Oct. 13, 2010

Hi to all!

We are now into our 2nd year at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. It is a year of intense studies in New Testament, counseling, coaching, and deeper relationship with God. Leadership training is a main focus, and we will be accompanying some of the leadership from Bethel to various places in the U.S. this year to be on their ministry teams.

San Francisco
I just returned from San Francisco, where I was part of a team of 20 people with leader Teresa Dedmon as we put on a School of Kingdom Arts. Our amazingly creative team included ballet dancers, a modern dancer, singers, musicians, painters, photographers and writers. We held a two day workshop at one church and did a Sunday service and ministry time at another church. Both churches were in the San Francisco area.

One young man visiting the conference is an intern with Dreamworks Studios in Hollywood. He had never painted prophetically, and Teresa asked him to paint for her healing service. He painted a picture of an angel blowing healing onto a man with injuries and bandages on his legs and hand. Teresa looked at the people in the church, and asked if any in the church had problems with legs or wrist injuries and pain as depicted in the painting. Two women stood up and received ministry. One woman was completely healed of severe arthritis that prevented her from bending at the knees. She also had a cast on her wrist. After prayer, she was doing deep knee bends. Another woman had a disease that affected her balance and caused great pain. After prayer, she asked Mike, a dancer, to dance for her and she was able to move and dance with him - something she had wanted to do and hadn't been able to do in years. Her pain was gone and mobility returned.

There were many more testimonies of physical and emotional healing during the weekend - and many words spoken over the churches and people of God's anointing power bringing healing and revival to their city and nations through their hands. People learned to pray and administer healing through the arts. They learned for themselves how to paint, dance, write and sing what God was saying over each other and over their church. I will be helping to put together a website link about our weekend and all the testimonies. As soon as that is up, I'll have a link to it on my blog so you can see. Also, I will have copies of one of Teresa's sermons on the arts that I would love all of you to have a chance to hear. God is so amazing. Our Creator loves the creative!

Classes
Our classes are so wonderful. We are both taking advanced training in Kingdom financial stewardship, leadership coaching and SOZO ministry. I am taking a Transformation track that explores inner healing as it applies to dreams, SOZO, generational issues, and other forms of inner healing counsel. Rick is taking a Church Planting and Leadership class with Steve Backlund and is actually putting on services with his team of 6 one night a week as part of the class.

We consistently hear lectures from the Bethel leadership team: Bill Johnson, Kris Vallotton, Eric Johnson, Danny Silk, Kevin Dedmon, Beni Johnson, and more. Today, Che Ahn is a special speaker to our class as he is here for a conference.

We have major homework in Bible, book reading, and leadership training / coaching. It is all good and keeps us busy always.

Work
I am again working at the Redding Record Searchlight newspaper and love writing and doing photography for feature stories. I'm hoping to get faster at this and be able to do more for them this year. I get paid by the story, so the more I write the more I can get paid. It's funny, we had to take a personality profile and motivational test the other day, and after answering a bunch of online questions, the results came back that called me a "journalist." Hmmmmm.... AND, yes, I still hope to finish a book this year. I also have three other book ideas.

Pastor on Call Team
Rick and I are both excited to be on the Pastor On Call team, where we volunteer in the Bethel office once a week to take calls for prayer from around the U.S. and world. This is awesome training for us as we learn to listen to what the Holy Spirit is telling us for the caller. It is scary, risky, and awesome and we have many testimonies of people being so touched by the love of Jesus; set free from bondage; and healed of afflictions. Rick is also working in the healing rooms on prayer teams once a month and I am writing testimonies in the healing rooms once a month.

Stay tuned for a blog update from Rick in a few days!!!!