God is good despite the hardships

Dearest Friend and Supporter,
We celebrate this year 33 years of Christafari. Having been part of this ministry 4 years has been a true faith journey. We have made a documentary showing what life on the road is like, and what it takes to be a musical missionary who travels year round. Please see the trailer HERE

Lifest in Oshkosh, WI was the highlight of the past few weeks. We were able to play alongside incredible artists such as Sidewalk Prophets, Newsboys, Crowder, Skillet, and more, and see thousands of hands raised to receive Christ.

PRAY for Avion Blackman

Constant travel has the ability to negatively affect our bodies, and Avion has experienced severe back problems for many years now; after a tumble down 100-year-old staircase in Kentucky, a bad chiropractic experience in the Great Lakes area, and a 10-hour drive on some very bumpy Alaskan roads, it all came to a head. It was the night before one of our scheduled outreach concerts and Avion leaned down to plug-in our inflatable air mattress and simply couldn’t get back up on her own. This immobilized her for several days and had us calling doctors, visiting a chiropractor, and the hospital. She was bedridden for several days.

Our team traveling on a bus for 6 hours back from Valdez to Anchorage, Alaska for our final show in Alaska. Please keep us in your prayers as we all work hard and keep going on God’s strength and His Word to remind us of why we do this.

Despite the long days, and people dealing with health matters, we can truly say Jehovah Jireh is our provider. We filmed in Alaska our latest music video Jireh that will be coming out later this year.

“Keeping a mind on Christ helps me sustain the hardships of this life on the road”

— Nikita Carter

47 days of touring with God's strength

We are now ministering in North Carolina and South Carolina. We are on a roll as we continue the Drive By Faith tour with 13 people. It has been a great six months in 2021. We have done a total of 15 states out of the 50 we are doing this year. Our Under God tour is touching people everywhere as we get to share the heart behind this tour and to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to as many cities. Everywhere we go we ask people if they like to share a testimony in how the ministry of Christafari for Jesus Christ has impacted or influenced their life. We get to go and sow seeds constantly and we are blessed to witness how lives are transformed by God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Check out one of our recent testimonies after one of our shows in California:

For the last week and a half we have been in North Carolina and South Carolina. Our time here has been wonderful from playing at churches and at a Salvation Army Rehab.

Thank you Cornerstone Church to saying yes to having us minister. Truly blessed by having pastors say yes to having us come.

Nothing better than seeing men worship the Lord and totally surrender to the Gospel of Jesus Christ during the altar call.

Please keep all of us in your prayers and support as we are relying on people sending us, God’s continued provision, peace, wisdom, discernment and for open doors to states that we are trying to minister at. All concert listings are posted on www.christafari.com - Where to next? Please let us know if you have any leads in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Alaska, Kentucky, or Tennessee by emailing us today at booking@christafari.com #christafari #UnderGodTour

UNDER GOD Tour Life Updates

We are seeing God move during our outreaches and we thank God for the outreaches we have had in Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida

Since our last update, we ministered in two Salvation Army Corps and Adult Rehabilitation Centers in Texas, avoided a major baseball-size hailstorm and rainstorm the day before our show in Oklahoma, and now we are in Corpus Christi where we will be all weekend long.

One week ago, we made a group decision to extend our tour and stay in Texas. We really started living out our tour motto of "Drive By Faith."

We had no immediate plans, but God once again provided for us. We were provided free lodging for the entire band by the Salvation Army in Houston, gracious hosts here in Corpus Christi, as well as new opportunities to minister at the main Calvary in Houston. Praise God! 
 

Meeting Aurora, 5 years old at the Navajo Reservation in Sweetwater, TX was truly a blessing to my heart. Meeting so many people on the road is a given, but a sweet heartfelt connection with the little ones, is like seeing Jesus through the eyes of childlike faith.

We had an incredible Sunday leading worship at Calvary Chapel West Houston!

What a joy to see my long time friend Ande from Florida while playing in her hometown Oklahoma! Thankful for blessings like these while living on the road

Thank you to the Salvation Army in Houston, TX for providing the entire band with free lodging for five days. We stayed on their compound when we decided to extend our tour in Texas.

If you know me, then you know that I love every opportunity I have to connect with my family and friends from home. Keren and Kirk are my friends from Dubai who now live in the Houston Texas area. They just had their first daughter Summer five months ago, and I have the honor to be supported by them as a full-time missionary with Christafari.

Praying for a fan after playing a concert at the Salvation Army in Houston, TX

We spent Mother’s Day at Rock City Church in Corpus Christi, TX

We want to extend our deepest thank you to our new family at the Rock City Church. God bless you!

Ministering at the Celebrate Recovery service in Houston, TX
We saw several men in recovery dedicate their lives to Christ, and many others received tokens to celebrate rehabilitation milestones. It was incredible seeing all these men walking the path of recovery and encountering God in new ways.

A 50 state tour wouldn't be possible without the partnership of the Salvation Army USA. They provide us with free lodging and meals when possible. They are more than thrift stores. We believe in their ministry whole-heartedly.

In contrast to our wholesome experience at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Houston, we soon found ourselves ministering in the epicenter of the party lifestyle: Bourbon Street, New Orleans. We had the wonderful opportunity to play at the Bourbon Street Revival, an outreach ministry that meets in Saints and Sinners bar in the heart of the French quarter. From the moment we arrived, it became clear to us that we were in a battlefield. Surrounding us was blatant sin. The eyes of passers-by were filled to the brim with emptiness. We saw great sadness in those around us. Ministering with reggae in a bar gave us the ability to reach out to groups many people may see as unreachable — those indulging in drugs and alcohol. As unorthodox as it was, we genuinely believe that this is where Jesus would be, for it is the sick that need the doctor.

Just in case you missed it, please check out our new music video for Stepping Outta Babylon