This
year, Roy Matheson is joining Martha and myself as we teach
in Central Asia and Europe. In April, we head to Almaty,
Kazakhstan where there is a Christian counseling center
called New Hope. We have been given a wonderful opportunity
to teach a group of twenty-five counselors and therapists
there. FEB International sponsors Cheryl Hambry, the Director
of the clinic. I will be teaching Christ-Centered Inner
Healing and Christian Counselling; Roy will be focusing
on deliverance and spiritual freedom. Kazakhstan is larger
than all of Western Europe. It has 15.3 million people
living in 2,727,300 square kms. It is the largest landlocked
country bordering on Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan
and Uzbekistan.
In October, our same
team will be working with a group in Paris, France that
is also connected with FEB International. This will be
the first time that we have worked in France.
A New Ten
Week Long Program for Prayer/Fellowship Groups
Romans12:2 “Be transformed
by the renewing of your mind.”
Every Christian is on
a journey. Part of the Christian experience, after salvation,
is the process of personal transformation, and spirit-led
growth and development. The ideal place to work on personal
transformation and personal growth is in the loving community
of a small group. That is why Agape Healing has developed
a program specifically designed for small groups. The Facilitator
of the group has a guidebook, which also includes 10 short
videos on a CD, one video for the opening of each session.
The participants each read a chapter from his/her workbook
before coming to the meeting. After an hour of discussion
about the studied weekly topic, each individual pairs off
with a prayer partner and together they work through the
prayer for that week. The group then reassembles and those
who feel comfortable can share experiences. The members of
the group are there to pray for each other as needed.
Chapters
include:
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Rooms of the Mind
Week 3: Confession
Week 4: Forgiveness
Week 5: Self-Forgiveness
Week 6: Mental Agreements
Week
7: Inviting Jesus into Past Memories
Week 8: Inviting Jesus
into Current Thoughts
Week 9: Accepting My True Self In
Christ
Week 10: Developing My True Self In Christ Story
This 10 week small group
program is an ideal follow-up after a group has worked
through the Alpha material. See the Products part of this
web site to order the Facilitator’s Guide and the Workbooks.
New
Articles
Please refer to the Articles
portion of the web site. These articles are free downloads
providing helpful information on a variety of subjects.
Two new articles that have been added are: “Grace
and Truth”, which
highlights how grace and truth need to work together; and “Grief
and Mourning”, which is about facilitating the healing
process and discusses how Jesus can take the pain away, so
that one can remember a person, who has been lost, with gladness
and joy. (Note to Peter: Please delete the line “If
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