Ministry of the Month: Tree sitting for Jesus.
LEILAH’S STORY
“This past week has been filled with some of the most amazing ministry opportunities of my Christian life. I was able to spend one week sitting 120 feet up in a redwood tree with a small crew of "forest defenders", sharing with them the good news about Jesus.”
THE PRODIGAL PROJECT:
It seems that many people in the The Prodigal Project have been sensing it to be the right time to begin reaching out to this community. 2 weeks ago Christy, Rachel, Candace and I went to watch a video at Humboldt State about the whole movement. We were brought to tears watching the kids we have been ministering to for years passionately fighting for a cause, though righteous as it may seem, wins them no eternal salvation. The video included clips of kids getting arrested, pepper sprayed by the police, and dragged off to jail. We prayed after seeing the video, to be used by the Lord to turn these kids into radical disciples for Jesus.
HISTORY:
The "forest defence movement", otherwise known as "tree-sitting", started getting publicity about 6 years ago. Around this time, Julia Butterfly began her protest of the logging of old growth redwood trees. She lived up in a platform in a redwood tree alone for 2 years
TREE SITTING FOR JESUS?:
Tree-sits consist of building a platform about 120-150 feet up in a redwood tree, and getting a bunch of motivated forest defenders to sit up in the platform to prevent that particular tree from getting cut down.
TOOLS YOU WILL NEED:
Rock-climbing equipment, such as harnesses, prussic ropes, carabeaners and climbing ropes are utilized for climbing trees and setting traverses between inhabited trees.

AJ - The Prodigal Project has been sharing Jesus with hippies, deadheads, Phish fans, Rainbow kids in many countries. Our family has spent much time with them in California. Two of them stayed with us in Prague last year, before heading out to Europe’s Rainbow Festival. They are the only ministry in the world that I know of that focuses exclusively on this people group.

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