Shrinking in my own strength and wisdom and EXPANDING in the understanding of what God can do in and through the person who lives and moves in faith.
22 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
This picture was
taken just before the PTL-India Partners Dessert Banquet meeting at Hinkletown Mennonite Church at 6:30 pm September 22,2012.
Here P.C. Alexander “Alex” claims the covenant promise of God’s blessing symbolized by this rainbow which appeared just minutes before the meeting.
The meeting was a huge blessing. It was a celebration of God’s love and faithfulness. We are now within $10,000 of our goal of $35,000 for the school in Khuttar.
16 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
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Christ Community Church
September 14, 2012
The American church is about to do serious harm and violence to the pharisaical religious spirit..
God is saying, “Let my people go..”
We are citizens of heaven living here on earth. We are bringing here what is normal in heaven. We are pursuing what is not normal here. God is going to turn us upside down and inside out so we have real possibility of fullness and abundance so we can take riches of God’s grace to the world.
All control in the church goes out the window except self control. Only time you know freedom is present is when people are learning self control- taking control of their relationships and lives.
We need to move out of a “poverty mindset.” The poverty mindset says “Let’s do the most we can in the least amount of time with least resources.”
We must break the cycle of a ‘sanctuary driven spirituality’. We need a ‘gathered and a scattered’ paradigm. In early church, real kingdom work was in ‘house to house’ scattered aspect of paradigm. They were so scatted though out the community that the enemy would have to destroy the community to get to the church
Quality of worship.
Does this team have capacity to lead into the presence of God?
We need a model for intimacy. Congregation needs to see leaders on their knees and on their faces. If there is a limit in worship there is a ceiling on the congregation.. A non engagement in worship signals a non engagement with God in life. If worship and thanksgiving is first thing we encounter with a person, it tells us about the quality of that person’s life. If leaders do not pursue worship and only see worship as a precursor for the rest of the service there is a problem. There is no substitute for intimacy with God. David was fascinated by God so he could deal with a giant.. Authority without intimacy can only take you so far. A ‘world beating, supernatural’ church is an intimate church.
We must HOST the presence of GOD AND NOT JUST PURSUE THE PRESENCE of God.
Cooke has been in meetings where people got healed just by being in the presence of God.
We must be hungry to see the kingdom come.. Kingdom comes first and church comes out of the church. God says, “You seek the kingdom and I will build my church”.. We have built the church and not built the kingdom.
If the church in America was good enough we would not be in revival but reformation
What if biggest problem in America is lack of goodness. We are to overcome evil with good. We are so busy railing against sin, that we are not going about doing good and healing. We try to avoid those oppressed by the devil. Jesus went to those oppressed and healed and delivered them. It is not our job to judge but to demonstrate the goodness of God.
II Cor. 5:14. God was reconciling the world to Himself.. Jesus died so that every human is reconciled. God does not have anything against anybody. Not everyone is redeemed but all are reconciled. Every obstacle has been removed. God says, “I have nothing against anybody.” You may not know God but He knows you. The way is wide open to His heart. We are ambassadors of reconciliation. We are agents of reconciliation
Does worship team try to motivate congregation to worship? Ideally the congregation pushes the worship team to a higher level in the spirit.
How many of these leaders have another fight left in them. Does a leader have the capacity to lead the fight into the place God wants us to have. How many have a grasshopper mentality and how many have a Caleb mentality. Caleb, one of the ten spies said, “We can do it.” Intimacy cloaks you with a majesty. What would it take to believe that I am magnificent toward you?. I need a radiant idea of God and the church. We need to use problems as a stepping stone to see what God has for us. We need to turn problems into positives in seconds. We need to practice turning negatives to positives, till you see the opportunity and not crisis. We are growing up into Christ in all things. we see all things as a profit and not a deficit.. Jesus is not just Savior he is our Lord.
There is a process that every church has to go through..
We need to get Closure on Egypt.. We are not going back there. The Israelites were a rabble of slaves. They were salivating over the vegetables in Egypt, not glorifying the Lord.. This is stupid.. Pharaoh is not going to welcome you back. Every plague brought down a household god in Egypt. Pharaoh lost half his army. How could he ever welcome you back? A poverty mind set is a poverty mindset. It is about living with meager possibilities.
It is right to feel small in comparison to the vision of what God has for you. He then enlarges you till you become the giant.. Caleb becomes the giant. “Give me this mountain.”. I want to be in this last fight. God is looking for men of a different spirit. He wants those who are not banding together in mediocrity but are saying, “I want this fight.”
Cooke was told prophetically that he would fight a religious spirit and wake a sleeping giant. He is now living in the unfolding of that prophecy.. That is his calling- To kill a religious dragon and waken a sleeping church..
God is looking for a leadership whose best fights are ahead of them. If a person demonstrates there is no more fight in them, honor them and give them other things to do than to be leaders.
We need people fascinated by Jesus and not intimidated by the enemy. Best leaders have talent scouts to see what God is intending in those they are mentoring. Have a conversation with those who receive a prophecy. The process begins when you engage the word. Asking God to confirm world is ridiculous. You need to become as serious about these words as God is. If you are going to be a prophet you need to start seeing things differently. There are no excuses. Every situation is designed to turn you into a prophet. No whining or complaining. Everything will prepare you for that role. Everything now is about training for reigning.
We have enough of pulpit driven spirituality. We need to grow from ground up and not top down.
Vision is the broad brush strokes. Details are the people God brings to us. We engage according to the passions of the people God has given us. Need to check the demographics and then check the passions that are in people’s hearts.
In one situation Cooke found 850 single parent families. In the church were a dozen guys out of work. 800 of these single parent families had fixed it needs. The church started a business to fix cars and watch kids out of kindergarten. Created a way of interacting.. Painted every house. We showed them what the kingdom was like. We were 1000 in membership by the time we wanted to be but not by way we had thought.
Why did you elbow the person out who did not fit your vision rather than help the person realize their vision.
We have a fascinating job. It is important to remain fascinated. Transitions need to take place in the leadership. Paul said…in me first.. I want to go through it first. We need a leadership that is excited about tomorrow. We need a leadership that wants to take territory.
We need to do a SWOT analysis: Strengths Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threat.. Be a talent scout. Who is God calling who has a sure outcome and will survive the process.
Dave had prophecy that he was going to be king which was told him by Sam. So it sucks to be Goliath, because it was clear Dave would survive the encounter…
We need to learn the process of how to work out God’s ways. It takes years to learn. It is life that trains us. It is God that trains our hands for war. Life, not seminary trains us. Seminarians often are trained by academic theologians who have not been in active ministry for years.
Who are leaders, what sets them apart…
What is it that you believe about yourself that makes you think that talking to him like that is okay.. Address the identity, not the behavior but identity. Behavior arises out of identity.
What are three biggest obstacles to creating movement and momentum? All football coaches understand the importance of maintaining momentum
What do you want to be that you are not?
Where do you want to go that you are not yet going?
What would you do if money were not an issue? God is not short on money but is short on people to invest in.
Cooke wants to build a training center in Santa Barbara, California that costs $10,000,000 but he is hoping it will cost $30,000,000 because that will really display the riches of God.
God does not want us to cut down our dream to manageable proportions,.
Tension does not mean something is wrong but that something is happening. There is no movement without tension… Be sure tension does not become a friction. We need the oil of the Holy Spirit. Be sure tension does not become relational.
Why is enemy tackling us. What is enemy afraid of? If you are not a problem to the enemy you are irrelevant in the world. If he is attacking us, we must be close to something important.
We need closure on a victim mentality.
We are called to conversion to become like Jesus. This conversion is a process ‘from glory to glory’. It is a lifestyle, not an event. Becoming like Jesus does not happen in a conference. You do not learn patience in a weekend..God has people around you to help you grow in grace. Some are around you to teach you joy.. Everyone wants to connect with the joyful person because he is a joy to be with.
Cooke had no vision for a peace that passes understanding, now he can come into peace in 15 seconds. He was taught by someone else..
In developing a training program, we want to train people, not to think like we do but to think like Jesus.
Leaders have a sphere of influence. We lead from the midst of the people. We need someone to write a “Presence Oriented Life” book to complement “The Purpose Driven Life” book. We need to grow sons and build service. He is looking to bring sons into glory. Sons have a share in the house.
There is no paradigm for the kingdom rather a paradox: we must give to receive. We are a building and a body. We are ‘growing‘ something in people so we can ‘build’ something.
Every brick is not identical; there are big and small bricks. If we build by bricks according to a string line it is different than building by the shape and nature of the stones. A builder needs to know the nature of the stones around him. He looks at the stones before starting to lay stones. He has to get a feel for each stone.. Then he carefully places each stone in the place it will best fit.
Every team needs to be building and blessing. We ask “Who are blessers and who are builders in this congregation. Some have overlapping gifts.
You cannot allow a negative influence to abide. A negative person is not a behavior issue but an identity issues. We need to ask that person, “What are you seeing now that makes this acceptable?” The best time to prophecy is when the person is doing well. When the person is not doing well, go back over what God has said specifically to that person in the past to see what they may be missing now. No one needs a prophecy. Everyone needs Jesus.. Let’s go back and see what He said to to you that you may have missed.
People do not read their Bibles but they do read their Christians. The Lord is intentional. Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world. He agreed to be a sacrificial lamb before the foundation of the world. There is something about us that is fascinating to God.
We can only speak about the Lord in superlatives.. We are astonished at God.. The message is to see us loving God and being loved by God.. We give a mixed message about the gospel: “Come to us and we will take you in or if you do not come, we will do you in. We influence from our identity.
Themes of Cooke’s life: To pay attention to prophets and prophecy. To live from heaven to earth. To have my ministry match my life style.. To have my ministry flow out of who I am
How do you love when love is not returned... Love does not seek a return. I am what I love and not what loves me. I do not want to react to peopele..I want to respond to people..
We talk and pray through our values.
My value is that “Everyone I do business with must have an advantage by doing business with me”. In one situation Cooke said, “I need to be paying you more. I need to see you blessed. That is the kingdom I belong to. You are touching the kingdom today.” Salesman said with tears “I never had such a conversation..I am still working through our conversation of five months ago.”
Know the words and prophesies of friends. Be intentional about relationships. Keep files of the prophesies on all your kids and families.
Three desires we have: I want to be loved. I want to be significant and I want to belong to something amazing.. Talk into present and future. Get excited as God is about you. He has planned this to change you. He is intentional. He allows in his wisdom what he could easily prevent by his power.
Wants to make people confident in what they have been called to beyond themselves
God gives us the “n” word…”nevertheless”
I stutter, said Moses. God said, “Nevertheless, I am sending you because you stutter…
Moses goes into Pharaoh’s throne room where there are thousands of people and many different levels. Moses has to give a word to someone who takes to Pharaoh… (When you live in the desert nothing is interesting.
The story behind the story.)
I want to influence people to be passionate about their story and their journey. I want to look back with gratitude.. I do not want things from my past to define my story and journey. Get passionate about freedom. Teach people to reverence the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the most energetic and enthusiastic and comedic person in the world. He loves the outrageous. He is not easily offended. A dove is scared; the Holy Spirit is not scared. A dove lands lightly; the Holy Spirit lands lightly upon us. He is not easily offended. He is robust and happy . He is a genius and he knows it. He knows ten ways to solve a problem. He is the genius of heaven resident here on earth. He is thrilling and fun. He is also mischievous. He gives us humor.
When Jesus was on road to Emmaus, He said to the two, “What things? Tell me the story as you see it. Then his work was done and he disappears.
Let us count everything as joy. Find joy in everything.
Graham is first white sheep in family..family is still in crime.
The Holy Spirit loves to influence the way you think about yourself. He will teach you how to love.
Rejoicing is our response to who God is. He celebrates our victories.. God is joy. But he is the most brilliant comforter.
If you find it easy to be offended it is because you do not know the comforter.
We are created to be overwhelmed. It is who you are with God that influences people.
I want to be an unashamed celebrant. I am an influencer. I am intentional. I want my sons to go beyond where I have gone. The Holy Spirit takes everything from Jesus and gives it to us. He is a specialist. He has a brilliant sense of humor. He has a lot of material in us in which to find humor.
Accountability is not calling a person out on their behavior but calling them up to their identity. We act based on our identity.. Our job is to help people to see more about themselves than they could see by themselves..Questions help us explore and discover..God is including all of us in the next reformation..
What is my footprint going to be in this city? I am not blindly going down every path but the ones He plans.. Walking with Him is so much fun. He is a genius and a champion.
You are an influencer.
Of all the places God could dwell He chose to live in me.
Coming into a realm of confidence in Him..
May we be magnificent with others as He is with us.
I pray that we would become amazing influencers.
I pray that you would increase your influence in our lives and our influence in others.
07 Sep 2012 1 Comment
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Any good leader wants his decisions to lead to good outcomes for himself and the people he leads. Yet in the midst of the fear caused by a stressful situation he may settle for making a good decision rather than seeking by faith to hear the Lord’s answer. Making a good decision out of fear can lead to a toxic and undesired outcome.
Jesus said we must live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. As Christian leaders our greatest desire is to do and say as Jesus did, “I only do what I see the Father doing.” So how can we insure that our decisions are not just good decisions birthed out of fear, rather than Holy Spirit-led decisions of faith that lead to life and the blessing of God.
An examination of the contrasts in decision making between King Saul and David can help us in this quest to understand how to avoid fearful and toxic decision making. King Saul was told to wait till Samuel came to him. And Samuel would offer a sacrifice before Saul could proceed to attack the Philistines. (I Samuel 13)
But as Saul waited, his resources became depleted. His soldiers went from 3000 down to 600 in number. His men hid in caves and some switched sides. Meantime the enemy, the Philistines, were increasing in number. In other words, King Saul’s assets were decreasing and his liabilities were increasing. In fearful desperation Saul did what many good men have done, he examined the worsening situation and he made a ‘good judgment call’. A good judgment call is the best we can do in a bad situation. But as leaders we are called to do more than make good judgment calls. We are called to wait upon the Lord till he gives us His word; we are called to trust the Lord that He will appear in our overwhelmingly difficult decision and reveal His glory. His glory is the sum of who He is and what He has and what He can do.
Saul’s ‘good judgment call’ led to the loss of his destiny. Samuel said, ” You acted foolishly in offering the sacrifice out of your anxiety; now the Lord is going to take the Kingdom from you. He is going to give the Kingdom to a man who is eager to know the mind and will of God more than he is anxious to make a good decision.” In other words God is going to choose a man after His own heart, a man of faith. And as we know, the man He chose was David.
Some time later, David, the man anointed to become king, was leading 600 armed men. While he was away on a campaign, his enemies burned his village and carried off his wives and children and the wives and children of his men. David and his men were grief stricken. The men turned their grief on David, their leader, and wanted to kill him (I Samuel 30). So here David’s assets were decreased and his liabilities were overwhelmingly increased. But David, unlike Saul, did not focus on making a good decision. Rather he “strengthened himself in the Lord,” and he sought the will of the Lord. He was a man after God’s heart, not a man after the best decision. Upon learning the will of God, he proceeded in faith to an amazing victory.
In a crisis we are all tempted to latch on in fear to something to guide us through the uncertainties of an overwhelmingly difficult situation. In our anxiety we grab on to things that have served us well in the past. What we do not see is that good things from our past are not the same as the will of God for this situation. By clinging to a good thing, we make it an idol. An idol is anything that we place above the will of God. And as Jonah said in his prayer of insight from the fish’s belly,
“Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.” (Jonah 2:8)
What are some good things that have served us well in the past that can become idols when given a priority over the voice of the Spirit?
First, policy and procedures are good things that have served us well. Having a process and a way of proceeding is a good thing. A process is an orderly approach that is agreed upon ahead of time as a way of dealing with a given situation. As organizations we have manuals of policies and procedures. As we mature as organizations the book of policies and procedures becomes thicker. We learn new things from our experiences and we say “Let’s develop a policy for that so that the next time we will have a prescribed way through the situation that will hopefully lead to a good outcome.” When faced with a new difficulty, we refer to our manual and we decide we will follow our polices and procedures in this matter. At the conclusion of the matter, we review how the matter was handled, and we may then congratulate ourselves that we have done the right thing because we followed our guidelines. No one can criticize us because we have followed our guidelines, and we have good guidelines. We are right because we did the right thing.
However following guidelines and procedures, no matter how good they are, is not the same as following the Holy Spirit. As Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.” Our policies and procedures are made to serve us and help us, they were not made to be our Lord and Savior. Consulting the policy manual before and above consulting the Holy Spirit leads to a carnal outcome, not a Holy Spirit-directed outcome.
Secondly, people with expertise have served us well. We all know the value of consulting the expert. If you have a brain tumor, consult a neurosurgeon and not your mechanic. However consulting experts is not the same as consulting the Holy Spirit. After 40 days of fasting in the wilderness, a nutritional expert would have undoubtedly told Jesus, “You need to follow a careful diet to regain your normal eating pattern. And bread can be a part of your re-entry diet.” But Jesus said, “I am not going to allow my hunger to define me. I will not let an expert in the things of the world, even though his advice is admired and respected all over the world, direct me. I will only proceed with the word from heaven.” As a result of Jesus faithfulness, he was nurtured by angels from heaven.
Experts make informed judgment calls. A true expert is not a technician who has a check list of signs or symptoms which he marks off and says, “This person has several of the signs of this illness so he has the illness.” The true expert examines the check lists, but he then makes a clinical judgment based on a complex interplay of what he knows from past experience and the present presentation. But as we all know, even experts can disagree. One expert says, “Operate;” the other says, “Do not operate.”
In the end we honor the experts, but we use them as consultants. We do not elevate them to a position as lords of the situation. We hear their advice, and we take it before the Lord and ask him for His expertise in how we should handle the various counsels we have received. Experts can be a blessing, but if they are elevated above and before the Holy Spirit, the outcome can be spiritually disastrous.
Thirdly, our own personal experiences teach us many good things. A child learns not to touch a hot stove through personal experience. We learn not to trust certain people because we have been hurt by people like them in the past. For example, we tend to be wary of strangers. This is a good guideline. Do not pick up hitchhikers; do not engage with strangers while hiking alone on a remote trail. But sometimes our personal experience prevents us from experiencing the new thing God wants to do in our lives. So the writer of scripture says, “Do not fail to entertain strangers because some have entertained angels unawares.”
And sometimes our experience distorts our ability to assess the present situation. For example, if I have been severely wounded emotionally by a person, it may affect my ability to relate to any person who reminds me of the one who wounded me. So, yes, experience is a wonderful teacher. But if our experiences are consulted before and above the voice of the Holy Spirit, our assessment of a situation can be severely distorted and the resulting decision can be very misleading, if not destructive.
A tragic consequence of good men making good decisions and not giving the Holy Spirit priority is that good men become enraged at anyone who challenges their good decisions by calling for a Spirit-inspired decision. The Pharisees were the experts with the experience and knowledge and laws for handling every situation. They became murderously angry when Jesus healed on the Sabbath. They accused him of rebellion against Moses and of being motivated by the devil. King Saul wanted to kill his son Jonathan because Jonathan had rebelled against his word by eating honey after an exhausting day of battle. (I Samuel 14: 24 -45).
In this situation the Spirit-directed person can be tempted to come under the same spirit of accusation. They can take pride in following the Holy Spirit. “I follow the Holy Spirit, and you follow the ways of man. I am right and you are wrong.” And so we are never in so much danger of being wrong as when we are right. The one who says, ” I am right because I have followed the best procedures, consulted the best experts, and have been guided by my best judgments” may well be wrong because he has not consulted the voice of God. And the person who says, “I am right because I have consulted the Holy Spirit” may be wrong because of a proud and arrogant attitude.
In the end we say, “Oh, Jesus, cleanse my heart of pride; give me a heart of love for those with whom I disagree and give me the courage and faith to humbly move according to the direction of your Holy Spirit, not fearing what man can do to me.”
And in response to this prayer, Jesus gives us the grace that He has promised to all those who seek Him first. And we receive the grace to which we are entitled because we cling to Him in faith and not to worthless idols.
E. Daniel Martin
06 Aug 2012 Leave a comment
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I was thinking about Elisha the Old Testament prophet today (II Kings 6:8-23) while I was husking corn and talking with my daughters. Elisha would report to the king of Israel about where the enemy had planned an ambush for him. Was Elisha eavesdropping on hell or was he hearing from heaven in order to gain accurate information about the plans of the enemy? I do believe he was hearing from God about the dangers that lurked in what had been assumed to be safe places.
I began to ask myself, where might situations we assume are safe have unexpected dangers in which Satan attempts to ambush us. I may have begun this train of thought because my daughters were talking about and pondering the best options for the schooling of their children. One could decide, “I will send my children to the local public school; that will certainly be a safe option. Or another could decide, ” I will send my child to a private, Christian school; that will certainly be a safe option. Still another could decide, ” I will home school my child; that will certainly be a safe option. Yet an ambush could be planted in any of these “safe” places to potentially rob the child of faith.
So how can we proceed in faith and not in fear, yet be wise to the potential dangers even in “safe” places. I believe God does want to warn us of the ambushes of the enemy. We walk in safety and in confidence if we submit even safe decisions to Him for his counsel. “Heavenly Father, what is your will for me in this matter? I want your will to be done on earth even as it is done in heaven.”
So I say to my daughters; ” Listen carefully and respond to His voice and then move with confidence and joy that He will protect you from every ambush of the enemy. But even if you are ambushed, know that ” those who are with us are greater than those who are against us.”
So that is what we talked about as we were doing a 1000 ears of corn today.
31 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
David had planned his funeral for over five years. He wanted his funeral to express what his life was about: the good news of salvation for all his “sinner friends.” David was encouraged to preach his own funeral sermon, so he wrote his sermon several years ago and he preached it at his funeral via video. Each person at the funeral service was given a booklet of David’s teachings on evangelism and a transcript of his funeral message.
“Why is Tim Tebow such a fascinating and polarizing figure? Not just because he claims to be religious; that claim is commonplace among football stars and ordinary Americans alike. Rather, it’s because his conduct — kind, charitable, chaste, guileless — seems to actually vindicate his claim to be in possession of a life-altering truth.
Nothing discredits religion quite like the gap that often yawns between what believers profess and how they live. With Tebow, that gap seems so narrow as to be invisible.
But the fascination doesn’t end there. Tebow’s religion doesn’t just promise a path to personal transformation. It claims that every human life is actually a story with an Author, and that a genuinely Christian life should make that divine Authorship manifest.”
26 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
This is Dr. David H. Burkholder at age 62 when he started his ministry of full time personal evangelism. During his years as a businessman David kept a record of those whom he dealt with who were not Christians. Then over the past 28 years he systematically visited all these friends and acquaintances and invited them to accept Jesus.
25 Mar 2012 1 Comment
On Sunday morning March 4th, just three weeks before his death, he announced to his LifeGate family that this would be his final time in church in that “every bump on the road from Ephrata to Elizabethtown was painful”. We blessed him in that service and received his blessings in turn . Then we released him to “take his flight to glory” which he had so often proclaimed his desire to do.
13 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
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Have you dreamed of getting a college degree in spite of passing years and a full life?
Have you dreamed of earning a college degree and having no debt at the end of your training?
Have you imagined a college experience that went beyond acquisition of knowledge to the transformation of your life?
Have you desired a college experience that would connect you to faith and a faith community and not separate you from either of these?
Have you desired a college experience that prepared you for ministry in the market place and connected you with mentors who would remain with you beyond the college experience?
Have you desired a learning experience that would not only transform you but prepare you to become a ‘climate changer’, a world transformer for the Kingdom of God?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then TransformU Institute may be for you.
TransformU Institute is just now in the process of being developed by a group of persons who are part of the Kingdom Life Network of Christian Ministries (KLN). (KLN is a global fellowship of networks of Christian churches and ministries.)
Lou Goszleth and Kurt Heisey of Destiny Ministries, a network of KLN, and Drs. Allan and Rose Chambers and Dr. E. Daniel Martin ofNew Testament Fellowship, also of KLN, are the founding board of this new school. Kurt Heisey, an international businessman and pastor from Westfield, PA is the President of the TransformU . Dr. Allan Chambers is Academic Dean and Dr. Rosemary Chambers is Dean of Students.
TransformU will offer associate degrees, bachelors degrees and graduate degrees. The initial bachelor’s degrees will be in Applied Theology, Intercultural Studies/Missions and Business Administration. A later degree will be in Film and Media Art. A certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language will also be available.
TransformU will offer both residential and correspondence courses.
TransformU is now in the process of applying for accreditation with one of the largest accrediting agencies in the United States.
TransformU is opening for classes in the fall of 2012 at Westfield, PA. A building is being prepared to provide residence for at least 100 students. This site is located in rural Pennsylvania near the New York border about 20 miles west of U.S. Routes 11-15 in the town of Westfield.
President Kurt Heisey has had many business connections in China over the years. He has also started two schools for English language training in China. Chinese students are very interested in coming to the states for training. TransformU is already offering a course in the Mandarin language for Westfield area businesspersons to prepare them to welcome the Chinese students who come to TransformU.
TransformU will provide the following:
From President Heisey:
TransformU is based upon the mandate to bring the transforming power of God’s kingdom into every area of our world. More than just a Bible College, our goal is to train all students to exhibit God’s grace and excellence in every sphere of society through “Godly Character, God’s Word, and the Holy Spirit’s Power”. God has placed on our hearts a vision to have students come to TransformU Institute to experience the transforming power of God and be equipped to release it in every sphere of society.
If you want to experience God’s transforming power, so you can be equipped to go forth and transform the world by establishing the kingdom of God wherever you go, then we invite you to come experience the life and culture at TransformU. We can place in your hands the tools needed to accomplish this.
At TransformU you will learn how to yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit in workplace practicums each semester. You will learn to walk in Christian love in work situations, classrooms, and church life.
The world is looking for those who walk in their spiritual gifts, who have a positive attitude because of their contagious faith, and who release the healing power of God’s love through what others call ‘ordinary life situations’. Upon graduation, we believe our students will be prepared to walk in the grace of God. They will be overcomers in the situations and challenges they face as they go forth to establish the Kingdom of God.
We are taught in Romans 12:2, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will. “ We encourage you to prayerfully seek the Lord to determine how TransformU should be a part of your preparation for fulfilling the destiny of God in your life.
To learn more about TransformU please go to the following website: http://transformuinstitute.com/TransformU/Home.html
-written by E. Daniel Martin
30 Jan 2012 Leave a comment
But the leopard is probably my favorite of the cats. Powerful, able to drag a 100 pound kill up into a tree away from rivals; deliberate in waiting for the proper time to strike and effective in execution of its plans.
I am a board certified psychiatrist (shrink).I am also a pastor. My faith,not my professional credentials,defines me. Therefore I say that I am an 'expander' not a 'shrink'.
My sense of the significance of what I can do in my own strength has shrunk over the years. My awareness of what Christ can do in the person yielded to His will has expanded over the years.
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