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If you're new here, welcome! We are a colourful community of believers with large vision and big dreams, who love Jesus and love our world. What Jesus did and established at the Cross is very good news. In fact it’s scandalous it is so good! He has forgiven our sins, declared man innocent and cancelled any concept of distance between God and man. It is this message of glad tidings we feel compelled to preach because His unfathomable love has captivated us. Read more >>
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building relationship with the deaf community |
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Kristian Holmes
| 16 April 2012
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This is a follow up article to the original story I wrote about the deaf students myself and a couple of friends prayed for. Firstly I would like to apologise to the deaf community if I have offended anyone in any way by the article I originally wrote. This was never my intention. I have never really connected with deaf people before and therefore was ignorant of the community and culture. Since this article was written I was contacted by the Principal of St Vincent School and a meeting was scheduled between us. We had a wonderful meeting with the Principal as she shared her perspective and we shared ours. Our desire has always been to work in relationship with those in authority if possible and to build into the community. We are in the process of organising and planning how we will continue to work into this school in relationship with the students and staff.
The exciting thing is that a bridge has been built now and the relationship will continue going forward.
The test results of the main girl in the article were delivered in the middle of our meeting with the Principal and the results showed basically no improvement, yet she claims that she is hearing much better. Her family is radically impacted by what has happened and she has been beaming ever since we met her. We believe she has experienced love and healing in a supernatural way. We are so excited about the relationship with her and many other students that is developing.
Other students we prayed for will also undergo audiology tests soon. We have no intention of stealing people from the deaf community, rather we desire to get to know them and reveal their value to them. We believe all people are equal in God’s eyes and in our eyes and that is our message to every person we encounter. They have incredible self worth.
Our desire is to show every person how much God loves them and how passionate He is about His children. We don’t want to just pray for the students and abandon them but rather build into their lives. I am excited to learn more about this wonderful community and to help and serve them where I can.
Much of my passion in ministry involves physical healing and we were in the mall for that reason on that day. We regularly go into hospitals, clinics, people’s homes and spend time on the streets praying for people with pain in their bodies and various sicknesses to be healed because that is what God has put on our hearts to do. Many people have been healed from various diseases in radical ways. Praise be to God. Love is our motive. The relationship continues. |
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Central Parks School of Worship Team
| 06 April 2012
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Just a few days to go, and it's going to be awesome! Here's some updates..if you have already registered, you can let your friends know.
DEADLINE FOR FULL REGISTRATION EXTENDED
If you haven't registered yet for the school, we've extended our deadline. So you have a couple of more days to get those registrations in!
DAY REGISTRATIONS - R250pp
If you can't take time off work, or for any reason, can only make it Saturday or any one of the days, you can come and register on the day, at the registration tables, for R250 per person per day. Registration tables open at 8.30am. The day sessions kick off at 9.30am, and wrap up at 5.30pm. You can visit our website for the full curriculum and schedule.
FREE OPEN WORSHIP EVENINGS!
All the evenings are free and open to the public. Below are the dates and times. Bring your friends!
Wednesday, 11 April: 7pm - 10pm
Thursday, 12 April: 7pm - 10pm
Friday, 13 April: 7pm - 10pm
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ABOUT THE SCHOOL
Yes..it's that time of the year again...
Bring your dancing shoes because we like celebrations. And parties. A lot.
We are utterly blessed to have a delightful partnership with Jonathan and Melissa Helser - a couple who we think are probably two of the most anointed worshippers on the planet. They fell in love with The One who loved them first and the world has literally never looked the same. Their songs are love songs; their lives are love letters. When they teach us about intimacy with the Father - we're undone. And so, for a second year in a row, this beautiful family will trek from North Carolina to South Africa to unleash the glory God’s put inside of them.
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Kristian Holmes
| 03 April 2012
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God loves people and Jesus came to set people free and destroy the works of the enemy. Love isn’t a theory, love looks like something. The gospel looks like something. To the hungry it looks like food, to the broken it looks like healing and wholeness, to the deaf it looks like hearing. Sympathy is nice but God’s love carries power that intervenes in situations and releases God’s reality into manifestation. We persisted with these kids because love looks like something. I am convinced about God’s love towards people and His love is powerful. Jesus wouldn’t say to the deaf, “I love you” and not show it. We were made for such a time as this. Which is easier to say, “Your sins are forgiven” or “rise up and walk?” Healing in the body is the proof that people are already forgiven. Thank you Jesus that by Your stripes we were healed. We all carry this dead raising Spirit in us and He wants out!
A couple of months ago I was driving with Grant and saw a few students using sign language with each other on the side of the road. Grant mentioned that they were from a deaf school just across the street. “I want to get in there”, I told him. I mentioned the deaf school to Ryan a little while ago as well and we had dreamed about it. Imagine what would happen if students from the deaf school began hearing again and speaking again? So last week when the team from Bethel Church was here, we organized an outreach to Rosebank Mall, and while we were there, we happened to see a few students at the mall, signing to each other.
We went up to them, and I typed on my blackberry “Can we pray for you to hear again”. They said yes. Ryan prayed for a girl and she began to hear! He spent a few minutes with her and she could definitely hear. Her eyes were full with tears and shock. Then he also prayed for this girl to speak and sure enough she began to speak. She started repeating what he was saying and answering his questions. It was amazing. She began to tell her friends as well what had happened. I prayed for some other boys and saw very little improvement in those who were fully deaf and a little improvement in those who were only partially deaf.
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Antoinette McDonald
| 21 March 2012
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Tonight I sport my bright neon Nike vest. And my big girl panties. And I run 10km through Johannesburg with 10,000 other lovers of this magical city. I have never run so far before. I choose to run not because I’m a runner but because this vision is enough to make a runner out of me. I just love the slogans and all that they’re calling us into – “Run. Run Your City. Run Where They Say You Can’t. Run To Make History. Run Free. Run Jozi.” This is not about a race. This is about a dream. The dream for a city so beautiful – a city so alive with prospects and possibilities that she’s virtually electric 24/7, 365. This is about her most beautiful potential – her people. People of promise. People with hope. People with a future. So tonight, on the anniversary of Human Rights Day, as the stomp of ten thousand takkies take to the tar, I salute the heroes of our past – but more than that – I join in the roar with the heroes of our future. Let’s make this nation unforgettable! |
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Antoinette McDonald
| 12 March 2012
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In the 2010 film 'Alice in Wonderland', Alice tells The Mad Hatter, "Sometimes, I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast!" He replies, "That is excellent practice."
We love that. We love believing in our God of the impossible - "for nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37) And we love, love, love the presence of God. Love! We’ve noticed that His presence cultivates an atmosphere where the impossible becomes possible. Where fear is diminished and Perfect Love takes residence. When Perfect Love is at home in us and us in Him, we’re fully alive. Awake. Excited. And dreaming. Dreaming of heaven on earth, and heavens plans for earth. Plans that we get to be a part of.
So, join us as we journey through this particular dream. Our Wild Worship Dream is…
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