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We
invite you to the 18th Annual Flame
Congress
ARISE
- A Trumpet Call for a Joshua
Generation
JANUARY
17 to 21 2008
This
ABOVE poster link contains an in-depth
vision for the Arise Congress. Go there
now and be inspired.
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THERE'S
A BOLD NEW
GENERATION
RISING IN THE CHURCH
TO GATHER
THE LATTER
DAY
HARVEST.
CLICK
ON THE BANNER (right) TO DISCOVER
WHO THEY ARE.
Joshua,
Son of Nun, took up the mantle of
leadership of the Israelites at time of
Moses death. Joshua was a strong and
courageous young leader who led God's
people fearlessly into the Promised Land.
- "Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the
spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his
hands on him. So the people of Israel
obeyed him and did everything just as the
LORD had commanded Moses." Deuteronomy
34:9.
SUBJECTS
INCLUDE:
Revealing
a new generation; the vision - Look up,
the fields are white, ready for the
harvest - Prepare for the coming revival -
Born again of the Word - Arise, the glory
of the Lord is upon you - We are more than
conquerors - A trumpet-call to a Joshua
Generation - Be strong and of good courage
- Behold, I make all things new - Coming
back to the heart of worship - Inheriting
the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory -
Running for the Crown, receiving your
glory. Also, consider this - Is time
running out, is light slowing down, and
what would that mean for you right now if
time did run out and light stopped? ARISE
will address that scientific probability
in the light of the Gospel.
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We
have the X Generation. We have the Y Generation -
But what next? Be
ready
- The answer is coming and it will be the most
exciting thing you have heard yet! It is radical.
It is bold. It is revolutionary. It is visionary.
It is electric. It is Holy Spirit inspired - But
will you have the will and will you have the
courage to be part of a bold new generation of
movers and shakers? We
invite you to ARISE
2008.
SPEAKERS: ARCHBISHOP BARRY JAMES HICKEY - DEREK
WILLIAMS - SCOTT KALDAHL - EDDIE RUSSELL - DAVID
HARP
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WORLD
YOUTH DAY, Sydney, DEC. 20, 2007
Flame
Music Ministry to perform at WYD in
Sydney.
Letter
of approval - World Youth Day 2008 Youth
Festival.
Congratulations! Your submission to
present at WYD08 Youth Festival has been
approved by WYD08 Directors and the
Pontifical Council for the Laity
(PCL).
270 applications have been approved from a
field of nearly 600 unique
applications.
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The approved applications create an exciting
Festival program featuring Outdoor Concerts and
Performing Arts, Forums and Conversations,
Workshops and Debate, Spiritual Centres of Prayer
and Mission, Visual Art Exhibitions and Film
Screenings.
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We
look forward to hearing from you soon and
encourage you to be part of this exciting
moment in the Church’s history.
Yours sincerely
Claire Atkins
Youth
Festival Planner
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THE
FREEDOM ALBUM - Flame Music Ministry
FLAME
MUSIC WEBSITE
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Tracks:
1
- You are the Light
2 - Today
3 - Rise
4 - Above All Things
5 - I Long to See Your Face
6 - You Broke the Chains
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7
- Adore
8 - It's Your Face
9 - This Love
10 - Bread from Heaven
11 - Set My People on Fire
12 - The Freedom Song
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MINISTRY REPORTS:
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5
Nights of Fire in Miami Florida
USA.
NOW
IN IT'S 3RD YEAR, 5NF at the St. Louis
Catholic Church in Pinecrest Miami
continues to bless the many people that
attend five nights of praise and
preaching. In a recent mail, Laura
Manzanero said, "Your ministry is
awesome. I felt the Holy Spirit fill my
soul and his love showered on me like
never before. I am now reading your book
and it's awesome. Thank you! " If you
read the testimonies from 2006 you will
see this is typical of the blessings
received at 5NF.
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THIS YEAR were were able to take Patrick with us
whose music from The Freedom Album put a special
highlight on the praise time before the
message. Patrick had been with Eddie when they
first went to Miami after a mission in Mexico in
2002 where Eddie prophesied on Claravision TV in
Mexico City to around 25 million people about
revival in the USA, Canada and Alaska. It was on
that first visit to Miami that Scott Kaldahl's
prayer group experienced the Baptism of Fire that
began the annual 5 Night of Fire on his
inspiration.
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A
life-changing experience for prison
inmates and Patrick
Carre.
What particularly impressed Patrick was
not only the growth of 5NF itself, but the
impact we had on the inmates at the
Everglades Maximum Security Corrections
Centre that had inspired Flame's annual
congresses over the past two years.
The highlight for Patrick was the
standing ovation he received for his
Freedom Song. "It is strange that
someone like me from the other side of the
world would play a Blues song about a
freedom train to the people that invented
the Blues." Patrick told them -
Patrick's Freedom Album was
inspired by what he had heard about the
prison and the effects our visits had on
the inmates, many on death row and serving
life sentences. Now meeting them for the
first time and spending time sharing a
meal, the whole experience moved Patrick
to tears.
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Patrick was in heaven when the prison music
ministry (many had been professionals),
invited him to join them. He was especially rocked
to his boots when an amazing Blues harmonica player
joined Patrick for the Freedom Song; it was a blend
of originality and authenticity and Patrick was
fully in his artistic element.
The
message for this USA mission was Jubilee
Freedom;
Setting
Prisoners Free.
EDDIE
had particularly wondered how to preach a message
that Jesus sets prisoners free when they visited
the Everglades maximum security prison once more.
However, any doubts were allayed when testimonies
from prisoners were shared after their visit the
previous 2 years; God had been majestic in his
compassion and grace towards the least deserving of
humanity and many prisoners gave their lives to
Christ.
ONE
SUCH TESTIMONY was life prisoner, Danny Costello, a
murderer, dug addict, gay prostitute and former
Drag Queen who has now become as he says, "a
living preacher of God's
Word."
THIS
IS DANNY COSTELLO'S
STORY
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April 1993 - Danny Costello
(Right) with his
friend who died of AIDS.
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DANNY'S
MOTHER tried to kill him at birth because
she wanted a
girl.
Danny survived but lived a life of
beatings. "My mother would spit in my
face and tell me she was not my mother and
would ask me why I didn't just run away
and die." Danny said.
At 8 years of age Danny began drinking
and smoking tobacco and marijuana. He
began running away from home and hanging
out with a bad crowd and began drinking
heavily, "I wanted to go to school, but
my mom would not let me go. I wanted help.
The courts put me in halfway houses that
cared only about the cheques they received
to spend the money on themselves"
Danny laments.
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Young Danny began to feel that no one cared,
"If my own mother couldn't love me then nobody
could " he said. He ran away from home and
learned how to rob petrol stations as well as
breaking and entering. He hung out with
"wine-head bums" sleeping in boxes besides
railway tracks begging to get change for "a
fifth of Mad Dog Wine." He sometimes begged for
food and ate from trash cans and was in and out of
Juvenile detention.
On one occasion while standing in a homeless
soup line, Danny met a homosexual man and allowed
him to take him to bed. "It seemed like
that's all anyone ever wanted from me," Danny
said. "I'd be asleep at night by the tracks and
an old bum would be trying to get into my pants. I
hit one in the eye one time!" he recounts.
Later Danny spent three months in jail for
breaking and entering. Upon returning home
Danny's friends enticed him into selling himself
for money - "They took me to a gay bar and told
me I didn't have to steal for money, 'Oh yeah, what
we gonna do, rob the fags?' - 'No, no, they will
pay us for sex,' they said. 'Your crazy' I told
them, 'and I'm not a fag'. - 'Man' they said, 'We
all do it, everyone on the block does it.' "
Danny said.
After this, Danny says that he got right into it
and began on hard drugs too. He thought he had
found "something" because these people
seemed to love him. Now Danny had money and new
clothes but says he was not happy. He slept on bus
benches, people's porches, in cars and even
graveyards, "People were scared to bother me
there." He said.
Shortly afterwards, Danny went says to jail for
setting a house on fire. He then began to hate
and hurt people and hung around with gangs,
"Robbing whoever - it didn't matter
anymore."
On New Year's Eve 1978, Danny met a girl - "I
saw this girl that was so beautiful she was angel.
I winked my eye at her and boy, I felt like a
million dollar man."
The day Danny died. Danny had never been
with a girl before but said he had kissed many of
them. Danny says there was a kid at the Mall living
with a gay man until he was 18, so after the movie
they all went back to the homosexual man's house -
"The girl put so much PCP in my drink it would
have killed a grown horse. I lay in that man's
house for 3 days, out cold and stiff as wood."
Danny said.
Danny says that a woman working downstairs
finally found him and called his mother and sister.
Upon arrival his sister called 911 emergency.
He was taken to Intensive Care. His heart had
stopped beating and the doctors said there was no
hope for him. His father came to see him, and while
praying for Danny wept bitterly - "My daddy was
praying and crying and God's almighty hand was upon
me because my heart began to beat again. The
doctors said it couldn't be, I was supposed to be
dead!"
Danny was in a coma and sent to another
hospital, and later to a mental hospital for 3
months because they were not sure he had not tried
to kill himself. During this time, Danny thought
the gay man had done this to him but discovered
that it was the girl. He never saw here again and
has always wondered why she did it.
Danny did not stop taking drugs and was later told
by his mother that she did not want to see him ever
again, and so since 1979, Danny has not seen his 10
year old sister or brother alive and seen no other
member of his family either. Shortly afterwards, at
age 16, Danny was sent to jail where he was raped
by two older inmates and says that the police did
nothing about it.
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Danny
says that during this time in jail his
heart became cold, but had heard of Jesus
during 1980. He says it was great but
did not last long and he fell away,
"Prison was bad in those days. You had
fights and carried a homemade knife all
the time wherever you went. Prison life
made you harder," he said, "No
love, can't trust anybody. Everybody is
trying to be bad and tough, when inside a
little boy is crying for love and
help."
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Danny finally got out of prison in November 1983
without a penny in his pocket and nowhere to go and
made his way hitchhiking to Miami. At age 20 now,
he could legally enter bars and clubs and because
he had nowhere to go and could not locate his
family he went back to his old hangouts at the gay
strip bars.
Danny got a regular job and began living with a
gay man 13 years his senior but kept fighting with
him. He says that although there were many
pretty girls at his workplace he did not let on
that he was gay because he was ashamed - "I
wanted a wife and kids of my own so I could give
them the love I never had." Danny says he was
fired because he fought with a waiter for cheating
him out of tips. Shortly afterwards Danny left his
gay lover because he was slapped around for kissing
a girl.
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Everglades
Correctional Institute, Dade County,
Florida USA.
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The
crime that finally got Danny Costello life
in prison -
"I
just
snapped."
Danny
then went back to his hateful life of
cocaine, pills, pot, drinking and selling
his body and this led him to the fateful
day when he had finally lost all hope for
a normal future. Danny was picked up by a
man and went home with him and began a
drug and alcohol binge that ended in a
tragedy for both.
"I wanted help so bad and was tired of my
life and wished I could die. I asked God
to let me die so I wouldn't suffer so much
and I ended up being picked up by a man,
and we were doing heavy cocaine and
drinking. He took me home and I kept
looking at myself in the mirror. I was
higher than ever and tired of having to
sell my body in order to survive. I just
snapped. I kept on hitting that man until
I beat him to death. It was like I had
sold My soul to the Devil."
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Danny was sentenced to life in prison with
little chance of parole (We are not sure if
Danny was on death row). He spent many years in
various maximum security prisons, and although
Danny never forgot his brief encounter with Jesus
in 1980, Danny continued to sell his body because
it was the only life he knew; he had no one to send
him money to buy things in prison and this was the
only way he could survive. Danny said the he
watched other prisoners die from AIDS and wondered
when it would be his turn.
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June 2006 - Danny Costello today at
Everglades - Danny now preaches God's love
to other inmates.
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During
this time Danny prayed for God to teach
him about His Word and to understand it.
"I was transferred to Everglades CI
and met the chaplain there who showed me a
Godly love that nobody had ever shown me
before. This man and his wife became
special spiritual parents to me."
Danny says.
Danny recounts that at first he just went
to the chapel to eat Chinese and Spanish
food. "People would ask me why I came
and I was honest with them about coming
for the food. Then one day, I finally ate
the spiritual food and my life was
transformed."
Danny eventually registered for a Life
in The Spirit Seminar and his
transformation began. "It is a 3
day fellowship where brothers and sisters
from the outside came into prison to share
talks of what their life was like before
meeting Christ as their Lord and Savior.
They were loving people who did not see
the wall I had put up around me
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only God could have revealed to them - Their
Godly love won me over to the Lord." Danny goes
on to say. "I have submitted to God 100% and
still stand by the power and grace of God's Holy
Spirit. I quit smoking, doing drugs, having sex
with men - I gave it all back to Satan because
Jesus didn't want it." He said.
As much as Danny's life has changed, he like all
of us suffer temptations that attempt to drag us
back to our old lives. "Do I have problems?
Yes, and I get tempted daily. That's the way it is
to be a Christian - We must endure the difficulties
in order to grow stronger."
Danny holds on to his faith in Jesus and draws
on the grace God has given him saying, "I learn
daily from the Holy Spirit because Jesus sent the
Holy Spirit to lead and teach us all the truth. I
know that I can do all things through Christ Jesus
because my life is not just mine now - it is his!"
Danny says that he is grateful that the Lord did
not let him die in his sins and go to Hell -
"He took a foolish thing like me and made me
into something! So now it matters not if I am
inside or outside prison - I will will preach the
truth of Jesus Christ, for I am truly free within
myself - Jesus Christ set me free and forever I
will always be grateful to him." Danny
says.
Danny has now been to many camps giving his
testimony and preaching Christ. He says that he
has seen how God delivers people from bondage and
gives him all the glory for his love and power to
heal and set free - "I am nothing without Christ
and I will give honor and glory with praise to God
the Father and Jesus Christ who makes us one
through the Holy Spirit. Amen." Danny says in
conclusion.
(Does
Danny Costello exhibit the characteristics of the
Joshua
Generation?)
Danny
Costello is only one story of salvation that we
heard at Everglades
CI.
DAVID AND EDDIE have received mail from inmates
telling of how much their visits have changed their
lives. The inmates are always impressed with
David's testimony because, as with Danny Costello,
they can identify with it and it has changed the
lives of several men.
At the end of the day during our last visit, Danny
made his way through a crowd of over 100 men at the
service to tell us what our visits have meant to
him and he gave David the biggest hug of gratitude
you can ever imagine - David's testimony
especially, has given real hope to many hopeless
and lost men who will never see life outside a jail
again.
It is impossible to describe the joy of around
150 prisoners as they realised that their
witness and incarcerated lives; lives that society
has abandoned, have reached the ends of the earth
all the way to Perth, Western Australia, the most
isolated capital city in the world, and there
inspired and blessed so may strangers in a strange
country. God truly does set prisoners free! - Danny
Costello especially, along with other inmates at
Everglades CI with similar stories, are a great
inspiration to us and we look forward to seeing
them all again soon.
The
Everglades Prison Ministry is an outreach of the
St. Louis Catholic Parish and forms part of
5NF.
It is headed up by Deacon Alex Lam and his wife
Colleen along with teams from the Chinese
Charismatic prayer group and this report is to Rev
Lam's credit.
DEACON
ALEX LAM
is the Chaplain at the Everglades Maximum Security
Institution located in Dade County Miami and it is
on the invitation of Deacon Lam that Eddie and
David, and now Patrick, have had the honor of
ministering to inmates like Danny Costello. As a
result, a great friendship and love has grown
between the inmates and Flame Ministries over the
past 3 years that has inspired our Flame Congresses
- The Compassion of Christ and Our God is
an Awesome God, and now last but not least -
The Freedom Album.
Flame
Music Ministry's web
site
5NF
MIAMI - A Testimony to the Fire of God's
Healing Love.
In
addition to the five night evangelisation program,
5NF also has an intensive healing prayer service
held on the Thursday afternoon at the Morning Star
Retreat Centre adjacent to the parish grounds.
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The healing power of prayer touches a
young woman at 5NF.
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THIS
allows Eddie and David to spend quality
time to focus entirely on God's healing
love with those suffering various
illnesses that the evening sessions cannot
accommodate sufficiently if needed.
Even though the evenings can go as late as
midnight, the crowd needs do not allow for
any in-depth time with sufferers even
though, power prayer, if I may put it that
way, does not need length of time because
God can heal in an instant as many
testimonies on these news pages have
reported; the Word of God being active and
sharper than any sword is sufficient when
accepted, and often people receive healing
and salvation immediately during the
preaching
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alone. Never the less, the day of healing gives
sufferers a sense of God's concern by setting time
aside especially for their particular needs. Often,
this time of healing has amazing results for many
as a letter to Eddie and David expressed
recently.
We have changed the name of the writer for this
publication and will call her Jana.
"When
you prayed for me at St. Louis, the Lord began a
healing process that still continues; many levels
of emotional and physical healing have
happened."
In her hand written letter, Jana begins, "When
you prayed for me at St. Louis, the Lord began a
healing process that still continues; many levels
of emotional and physical healing have happened. I
was addicted to pain medication because of a
chronic pain problem and the Lord has helped me to
cut back on the medication. This began
immediately."
JANA still needs a complete recovery from the
serious neck injury when falling from a horse, but
says that the addiction to pain killing drugs has
stopped and physical healing has begun. Jana
continued to tell of spiritual healing from a
haunting of her deceased husband, "The Lord
revealed that my deceased husband was still with me
and holding me back. He (Jesus) released me and
helped me to release my husband to him." Jana
wrote.
Suffering horrendous sexual, emotional and
physical abuse since childhood, Jana recounts how
Jesus began to work forgiveness in her heart -
"I have also been released from the anger I
had at the people who abused me in childhood. This
has freed me mightily and can now begin to let go
of all those people in the cult who hurt me as well
as my father who killed my baby sister."
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People crowd to the front of the
sanctuary
during an altra-call for healing and
salvation
at St. Louis 5NF Miami.
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Jana
also writes of her gratitude for Jesus
healing her relationship with her son, and
although she says this might take some
time, the process has begun and asks for
prayers for his complete salvation.
In her letter, Jana speaks at length of
the emotional healing that has taken place
and says, "The emotional healing has
enabled me to reach out to people and
connect on a human level which I was
totally unable to do before - I had many
walls built by fear and past pain, but now
I now am beginning to receive some love
and to give some love and have been able
to ask for help which I was totally unable
to do before. Most importantly, I am
beginning to feel loved by God!" She
said.
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"I know now that Jesus loves and accepts me as I
am. I had no love in my life growing up and the
abusive patterns continued into adulthood until
Jesus touched me through you and your ministry, and
I now look forward to you returning to Miami."
Jana concluded.
DANNY Costello and Jana's compelling stories
might not seem common in their degree of lifelong
agony, but in reality, they are not isolated from
the loneliness we all feel at times. 5NF has
been a grace from God through the inspiration of
Scott Kaldahl for evangelisation and revival in
Miami. The lives of these two people alone give
testimony to the great value of 5NF, not only for
the parish, but also to the Church at large as it
has spread to Colorado Springs last year and
Pittsburgh last year and this.
OFTEN, we do not hear about the lasting impact
Flame Ministries has on people's lives because our
schedules are usually so busy and we have to move
on quickly. However, these news pages show us
that God is alive and well bringing about the
certain hope of the Jubilee freedom and liberty
that Christ died for, simply because God loves us.
Perhaps the best way to express this is to refer
you to past issues of this newsletter and also just
let the photos here speak for themselves. We
would like to do another 5NF in 2008 and pray that
conditions are right in the parish for us to do
so.
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Caught anything guys?
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There
was a little time to relax before
flying
to Pittsburgh.
Thanks
to Juan Bauta taking time off work we were
able to enjoy a cruise in his boat and
visited an island off the coast of Miami.
Juan has made this a priority day off
so that we get a little break and a
suntan.
We are not complaining even if we will
reconsider if it
is safe to go back into the water.
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A
Byzantine Fire in
Pittsburgh:
5NF
takes off at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Rite
Church.
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St. John the Baptist Byzantine Church
is a famous historical landmark in the
city of bridges.
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From
the South to the North - and then East
meets West.
(...so
that from east to west a perfect offering
may be made...)
LAST
YEAR we did Three Nights of Fire in
Pittsburgh for the first time without the
benefit of a music ministry. The impact
gained another invitation from Fr Ivan
Chirovsky of the St. John the Baptist
Ukrainian Rite Catholic Church in
Pittsburgh PA for the full five nights
this year, but this time with the
assistance of FMI's music director Patrick
Carre to provide the music each night.
The theme followed on from Miami on the
concept of Jubilee Freedom and although
numbers were nowhere near those attending
the 5NF in Miami and
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Colorado (last year), it attracted people
from all over Pittsburgh both Roman and Byzantine
Rite Catholics as well as some from Protestant
churches.
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One of the magnificent bridges that
connect the many rivers in Pittsburgh.
Fr Ivan leads a traditional liturgy at 5NF
Pittsburgh.
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Bridge-Building
in the City of
Bridges.
FATHER IVAN attended the first 5NF on the
Blood Covenants in Miami in 2005. It was
his first exposure to charismatic
spirituality that was a strange experience
for him; his Byzantine liturgical
spirituality seemed worlds apart and as
well as the difference between Roman and
Byzantine Rites, the idea of spontaneous
worship could not be more foreign to
him.
The differences melted in the clear
presence and fruit of the Holy Spirit; the
Spirit of unity; different rites might
confuse us, but the Holy Spirit, the sign
and seal of unity and the Spirit that
reveals authenticity breaks down all
separation and builds bridges of faith. It
was this manifestation that touched Fr
Ivan and held him to attend all five
nights.
The cement that connected was when Eddie
called on Fr Ivan to assist in praying for
the people at an altar call. Fr Ivan had
never done such a thing before, and
although feeling awkward and somewhat out
of his depth, he was faithful and
accepted.
To his surprise, people received blessing
and healing as he laid his hands on them
and several fell to the ground in the
power of the Holy Spirit. Later, Fr Ivan,
eager to share the richness of the
Byzantine tradition said a special Mass
and Liturgy just for Eddie and David where
he took them behind the screens to witness
the ritual surrounding the preparation of
the Eucharist and explained Byzantine
liturgy and its iconography.
5NF
Byzantine Style in Pittsburgh
PA.
DUE to his Miami experience Fr Ivan, eager
for unity and revival invited Eddie and
David to Pittsburgh in 2006 for three
nights of fire that was a huge success and
so Fr Ivan stepped out in faith and
organized the full 5NF for 2007.
Because all liturgies are sung, there are
no choirs or musicians. It was a unique
experience to lead a charismatic praise
session with people used to Byzantine
chants, but it went well. In fact it was
almost surreal to hear charismatic songs
rendered with a Byzantine vocal sound with
no musical instruments.
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This
year we were blessed to have Patrick with
us using a keyboard and at times, his new
guitar. Patrick made a significant
difference from the previous year and as
people relaxed over the days they began to
praise with more confidence. When Patrick
sang The Freedom Song from the new FMM
album it touched the people deeply and
they showed their appreciation openly.
The appreciation was reciprocal in that
when Patrick experienced 5NF at these
elaborate Byzantine liturgies he was very
impressed with its richness of songs,
chant, spirit and word. I suspect it might
have some influence on his future
compositions; I wonder what a Byzantine
liturgical chant would sound like with a
contemporary musical beat.
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Patrick leads charismatic praise at 5NF
Pittsburgh.
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Powerful
messages and anointed prayer ministry
blessed everyone at 5NF Pittsburgh PA
where East met
West for 5 great Nights of Fire for the
40th anniversary year of the Catholic
Charismatic Renewal in the
City where it all began - Duquesne
University is a short distance from the
Church.
Known
as The Duquesne
Weekend,
the Catholic Charismatic Renewal began
there in January 1967 and has since
touched over
100 million Catholics around the world.
Said to be the fastest growing movement in
the Catholic Church today, we were
privileged
to visit the university in the 40th year.
In biblical terms, 40 is the number of a
generation, and 100 million is 10% of the
Church
- What a tithe to bless the 90%! - To read
about that weekend go to
http://www.ccr.org.uk/duquesne.htm
We could not help thinking on the history
of Pittsburgh as the place where the
American Civil War began that liberated
the salves,
and how significant it was that a
worldwide renewal of the Holy Spirit began
in the same place also setting prisoners
free
- Freedom was the thrust of our message
in the USA.
Our
gracious hosts, Fr Ivan Chirovsky and his
wife Maria with Pittsburgh at night in the
background.
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East
and West Form One Church, Says
Pope
Addresses
Visiting Bishops From Ukraine
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, SEPT. 24,
2007 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI
affirmed that Eastern and Roman
Catholics are united in forming
one Church.
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The Pope said this today when
receiving in audience the bishops of the
Latin rite of Ukraine, in Italy for their
five-yearly visit and accompanied by
Greek-Catholic bishops from that country.
They visited Benedict XVI at the papal
summer residence south of Rome.
The Holy Father stated: "In the variety of
its rites and historical traditions, the
one Catholic Church in every corner of the
earth announces and bears witness to the
one Jesus Christ, the Word of salvation
for all men and for all of man.
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The crucifix at St. John the
Baptist Church, Pittsburgh.
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"It is for this reason that the effectiveness of
all our pastoral and apostolic projects depends,
above all, on faithfulness to Christ."
The Pope asked for an intensified collaboration
between the Latin-rite bishops and the
Greek-Catholic bishops in Ukraine "for the good of
the entire Christian people."
Testimony
"Animated by this spirit," the Pontiff told the
prelates, "it is not difficult for you to intensify
cordial cooperation between Latin bishops and
Greek-Catholic bishops, for the good of the entire
Christian people. Thus you have the opportunity to
coordinate your pastoral plans and your apostolic
activities, always offering testimony of that
ecclesial communion which is also an indispensable
condition for ecumenical dialogue with our brethren
in the Orthodox and other Churches."
The Holy Father suggested to the Latin and
Greek-Catholic bishops that they meet at least once
a year, reaching "agreement between yourselves in
order to make pastoral activity ever more
harmonious and effective. I am convinced that
fraternal cooperation between pastors will be an
encouragement and a stimulus for all the faithful
to grow in unity and apostolic enthusiasm, and that
it will also favor fruitful ecumenical
dialogue."
Benedict XVI highlighted the prelates' efforts "to
proclaim and bear witness to the Gospel in the dear
land of Ukraine, sometimes encountering no small
number of difficulties but always supported by the
awareness that Christ guides his flock with a sure
hand, the flock that he himself entrusted to your
hands as his ministers."
(Zenit.org)
Year
of Jubilee Seminar: Derek Williams FMI in
England.
OFFICIAL
LAUNCH at The House of the Open Door Community,
England.
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Derek Williams leads people
into the Throne Room at the
HOD Jubilee Seminar.
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England;
Sept 08,
THE JUBILEE SEMINARS written by Derek
Williams FMI was formally launched on the
weekend of June 30 to June 2 on the
invitation of the House
of the Open Door
Community
in Childswickham, England.
THE IDEA for a new seminar came to Derek
in July 2006 when Eddie and David were in
the UK. They had been invited to the
Prince of Peace Community in Liverpool to
do a weekend of teaching. Derek was doing
the Friday evening, David the Saturday
morning, Eddie the Saturday afternoon.
Derek's session was 'enter into his
rest' when he explained the biblical
principles behind some of the O.T feasts
and how they lead into the year of
Jubilee. David's session the next morning
built on the concept of rest, and as the
revelation flowed Derek was very busy
writing.
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Eddie
was so impressed with the teaching on 'Entering the
Rest' that he asked Derek to
develop it into a seminar.
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FOR
DEREK the most important thing was to
produce a seminar with very high quality
teaching so that the Flame Ministries
International name would be blessed by it.
"It took nine months and many hours of
prayer, listening to God and studying the
bible diligently to develop the final
seminar." Derek said.
The first teaching was 'the Pilgrim feasts
of Israel' where Derek explained how the
feasts of Israel were established by God
and how they are fulfilled in Jesus.
Looking at the Passover, Pentecost and
Tabernacles and going through Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy, the evening ended
with Derek calling down the Holy Spirit
and all present being mightily
blessed.
"We began the weekend with lively
praise and worship;It is always useful on
a weekend like this if the people are
hungry for praise, and they certainly
were. Liz led the praise helped by Maggie
Dullaghan who helps lead praise at the
annual New Dawn Conference, David Davila
who had recently completed Set My People
On Fire at Bedford, and Carol Heathfield
on drums who is full of enthusiasm for God
and had played throughout the seminar at
Bedford." Derek said.
On Saturday there were five teaching
sessions; 'Enter into His rest', the
session that began it all, 'Drink of the
Living Water', 'A double portion, walking
with Elijah and Elisha', one of Derek's
favorite sessions. 'Abiding in the Word',
and 'The seven graces of prayer'.
Each session flowed into the next and the
whole group were fed some solid spiritual
food as Derek delivered each session with
defined and clear teachings using
scripture and good examples from daily
living.
"What particularly struck many people
was how Derek took scriptures that were
quite commonplace but he gave a whole new
meaning to them, and brought in a fresh
dynamic, almost like they were hearing the
scripture for the first time. Derek's
teaching on Isaiah 55 struck many as did
his understanding of the Woman Caught in
Adultery in John's Gospel chapter 8."
A delegate said.
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The anointing takes hold as the
worship goes deeper in the
Spirit.
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As
Derek explained that scripture it
caused Scott Kaldahl who had
flown in from Miami USA to attend
the seminars, to gasp out loud -
'Wow!"
After several of the sessions
Derek called down the Holy Spirit
on the group who were caught up
quite powerfully into the
presence of God and had very deep
and powerful times of worship.
Most, if not all, agreed that it
was more powerful to have this
than to have somebody pray over
them.
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Above: Stuart and Tara below
in deep worship at the
Jubilee Seminar.
The people in deep worship.
And then... "Break forth into joy O my
soul."
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THE SUNDAY, morning Mass was celebrated by
Fr John from Nottingham, followed by the
final session 'The fire of revival'. Derek
looked at several of the O.T. scriptures
referring to fire and brought them
together showing how God reveals Himself
to us under the form or experience of
fire. "After this session we had an
overwhelmingly powerful time of ministry
where those gathered began to shout out
their praise spontaneously at the top of
their voices which led into a powerful
time of prophetic worship. The only
sadness was having to make our way
home." Derek said.
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THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND, Liz Gonzalez and Derek
Williams revisited Nottingham where we had taught
'Set My People On Fire' last year and gave them the
Year of Jubilee seminar with a similar response. It
is good to see that the group in Nottingham is
thriving under strong leadership and with a good
Parish Priest to back it
up.
Anybody
wanting a set of the CD's for 'The year of Jubilee'
can order them from the UK office for a donation of
£15 +
postage.
SET
MY PEOPLE ON FIRE TESTIMONIES FROM ENGLAND:
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Cheryle Douglas FMI teaches
on Break Open the Word at a Set My People
on Fire Seminar at St. Anthony's parish in
Perth, Western Australia.
SMPOF
author, Eddie Russell FMI makes a point at
a a Set
My People on Fire Seminar at St. Anthony's
parish in Perth, Western Australia
recently.
SEMINAR
GROWTH IN
ENGLAND:
Thanks to Derek Williams in England,
Set My People on Fire
has become much in demand
around the UK over the past
couple of years with growing demand and
bookings way into 2008.
FMI in Perth WA receive many emails from
satisfied delegates
in England as the two opposite clearly
demonstrate.
If you want to know where the
next SMPOF will be held in your area of
England or Australia
please refer to our Current
Missions
Calendar
or subscribe
to this newsletter for regular
updates.
INTEREST
IN SMPOF
SEEMS TO BE GROWING
IN THE
USA.
A
show of hands at 5NF showed
an interest in SMPOF.
Currently we are considering
the feasibility of spending
some time there to establish
it. Stay tuned.
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There
is not enough thanks in the world that can
tell you the difference "Set My People on
Fire" has made to my
life.
Dear Eddie,
Thank
you so much for responding to God's call.
I
am
attending the SET MY PEOPLE ON FIRE
seminar in Manchester with Derek Williams
- It has been incredible.
What has the seminar done for me? It's
hard to know where to start -
It
has opened up the scripture in an amazing
way. I feel that I am able to read it for
the first time, knowing that this is only
the start.
It
has healed me of an oppressive
tiredness - I was unable to do
anything without it being an effort. From
getting up to going back to bed I was in a
state of weariness. I tried the doctors
without any success. I was prayed with at
healing masses for this without any
change, there was nothing that I could
think of that I didn't try. I didn't think
that it would ever go. Then at one of the
SMOF sessions they prayed for anyone who
needed spiritual healing. I felt that
something had happened but I was unsure
what.
Since that night, I am awake when
the alarm goes off, and I can stay awake
for the whole day. My vision seems
clearer/sharper and I am beginning to be
able to think more clearly. It is hard to
explain unless you have felt exhausted
constantly. I feel that I have been given
my life back. I am now able to function as
a person. I can only equate it with the
paralyzed man when Jesus said "your sins
are forgiven you, get up pick up your bed
and walk." to me that is exactly the
difference.
It
has freed me from myself, I am no
longer weighed down with guilt. I am able
to pray more. I can say that my
concerns/worries/problems no longer
interest
me.
For
me it was like a roller coaster with great
spiritual highs and dashing lows. My heart
at times felt as if it had been cut to
pieces. and the pain was quite severe. I
obviously was in a bad way
spiritually.
I
have been lifted out of a deep hole. I
have been picked up and given the chance
to begin. I have been shown what areas
need work on and my weakness and they are
not what I would have come to realize on
my own and with God's grace allow Him to
work in and through me.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot - I have lost over
a stone in weight, and I feel as if I am a
new person.
Thank you again, there is not enough
thanks in the world that can tell you the
difference that "Set My People on Fire"
has made to my life.
God bless -
Maire
McGurdy England
Hi all - I Thought I would pass this
on as in light of the weekend I've just
had on the Flame Retreat. We all run
around from one place or job to another
and sometimes we forget it is the little
things that really make a difference.
So I would like to thank Flame Ministries,
Derek and Liz for the Praise and Worship
and the teachings we have received this
weekend and God is moving and He is ALIVE
in us.
Also Thank you to Fr Pat for allowing
these seminars to take place at Our
Lady's.
Thank you and God
Bless -
Love
NIchola England
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NEW
MEMBER WELCOMED FOR UK MINISTRY:
We
are pleased to announce that Pat Brooks
has been welcomed to Flame Ministries
International UK.
Eddie and David met Pat in 1994 when they
went to England to conduct SMPOF at her
parish in Peterborough. Pat was the leader
of the CCR prayer group and that time
in England began a lasting friendship with
FMI.
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Pat
has a long history in the CCR UK as a prayer group
leader and her Children's Ministry at the New Dawn
Conferences. She is a Special Minister in her
parish where she also began a successful youth
ministry. For the last couple of years Pat has
assisted Derek with administration and CD copying
and she will continue in that role as a fully
inducted member. FLAME MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
WARMLY WELCOMES PAT BROOKS TO THE
MINISTRY.
New
Dawn CCR Conference, Walsingham,
England.
David
Harp speaks at Cross Streams Youth Sessions at New
Dawn
There
is more to David Harp than his amazing testimony,
and yet his life continues to astound, bless, and
give great hope to so many people around the
world.
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David speaks to the youth at New Dawn
on the dangers of drugs and
promiscuity.
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THIS
WAS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED at the CROSS
STREAMS Youth Seminars at the 2007 NEW
DAWN CONFERENCE in August. Cross
Streams is a part of the New Dawn UK
conference which takes place at
Walsingham, and is the programs
specifically for young people and young
adults, with two streams: one for 11-14
year olds and another for those 15+
years.
The actual conference is for all of the
family, with stuff for everyone; adults,
youth, children and toddlers. It's been
going for 20 years with 2007 being the
21st New Dawn Conference that attracts up
to 3,000 people from Europe, Africa and
other countries.
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