Dolphins ‘escort' twelve from area as they pray for the 'wind and waves to shift'

Twelve pastors, city leaders and other pray-ers gathered June 2 aboard the Innkeeper for a trip out into the Gulf to pray that the gushing oil would stop and that any coming our way would dissipate.

“As we passed through the East Pass and continued out into the Gulf, it seemed a heaviness shadowed over us,” Pastor David Butler of Faith Assembly Christian Church told The Log. “We began praying as we went along.

“As we were praying, two dolphins came to the front of our boat and escorted us for the next 30 to 45 minutes. We saw at least 10 dolphins encompassing the Innkeeper. We said the dolphins were the oceans ‘angels’ that were assigned as our escort. Oddly enough, once we stopped praying, the ‘escorting dolphins’ disappeared. There was truly an awesome presence on the vessel.”

“It was wonderful being with 12 others who really believe that when we pray, God will not only hear but also give us mercy and answer our prayers,” Pastor Paul Kummer of Grace Lutheran Church in Destin told The Log. “God has entrusted authority to his kids to speak to mountains or calm storms, like He did, and we believe that God will do it. And we just want him to get all the glory so that people who don't know Jesus will come to trust and love and follow Him.”

Kummer said they are waiting for the “wind and waves to shift, for the oil to not get any closer, for God to give creative wisdom to BP and authorities how to solve this and for God to heal the Gulf waters, so that the only oil on our beaches is suntan oil and anointing oil as God brings revival to our region through this hard time.”

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