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Here I am sitting at my desk this Christmas Eve morning staring out the window at beautiful blue skies and sunshine and realizing how thankful I am for living where it's warm! I know the song says we're supposed to dream of a white christmas, but I hope folks who love snow and stuff like that do get their wish! For me I'm a happy little clam being able to celebrate the birth of our
Saviour in my rocking chair on my screened in porch, thank you Jesus!

Sorry I was rambling!

I hope and pray that as we celebrate this wonderful holiday that our hearts will be filled with God's Love and His peace. I urge you to pray for our troops and their families who cannot be togother for Christmas this year! I know how they feel, I too spent two Christmas holidays in uniform and far away from the one's I loved!

I pray that Christ will be the center of your holiday and that everybody will be blessed in your household and circle of friends and family!

So wherever you are this Christmas I hope you get a double blessing!!!
From all of us in Spiritwind we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a bright and Happy New Year!!

Oh Yeah, Go Gators!!!!

Love ya'll
Dale

Just wanted to take a moment and thank all the wonderful folks we met over the weekend in Alachua!

The Biker memorial on Saturday was awesome! The reception we received from all the CMA'ers and other Biker folks was humbling. The ribs were not to shabby either! I think we ate half a ton!
Inspite of the chilly conditions it was a very blessed time for the Band!

Sunday was an equally sweet blessing! Pastor John and all the congregation of the Legacy Baptist Church rolled out the welcome mat for us and I think we got more blessed than they did.
If you live in that area and are looking for a loving hospitable church home...you should check these folks out. They've got a heart for people and it shows!
We want to thank everyone for the hospitality and kindness we received, and look forward to our next visit!
I also want to put a bug in your ear to pray for all the folks up North and out West who are getting lambasted with freezing snow and cold weather.
Pray for their safety and protection as well as God's provision for the neccessities of life that are hard to come by when there is 4 feet of snow on the ground! (I have experienced that stress firsthand and know how prayer can help ease things!

Have a Blessed Christmas and a very Happy New Year and don't forget, "Go Gators!"
Hee...hee..
Love ya'll
Dale

I'm sitting here on this beautiful Friday morning and realized we're 20 days out from Christmas and less than a month before a whole another year starts up!

The question in my mind is where did all the time go and was any of it productive?
I'm thinking a lot of it was absolutely awesome as I reflect on all the places the band has traveled to and had the privilege to play this past year. All the great people we've met along the way and I'm most proud of the fact that we're almost finished with the Arise CD!

This project has been a long journey and we've only a few little tweaks to make on a couple of songs and it'll be ready for the mastering lab and production house. I think I can speak for the whole band that it has been an absolute delight working with Brother Dan McCraw on this recording at his studio in the Oaks. (I can't wait to start work on number 4!)

If you failed to notice on our home page when you clicked in, the album cover for Arise is posted there. Another fabulous blessing from our Brother Mike "Mountain Man" Lamborne! It's an absolute honor to have him paint this stunning picture for us.

I must admit that after the experience of producing this album, I for one have had my Christmas present already!
It is so overwhelming to finally hear songs come together and come to life the way the Lord gave them to us. It is very humbling and pleasing to the soul!

We have been praying all through this process that started way back at the beginning of 2008 that everyone who listens to "Arise" will be blessed by the messages and the music.
Please continue to pray for us if you'd be so kind. We covet them!
God Bless you all!
Dale

First off...I'm going to take authority over this title in Jesus name! Amen!!!

I used to work in retail and I understand why and how this term came to be part of our cultural venacular! However, I've only one thing to say about it! If it's so crowded and crazy in all the stores and mall's is it really worth all the hassle of getting up at 2am to make it to the store that's opening at 4am with all kinds of deals on stuff that will either be broken or stuffed in a closet and forgotten by February of next year?

Boggles my mind! I made the mistake of going shopping on this day ONCE!!!!!! I will never do it again no matter how many deals (?) are advertised during my football games.

Hey God Bless you if you do! You won't have to worry about me and my sweet wife taking your parking spot at Walmart! (hee hee!)

Hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving day!!! Food was great. My pies were okay! (my mom say's I'm out of practice.) Oh yeah I can bake a pie (from scratch!)!

The best thing that happened yesterday was the email from Mountain Man. He sent us the cover artwork for the "Arise" CD.

You can check it out on the Homepage and the music page. It's awesome to behold! I think you'll be blessed when you see it!

Mountain Man is such an anointed artist and man of God and a great friend of this ministry!

I can't tell you how excited I am about getting this project completed. The Father has blessed each of us from day one and His anointing is evident on every song.

All that's left to be done is some final mixing and then the CD can be processed in the mastering lab and sent to Discmakers to be mass produced! Hallelujah!!!

You may preview some of the tunes on our music page if you like. I pray the Lord will touch your heart and encourage you.

Well have an awesome "White Friday" by staying close to the light of Jesus Christ.

God Bless you all!!!
Dale

Thought I'd better add something on the site before the holiday got here.
Hope you all are doing well. Here we are approximately a week away from Turkey Day.
I'm not going to spend any words on the usual cliche's which we hear about now. You know like Thanksliving and thankfulness. If you have to wait for one day a year to be thankful then my friend you're in deep trouble.

The Lord is so gracious and forgiving every minute of every day and his unbelievable Grace so overwhelming that He's been taking me to the woodshed about every other day to remind this old knot head of how much he cares for me and everyone else and that is very very humbling.

I'm glad that Thanksgiving only comes once a year. My only thing personally is that I wish the pilgrims would have made prime rib or barbeque ribs the official entree, since I don't care much for Turkey myself. But if you like it, then praise be!

Check out the music section on the site! Ron put three tracks from the new CD on for you to get a sneak peek or uh listen to! We've been trying to get the last few songs mixed down and ready for mastering. Pray for us it's arduous work!

I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving and enjoy the most important part; which is being with family and friends and all the other loved ones God has placed around you and just enjoying this wonderful life the Lord has given us.

I'm truly thankful for that!

God Bless
Dale

Say Hey! Ya'll! I'm not ever going to get political on this website because it belongs to the Father God and only those things that concern Him are of concern to me and I think I speak for the rest of the Band when I say that.

You may or may not have stayed up half the night watching the endless election returns. I made it to 11pm and crashed.

I'm not sure what to make of our newly elected officials and the social issues decided on this Historic day.

All I know is that God is still on the throne and his is the highest power and if thing's don't go exactly how we think or want them to, then we must differ our idea's and thoughts to God's, for His way's are above our ways. (Thankfully! Hallelujah!)

So to answer the question. I believe we must pray more than ever for our leadership (like them or not!), for our country, our Troops and their families, our friends and our enemies around the globe!

This is going to be hard for some of us, (especially me, since I find myself being blatantly vocal about things when I should keep my opinions to my self. (it's a flaw and God's working on me. Thank You Jesus!)

There is a reason things turn out the way they do. Sometimes it's us stubbornly disobeying God and He'll relent and say okay kiddo have it your own way. I'll sitback and wait till you've made a royal mess of it and then cry out for me to come swooping in to fix it!
Guess what? He will!
Then it may just be part of God's ultimate plan and we must surrender to His Sovereign Will and Praise Him for Who He is...

However things turn out in the next few months and years, we have been given an awesome opportunity to show and share the Love of Jesus Christ to a lot of people, who plainly are looking for someone to take care of their needs. I think it should be Jesus not a man or political system! How about you?

Love you all and keep praying for us, we're almost done with Album Three and I feel God's wondrous blessings and anointing flowing as we finish it up.

Hope to see you someplace we're playing soon!

God Bless....
Dale

Hey ya'll...
We just had a great weekend with our friends at the Port Orange Church of the Nazarine during their fall festival this past Saturday!
We were set up right in front of a huge field of pumpkins and it was a first for me to play to punkin's (that's how we hillbilly's pronounce the name!)
Fun time and a real blessing. Want to thank Pastor Mike and brothers Brian and Tom and the rest of the guys who helped us for giving us the opportunity to join them and get such a blessing!

We spent the afternoon running sound for the other groups which were fun to work with. The young kids from Orlando called the Black Rabbits, (cool name eh?) were a hoot. The worship team from the church was a real blessing and then the Keiffer Family played some old timey gospel bluegrass that got our toes a tappin and brought back some memories.

We finished out the day and God showed up and blessed us and we hope everybody else got touched as well...
It was a blast jammin for Jesus with Mikey again. He'll be with us next Sunday at the Volusia County Fair...we start noontime. Pray that we get to plant some seeds in the crowd as they come in the gates.
Well I just wanted to add something short and sweet and thank you for your prayers and support.

We appreciate you all so much.
God Bless!
Dale

Well we just got through another Biketoberfest here in Daytona Beach and it wasn't all that bad. Didn't seem to be as many folks here as in times past. I personally didn't get out much this year but I've heard some great reports from fellow CMA'ers that God was here working and ministering to his people in the most unlikely of places.

I want to thank all of our Brothers and Sisters who showed up to be a part of the first ever Sunday morning service on Main Street. I was amazed at how many folks got up so early and setup coffee and goodies. It was a blessed atmosphere even though we were in a huge tent that served as a bar during the week.
Praise God that He can work anywhere and anytime!
We had an opportunity to share our music and Brother Mike stepped out from behind his drums and brought a great message of Hope and Salvation. It was reported that at least five souls were added to the Kingdom!!! Hallelujah!!!

Everybody there who helped clean and clean-up set-up and pray-up share in the blessing to the Lord. He get's all the Glory and Honor!!!

We're off and running again!!! I think the only weekends off areThanksgiving and Christmas!!! Praise Be!!!

Hope to See you at one of the events where we'll be. Check out the calendar section for dates and times.

Til next time remember God is Able!!!

Blessings
Dale

I think it's time the righteous cry out like this. I just finished reading my fifth or sixth email of the week in regards to someone being under a severe physical attack, either a life threatening accident while riding or fighting some devilish disease. I'm not sure about you, but this makes me angry at the enemy of our Souls!
This scripture just popped into my wooden head that sort of says it all. "If my people which are called by my Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my Face, and turn from their wicked ways;
then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land!
Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place." (2 Chron.7:14-15)

I think that pretty much says it all, don't ya think?

I guess this is a cry for the intercessors and the prayer warriors to grab hold of the horns of the Altar and seek the Lord's Face!

Even if you could just spend one extra minute each day more than in the past praying that would be a significant improvement over time.

It seems a dark cloud of anxiety and dismay has descended upon us.

With Wall Street falling apart! (Not my source!)

A crazy presidential race!
(Not my source!)

New's of global financial turmoil. (Not my source!)

High prices on gas, food, and other essentials! (Not my source or responsibility!)

I don't know about you brother's and sisters, but I'm starting to spend a lot of time in God's Holy Word and in prayer. (Definitely my source!!!!)

I believe that maybe, just maybe, our Heavenly Father is starting to shake things up a bit to get our little pea brained attention! Whada ya think? Maybe just a smidgen?

I want to encourage you in the word if you're feeling a bit overwhelmed with anxiety over your situation!

"My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus!!!!!!!!" (Phil 4:19 KJV)

That should make your spirit go Whooopppeee!!!!

Take heart the Captain of the Host is Mighty to save and God the Father will not leave the righteous forsaken. Hallelujah!!!!

God Bless and Pray Children Pray!!!!

Dale

Wahoo! Where did the time go? I can't believe it's October already again and summer is, for all intents and purposes, over! We're gearing up to be out playing quite a bit over the next several weekends and hope to see you at one of the venues. Check out the calendar page for further details.

We're very close to being invaded by thousands upon thousands of bikers during Biketoberfest 2008 here in Daytona Beach. Lot's of ministry work to do for sure.

One thing I'm excited about is that we have a chance to play on Main Street this year for the first time during the event. Pray for us. It will be an opportunity to share Christ with some folks who need him desparately.

Pray for all the Christian Bikers who will be out mingling with a message of hope and love.
Let us all pray that the Lord of the Harvest will send workers into the fields!

Looking forward to seeing you at some of the upcoming events.

Please do me a favor and sign in to our guestbook when you visit the site.
It's very very encouraging to hear from you. Especially those of you from foreign countries who check in on us often.

Well God be praised for the fall like weather and the continued opportunity to serve the King of Kings in the awesome Kingdom of God!
I pray the Lord will continue to bless you abundantly beyond measure!


Dale

Hey ho! Brothers and Sisters!

We are taking some much needed time off from playing this month to focus on getting as much recording done as we possibly could. To that end, we spent a very long and tiring day at the Studio in the Oaks with Brother Dan McCraw this past Saturday!

God showed up and it was very intense as we were able to lay down the final tracks on several songs for the new album. Which by the way is entitled, "Arise"!

The Lord has led us to showcase the softer side of Spiritwind on this CD and has blessed us with some very powerful songs and messages!
In a couple of weeks we'll begin the final mixes and then do the mastering process and we'll be able to release number three!!!! Yippee Kii yii yeah!!

Brother Mike "Mountain Man" Lamborne is painting the cover for us and that is very exciting. I can't wait to see it. Once all the other printing layout's are done we can get "Arise" CD's produced and released! Praise God!!!

We have about four or five songs done for the fourth CD as well so we're going to keep recording as often as we can to get that album done! If you like our Rockin side you're gonna love "Seize the Land"!!!

If all goes well, we should have it done and ready by early next year! Hallelujah!!!

I pray all is well with you and that Jesus is Abiding in you and you in him. For there-in lies our life and security! Amen!!!

God Bless and keep praying for us!

The Lord is Mighty to Save!!!

Dale

I hope all of you had an extraordinary Labor Day Holiday weekend! We certainly did. God blessed us mightily!

We want to thank Loren and Sue for the great food and fellowship at their annual Hog Roast on Saturday in Deltona.

We got to meet up with some old friends and make some new ones. It was exciting to see our old Friend Joseph, who is the chaplain for the Deltona LAMA Chapter. He's been healed by the Lord after suffering for a long while and we were all rejoicing at the Great News! The name of Jesus truly is greater than any other name that can be named in Heaven and on the Earth! It was also a blessing to see our CMA Brother Olin up and about and being strengthened everyday!

If you haven't experienced the healing power of Jesus or have doubts, then go seek out these brothers and let them tell you their stories! Hallelujah and Amen!!!!

After playing at the Hog Roast, we loaded up and drove to Tampa to be a part of the ABATE Flashback rally for the Sunday Morning Service. Brother Dave from the Crystal River CMA Chapter brought a great message. I loved the theme and it applies to everybody whether you ride a bike or not! It was simply this, "Jesus Allows U-Turns!!!" Whoa!!! Back up the Bus! I think that is profound! God is the God of second chances, and third chances, and fourth chances, and... well I hope you get the idea!
It's never too late and it's never a badtime to turn around and run to Jesus no matter what you've done, been through, or who you are, or your momma! Praise the Name of Jesus!

It was a very tiring weekend for us, but God blessed and that was refreshing enough!
We have some time off for a while and are excited to spend it in the studio over the next few weeks with Brother Dan McGraw, finishing up CD's three and four. Pray for us!!! Please!!!

God Bless!!!
Dale

Hope all of you in central Florida are just that! We're so thankful that Fay is gone and all the rain has ceased! Now we need to pray that Gustav and Hannah don't come knockin on our doors or anybody else's for that matter.

We've been sort of layin low for the last couple of weeks, some dates were canceled because of the Storms. It was good to work on some new music and writing projects.

This holiday weekend we're off to the annual Hog Roast at Sue and Loren KIng's in Deltona for a fun day of food and fellowship, then we're taking off for Tampa to play at the ABATE state rally sunday morning service!

So as always we covet your prayers of protection and that God will open doors into people's hearts. I for one, would love to see revival break out amongst the ABATE folks. Praise God!
I hope you like the new layout to the website. My Brother Ron has done a great job jazzin it up!

I wish more of you would sign in to the guestbook and just say hey if nothing else! I like to check them out everyday just to see who's stopped by and where they're from.

Oh and don't forget to go to indeheaven site and vote for our song on the adult contemporary chart, "Ain't No Blues in Heaven" we deeply appreciate your support. Hey ya'll have a safe Labor Day weekend. Ride safe and keep praisin the Lord! He is ever faithful and his love for you is everlasting!!!!

Blessings,
Dale

Isn't He though!!! I've got to tell ya, our Heavenly Father just gets better and better everyday! Living for Him and working for Him is such a privilege. This past weekend the Band got so blessed playing at Lghthouse Prayer Center in Callahan, Florida. I want to say that Pastor David Hughart and the congregation at The Lighthouse Prayer Center were such a blessing to us. God showed up in the morning service and a couple of young ladies gave their hearts to the Lord. Hallelujah and Amen!!!
Many of our CMA brothers and sisters from the Fernandina chapter and other's showed up and as always we could sense their precious support and prayers as we ministered! We want to thank Pastor David and his wonderful group of folks for the cookout and all the great food after the service! It seems that the Father never let's us down and always provides abundantly!

Keep headin' down the road ridin' with Jesus and sharing his love!!!

God Bless,
Dale

Hallelujah!!! I wanted to take a moment and thank God for all He's been doing in our lives in Spiritwind! Each of us were so overwhelmed with Blessings while in West Virginia! I hope you'll check out the photo gallery. It's just a smidgen of the pictures we took there. I know my wife Patty took nearly two hundred. Of course we can't post all of them or the ones Ron and Dee took or anybody else! The place was truly magical in a purely biblical sense! It was a divine experience!

A little news closer to home, we had the pleasure of playing this past Saturday for the Deltona CMA chapter, as they dedicated their new clubhouse, which is truly awesome, check it out when down Deltona way. They also unveiled the fallen bikers wall. It was a great time and we got to see some folks we hadn't laid eyes on in a long long time! Loren and Jim and Scotty and Sue and Erica and everybody else did a great job!

We're off to lovely Callahan, Fl this weekend to play at the Lighthouse Prayer Center Sunday Morning Service! That should be an awesome time in the Lord! Hope to see some of you there. We're counting down the last of the Summer days and we hope you've been blessed so far this year! God Bless!!!
Dale

Hallelujah! We got home from the Hills late Last night and I mean late! What a fantastic four days!!! We were so blessed by the Beauty of West Virginia and the wonderful people we met at the Mountain Man rally this past weekend!

I want to thank God for getting us there and back safely with only minor glitches. (Like a blown tire on the trailer, which freed us up for some much needed down time to walk around and stretch our legs).
If you ever get a chance to go to that part of the country then do yourself a favor and go. It's rustic! (no cell service for miles!) But hey, it was kinda nice not to be bothered, so you could soak in the handiwork of God!

The most amazing thing was the view from our mountain cabin! During the day it was breathtaking! At night the stars were so plentiful and bright, you felt as if you could reach right out and snatch them from the sky! The food! Oh My goodness...I haven't had home cooking so good in years! We took every opportunity we could to visit the sweet and friendly and amazing cooks at The Gateway restaurant! Apple pie, and fresh picked blackberry cobbler to die for! Yum! (If we could only figure out a way to fedex those items from there it would be great!) I think we all gained a few pounds! (oh Heck it was worth it!)

We played Friday night and Saturday afternoon and it was such a blessing. We had an amazing turnout for the Sunday morning church service and Brother Rick Steffey brought an inspiring message as only he can!

The best part of the trip other than the food and the view, ( Did I mention the Food?) was the time we got to spend with Brother Mike and Shirley touring Eagle Mountain Ranch! Hearing the vision and the story behind their ministry was touching! God has truly blessed these amazing people and is equipping them to continue to serve and bless the families that have stayed at the ranch and those who will be coming in the future!

They took us on a hayride up and down the mountain that is part of the ranch and it was such a thrill!

I know Ron is going to be posting a lotof pictures from the rally and the ranch just as soon as he can so you'll want to check those out over the next several days!

I wanted to share a little bit about the trip and the rally with you while it was fresh in my mind. I'm sure there will be more to add later.

I can't tell you how much we appreciate the support we received to make this trip possible and to all of you who helped us financially we want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
All you prayer warriors out there who kept us covered by your intercession are most appreciated. Keep checking back...there's more forthcoming!
God Bless!
Dale

Well Brothers and Sisters, today is the big travel day and night!!! We're off to God's country West Virginia and the Mountain Man Rally! Please keep us covered in prayer for safety and traveler's mercies over the next four days!!! We feel honored and humbled to be given the opportunity to participate at this event! There's a sense of Holy anticipation welling up inside of all of us. I can't wait to see what the Father is going to do this weekend!
We couldn't be going on this long trip without all the support many of you have provided and we want to Thank each and everyone of you who donated to the ministry to help with the expenses!
If you're coming out to the Rally in Circleville, we can't wait to meet you and make new friends in that part of the Kingdom! Whaahoo!!!

God Bless to you all!!!!!
Dale

Hallelujah! We are rally bound indeed! Just a few days away from the journey to beautiful West Virginia and the Mountain Man Rally! We are all very excited to have this opportunity to go and help with brother Mike and Sister Shirley's efforts to continue their work with the special needs children and their families at Eagle Mountain Ranch.
We got truly blessed last weekend at Blockrock Baptist Church on Saturday Night. If you missed it, you can go online to Blackrockbaptist.com and click on their archive listing and look for spiritwind and watch the streaming video. God Showed up and it was fantastic. Pastor's Frank and Bruce and Matt...have become great friends and we pray the Lord's continued blessing upon that Ministry. Sunday we had the pleasure to minister at the Yulee Baptist Church and it was a hoot as well!

Now we're in preparation mode to make the long trip, setup and play Friday and Saturday evening and Sunday morning for the Church Service!
Please pray for us if you would. We need the Lord's protection more than anything and His anointing!

Also strength, stamina, and an abundance of the Joy of the Lord!
Amen and Amen!!!

Ya'll be Blessed!
Dale

Wanted to seize the moment and say thank you to everyone who attended our benefit on Saturday!!!

Also want to take this opportunity to thank the folks who sent donations via mail and paypal!! We can't tell you how much your financial and spiritual support means to us.

We had a great time and especially want to thank Brother Dan McCraw, who blessed us with his wonderful music and singing! It made the day very special indeed!

Our prayers go out to Drew Powell, as he got attacked with a throat crud and could barely speak Saturday morning, so He was unable to perform! He was missed!!!

We fell way short of our goal! But after all it was "our" goal and the Father God is still in ultimate control, So we just want to praise Him for all he's provided up to this point. We have a little over two full weeks before we make the whirlwind trip to West Virginia to help with the Mountain Man Rally. Which means, if you would still like to contribute to the Ministry, you may do so via mail or paypal on this site.

Please continue to cover us in Prayer! Especially the weekend of the rally, as we'll be traveling Thursday overnight to Get There. We're scheduled to play Friday and Saturday Night and on Sunday Morning! Then we'll pack up and drive Sunday on the return journey home to Florida! So We covet your prayers for safety, strength, stamina, and blessing throughout the weekend more than anything!

We're off to Yulee this weekend to play at two different Churches. Check out the calendar page for location and Time's. Maybe we'll get a chance to see you there!

God Bless You!
Dale

Hello summer is right! We've just jumped into July and the big 4th is pending. Please be safe over this holiday especially if you play around with fireworks! We've been really busy preparing for the upcoming benefit that is now T-minus 11 days and counting. Sure hope to see you all come out and be a part of the Event. We're going to have a blessed time! We're going to be doing a raffle and a silent auction of some cool stuff and We're hoping ya'll will come to support us! If you can't make it in person, then send along your donation via paypal on our site here or mail to Spiritwind Ministry, 931 Stonybrook Circle, Port Orange, Fl. 32127. We would greatly appreciate any help you can give us. Even if you could pay for a gallon of gas! That would be a blessing. We're vey excited to see what God is going to do at the benefit and just how much money we can raise for Eagle Mountain Ranch. It would be so cool to take a nice gift to help them help these wonderful kids and their families. So pray hard, and do whatever the Lord lays on your heart. Most of all, pray for us on the 12th and for traveling mercies as we go to West Virginia July 31st and return on August 3rd! Look forward to seeing you at the benefit!!!! God bless ya'll real good!!!

Dale