Daniel Norris

MOULTRIE, Ga. – Last year, Daniel Norris published his book “Trail of Fire,” which relates 10 different moves that God has made that have impacted the country and the world.

While working on the book, he wondered what it would be like to visit the sites of those stories and share them there.

After much prayer, he and his wife sold their 3,000-square-foot house in Dallas, their vehicles and everything else except what could not be replaced and purchased a motor home.

He has now embarked on his own trail of fire, planning to visit all 50 states, spending a week in each, to tell those stories and try to find other similar ones.

“We want to shout what God is doing,” he said this week. “People ask me what is God doing? There are so many phenomenal churches that I’ve been able to work with and be a part of. We want to take a year to shout what they do in our own trail of fire. It could be significant and stir America into one more great awakening.”

Norris will bring his message to Moultrie’s Lakeside Assembly of God, beginning with services at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday.

The revival will continue with services at 7 p.m. next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Lakeside pastor Donnie Lewis and Norris were colleagues years ago in Pensacola and Lewis said he is looking forward to Norris, his wife and three children coming to Moultrie.

“He is a very strong evangelist with a heart for revival,” Lewis said of Norris. “He is a good man.”

And Norris says this of Lewis: “He is one of the most incredible pastors you could be around. He has the ability to really connect.”

Norris said he was brought up in the church, but, at 18, he went reluctantly to a conference in South Carolina mostly because he wanted to go to the beach.

However, while at a service at the conference, he said he felt a pull to go to the altar where he felt “overwhelmed by the presence of the Lord.”

“I heard him speak to me,” he said, and weeks later he became a leader of his church’s youth ministry.

Since that day 20 years ago, “It’s been my passion for people to have an encounter with God,” he says.

Norris dropped out of Clemson University and became a youth minister for more than four years.

He studied at the Brownsville School of Ministry in Pensacola, Fla., and in 2003 he and his wife were called to become youth ministers when evangelist Steve Hill built a church in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Metroplex.

Norris served alongside Hill for more than 10 years and often traveled with him. He says Hill also often sent him out, “as Paul sent out Timothy.”

Norris says his message on his visits to churches around the country will be a call back to the altar and a rebuilding of the altar.

“We need to come back to a place of prayer and intimacy with the Lord and to recognize the things that God has done,” he said.

“Trail of Fire” is Norris’s second book. He also published “Receptivity” in 2015.

After leaving Moultrie, Norris and his family will travel to Freedom Church in Pensacola, Fla., then on to Hamilton and Demopolis in Alabama.

For more on Norris, visit his websites at www.danielknorris.com and trailoffire.org.