Freedom Christian Fellowship

Although we had some ideas of what we wanted to do when we moved here, but as we pursue Him and seek to meet the needs of the hungry, our identity in the Lord is increasingly becoming clear. Instead of starting with a vision, the vision is coming forth from pursuing God’s Kingdom. There is a lot of freedom in this. The job of the leadership team is to ride the wave of the Lord’s direction instead of trying to get God to operate where we have a vision. The more we satisfy the hungry, the more hungry people show up. That’s real Jesus ministry.

Because we want to see guys succeed in the program, we do a deliverance process up front when they arrive in order to cut as many of Satan’s cords as possible. It works! One of our guys actually saw the devil leave him. We only saw the fruit! We have our own homegrown process, which was originally based on Neil Anderson’s steps to freedom and we have progressively been refining it to be more effective and incorporate the learnings from each session. Most recently we added a diagnostic tool to help discern exactly where someone is in terms of their spiritual health and what areas need immediate ministry most.

I am now realizing that deliverance is going to be a major part of our ministry. In order to be a people of freedom, we have to directly confront the demonic forces which hold people back. We’re seeing real fruit from this process, and it appears that we are going to be needing a larger house much sooner than we thought. Personal freedom will eventually lead to corporate freedom. I believe there is an awesome power to be unleashed through a people with corporate freedom.

Praise God that Craig and his wife Rachel have decided that they are called to move here with us and join us in the work! We ask that you pray Craig would find a job in this economic environment, and also that Brad would find a new position as well.