Kevin and Donna Drury, the co-founders of this work, heard the call in June 2001 to establish a beachhead where the waves of God’s glory would continuously roll in. There were other instructions that followed, one of which was to connect with the leadership team at Bethel Church in Redding, CA. In September 2002 they moved to, and spent three months in Redding developing relationships with the team and immersing themselves in their Kingdom culture. While in Redding they felt the Lord say, “when you go home start the work I’ve called you to.” They felt like the date to start was January 12, 2003. After looking at a calendar they realized that date was the second Sunday in January.  

Our first service was held that morning with about 65 people attending. Most of them were from out of town, or just well-wishers wanting to be there to encourage us in our ministry. We actually started with about 20 people, no live worship [we used CD’s], and no money. What we did have was a vision that we could not deny. Because we started on the second Sunday we had three Sunday’s in January 2003. Kevin and Donna felt like the Lord said to sow each of those three-week’s offerings into another ministry. So, that is exactly what we did. We gave to other ministries over $4,000.00, including the one they came out of. In less than six months the Lord returned that amount and more through several people not in our fellowship. He is faithful!
 
In December 2004 we moved to our present location with about 20 people. The Lord had said to prepare for growth so we knew people would start coming. One Sunday in February 2005 we had about 60 people worship with us. We have continued to grow steadily so that in January 2007 we needed to go to two Sunday morning services to accomodate the growth. Today, the average Sunday attendance is 80 people and if all our people came at the same time we would have over 100 people.

 

Because of continued growth we are now going to take over the entire building where our ministry is located and remodel it to better suite our needs. We hope to begin remodeling in November and complete it before the end of 2007. For a video tour please visit our second website - www.eyeonbetheleast.org / Videos.

 

God is faithful! As for His glory, it keeps on coming. It is not unusual for healings to take place during our worship. There have been people that have seen the Lord in our services. Others have seen angels and the cloud of witnesses. History is really His-story and He is continuing to write it through the precious people He sends to us.