Our First Sanctuary for a Sent One

Jandré is the epitome of surrendered. He has been sent so many places and for so long that I’m not even sure he knows what “home” looks like anymore, or if he would even recognize it if he stayed there for the night.

When he heard that Whit and I were helping to lead a 27-hour worship service to benefit the fire survivors from the Altadena and Palisades fires in Los Angeles, something in his spirit stirred. Multiple churches were coming together, each band playing two-hour sets, mixed with prayer, intercessory games, and a huge donation of surfboards for kids who had lost theirs in the fires. Jandré knew he had to be there.

But he was also in the middle of visa issues. He’d just been denied entry into Australia and was making plans to cross into Tijuana to reapply. His “housing plan” involved sleeping on church floors or maybe in the backseat of his car—if he could even get his car there. He needed rides, funds, and a place to stay. And yet, there was no stress in his voice, only laughter and excitement to see how God would provide.

Whit and I knew instantly: this was a nudge from the Holy Spirit. Sleeping on church floors wasn’t going to fuel 27 straight hours of ministry. If we believed in creating sanctuaries for the sent ones, this was our moment to put it into action.

So we used the very first donations that had come into our brand-new nonprofit to book Jandré a hotel room. A bed of his own. A bathroom of his own. Breakfast in the morning. A shower. Space to meet with the Holy Spirit and get filled up so he could pour out.

We also got to chauffeur him around—Whit drove him from Redding to Los Angeles, and we ran him back and forth between the hotel and the event. And somewhere in there, I got to introduce him to his first-ever “California burrito.” 😂🌯

But the real gift wasn’t what we gave him, it was what we received.

1. We got to be recipients of his ministry.

Jandré prays with authority. He sees what the Holy Spirit is doing in a room and jumps straight in to partner with it. He’s a fierce general in the Kingdom, and we got to watch not only the fire survivors being blessed, but our own lives being recharged by his surrendered worship.

2. We got to be inspired by his freedom.

In quiet car rides and hotel drop-offs, we shared deep conversations about insecurities, faith, and hearing God’s voice. We got to witness a man so untethered from earthly comforts that his greatest concern isn’t where he will sleep tomorrow, but what God is asking him to do next.

That is the heartbeat of Rally Point Network. To create sanctuaries for the sent ones: Places where surrendered lives are refreshed so they can continue pouring out the love of Jesus.

Our first sanctuary wasn’t a house in Cape Town or a retreat center by the ocean. It was one hotel room in Los Angeles. But it carried the same Kingdom DNA. And it confirmed for us that this mission is about so much more than logistics. It’s about joining Jesus in His divine strategy to release heaven on earth. One sent one at a time.

Thank you, Jesus.