking lot, I should have known. I thought, I’m gonna be the next great youth leader. That didn’t work. So I’m trying to figure out what to do. Then I started serving in the nursing home ministry. No one wanted to do it. So I said, Yeah, I’ll take a shot at this. It’s a mission field.

The first time we had a meeting. We may have had three or four people who didn’t even pay attention to what I said. And so I could not wait to go back to my senior pastor and tell him this did not work. But on the way there, I ran into an elder. He taught me something in about 30 seconds. He said, “Don, if you want to catch the right fish, you need the right bait.”

I’m trying to think, what’s the right bait for the nursing home ministry? All the elderly people love children, so I gathered my son and his little buddies, and I said, “This is what a wheelchair is. This is how it works. This is the break. If they’re wired up with tubes and wires, and you gotta leave them alone. But if you see them sitting in the hallway, you ask, “Would you like to come to church with me?” If they say yes, they say no, if they mumble, and you don’t know what they say, you unlock the wheelchair, you bring them in.”

And so I let the boys go. I had three boys working with me. I let them go. I went upstairs to pray for a 103-year-old lady. Another whole testimony there. Came back down, and the room was packed out wall to wall, complete with wheelchairs in rows and rows, and people standing around.

I walked in, I said, “What in the world did you do?” And they’re like, “Dad, we were doing what you told us to do.” So we were off and running. Nurses would come running in because their patients were missing. Family members would run in. They’re like, “Where’s Mom or where’s Dad?” They all started joining us in chapel.

We saw the Spirit of God moving on these old people. So I did a lot of mission work then, and I’m a pastor now, and so we’ve been to the Philippines many times. My heart was in the Philippines. I wanted to go, and I was packing my furniture to go to the Philippines. I’d been to Cuba. I’d been to Mexico, Russia, and all these different trips.

The Call to Haiti

So clearly God’s speaking to me about missions. I have a gentleman who invited me to Haiti. I don’t know where Haiti’s at, but it’s a television job. So I got my big camera and microphones. It’s not preaching or pastoring; it is simply a television production. I said, “Sure.” He was paying me a good bit of money to do it.

So we went to Haiti. They had a big crusade there. There was no roof on the church, just a concrete slab. They wanted to do a crusade to start building the church. I got my camera. We did the first couple of days of services. The last day was packed out. I mean, there were so many people in the compound.

The director came up to me and said, “We have a problem. We need a pastor. The Haitian pastor is supposed to preach isn’t coming.” We need a pastor because Haiti is very traditional, and so they’re looking at me. I said, “Well, wait a minute. I said, I didn’t bring a Bible.” They hand me the Bible, and as they’re putting a tie on me. You have to wear a tie in Haiti.

They’re putting the tie on me, and they’re putting the Bible in my hand. I said, “I didn’t bring a sermon.” And they said, “You see that little half wall, they said, go behind that wall. You got two songs, and you’re on.” I don’t know what I preached that night, but all I remember is when we were preaching, the Spirit of God came in so strongly.

People were getting healed in the service, and I never gave an altar call for healing. I don’t think my sermon even dealt with healing. So I thought, when I give an altar call, somebody please take my picture, because it’s going to look like Billy Graham at the Coliseum. There will be 1000s of people, and I’ll be standing there and giving the altar call. If people are getting healed without me asking, the altar call is going to be beautiful. I work with a translator, and I give the altar call for people to accept Christ. Not one hand goes up. I’m scanning, looking around. It was really hard because the lights were in our faces.

I’m looking around, not a hand. So I’ve worked in the Philippines before with translation, sometimes double translation. And so I gotta give the altar call a different way. Surely someone’s going to get saved. And so I give it a different way, not a hand. And so I thought, well, we will close in a prayer and then a song.

Once that was finished, I was pretty humiliated by the whole thing. A gentleman walked up to me and said, “Jesus, you said, I can accept him. I want him.” I thought, if you did that 20 minutes ago, my ego would feel a lot better, but it was great. I led him to Christ, and we prayed for him for a minute, and he walked away. Here comes a woman, “That Jesus you talked about. I want to accept him.” I’m thinking, what was the big disconnect here?

I put my hand in front of the flood lights blinding us, and I look, and there is a single file line from the platform out to the gate of the mission. I looked at the translator. I said, “Are all those people waiting for me?” He says, “Yeah, they all want prayer.” So no one had done it the Billy Graham way, right? We say, raise your hand if you want to be saved, and you all come up. We say this blanket prayer for everyone; no one had done it at that church before.

When I gave the altar call, they were all thinking, Yes, we want that. We just don’t know how to do that. We’re not figuring out how to do it. So we’ll talk to him afterwards. So we brought everybody up. It was wonderful. Lots of people get saved. The Spirit of God moved. The sun was setting over the Caribbean. There was purple. And the storms in our area, the storms come over the mountains, but they stall because the breeze from the ocean dries them out. So it has to wait for the sun to drop before these storms come in.

So lightning is right there on the mountain. I mean, you can taste it almost, and the sunset and people getting healed and people coming to Christ. And I just saw that woman’s house that she lived in mud, and here she is weeping and crying and looking beautiful, and her kids are beautiful. It was just the Holy Spirit. He had me hook, line, and sinker.

I said to myself, What is this place? I hate using the word magical, because it sounds like witchcraft, but it was like a magical moment where all my senses were just kicking off. Where in the world am I? How in the world can God move in this environment? I said goodbye to the Philippines. I talked to my pastor, and I said, I’m moving to Haiti.

They just started the church there, and my job was to build the church. I remember the first service. It was 63 people. Nine months later, we had over 600, and we were off and running. I called that time in my life, the days of grace. I thought, What could go wrong? Which is scary. What could possibly go wrong? I’m home. I’m happy. This is where I’m supposed to be.

Coming Home

In the middle of that, I’ll just simply say it this way. I lost my marriage. I had met my first wife in the pornography industry, basically. And so there were issues there, and I’m not going to go into that, but the marriage ended in the middle of God pouring out His spirit that way. My pastor called me from the United States and said, “You need to come home.”

I said, “I found home, please let me stay.” Now I still have my children with me. I think Michael was 11, maybe my daughter was eight. I heard him crying at the other end of the phone, because he’s mature and I wasn’t. And he said, “Son, I want you to come home.” And so that day, that very day, I hung the phone up, and we left Haiti, and everything came crumbling down.

If you know anything about Haiti, I’m one story in a million. There are many disasters like that. And so when we got back to the United States, it was bad. I was wounded. I was offended. I was broken. Had no money, living in the second story of a drug house. They were smoking dope downstairs, playing rock and roll music. We were living on the floor, no bed. People talk about depression. I’ve never experienced that, but I do know what it feels like when I went through that.

The Christian School contacted me, and they said, “Where are the kids? I said, “I got them.” They said, “You get those kids in the school.” I said, “You don’t understand. I don’t have enough money to buy pencils.” They said, “You get those kids in the school, and we deal with everything else.” The next week was Thanksgiving. We had baloney sandwiches for Thanksgiving. That’s how bad it was.

I pull up into the parking lot, and I see the headmaster and the principal. They were just as nervous as I was. They just grabbed the kids. They said, “Be back at three o’clock and good seeing you again.” I saw them loving on my kids as they walked into the school.

Miracles In The Midst of Suffering

I know I have to get a job. I go to a convenience store, I have 74 cents in my pocket, and I buy myself a 69-cent cup of coffee. And so I’m sitting out in the car. I had a white GMC van, and I was ready to let him have it. I was ready to let God know how I feel. How dare he drop me? I did nothing but bring baskets of fruit into the kingdom of God.

In Haiti, I went to places that the Americans said, “Don’t go because of voodoo.” I’d go there anyway, and we’d see marvelous salvations, true transformation, salvations in people’s lives. And that’s all I did. And all of a sudden I’m back, and I’m broken, and everything’s a mess. And so I have my list, and I’m ready to let the Lord know how I feel.

I said, “Jesus, the snow is dead and lifeless. The trees are dead and lifeless. Everything is dead and lifeless.” I said, “Jesus, I am dead. I’m lifeless.”

I said to him, “I don’t know where you went.” That’s the last thing I remember. The next thing I know, there’s a man in my van. I can’t sit here and tell you it was Jesus with the beard and sandals and the robe. I just know there’s a man sitting next to me, and he said, “Donnie, there are three things you can do. Number one, you can get a job in Cincinnati.”

Now there are only two people in the world that know I’m doing that, me and God, because I have to get a job that day doing something. He said, “You can get a job in Cincinnati, or you can go back to Haiti, because everyone is waiting for you there.” That is a whole other hour-long discussion, because it was the truth. But he said, “Or you can enjoy that cup of coffee and let me do the work.”

I’d love to tell you what the answer was, because I don’t know. There were tears and snot and spit and everything else. I don’t know what my answer was to him. All I know is my cell phone rang, and it kind of snapped me out of it, and I’m sitting in my van by myself, and I pick up the phone, and it’s my church in Cincinnati. They said, “Are you here?”

I said, “Yeah, close. I’m here.” They said, “You’ve got to come to church.” “What’s wrong?” They said, “You just got to come to church now.” I say, “Okay, and give me a minute.” So I’m cleaning myself up and finishing my cup of coffee.

I go to the church, and the receptionist tells me the story. She’s at her desk, and she shows me the security camera. A cowboy walks in. Now, I don’t know a cowboy. He had the belt, the pants, the boots, the buckle, the whole deal, to the point where she didn’t want to let him in, because she’s not used to seeing cowboys come to the door.

She let him in, and this cowboy walks up to the office, and he says, “Is Don Adamson here?” And she said, “Well, he’s not a pastor here anymore. I mean, he’s not ministry staff. But Don is here.” He says, “I have something for Don Adamson. Can I give it to you?” She says, “Yeah.” He puts $3,000 on the table.

Now I have four pennies in my pocket and a cold cup of coffee. I have no future living above a dope house. $3,000 is like $30,000; it gets me out of the dope house to a real apartment so I can make a difference right then. And she said to the cowboy, “Let me get your receipt.” He said, “That’s not why I came.” She said, “Who do I tell Don Adamson that you are?” He said, “Tell Don Adamson I’m a friend.”

Could be an angel. If I get to heaven and I see cowboy boots, on one of them. I’ll say you’re the one. So I get back in the car, and the phone rings again, and it’s Pat Murray in Dayton, Ohio, one of the churches that supported me, Living Word church, and he knows my background in television.

He said, “We heard you are back.” I said, “Yeah.” He said, “Where are the kids?” I said, “I have them.” He said, “Well, I have a problem.” I’m thinking, welcome to the club. Let me tell you about problems. He said, “I have a problem. My television producer just walked into my office and quit, and I need a television producer. Would you come up and talk to me?” So I take my son up there, and we sit in service. I’m trying to figure out what in the world is happening here. My 11-year-old son pulls on my shirt. He said, “Daddy, the Spirit of God is very strong in this church.”

Now I couldn’t feel him at all because I’m broken, but when he said that, I knew, through the mouth of babes, God’s perfected praise and power to bring vengeance against our enemies, Psalm 82, and so after service, I shook pastor Pat’s hand. I said, I’m your man. If you need TV, I need TV.

I don’t want to pastor, nothing. I videotape him. I got a sermon. I duplicate editing. I got it twice. I duplicate it. Got it three times. Watch it on television, make sure it worked. Got it four times. God began restoring me and rebuilding me because I said yes to enjoying a cup of coffee and let him do the work.

And so I began putting scriptures around the house, Go ye into all the world, you know, trying to force the Holy Spirit to send me back to Haiti. I’m feeling good. I’ve been rebuilt. I’m out of debt. The kids are looking good. I got a new job. Let me go back to Haiti, because that’s where I want to be. Totally not ready.

Through that process, we were at this apartment, I told my children, “Listen, Dad’s gonna go get a soup spoon.” We were having chili that night. And so I leave and go to the dollar store for that soup spoon, and I open the door to the apartment, and I run into two boxes and a bag of groceries. Don’t know where they came from. Someone dropped them off. Sitting on top of everything is a white soup spoon.

I can tell you what the grain of the door frame looked like, and the carpet fibers, as I stood there, it was like I had just gotten taken out of the world. I stood there, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me. He said, “Donny, I’m going to restore your life, just one spoon at a time.” I knew then. Forget about trying to do Haiti, forget about pastoring. Forget about ministry. Your ministry is those two kids.

I didn’t really understand how much they’d been hurt. Their mom walked out of their life. I don’t judge her for that. She grew up in that industry. People say all these bad things about her. Listen, you didn’t grow up in porn. I did. She did, until you were in porn for that long, and understand it’ll warp you. All I know is the marriage didn’t stay together, and so that day, I just focused on those children and did television ministry.

Heading Back to Haiti

I trained people up at this church. I felt like this was a new step. I met a woman in Cincinnati. We dated for two years. I’m in Dayton now, so it’s a distance. We had gotten married, but it was a long-distance relationship. She said, “Please give me a year before you take me to Haiti.” And so I gave her two, but we tried to go back to Haiti again. I have, you know, equipment there. I have things there.

This time, it’s different, much harder; the grace that was on my life to work there wasn’t there. We would have a Friday night worship service. The voodoo people would be playing their drums right next to us. We hear the voodoo. Our translator said, “Do you know what they’re doing?” I said, “Yeah, voodoo stuff.” He says, “Not doing voodoo stuff. They’re doing a curse, Pastor Don party. They’re doing witchcraft against you to get you out of there, out of Haiti, because you’re leading everybody, and it takes their business away.”

I’m taking money out of their pocket from people accepting Christ. They started cursing us in the middle of that; something black and dark came in, principalities, powers, rulers of darkness. We know this, but I could not get rid of it. It was tough, and so I sent my daughter home. Maybe four weeks, five weeks later, I sent my wife home.

I have to deal with this, and I don’t know how to deal with it. Everything I’ve tried before is not working. There was something in my house, and it’s on me, and I can’t get rid of it. I talked to my prayer group in the United States, and they just didn’t understand. And so I’m like, I’m doomed. I got a prayer team that doesn’t know how to pray. I have no one here who even understands what I’m going through.

Prophetic Word and Deliverance

There’s a man in Ghana, West Africa, whom I have never met in my life, Prophet Victor Boateng. He comes to Living Word church, my home church in Dayton, and has a service there. My pastor doesn’t know him. As a matter of fact, the African pastor told him, I’m a prophet. I don’t want to know about your church. I don’t want to know anything. Now in the United States, we have a hard time with that.

So he does a service, and he starts singing very poorly, like bad bluegrass. It just really sounds rough. Later, I heard all the audio. He stops and looks at my pastor, and he says, “You know, you have a call in Haiti, right?” So the pastor is thinking of me. He’s like, “Yes.”

There’s no way that an African pastor could know that. Then he sang a little bit more, kind of strange. Then he stopped, and he said, “You have a son? And he’s in Haiti.” The pastor says, “Yes.” Everybody’s like, “Oh, he’s a prophet. He’s prophesying. He sees the future. He sees that pastor Pat has a spiritual son in Haiti.” The church was packed out; it was standing room only in the sanctuary.

Then he said, “The devil’s trying to kill him. I want every pastor to come up here and pray for this guy named Don in Haiti.” So they came up and they prayed. They gave the American prayer, a good three to five-minute American prayer. He stops them in the middle of it and says, “Stop!” He says, “I see the casket. It’s coming down the aisle, and inside this casket is a man named Don Adamson. He died in Haiti.”

He said, “Is his wife here?” No one in the church knows. My wife came back the very night before this happened. She’s home in destruction, depression, horrible. She couldn’t even go to church. She couldn’t even tell anybody she’s home. It was that bad.

He said, “I see the wife getting a phone call. And the phone call said, Don died in Haiti.” It could have happened that night, because she was home in Dayton, no one knew it. He said, “I see his casket coming in here. Now pray again.” This time, they prayed with more fervor.

At the end of everything, he said, “Thank you. You may be seated. He said, “Please keep Don in prayer. Please pray and fast for three days.” And then he says a statement that makes my wife a little nervous. It puts gas in my tank, because he just prophesied everything perfectly to my name, to exactly what’s happening to me. He said, “Heaven will not receive him until his task is accomplished.” That makes me a little aggressive at being an aggressive guy anyway, because I knew God had my back.

That happened on a Friday, and I opened up my email in Haiti, which is like dial-up. I mean, it’s like ungodly slow, one email after another, saying, This is what this guy said about you, and one thing after another, and the demon was gone. I woke up that morning. I’m like, I don’t know where it went. It’s not here anymore. And so it was, you know, my wife was in depression, my kids were scattered. It was a very, very difficult time, but God saved my life. He spared me.

Hurricanes Begin

So this is 2008, I’m thinking, Okay, gotta go say my goodbyes. The first hurricane rolls in that summer, we have a hurricane, and the mission, and different people said, “Would you please stay?” I got a big F350 truck. I got ATVs. I have a good team with me. They say, “We need help delivering food and flood relief.” So sure, absolutely, of course. And so we take care of the flood. Deal with that. I’m done. You ready to go home?

The second hurricane comes in. Would you please stay? Stay for the second one, then a third hurricane comes in, the worst one, Hurricane Hannah. We’re pulling bodies out of the river. I said, “Where are these people from?” They said, “They’re from up there.” And I look at those mountains up there, and I say, nothing’s up there. I don’t see smoke, I don’t see roads, I don’t see any activity whatsoever. To say there are humans up there. It’s just a big piece of rock coming out of the ground. They said, “They’re up there.”

Fourth hurricane comes in, I have a new idea now. I’m not going to help deliver food in the city. I’m going to take this riverbed, and I’m going to go up that river to find out where these people died from. So, digging through mud, it was a challenge to get back there. We found them, and we stopped in this village called Ropissa. Ropissa never had a school, never had a church, never had a clinic.

They came to me. They said, We know the UN is delivering food in the city for the hurricanes. By the time we get down there, it’s all gone. We have nobody. They said, Would you please help us? So I’m trying to find a way into Ropsia. You cannot do anything there to bring transformation without education. Can’t do it. Everyone’s illiterate. I can’t give them a Bible. They can’t read a Bible.

Harm For Good

Genesis 50:20 is a foundation in my life. What’s meant for my harm? God will turn into my good so that many can be saved. He’ll take your harm as evil against you, and he’ll turn it for good, even voodoo people trying to kill you. He’ll take that for good so that many can be rescued. That’s the foundation of why we started our school on voodoo land. The hillside over the entire valley was voodoo property, and I said, I want that property. We built a school there.

This year, we were chosen as one of the top 25 schools in the nation of Haiti, and we’re in the middle of nowhere. I have a graduate this year who is fourth in the nation. On his exams, he scored fourth highest in the entire country. We have a school that is second to none. I have the evidence to show it.

We’re seeing one breakthrough after another, supernatural miracles that cannot be explained any other way, spiritually, educationally, my kids are leaving that school. They got geometry. They have laptop computer experience. They’re speaking English, French, Spanish, Creole, and advanced Creole.

My vision has been Haitians change Haiti. People say, Don, “How can you be in Haiti? Haiti’s a mess. Gang controlled.” I get it. I know more than you. I understand. But my vision is Haitians change Haiti. Don tried. Don thought he’d do it. I thought Don could change Haiti. It doesn’t work that way.

I’ve been there 25 years. Only Haitians understand Haitians, and they are starting to transform their own nation. We’re starting to bring a Bible college on the backside of these graduates, who are overeducated. I can’t put them in Port-au-Prince, it’s not safe. I wouldn’t put a dog in Port-au-Prince. We have these educated people, and now God’s plan is to start teaching the Bible. Listen, how does Genesis 50 work? What’s meant for harm? God turns for good. It is because of the gangs that I’m now able to transform the mountains. 

Power to Be a Witness

I’ll close with this. Acts 1:8 says, After the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you shall receive power to be a witness. That’s my story.

Now God has moved us from Haiti because I’m stuck in the United States, and so now we started a thing called Strange Church. Strange Church is for those who’ve been hurt, the misfits, the outcasts, the offended. A boy went to college and came back a girl. A girl went to college and came back a boy. They’ve overdosed on fentanyl, alcoholics. They’re not coming back to church for nothing.

We’ve inserted ourselves into this community not because of my theology or any kind of anointing, but because I have a story. I’ve been given power to be a witness. My witness is my story. And when I go to gay pride festivals, I don’t sit there and bring out John 3:16. I say, Do you have a minute for me to share my story?

I’ve had witch doctors who tell me, “I’ll give you two minutes.” I said, “I can’t say my name in two minutes, but I’ll try. Okay. I was making porn. Big light came in. Jesus came in. I did all these different things.” Nothing caught their attention until I started talking about voodoo. Now I have their attention because I have a story. I’m a witness to them because they do witchcraft.

I said, “Voodoo people tell me a lot about witchcraft.” How demons work, really, they want to know. And it’ll always turn around to my second book called, I Never Lose. I’m not cocky, I’m not prideful. That’ll destroy me. I’ve been taught I never lose from voodoo people, not from pastors, not from theology. It’s the Voodoo people that taught me, “Don, when you come into this voodoo temple, Chief comes in with you.” They call him chief. I know him as the Holy Ghost.

They say, “Chief walks in with you. We work with spirits, medium spirits, little spirits, big spirits.” That’s what voodoo people do. Pay them big money. You get a big spirit. Pay them little money, little spirit. That’s what they do all day long. They make money by working with spirits. They said, “When you walk in, chief spirit walks in with you. When chief walks in, we must submit, because we have nothing bigger than chief.”

So I know a demonized person will never truly oppose me. Because if they’re truly demonized, they know I walk with chief. We all do as Christians. It’s not a works thing, Dear God, not a works thing. When you get saved, the Spirit of God comes in you. People who discern spirits understand chief is in there. We are the temple of the Spirit of God.

If I’m on the street of gay pride, if I’m trying to get a fentanyl addict out from a dumpster. The devil says, “Oh, Don can’t do those things. Your team can’t do those things.” Yes, we can. Chief walks with us. It’s the Spirit of God’s job to do this. We are just the vessels. And so Jesus takes our weakness and he turns it into strength, so we can go on the streets and witness to people.

After the Holy Spirit has come upon us, we will be witnesses. We have the power to be witnesses. Your ministry is called The Unseen Story. It’s 100% Acts 1:8, because that unseen story is that power. People say, I’m disqualified, Don, I’m disqualified from being used by God. The disqualification is the qualification.

I have an 81-year-old homosexual man in my group, at Strange Church, 81 years old, who has been told he was gay his whole life in the church. He didn’t even buy into my story, nor anything I was saying. But my friend who was with me was schizophrenic, and the 81-year-old man was schizophrenic. They connected by their story, not theology, not scripture, by their story.

I invited him to come to Strange Church. I don’t have the answers. Let’s talk about your life, and we’ll try to figure this out. He gets born again, hungry for God. I got a fentanyl addict. We pulled him out of the dumpster. Just hungry for God. This is where our world is at. God will use us if we just say yes.

People look at me and say, “Whoa, Don, you got some stories, that’s wonderful.” All I know is that He came for me. He’ll come for anybody.

When I see the worst situation, I say, “God, please come to him in a ball of light. That’s what happened to me. Come to him when they are not even expecting it. Let the ball of light walk into the room and let him see that.” If he did it to Don, he’ll do it to anyone. He’s not a respecter of persons.

The story is the witness. It is the power of God that pushes us. The world says you’re crazy. It’s foolishness. But to those who are being saved, it’s the power of God unto salvation. He came for me. Wasn’t looking for him, didn’t think I needed him. He did it for me. He’ll do it for anybody. Amen.