Cowboy Church Riding Across Country to Preach Revival
“Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.” -- Revelation 2:29.
That is the message that Brother John Riggs and a group of Texas cowboys from the Texoma Cowboy Church of Wichita Falls, Texas, as well as riders from others states, will carry via horseback across the eastern half of the country. The riders left Texas on Sept. 29 and are journeying across Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and ending in Washington, D.C. onNov. 7, the day before the election.
“The Ride” as the journey has been dubbed, serves as a 40-day call for revival to America’s churches. To help accomplish that mission, Riggs will be preaching every night on the 40-day trip in a different church or place near where the riders will stop for the night. At the end of the trip there will be many people meeting in Washington D.C.
Riggs states that he felt led by God over three years ago to make the horseback ride to the Nation’s capital. In early August of this year, he felt God was telling him it was time. “Like many others, we have been praying for over a year that God would send revival to the church in America,” states Riggs. “As we think about our country, and the condition we find it in today, our hearts are broken over the moral slide and depravity that we see in our nation. We know that God has left the church here to be salt and light in this world. Every single night along the way, we will be stopping and preaching the message of revival to churches in their local communities,” Riggs added.
Riggs is inviting other Christian riders to participate and to come to a meeting in their area and then join in the ride, even if just for a few days. Ideally though, the group is hoping and praying that 150 to 200 riders will join up and enter Washington on the 7th to help deliver the final message to our nations elected leaders that God is the only answer to our problems. With a lot of prayer and church members of all denominations getting involved, the group believes the message of revival will spread.
“We’re excited about what God is doing, and we believe that there is hope for revival in the church in America today and that if the church is truly revived, we also believe that we can have an awakening or impact on this nation that will bring about a positive change for America. Many people are looking to Washington to fix the nation’s problems, but no man or woman or Congress...no President, no Supreme Court can fix what’s really wrong with our country...the main issue being the issue of sin and the fact that America has turned its back against God,” said Riggs. Not a popular message but one the group believes needs to be heard.
Pastor Riggs will be preaching at Cowboy Church of Jerusalem, located at 9906 Henderson Mountain Road in Fairmount on Monday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m.
Please visit t he website TexomaCowboyChurch. com or The Ride Facebook page https:// www. f acebook. c om/ groups/176714736104814 for more information.