Thread by @AndyRowell

I deleted this comment on Instagram and Twitter because I see that Sean Feucht did not set up the stage.
Organizers:
facebook.com/groups/6257129…
Locals: Curtis Farrar and Alfonzo Williams of Worldwide Outreach Ministries.
foxnews.com/us/floyd-minne…?,
reuters.com/article/us-min…

https://twitter.com/seanfeucht/status/1272602541801472003

A little research into those involved with the worship and preaching at the site of George Floyd's death.

Curtis Farrar pastors a small church on the corner where George Floyd was killed. He witnessed the killing on May 25th.
My May 26 tweet:

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1265394217456525312

Alfonzo Williams "is a member of the Worldwide Outreach for Christ, a nearby church where he works security and helps organize events for the small congregation . . . Now he is part host, part traffic cop at the sprawling makeshift memorial for Floyd."
reuters.com/article/us-min…

Charles Karuku, who is pastor of International Outreach Church in Burnsville (14 miles away), has been going to the site since May 31st and called it "Unity Rally Minneapolis."
facebook.com/Drcharles.karu…
facebook.com/experienceioc/,
charleskaruku.com/about-page

Joshua Lindquist has since June 3rd been working with outreach based at CityView Church in Minneapolis.
facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…

BennyK had been doing DJ work in the street since May 28th. He was looking for a stage on June 5th because YWAM Circuit Riders (outside speakers) were
facebook.com/djbennyk/video…

Danny Bryan of Circuit Riders (that is affiliated with Youth With a Mission) of Huntington Beach, California says he was given permission to hold rallies by Curtis Farrar.
instagram.com/p/CBOvAQblvkV/…,
facebook.com/circuitridermo…

June 6-7 outside preachers:
Joel Bomberger (Huntington Beach, California
facebook.com/Joelbomberger/…
Christophe Ulysse (Brantford, Ontario, Canada) says they built the stage.
facebook.com/christophe.uly…
Jonathan Tremaine Thomas (St. Louis, Missiouri)

Joshua Giles has his ministry office in St. Louis Park about 8 miles from the site of George Floyd's death. He preached at the site on June 12th and did the two baptisms on June 13th in the videos of Sean Feucht.

facebook.com/ProphetJoshuaG…

Meanwhile, leading local pastors in the Twin Cities have been involved in grieving, marches, clean up, countering looting and arson, talking with political leaders, attending memorial services, organizing food drives, and leading worship services.

Sean Feucht of Bethel Music in Redding, California led worship there on Saturday night, June 13th.
Instagram:
instagram.com/p/CBZc52pJ0uE/, instagram.com/p/CBZkLqvg0I4/, instagram.com/p/CBa5RxhAjlh/
Facebook video: facebook.com/carissa.diacog…?

Any group who sets up near the site of George Floyd's death should consider whether they are disturbing other people gathering to mourn or reflect or learn. A microphone and music with big speakers right at the site is very questionable.

One of the lessons from the death of George Floyd is that outsiders need to be sensitive to local neighborhood issues. Outsiders need to listen, not preach. White people generally need to follow the lead of people of color and others with long-earned relevant knowledge.

As someone who ran in a Republican primary in March for Congress in Redding, California, and was photographed touching Donald Trump's sleeve at the White House in December, Sean Feucht brings baggage to being a messenger of reconciliation in Minneapolis.

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1204879632975060992

Sean Feucht says the Saturday evening time of leading worship was among the most powerful revivals he has ever seen in the United States.
His statement:
instagram.com/p/CBZkLqvg0I4/,
Compare video: instagram.com/p/CBa5RxhAjlh/
and other description:

https://twitter.com/emmalouiseri/status/1272270286226722816

Worship is both expressive and formative. In this case, worship should help people express their agony and anger. And form people, prepare people, to act for justice.
See:

https://twitter.com/esaumccaulley/status/1272184552069435395

, and worship resources at:

https://twitter.com/cicw/status/1267835651870920705

Prayer for people is very appropriate and good but it would be best if people wore masks to prevent infection. There are numerous signs at the site urging people to wear masks for the safety of everyone.

https://twitter.com/emmalouiseri/status/1272273374077542400

Evangelism involves Christians acting in such a way that they are worthy of trust. This almost always involves sincere listening to people about their wounds and pain and pledging support to help them. This is demonstrating to people what Jesus was like.

The Christian eventually explains why they act the way they do. But preaching or playing Christian songs tends to repel people rather than attracting them if the person has not been seriously listened to.

Baptism is indeed celebratory. It is part of someone's journey from the grip of self-destructive sin to a new start with God. Typically this is done with others who will assist and encourage the person with their journey.

These two images do tell a different story:

https://twitter.com/lizfinchart/status/1271570219270459392?s=19

Good overview here:

https://twitter.com/RJBohyn/status/1272491435305111557?s=19

More discussion in this thread of the video of Sean Feucht and Charles Karuku. Recall that Karuku is a pastor in Burnsville, a suburb. He is selling his book on Facebook amid videos of himself. Feucht is a worship leader from Redding, California.

https://twitter.com/KyleJamesHoward/status/1272393807724711937?s=19

The thread above tries to trace how Sean Feucht was in Minneapolis at the site of George Floyd's death about 19 days later.
(1) The local black pastor gave
(2) YWAM preachers from California the okay to come preach,
(3) a suburban pastor made a page on Facebook,
(4) Sean.

Jake Dockter has also been trying to figure out what Sean Feucht was doing in Minneapolis.

https://twitter.com/jakedockter/status/1272573322492932096?s=19

RJ was trying to help Sean Feucht and I interact on Instagram but I deleted my initial reply to him because I learned the "stage" had been set up June 6th (not the 13th). Meanwhile he had screenshotted my reply and tweeted it angrily. 🤷‍♂️
Instagram:

https://twitter.com/RJBohyn/status/1272610403286122501?s=19

Having listened to Sean Feauct reflect on what he was trying to do, it sounds like he sees himself as a worship catalyst and therefore he should rush like a firefighter to world problems. And he says he has done so. I wonder if there is a theological misunderstanding there.

Jesus was late sometimes so missed his chance to heal people so he had to do it later or from afar. He played down the importance of special worship sites. He usually avoided crowds and the spotlight. Is that applicable?

Is worship music what is needed in a global crisis? Partially. But when hurrying from place to place one can make cultural errors because one does not know the context, making the crisis worse.
Or one can be used by the players involved so as to appear partisan, making it worse.

Billy Graham, Martin Luther King Jr., and all U.S. Presidents all considered carefully the message their presence would send. And whether it would distract and make things worse.

There is certainly a place for crisis response teams in earthquakes and for news media to hurry to get on the scene. But they have a very limited, modest, practical purpose.

The other thing Sean Feucht seems to believe in is hyping, marketing, selling "revival" worship gatherings so that people know about them. He is trying to publicize these good things. The challenge is to avoid the embellishing and exaggerating, which misleads the trusting person.

I think he sincerely thinks that if he can be somewhere and play worship songs there, the Spirit of God will be unleashed from its local chains to bring healing to people. But I think that puts too much pressure on Sean Feucht and underestimates God.

As a little more information trickles out, I will add it below.
For example, Josh Giles (St. Louis Park, MN) who spoke last night with Sean Feucht on Instagram, (and was preacher on June 12-13 and Sean was there June 13), run in similar circles.

https://twitter.com/RachelWilder_/status/1272772007730397186?s=19

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1272923747381633025?s=19

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1272916047725686785?s=19

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1272917318016917505?s=19

https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1272911207280721920?s=19

Unity Rally / Revival Minneapolis Facebook page is run by Charles Karuku of Burnsville, MN.

https://twitter.com/dreadpiratejene/status/1272906093019246595?s=19

Curtis Farrar of Worldwide Outreach for Christ is the church at the site.

They are both Pentecostal churches and led by people of color.

https://twitter.com/dreadpiratejene/status/1272904947928088580?s=19

Wow. I just found out that Sean Feucht took a screen shot of a deleted Instagram reply by me while we were replying back and forth there and posted it on Facebook (as well as Twitter).
facebook.com/sean.feucht/ph…
The three images from Instagram below.

It is now Friday, June 19. In this thread, I have tried to trace who have been involved in the worship and evangelism down at the site of 38th and Chicago, where George Floyd died May 25th. Below is some more reporting that may help connect some of the dots.

On June 6-7, The Circuit Riders from YWAM and others from YWAM Kona were present.
instagram.com/p/CBOvAQblvkV/…
Jonathan Tremaine Thomas of Civil Righteousness was also there. instagram.com/p/CBGwDvsjG73/

I was at the site on the afternoon of Saturday, June 6th but did not notice this group.

The Circuit Riders based in Huntington Beach, California, (Alvin Muthoka playing music and Yasmin Pierce preaching) are in this video from Sunday, June 7th.
facebook.com/JoshFireUsa/vi…

Muthoka posted about local Minneapolis pastor Curtis Farrar:
instagram.com/p/CBW4RG5hwOG/

Other Circuit Riders who came June 6-7: Stephanie Nyamekye Mensah, Danny Bryan, Joel Bomberger (Huntington Beach, CA). Christophe Ulysse and Frenchie Gamero came from YWAM Kona (Kailua-Kona, Hawaii). Ulysse is from Canada but in Hawaii now.

Jonathan Tremaine Thomas from Civil Righteousness (Ferguson, Missouri) is another organization. He was also there on Sat, June 6th. (On June 4th, Thomas led a worship event with Sean Feucht in St. Louis, Missouri. Feucht would come to Minneapolis June 13 after Thomas had left).

Danny Bryan, Alvin Muthoka, and Jonathan Tremaine Thomas operated with a great deal of deference toward and respect for Curtis Farrar, who is the local Minneapolis pastor.
instagram.com/p/CBOvAQblvkV/…,
instagram.com/p/CBW4RG5hwOG/,
instagram.com/p/CBGwDvsjG73/

Meanwhile, Charles Karuku who is a pastor in suburban Burnsville, MN has been coming daily to the site of George Floyd's death to do street evangelism since May 31. Karuku is a dual citizen of the USA and Kenya. He started a Facebook page: Unity Rally / Revival Minneapolis.

Joshua Giles, pastor of Kingdom Embassy Worship Center, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, preached on June 12 and ended up doing baptisms on June 13 at the site. He had preached at the Minnesota State Capitol May 31st and distributed food on May 30 and June 2-4 with his church.

Karuku and Giles did not previously know Curtis Farrar but all are Pentecostal / charismatic pastors.

Sean Feucht was going to appear on the campus of North Central University but that was cancelled so he ended up coming instead to the site of George Floyd's death.

Sean Feucht did a video with Charles Karuku. instagram.com/p/CBZkLqvg0I4/
and an Instagram with Joshua Giles: instagram.com/p/CBekW7hDcWB/
and a Facebook one. facebook.com/sean.feucht/vi… They were scheduled to speak at the same conference but Giles had never heard of Feucht before June 13.

Evangelism and worship events at the site of George Floyd's death are being continued by Charles and Lindsey Karuku (See their Unity Revival Minneapolis Facebook page. facebook.com/groups/6257129… )
Long-term work is continuing through Curtis Farrar and Worldwide Outreach for Christ.

In addition to reaching out to the spiritual needs of individuals, most Minneapolis churches and pastors are reflecting on how to work toward police reform, distributing food, caring for the homeless, and planning how to meet in person in a safe way amidst covid-19.