Our vision of living above the influence all started with a dream in 2007, from the Lord. My youngest daughter has got caught up in life’s struggles, dealing with drugs, and other emotional inner hurt. She confessed to me about smoking Marijuana. I was shocked, not my daughter. She has always been a good girl, (for the most part)

At first I started feeling scared, like my daughter can’t hang out with this person or that person. I was blaming the people she was hanging out with. I was convicted, and the lord put on my heart that I need to pray and love on those kids. 

My heart immediately, wanted to help not only my daughter, but other youth who get caught up in life’s struggles.


I started praying for other youth, I started waking up in the middle of the night, with different youth on my mind and I would just pray and cry out to the Lord for them. The compassion that I started to feel for these kids, was like they were my own.


Then I started waking up at 3am for a couple weeks, this was a few months after my daughter confessed about the marijuana. I was daydreaming, if you want to call it that,(I know it was the lord showing me this) I mean this whole video played out in my head of a youth event. I knew it had to be the lord speaking to me.

Dori Ann Prado

Founder of LATI