Showing posts with label Bethel Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bethel Church. Show all posts

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Baby Wisdom


My baby grandson, Cord Toft, was born yesterday. His little sister, Mesa, and I stood outside the delivery room giggling at the cries we heard coming from his little lungs in his first seconds of meeting the world.
Looking at his little face and eyes of wonder, I was filled with that love once again at the birth of a child—the kind of love that is giddy and bursting with joy. The Bible says that heaven rejoices at the birth of every child. What a wonderful welcome little Cord had yesterday!
I wonder who he will become? What are God’s plans for him?
From my classes on leadership, I wanted to share a few quotes to encourage you to discover your own identity and destiny with God. Some things we can learn from babies:
“A baby cannot get its identity by looking at its past.”
“A baby knows that it can do what its parents can do because he/she was made in their image.”
“Stop trying to fix yourself; become something.”
(Quotes from Wendy Backlund - Bethel Church and Global Legacy)
May this spring and this season bring a new joy to your house – that same joy the Father felt the day you were born!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

2012 - The Best Year!

A view from our front porch in Parachute, Colorado.
New Year's greetings to all of our friends around the world!

Rick and I are excited about this new year. We are filled with hope. God is answering prayers and blessing in amazing ways. We are overflowing and we just extend those same blessings to our friends and family as they face all the adventures this year will bring.



Jobs
Rick is enjoying night shifts doing his natural gas flowback and frac operations with Encana. No kidding. He really likes this work. He's fascinated by the operations and enjoys long nights atop frigid mountains monitoring wells and servicing equipment. He gets home around 6:30 a.m., sleeps for 6 hours, spends a couple hours reading and taking care of business, and then it's back to work. When he does have time off, he gets a whole week and then we travel to visit family and friends and hang out together in our beloved Colorado.

I continue to help authors and do some writing, editing and photography, working from my pretty home in Parachute. My office has mountain views, and I take my lunch breaks out walking or swimming at the local rec center.  Check out my website! www.christinetracy.com. I also have the privilege of working on a 100 year history book and writing columns for Kremmling Community Church. This is our beloved church who blessed us to go to school for two years. Although we are not living close to them, it is wonderful to be able to continue to do what we can to try to bless them back.

Ministry
Rick and I are having many opportunities to share what we have brought back from our two years at school. I have been doing some life coaching, and teaching classes on the books: Cultivating Kingdom Creativity by Theresa Dedmon; Dream Culture by Andy and Janine Mason; and Prosperous Soul by Stephen DeSilva, using internet and conference calling. (These classes are open to anyone who can connect with me by phone and FaceBook. Let me know if you are interested.)

Rick and I are also taking the Global Legacy Leadership Development Training through Bethel Church - an amazing 12 month course where we join 1100 people from around the globe, thanks to the internet. We are doing the class with three Colorado friends and are so excited to have them on this journey with us. The course is conducted by Steve Backlund and Paul Manwaring of Bethel who have a mandate to take the kingdom culture and advance it internationally through this course.

Upcoming
Stay tuned for news of my book, messages on creativity, and some samples of my bulletin columns. I just want to share my thoughts with all of you. Our prayers are that our lives bless you, and that we may impart to you the abundance of blessing and love that have been poured out on us by our good and loving heavenly Father.

Thoughts on 2012
Thank you for sharing this upcoming year - 2012 - with us. We know about the scary predictions out there...but we also have faith in the Creator of the universe - God, His Son, Jesus, and His Holy Spirit. The words we are getting from many sources are that God is re-establishing His government and His order and it starts with the family. Homes and families will be mightily blessed this year. He has been answering our prayers. Let Him answer yours!

"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Jesus' words from Matthew 21:22.

Many blessings!
Chris




Monday, September 19, 2011

A View From Crown Peak


It's September and the aspen trees are beginning to change to brilliant yellow. It's my favorite time of the year in the mountains. Cool breezes, cold starry nights, sunshiny warm afternoons, crunchy leaves, snowcapped peaks, brilliant blue skies...I LOVE Colorado. It truly must be one of God's favorites!!!!

Official BSSM Year 2 graduates!
Since graduating from 2nd year at BSSM (Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry), Rick and I have re-settled in a new town - Parachute, Colorado - in a little area called Battlement Mesa under a peak called Crown Peak.

Happy to have jobs!
Rick is working in the natural gas fields and is happy to be working again. I am almost finished with the first draft of my book and this week will be rewriting and editing. I can't wait for you to read it! I'm also associate editor for Kingdom Life Magazine, a new magazine published by Dr. Myles Munroe's team and distributed throughout the world. In addition, I am editing for a fiction author and a children's author. Both of their books will be published soon and are amazing. Stay tuned for more information on how to find them. I also am doing some writing and communications work for our long time home church, Kremmling Community Church. What a blessing they are and it's fun to watch what God is doing there. Rick and I were honored this summer to be able to speak to them about our time at school - and to talk to them about intimacy with God; healing ministry; and their identity in the Father as adopted sons and daughters. It was a precious time for us.

My creative dream is to be able to write books and use them as tools as I travel and speak to groups about hope and destiny and our good God.

I love my writing, editing and author coaching. It is so fun, and exactly what I want to be doing. My prayer is that eventually it will prosper us, too. God has promised that! So, meanwhile, I take what He sends and love every moment. I am so thankful for Rick's new job, our pretty rented home, and being close again to some of our family.

God is a techie
God loves technology. Did you know that? We are keeping in close touch with our Bethel friends who are now located all over the world. We Skype with our grandchildren, and we text and email daily with our kids. What a world we live in. When I was a young mother, I could barely talk to my mom once per week because long distance calls were very expensive. I have a collection of letters she wrote to me, mailed with a postage stamp. She also gave me the letters I wrote to her before she passed away. I love them.

With our present day technology, I feel so blessed to be able to stay in closer touch with my family. I also love that I can do my work from my pretty home office and have it read around the world. I'm amazed at how many people are reading this blog from nations I have never even been to. I love you all!

Talk to us!
We welcome any questions or responses from you regarding our time as students at Bethel and what God is doing now after we have been in two intense years of equipping. God is about to do something big. There have been many signs. If you are seeing them, you know it too. Signs can include what we used to think were coincidences. Numbers lining up on the clock, people speaking into our lives, dreams in the night. I feel our Papa God has placed us strategically in this area of the country and is allowing us a time of rest and regrouping. We are presently visiting local churches and seeing where He would like us to serve. Meanwhile, we love ministering online with our friends. (Find us on Facebook: Christine Krohn Tracy.)

We have been thoroughly equipped in the prophetic, in the healing and prayer ministry, in leadership, in life coaching, in kingdom creativity, in kingdom financial training, and even dream culture and destiny coaching. These are good and beautiful - promising and effective. They all have God's anointing and thumbprint of power and grace on them. And they are for everyone who is hungry to receive.

Could that be you? We pray you take the risk and enter into this amazing life God has planned on your behalf.

Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Take our hands across the miles and countries. Let us pray for you. We have so much to tell you. Rick and I will be writing more as the weeks go by. We pray that God opens your hearts and minds to receive all the riches in glory He is right now pouring out upon you.

Many blessings and much love,
Chris

P.S. Don't forget the SOZO Basic Training being brought to Colorado from Bethel Church in Redding, California. The team will be teaching at Kremmling Community Church in Kremmling, Colorado. For information, or to sign up, go to: www.kremmlingcommunitychurch.org