2024 – A Year of Growth and Change!
As 2024 winds down to a conclusion, we certainly have a lot to be grateful for! For me, this season is FILLED with many obvious reasons to GIVE THANKS. Due largely to an amazing and rapidly growing Media team, we greatly expanded our influence via internet and Social Media online, and multiplied our reach to include nearly 400-500 people at our last Isaiah 61 Seminar, with a whopping 27,000 online viewers!
We also enjoyed our largest annual income in the history of The Church of Glad Tidings and expanded our networking to include GT Global twice monthly, and home groups in locations ranging from here at home to other states and nations! God again sovereignly connected us to many very significant “movers and shakers” including Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Raiklin, Juan O’Savin, Tucker Carlson, Glen Beck, Jim Caveizel, Russell Brand, Bassal and Tiny Baz, Craig Sawyer, and many others. We made leaps forward in expanding EPEC Education, growing our black angus herd for Embassy Livestock program, quadrupling our output of Embassy Greens, and finishing the perimeter fencing for our Embassy Garden and Market acreage! We graduated our first class of GT’s School of Champions, successfully opened The 612 as an Air B&B with rave reviews, and finished our research into successfully “bringing forward” the allodial land patent on our entire 40 acre property!
We also made huge headway with our vision for our Peace of Heaven Childrens’ Paradise, raising over $1.329 million towards the $4 million purchase price. In what can only be seen as the expression of “Divine Favor,” Mary “Flynn” O’Neil made a public announcement (both from our stage and on her massive social media platform) that she had made the decision to “join” The Church of Glad Tidings as her home church, and would be helping us in our efforts to purchase and operate our Peace of Heaven Children’s Paradise – stating publicly that she recognized it as “the missing link” in solving America’s child trafficking epidemic.
Now, as we enter 2025, we have renegotiated our purchase agreement with the Leo Chesney Center to extend our closing date on the future Peace of Heaven Children’s Paradise until the last day of June, 2025, and are poised for success in our purchase endeavors as God has favored us with significant resource connections and interested investors!
Although I had a near crisis involving several recurring heart attacks beginning in late September, God has brought me through the fire without being burned and
through the flood without being drowned!
I will be forever grateful to all those friends and family that noticed my ailing condition and wisely guided me to seek the resources and help I needed to address what turned out to be three (possibly four) heart attacks now corrected by the insertion of two stents in my heart, a mandated 3 month “medical reprieve” and a change in diet and exercise. In the words of my heart surgeon, the fact that I have NO RESIDUAL HEART DAMAGE is indeed MIRACULOUS, and I can look forward to “decades of health and vitality” in the days ahead – (which will come in very handy with as much Kingdom Business as we have immediately at hand!)
2024 was indeed a year of SIGNIFICANT CHANGE as God moved a number of significant influencers away to other states, and brought God-ordained replacements to not only fill their spots but to MOVE US FORWARD in the purposes of God, preparing us for what we believe will be A SEASON OF WORLD-WIDE INFLUENCE AND FRUITFULNESS in the year ahead.
Although none of us could have possibly foreseen the many sweeping changes and “growing pains” that this year has brought us, we are indeed poised for the greatest season of growth and fruitfulness in the history of The Church of Glad Tidings and The Embassy of Heaven!
The Lord has indeed guided us and provided for us in every way, and – as certainly we ought to be – WE REMAIN FOREVER GRATEFUL for His gracious provision, blessing and DIVINE FAVOR and are anxious to see what he has planned for us in the year ahead!
Love and Blessings,
Dave & Cheryl Bryan
Senior Pastors
Church of Glad Tidings