Amie talked the boys out of the Christmas train this year ($180 is too much for something we only kinda enjoy) and instead offered to stay at a hotel with a pool. So this year we’ll stay down in Custer for a night, swim, eat awesome food, and the drive into the hills to cut down our Christmas tree!
Last Monday’s leader’s group was amazing.
First, it’s just wonderful hanging with these friends. Each of them are wonderful in themselves, and together they’re funny and powerful.
Second, we practiced healing prayer. It wasn’t planned, but while we were doing hot-seat prayer the subject of physical healing came up for more than half of us. My favorite part was having the impression that someone’s left hip was hurting. I was tentative, saying “I hope it’s not so, but do you have hip pain?” How surprised I was when it was true and even on the same side I’d been tentative to share!
Let’s do a little recap.
A friend recently joked that we were in the process of planting a Vineyard church in Rapid City. What they’d meant was that we’re regularly training leaders to listen for God’s voice and the basics of prophetic and healing gifts, but it was though-provoking. Would we deliberately try to plant a church?
Not in the traditional manner. We want so badly to be part of a disciple-making movement that it makes no sense to pursue models which can’t replicate without huge financial and leadership investment.