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The Revival of "Seen and Heard"

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  "And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness, as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus. After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly" Acts 4:29-31 Yesterday, I made another pilgrimage to Soar y Mynydd, the most remotest chapel in Wales. My first visit was back in November of 2024, just after I returned home here from America. The place captivated me, and has become one of my most favorite places in Wales.  On my pilgrimage yesterday I was joined by one of my best friends from Germany, Dr Guido. We have been friends for almost thirty years, ever since he came to do some of his paediatric training in Merthyr. We both love Revival, and I really enjoy taking people to Soar who understand and appreciate its significance. We spent a couple of hours just sitting, ...

Do We Need More Church Planting?

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  "As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’   Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons.  Freely you have received; freely give" Matthew 10:8 When I pastored in America I followed a pattern of Church leadership that I had been taught for almost thirty years.  Even though the church I pastored in America was not related to those churches , their church model heavily influenced me, it's all I had really known. I was able to build a network of thirty-five churches in three years. These were based in the US, Nepal, Pakistan, and Kenya. At the end of that season of pastoring I was offered to take over the care of twenty churches in India. I chose to say "no" to that offer, even though I had ministered powerfully in one of those churches on a visit there, hence the invitation to oversee those churches. That would've been 55 churches within our small network, in three years, if I had accepted. Ov...