NEWS
- SEPTEMBER, 2009
NEW SONG
SCHOOL OF THE KINGDOM LAUNCHES
Our
new School of the Kingdom launched on Friday, September 4. This is a
two year program in ten six-week modules offered on Friday nights. It
covers everything from foundational discipleship skills and knowledge
to biblical exegesis, core doctrines, apologetics and various forms of
ministry training. You'll need to meet our requirements to get the
certificate, but anyone can attend any time. Our goal is to cultivate a
deeper level of discipleship in our midst and to nurture a kingdom of
God mentality and culture. Childcare through 4 years.
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SUMMER MINISTRY/MISSION TRIP TO THE NAVAJO NATION
In July we sent a large team to
the Navajo Nation. Painting and renovation work was done on various
buildings in the Hard Rock mission compound and our team helped out
with a multi-evening tent revival held there on the grounds. The
picture is of our team under Inez Saragosa leading the children's
ministry in the church building on the compound at the revival. The
Holy Spirit fell so hard at these meetings that at times the speaker
for the evening couldn't even preach. In addition, two of our members
received healing in the form of leg lengthening that has permanently
healed persistent and chronic back problems. See our healing reports
below.
NEW GROUP -
"THE CREATIVE CALL"
"The Creative Call" starts
September 26. Art. Poetry. Creative writing. Music. Call our office for
more information. This could be your place to plug into relationships
and develop some of your creative gifts.
"DRESS
WOODSTOCK" SUNDAY WAS A LOT OF FUN
We had a lot of birthdays in
September for people born as part of the Woodstock generation. We
therefore decided to have some fun with a "Dress Woodstock" Sunday. The
Lord gave Pastor Loren a prophetic message tieing Israel's forty years
in the wilderness to what has happened to the Woodstock generation and
those who responded to the Jesus Movement that began that same year in
the forty years since The Woodstock Music and Art Fair drew 500,000
young people to three days of music. What happened to a prophetic
generation built for worship and called to change the world? And what
do we do now? This is about two generations called with the same
purpose and the Joshuas and Calebs who have lived to lead them into the
promise of God. If you would like to hear this message, you can order
it on CD by clicking HERE.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Greg Wanberg and Judy Hoon who were married on Saturday
September 12. It's been a joy to watch young people who came to Jesus
in our youth group in their high school years entering young adulthood
and beginning fruitful lives in their Lord.
GENERAL NEWS
OF MINISTRIES
Our counseling department
now has eight trained counselors available to help our people come to
wholeness. Joshua and Jenn DeLong and Jordan and Reah DiRito do our premarital counseling
for couples wishing to be married by one of our pastoral staff members.
A new Restorations
course begins (or began) September 16 using the new Elijah House training
videos in inner healing. The course lasts approximately a
year. Our Healing
Encounter Weekends continue for those who want a
concentrated, get-your-feet wet introduction to inner healing. Our foodbank at last
count serves some 300 adults and children each month. N.O.A.H. (No One Allowed Hungry or
Homeless) serves a free lunch every Wednesday at 12:30 and
takes meals to senior citizens as well. Feed the Kids serves
80 to 100 hot meals to youth (many of whom are needy) every Thursday at
5:30 before youth group. Our youth group remains one of the largest in
the metro. Young Adult
events are being planned on a regular basis. Watch for announcements in
the Sunday bulletin. People
of Prayer meets the first and third Monday nights of the
month and is seeing the largest gatherings ever. God is moving. A.R.K. (Acts of Royal Kindness) takes
the gospel with prophetic words and God's healing power to the streets
and malls on the first and third Saturdays of the month. Students
wishing to get a certificate of completion for the School of the
Kingdom must go out with ARK at least once in every six week module. A
new live worship CD
is in the making. Watch for an announcement. It won't be long! Cecille
Grossso has been working on a CD
of prophetic song recorded live in worship and enhanced in
the studio. It's been slow going but it's coming and it's going to be
beautiful! River Groups continue
to meet, studying God's Word, loving one another, growing together and
developing spiritual gifts. BOB
(Band of Brothers men's group) continues to meet monthly
and is studying Pastor Loren's book The Prophetic Church: Wielding
the Power to Change the World. ZOE "Life" for
women meets monthly for lunch, worship and study.
THIS IS JUST
A SAMPLING. MUCH MORE GOES ON EVERY DAY AT NEW SONG.
PASTOR
LOREN'S NEW BOOK
To be released in
January/February from Chosen Books. Renewal for
the Wounded Warrior: A Burnout Survival Guide for Believers. Includes a
foreword by Dr. James Goll. The precursor to this book was Burnout: Renewal in the
Wilderness which was hailed by the late Jack Frost as the
best book on burnout available. To a gathering of pastors in Toronto he
stated that it saved his ministry. This new book is an updated and
refined rewrite of that earlier book that never really got into the market.
Watch our online bookstore for availability!
SOME 2009
HEALINGS
1/12/09 from Jan Barnes and Rae
Ellis: Rae: “When we were watching the revival,
the Holy Spirit filled the room and His presence was THERE!
Jan said, 'Is anyone hard of hearing?' I said I was and had
been for many years (I worked around live bands every night for 10
years, quite an assault on the hearing). She immediately placed her
hands on both my ears and began to pray. I felt a internal
tickling and then remember thinking, ‘Wait for the
‘pop’.”As soon as she took her hands
down, I heard a huge POP, just like I had suction plungers pulling out
my hearing loss (no pain). Instantly I could hear very well.
I can still hear incredibly well to this day.” Jan:
“Rae’s hips were healed complete of pain (while
sharing the Testimony of the Lord) while we were meeting at Starbucks
– This happened on Dec 26th, 2008. I had
not remembered that she had said her hips always hurt her, but the next
day the Lord reminded me of this and I just 'knew' that her hips were
healed. Rae confirmed this via email when I checked
with her. Rae’s hips are still completely healed
today.” Rae: “I was unable to stand through the
entire worship service at church because of the pain, sciatic nerves
issues. I didn't have any of the same sensations I felt when
my hearing was healed or my tooth later last year in church.
Now, NO MORE PAIN. I can sleep all night without waking up
over and over in tremendous pain. I can stand and walk for
long periods with no pain.” Jan: “GERDS was healed
– This happened on January 4, 2009. While
worshiping I felt something like an electricity flipping off of my
middle finger of my right hand and heat like a hot coal in my left
hand. I was suddenly compelled to place the right hand on
Rae’s back (electricity). Rae was completely healed of the
GERDS and is still today.” Rae: “I had been
suffering with not only GERD but a number of serious digestive problems
for a long time. I was so sick at church that day, in fact,
my insides felt like I had swallowed hot solder, burning and pain
throughout my digestive track. I could not eat meat, for
about the last 2 years because it would make me so sick. I
could not eat out in public since I could have an instant reaction to
any number of foods and be violently ill. Once I had one of
these attacks, it would often take several days to feel better. Last
Sunday, during worship, I felt Jan's hand on my back and I felt a jolt
go through me. Immediately I knew I was healed. I
could feel years of internal injury healing and over the next few days
and now, I feel so good. I actually went out to lunch after
church, ordered chicken fried steak and have not had any issues
since.”
From Handmaiden Raven (myspace
name - a teenager) 1/22/09: Well my grandma had cancer in
her throat. She took radiation and that made it smaller. Well, she
found another lump on the other side of her throat and was afraid it
was the cancer again. If it was cancer she wouldn't take radiation
again. After youth group a couple of weeks ago I began to pray long and
hard that God would heal Grandma's cancer. After a week my grandma
called me and told me that she went to the doctors to see if it was
cancer and the doctor told her that she was cancer free!!! I was so
happy, now she'll be able to see me graduate. God is so amazing!!!!
From Beth Sandford 1/23/09: For
many years I have been praying for three people in a store I often shop
in . The other day I stopped in the store and one of these precious
ones approached me to give me an update on her mother. About three
months ago she had asked me to pray for her mom, a severe diabetic, who
was not doing well and was not given long to live.
Well, her report to me was that her mom is now doing better then ever
and no longer even requires insulin! What a God we serve and she was
giving Him glory too! Praise Jesus!
From
Nina 5/6/09: Nina was scheduled for knee surgery or two
different problems. She received healing prayer from a ministry team
member and felt warmth go through her body. Since then she has been
pain free, has canceled the surgery and has been running and dancing
freely.
From Diane LaManna 6/22/09:
Sunday, January 21, we finished the morning service with a "fire
tunnel" in which people pass between two lines of ministry team members
facing one another receiving blessing as they go. Here is Diane's
testimony! "I wanted you to know that after walking thru the tunnel of
fire and being blessed by all Harriett rained healing on me and the
Lord told me to hand her my cane, I did and have been walking pain free
since. I reach for it and I kind of hear a giggle from God
and the words, you don't need it anymore remember the 'rain of
blessings'. I keep the picture of Harriett in my mind and
keep walking without pain."
From Donna Wolfe 7/26/09:
Last month I developed a pain in my hip. I tolerate
pain so I ignored it, but by the second week it was severe
and now it was in my my leg. I had a hard time sitting or
standing. In my Christian walk I have been healed many times instantly,
but this time it wasn' t so quick. I knew if I could get to
church, even if I had to crawl up the steps I was going to enter into
worship. During worship you (Loren) has a word of knowledge about a
leg. I claimed thte healing and by the time I drove home the pain was
gone and I am pain free for weeks now.
From Ray Saragosa and the
Missions Team 7/30/09: (The team just got back from a
missions trip to the Navajo Nation where they did construction work and
helped out with revival meetings) Inez Saragosa received a miraculous
healing of one leg growing out. She has a doctor confirmed report of
the one leg being shorter than the other and having back problems
associated with it and losing her balance and falling sometimes in the
middle of the street. Some of the team prayed for her led by Jan Barnes
and it happened. Dennis Munford also had a leg grow out where
previously he too had suffered back problems and a blown out knee from
walking crooked and losing his balance, falling or tripping. After
Inez's healing he asked for prayer from Jan believing it could happen
for him too and it did. That night Inez kept stretching out her legs in
our room and comparing the length and showing me that they were even
and are even.
From Greg Wanberg 7/30/09:
Last night during youth group, we had a time for people to come forward
to get healed with back pains, well of back pain anyway. Julie Ohearn
set up 4 chairs at the front, and had those who came for healing of the
back sit in them with their backs pushed completely up against the
chair back. She had us take their feet out stretched in front of them
so that we could see how one foot was set lower than the other because
of crooked backs. I am an eye witness to two of them, my brother devin
and this kid dylon who recieved Jesus for his first time yesterday. I
held thier feet in my hands and watched with out anywords being spoke
their feet leveling out as one grew as much as a half an inch!
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