People often wonder "What do Roger and Chris actually DO when they travel off to other countries?". That's why we're sending you a detailed description of one of our six-day schools. Now you know what we're up to - some of the time...

Last week was our first time in Estonia, although there was a visit by an Ellel team with Otto and Sharon Bixler more than fifteen years ago! We two were there with three of our Ukrainian team to teach our six-day ministry school "Answering Christ's Call"(ACC). We had 37 students, including two from Latvia. Once again, we were thrilled and amazed by God's goodness throughout the school.

We have often mentioned this school in our newsletters, and we want to tell you more about what actually happens.

If you are in our region, maybe you would like a school like this for your church, or preferably for a group of local churches? Read on...

Teaching the Kingdom!

The aim of the "ACC" school is to teach people how to follow the call of Christ (Philippians 3:14) by learning "spiritual first aid". We train what might be called "spiritual paramedics". They will be able to deal with basic healing needs, but will also receive information about much more serious problems. They learn how to "stabilise the patient's condition" until he can receive help in a "hospital" with a fully trained ministry team. However, on another level, you could say that we are TEACHING THE KINGDOM! And what does THAT mean?

It means that we show what happens when the Kindom of God invades people's lives. Things happen! - people are changed, and God is glorified.

Every day's teaching includes demonstration ministry at the front, followed by students "doing it for themselves" with prayer partners. They see straight away that "it works"! The team are always on hand to give help and advice. This is definitely not a conference or just a series of seminars - it shows what happens when "the Kingdom of God is at hand"!

"Tell me, and I forget. Show me, and I understand. Let me do it, and I learn."

On the first day, we look at the Biblical command to pray for others, our authority in Jesus to do so, and the gift of compassion that we need. There a listening exercise in pairs; this exercise breaks the ice and teaches compassion and the art of good listening. The students learn how to relate to others with compassion, the basis of all prayer ministry.

Lord of All - or not Lord at all!

After a look at Spiritual Reality (what heaven and earth is really about), we move to Spirit, Soul and Body (what people are really about), using lively visual aids all the time. Next, we show what it means for Jesus to be truly Lord of every part of our life, followed by the first demonstration ministry - the team prays for a volunteer at the front of the class - after which students lead each other in the same "Lordship prayer". For some, they have never prayed like this before, or else this is their first experience of leading others in prayer - but everybody does it, and people are changed!

Next we teach about the Spiritual Tools

Spiritual detectives and spiritual advocates!

On Day 2, we start by looking at God's commandments and how obeying or breaking these commandments brings various Spiritual Laws into operation (such as the law of Sowing and Reaping). We show how prayer ministers are first of all like spiritual detectives (something has gone wrong, but how and why?) and then like spiritual advocates as we present our client before the Judge. We teach about the amazing power of Confession, Repentance and Forgiveness which remove the rights of our accuser. As we teach through the rest of the week, there is a constant question for our students - "What needs to happen now?", with an answer in chorus from the whole class: "CONFESSION, REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS!".

We then teach about the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer, and move into a time of general ministry where we invite the Holy Spirit to come and do whatever He wants. This is always a powerful time. For some students, it is their first experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit. He often gives prophetic words to team members, and all kinds of healing happen as well.God is good!

An amazing eye-opener

Day 3 is a very practical day. We teach the various spiritual gifts that God gives to all believers as and when necessary. The rest of the day is taken up with practical workshops on Prophecy and on Words of Knowledge. Every student finds that these gifts are available to every one of us, and has the opportunity to use these gifts under the careful guidance of the Ellel team. This session is an amazing eye-opener for many people, who thought that these spiritual gifts were reserved for "super-Christians", but it is hard to imagine any prayer ministry situation where these gifts are not used.

Wonderful and powerful

Day 4 teaches the Power of Words, Blessings and Curses, Inner Healing and Godly Emotions. We use a wide variety of entertaining sketches, visual aids and demonstrations for each of these topics. There is demonstration ministry to show how the power of ungodly pronouncements and inner vows can be removed, how rejection can be healed, and how giving and receiving forgiveness leads to all kinds of healing. At the end of the day there is general ministry from the front for emotional healing and the Godly release of emotions. Wonderful and powerful things happen during this time.

Touched by the Kingdom

In Day 5 we see how to find release from the effects of Generational Iniquity and of Ungodly Soul Ties, and then look at the whole area of Godly Sex and Sexuality. Again, we use a wide variety of lively teaching aids. The "Soul-Tie Wedding" is always a powerful illustration of how to find various kinds of healing; if you haven't ever seen it, you've missed something! For each section of teaching there is demonstration ministry at the front, where God confirms that it's all true as His Kingdom touches people's lives.

Practical Prayer

The students spend the whole final session of Day 5 with their prayer partners, praying through the various things that have been taught previously, as God leads. There are examples of prayers in their notes. Again, the team is always on hand to help where needed. Once again, things happen, and God is glorified!

Removing the rights of the enemy

The final day, Day 6, starts with a summary of how all that has been taught so far fits into our Christian walk and also into the process of prayer ministry. Then we move on to the topic of angels, demons, and deliverance ministry. Our aim is to show how deliverance ministry is just a small part of the ministry of healing, and how we can remove Satan's rights so that deliverance takes place quickly and easily. We leave time for questions (of which there are usually many) about occult practices and alternative medicines.

Putting it all together

In the final afternoon we look briefly at the practicalities of prayer ministry in a local church setting, and then go to our final activity - Case Studies in groups of three. We do this by role-play. One student (who has a sheet of private information) plays the role of a counsellee, while the other two first ask questions to find out about the counsellee's "problem", and then work out a possible ministry plan. The exercise is repeated one or two times. This way, students can see how the whole course fits together and can be used in real counselling situations. Now it's up to them! Transformation is in their hands!

If you got all the way to the end, thank you! We'd like to have given you all of the wonderful dozens of testimonies we have received from the "ACC" school, but here are just three to be going on with:

* This ministry has turned my life around and put me on the right path to fulfill my calling. (A pastor)

* I have learned how to hear from God and have received deep emotional healing.  In these 6 days God spoke to me 20 times more than in the past two years.

This email was sent to ian.mcdonald@grange.ellel.org.uk, by rogerandchristine.pook@ellelministries.org

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