We are proud to announce that our first son, Judah Lake Stevens was born November 17th at 10:28 in the morning after 14 hours of natural drug-free labor from my wife. Crystal took it like a champ! Once again 
she showed me why she is my hero! He weighed in at 7 lbs 11 oz’s, and thank you Jesus, he is a HEALTHY kid! Crystal is also doing really well with nursing and recovering, and being an AMAZING mother just comes so naturally for her! We are so in love with him, and I am pretty sure we are the happiest people on the planet! He is absolutely the cutest thing you have ever seen. We are constantly beside ourselves in awe of how Pappa would give us such an amazing little person. We love him, We Love Him, WE LOVE HIM!!!!!It is fun to think about what the Lord has in store for him, especially in light of the
circumstances surrounding his conception: He was most likely conceived in Rwanda, Africa on a trip Crystal and I were sent on by Bethel to teach in their Bible Schools in the region. Since then he has already been on another Bethel trip to Africa that we led to Mozambique last April. I figure any kid who has done 2 Bethel trips to Africa before he is even born is destined to see nations TRANSFORMED! We love praying and prophesying over him every day, and dreaming about the greater works Pappa has planned for him to do and how he is going to help shape world history. I now know that raising our little revivalist is a big part of our call.Looks like he may just be getting another chance to go to Africa again soon. Bethel is planning on sending us back to do a regional leadership school tentatively planned for early next summer in Kenya. This would be a school for all the leaders over the Bible colleges in the region, some of the main regional pastors
, and even hopefully some leaders involved in business and government, and we will be doing it with a small team of 3 couples. The school would probably last 3 or 4 weeks, and at this point is kind of experimental as we are trying to figure how to best sow into leadership in Africa and train up revivalists that impact the culture with Kingdom Love. We will be sharing more about this as we figure out the details. This trip is already mostly covered financially so that is a huge blessing! Please keep us in your prayers as we develop the teachings and curriculum of the school and plan all the details.Please also pray for direction about what to do with our business and how to expand it, and we also need prayer for some extra work for me (Aaron) over the next 5 or 6 months as this is the slow season for our business. We changed the name of our business to ‘Create Freedom’ and we are dreaming for and exploring ways that we can build a business that brings freedom to the needy and helps
transform economies that are struggling. We really value your prayer in these things as we have lots of great ideas, but we are wanting direction to know which are the ‘God’ ideas to put our whole hearts into.We are definitely feeling a season shift, and are very excited about what God is doing and going to do in this next season! We are so blessed to be able to be a part of revival here at Bethel and around the world. Pappa is making His bride beautiful!
Thank you all for continually just being AMAZUNG! WE LOVE EVERY ONE of YOU!!
