The years between 2007 and 2013 ushered in a thrilling season of growth for the Healing Center. One after another the Lord brought new healing modalities—the Life Model, the Immanuel Approach and HeartSync—to our attention. We were gulping it in, attending training events, trying to implement the new methods, and loving the journey of discovery the Lord was leading us on.
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For our first five years, our primary focus was the relational classes developed by Equipping Ministries International: Listening for Heaven’s Sake, Speaking the Truth in Love, Renewing the Mind, and Confronting Conflict. And Theophostic Prayer Ministry. We offered the EMI classes, often several at a time, several times a year. We also began training lay people in Theophostic Prayer ministry in November of 2005. We took groups from Church of the Apostles to Theophostic training events. First in Hampton, Virginia, then a year later in Chesapeake. The following year to Orlando. We hosted live Theophostic training at Apostles. Then invited Ed Smith to return and supervise us as facilitators. We held video training for Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM). We soon had a team of 20 commissioned TPM facilitators offering weekly appointments in pairs. The TPM team also met together monthly for further training and development.
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As I shoved the exit bar and the door swung wide, I said to myself, “I am never coming back here again!” My conversation with the church administrator had stirred up an overwhelming sense of not being seen or understood. I was triggered but was not ready to acknowledge it, even to myself. But no sooner were the words on my tongue than I began to wrestle with God.
I argued with the Almighty as I drove home, crying without a sense of release. When I walked in the door, Sam was there. He heard my story, looked at me with compassion, then said, “You can’t quit. God has called you to this.”
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The Lord spoke to me about several themes in 2022. In July of 2022 the Lord said to me, Welcome to your new life. I remember thinking, I wonder what that means. Then he said, It's a new season.
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Now that I was certain God was calling me to start a Healing Center, I pressed in to him seeking to understand. As I prayed, God began to show me what he had in mind. First, I knew that I should help Hayes Perdue (the young priest) teach Listening for Heaven’s Sake at our church, Church of the Apostles in Fairfax, Virginia. He had taken the class, along with other classes offered by Equipping Ministries International –Speaking the Truth in Love and Renewing the Mind—while he was in seminary in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and I had taken the same ones in California. I bought the teaching curriculum for Listening. As a teacher, I was impressed with the teacher manual. All I had to do was add personal illustrations. Easy for a storyteller like me!
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It all began when I married Sam. I was a single mother of a three-year-old and was in the dissertation-writing phase of my Ph.D. program at Stanford. To marry me, Sam had to leave his beloved Virginia and move across the country. We married in Los Angeles County in Glendora, the town just north of where I had grown up. After the wedding, Sam moved into my tiny townhouse on the Stanford campus with Nina and me. (That story is told in Crossroads Before Me.)
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I awoke with the sun, feeling more rested than I had in months. Today was the day we would begin ministering to students. I called Christina, and we agreed to meet in the hotel lobby in an hour. I went down to the restaurant for breakfast. The hostess sat me at a small table. I ordered a platter of fruit, then noticed a woman about my age sitting at a small table about 12 feet away, facing me. Our eyes met.
I called out, “Are you also here for Urbana?”
One of my highlights of 2022 was volunteering as a prayer minister and team leader at Urbana a mission conference for InterVarsity (IV), an inter-denominational, evangelical campus ministry founded in 1941.
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It’s Christmastime again, and as the old song says, it’s the most wonderful time of the year.
But is it?
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Last month we reflected on the sad news that Christendom is dying—that is, the culture, systems, and institutions that develop when Christianity is the dominant worldview. Now, we are moving into a new apostolic age, an age where the cultural vision of reality is opposed to Christianity. We want to live wisely in this new age. How shall we do this?
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