Grizzly Mountain Resort
How it all Began #1
What I am about to tell you is the truth and it really happened. Now, If you believe that God can talk to people in their dreams,
you will understand what you are about to read. However, if you do not believe that he speaks to people in their dreams, then you
will think I am nuts and ready for a straight jacket and a rubber room. But, everything that you are about to read really did happen
to me.
About 7 years ago , I was watching a live broadcast of “Feed the Children” on TV. During that broadcast, as they were feeding the Children, the unthinkable happened, they ran out of food. To see the faces of the 60+ Children that they had to turn away was more than I could take. I wanted to sell everything that I had and ship them more food ASAP, but that was not an option. So I prayed and ask God how could I give more money to help those in need. That is when the Lord spoke to me and told me to build a Christian Theme park. A few days after God spoke to me to build the Park, I shared my dream with Pastor Lonnie Nix of The Way Ministry of Sacramento. As I started to tell him what God wanted me to build, he got very excited. He started to share with me that just 2 weeks earlier God had given him a dream of a Christian Theme Park being built here in Northern California. In his dream he saw cars on the highway bumper to bumper as far as the eye could see in both directions trying to get into the park. He did not know what it meant until I started to share what God wanted me to do. At that time I thought I would build a park on about 40 to 50 acres, because the original Disneyland only sits on 45 acres. So I started researching amusement parks to find out what I should do. I researched other parks around the world. I needed to see what had worked for them, what rides were popular, what was the pitfalls, how much money it would take etc. I spent hundreds of hours on the internet finding out everything I could about building and running an amusement park. Then one Sunday morning in January 2005, God changed everything. As I was praying in the prayer room before morning service, another Minister came up to me and said that God had told him to tell me something. He said that he had never said anything like this to anyone else and that he did not know what it meant. The words that came out of his mouth next changed everything that I had been working on. He said that God wanted him to tell me that “ My horse is bigger than the barn that I am trying to put it into”. I knew instantly what he was saying and after spending time in prayer that next week, I understood all that God wanted me to build. That”s how Grizzly Mountain grew from a 40 acre amusement park to a 505 acre Resort.
About 7 years ago , I was watching a live broadcast of “Feed the Children” on TV. During that broadcast, as they were feeding the Children, the unthinkable happened, they ran out of food. To see the faces of the 60+ Children that they had to turn away was more than I could take. I wanted to sell everything that I had and ship them more food ASAP, but that was not an option. So I prayed and ask God how could I give more money to help those in need. That is when the Lord spoke to me and told me to build a Christian Theme park. A few days after God spoke to me to build the Park, I shared my dream with Pastor Lonnie Nix of The Way Ministry of Sacramento. As I started to tell him what God wanted me to build, he got very excited. He started to share with me that just 2 weeks earlier God had given him a dream of a Christian Theme Park being built here in Northern California. In his dream he saw cars on the highway bumper to bumper as far as the eye could see in both directions trying to get into the park. He did not know what it meant until I started to share what God wanted me to do. At that time I thought I would build a park on about 40 to 50 acres, because the original Disneyland only sits on 45 acres. So I started researching amusement parks to find out what I should do. I researched other parks around the world. I needed to see what had worked for them, what rides were popular, what was the pitfalls, how much money it would take etc. I spent hundreds of hours on the internet finding out everything I could about building and running an amusement park. Then one Sunday morning in January 2005, God changed everything. As I was praying in the prayer room before morning service, another Minister came up to me and said that God had told him to tell me something. He said that he had never said anything like this to anyone else and that he did not know what it meant. The words that came out of his mouth next changed everything that I had been working on. He said that God wanted him to tell me that “ My horse is bigger than the barn that I am trying to put it into”. I knew instantly what he was saying and after spending time in prayer that next week, I understood all that God wanted me to build. That”s how Grizzly Mountain grew from a 40 acre amusement park to a 505 acre Resort.
