August Events

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Grace Fellowship conducted an Exchanged Life Conference in Pigeon Forge, TN August 1,2. We are thankful for those who attended from six states. The next one scheduled is to be held at Bethesda Fellowship in Miami, FL Sept. 19, 20. John Woodward will be the presenter. For details, contact Bryan Miller by email.

Linda McCann (first row, second from left) shared a brief testimony of her spiritual journey to appropriate Christ as Life. In the early 80’s she received Exchanged Life training at GFI in Atlanta and was then a staff counselor at First Baptist Church Atlanta. Linda is now based at Calvary Baptist Church, Knoxville where our board member, Dr. Dan Riley, serves as Senior Pastor. Listen to her testimony at http://gfiworld.sermon.net

August 4-7 was our Workshop. About half stayed for this 3.5 days of additional teaching, training, equipping and fellowship. Please check out GraceFellowshipIntl.com for details on the next Conference and Workshop!

Comments on the August Workshop:

“Excellent workshop”
“Keep up the good work!!”
“Excellent”
“[This training was] over and above all that I could ask or think.”
“It’s all about Christ–His work, His resources, His Life.”

Testimonies from Cross to Life

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On June 18th Hope Academy in Minneapolis hosted an event for Cross to Life Discipleship Ministries. This lay counseling ministry (an affiliate of Grace Fellowship) offers a 12 week Exchanged Life process to help individuals appropriate their new identity in Christ. Six of their team received their GFI Certified Victorious Life Discipler credential in June. Congratulations to Linda, Lynn, Marilyn, Jan, Cheryl, and Sue!

At this meeting four women testified of how God used this ministry in their lives. The videos are at the GFI Vimeo channel here: vimeo.com/channels/328420/

Cross to Life Discipleship Testimonies

Cross to Life Discipleship Testimonies

New Workshop Schedule

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March 2014 Workshop

March 2014 Workshop

Beginning in August the Spirituotherapy will add Monday afternoon to its schedule. Students commented that the content required more time to be covered at a better pace.

The revised schedule is:

Monday: 1:00-5:00pm

Tuesday: 8:30am-5:00pm (lunch provided)

Wednesday: 8:30am-5:00pm

Thursday: 8:30am-5:00pm (lunch provided)

French / English Seminar Held in Montreal

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On March 29th, a French & English GFI Exchanged Life seminar was presented in Montreal. GFI_QC_3_28_14The event was hosted by Grace Ministries International (church). The event was taught by Mr. Dominique Gallou. He and his wife, Eileen, are GFI- trained lay counselors who now direct GFI Quebec. An English seminar is being planned for June hosted by Bethel Chapel. Pray for God to grow this equipping ministry that is greatly needed in that province. The French ministry’s web site is gfiquebec.com

South Africa Conference

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CapeTown_SA_3_14A English / French conference was presented at Word of Life Church in Cape Town South Africa, concluding on March 2nd. The teacher, pastor Jacques Ngaliema, has been trained at GFI, TN with an internship at our sister ministry, Curare (with Hendrik and Nehlsie DeBruto). God touched and guided many to “cross the Jordan River” by appropriating their co-crucifixion and co-resurrection with Christ. Participants were also from Nigeria, Namibia, Congo, and Gabon. Pray for Jacques as he counsels and teaches the victorious life in various places.

Military Chaplaincy

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This is a report we just received from a retired pilot who had GFI training about 15 years ago:

I am now on staff with CRU Military Ministry and discipling our soldiers on Sundays teaching three classes during the day. I taught the Wheel and Line diagrams yesterday and the soldiers were focused on the Exchanged Life lessons. In fact, after the 1pm class, many of the soldiers came up to me and asked more questions and wanted to discuss the diagrams again. They stayed for an additional 45 minutes. In the 3pm class the same thing happened and the soldiers stayed an additional 1 hour and 25 minutes! Most comments were, “these diagrams answered the questions I had about my walk with our Lord.” A total of 77 soldiers exchanged their life for Christ Life yesterday!

– Bob

Updates to the Site

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Users of the Grace Fellowship distance education program will notice some recent changes. Instead of the title GFI School, we are using the previous name: GFI Counseling Institute. This is an umbrella term for our distance ed program.

The Institute of Spirituotherapy had been available for a couple of years as Module 1 and Module 2. Now these are combined. The name has been changed back to Solomon School of Spirituotherapy (to distinguish it from the general program, Institute). The cost has been changed to reflect this editing. The Solomon School now features 21 online lectures.

Intro pages have been added under Conference Webinar and Workshop.

Note the new offer to conduct a local version of the GFI Workshop, facilitated by online videos and live Skype supervision over a span of days or weeks (as negotiated and as schedules permit).

And the “Basics” page has been renamed “Open Class” and are still available for public access.

Testimony from a GFI Counselor in Training

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Our Heavenly Father once again blessed my dad and I with a wonderful little visit. God reveals more and more of His sweet transformation of my dad’s mind, heart, and spirit. His face has become softened, sweet, even peaceful. It’s now comforting and a delight to just be with him. His “body outwardly wasting, is inwardly renewed”. God is displaying who my dad has become as His child. My earthly father has now become my brother in Christ.

But it wasn’t always this way. A few years ago, the Lord led my dad to bring his anguish and guilt about the past, and to receive God’s forgiveness. He believed and accepted Jesus as His personal Savior. As he read his Bible with a new heart, his trust grew, and the Word went deeper and wider into my dad’s life. His attitude towards God, himself, and other’s changed. The topic of our visits has moved from surface talk to our relationship with God, reading verses, and what they mean to us. Now I know, it was the Holy Spirit within who was renewing my dad’s mind, and giving him New Life. And He was changing me!

Now my dad learns and grows in his faith, and shares that with me, and I with him. What a privilege, honor, and blessing to witness all of this and more. Each visit seems to show me more and more of my dad’s surrender, freedom, and joy, It “seemed” to happen so quickly. The man I used to “see” changed from a bundle of anxiety, rage, and endless need, to a loving father who encourages and prays for his family. The man who gave me life has become the earthly father I never knew. Now we are both praying and learning to see things God’s way. We have come to know more of the Heavenly Father who loves us like no one else can, or ever will.

Praise God, He is able. Now, I’m quicker to turn to pray and thank Him for everything, and trust Him with all my needs. He is sufficient!

In His love mercy grace patience peace joy

H.H.

P.S. Our view of God impacts everything! Our choices lead toward life or death, often for a lifetime. But God changes everything. In the twinkling of an eye, He changes us, and our lives are changed forever. It’s never too late. Pray always. Always have hope. His mercies are new every morning. Trust Him!

P.P.S. My dad’s favorite verses lately are Psalm 51 (create in me a clean heart); Psalm 23; and the beatitudes. He prays to God his Protector! The grace of God brings salvation to all (Titus 2:11-14). He will cover you with His feathers, under his wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness becomes your shield (Ps 91:4). Those who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength (Isaiah 40:30-31).

 

 

People Helper Testimony

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A Grace Fellowship student just sent in this testimony.

I used to work in a nursing home in the year 2000 for two and a half days a week. It was a blessing to be able to minister to the residents there and their families.
One day they brought a man who was in his nineties and was dying. He was under hospic care. I usually carry a pocket size Bible with me or Bible verses to share with them. The daughter of the man that was dying seemed to be without cares which puzzled me. One day I walked into the room by accident and apologized to her. I asked her if she was alright and she smiled an said ‘yes’. So, I turned around to walk out and suddenly she said ‘no’. I asked her if she would like for me to pray with her and said ‘yes’. The father’s name was Arnold. His mind was o.k. and could hear well and understand. I asked Arnold to squeeze my finger once for yes and twice for no, of which he understood. So with that in place I explained the Gospel to him and he received Christ as his Savior.

When I was about to leave I gave the daughter some verses to read. Verses concerning Christ when Jesus said : ” I WILL.” The following day I met the daughter in the elevator and she said to me… “My dad is ready and packed to go home.” I was shocked to hear that! And then she said to me… “I mean ready to go home to heaven to be with JESUS.” After passing away the daughter came looking for me. We talked for a bit and then she pulled out her check book to write me a check of which I refused. I told her that I was glad and happy that Jesus met a need in her life. But, she insisted to write me a check. So I told her that she could make it to the church and that if she could inform the director of nurses –which she did, and all was o.k. with that.

A few days later “her” daughter sent me a thank you card and was grateful that her mother was able to let go of her dad. The card came from Arnold’s granddaughter. With another check made to the church of which I also reported to the director of nurses, and that too was o.k. It was a blessing ministering to the people there…but there is something more to come!

One of my co-workers I had been ministering to for about two months also had quite a conversion. She was brought up in a works-based church and was faithful to it. She was a HARD NUT to crack. In God’s timing she gave her life to Christ. She reminded me of Dr. Solomon’s conversion.

One day she was coming towards me and I noticed that something was different about her. As she approached, she said to me… “R____, I met with Jesus! He was there with me,_______! ” I said to myself… ” What did I do wrong?” She insisted that Jesus was there with her. Red flags were waving in my head. But then she said to me… “That night Jesus was SO real to me as though He was there with me physically. He was not but, He might just as well have been.”

During Thanksgiving she was telling me that later there were about nine people around the table and she shared Christ with them, that a couple of the family began to cry. One family member was married to a Jewish man and he walked out. She has quite a ministry going. I have kept up with her through the years. And kept sending her websites to read. And just a few months ago she thank me for a website because she gave it to her husband and he also to gave his life to Christ. WHAT A GREAT AND AWSOME GOD WE HAVE!