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.

SUMMER MINISTRY/MISSION TRIP TO THE NAVAJO NATION
navajoIn 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
woodstockWe 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.

wanbergCONGRATULATIONS
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.

warriorPASTOR 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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