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Bethel School of Supernatural Evangelism

Bethel School of Supernatural Evangelism

Monroe, MI

No Registration - There is no registration process or cost required to attend this school. Each night, there will be an offering taken in order to cover the expense of the school. Guests will be invited to contribute financially during the event.

Location:
Redeemer Fellowship Church
5305 Evergreen Dr.
Monroe, MI 48161
734.242.5277 ext 13
josh@redeemerministryschool.com
http://www.redeemerministryschool.com/
May 26-30, 2010

The Bethel School of Supernatural Evangelism will equip and empower both the seasoned and most timid believer to demonstrate the Kingdom of Heaven through love and power. If you hunger to see God move through you to display real power that touches lives with His love, you don’t want to miss this school.

Bethel School of Supernatural Evangelism is a school that will equip you to have a Kingdom mindset that empowers ordinary people to openly display the raw power of God in your own community. In this school, you will be trained and equipped by many of Bethel’s leaders who will help you develop a supernatural lifestyle of miracles, signs and wonders, salvation encounters, and deliverances. If you are a leader or individual who desires to move in the supernatural outside the four walls of the church, this school is for you. People have been transformed as a result of this training and equipping, and empowered to live their lives naturally supernatural. Featured speakers for this school are: Chris Overstreet, Chad and Julia Dedmon, Robby Dawkins, and Anne Evans.

SPEAKERS:

CHRIS OVERSTREET

Chris Overstreet is Bethel's Outreach Pastor. He is passionate about an intimate relationship with Jesus, out of which flows a lifestyle of ministering the Kingdom of God around him. It is common for miracles, salvations, and life transformations to regularly take place as a result of Chris living his life naturally supernatural, while encouraging and equipping the Saints for the work of the ministry.

CHAD AND JULIA DEDMON

Chad and Julia Dedmon are graduates of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and have full-time pastoral experience working with youth and young adults. Julia Dedmon holds her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Azusa Pacific University. In 2008, Chad and Julia were both ordained as ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ by Drs. Rolland and Heidi Baker of Iris Ministries and Senior Leaders Bill and Beni Johnson of Bethel Church. Together as partners, Chad and Julia desire to see the manifestation of the Kingdom of God come on earth through the display of creative expression, healing and healthy relationships. Chad has an extraordinary gift of faith and healing and strong leadership abilities. He continues to captivate audiences with his poignant accounts of marketplace miracles. Julia has a distinctive intuitive nature drawing her to passionate worship, prophetic ministry, soaking prayer and inner healing. Julia and Chad currently reside in Orange County and travel as ministers, seeing His Kingdom come through healing, deliverance, and miracles in the nations.

ROBBY DAWKINS







Robby is a fifth generation pastor who was born to missionary parents in Japan. He grew up seeing lives transformed by the power of God in poor urban communities. Robby had served as a youth pastor for 12 years for churches between 50 to 10,000 members before he and his wife Angie planted a Vineyard church in the downtown area of Aurora, Illinois (Chicago area). They now have 5 boys and one on the way. 80 % of their church came to Christ at their church and 70% of that through Power encounters (Prophetic, Healing, Deliverance or feeling God’s presence). Robby ministers extensively as an itinerate minister (in the U.S. and in over 30 countries) equipping churches in Power Evangelism. He was most recently featured in the movie Furious Love in 2010.

ANNE EVANS

Anne works with Kevin Dedmon as the administrator of the Firestorm Ministry which travels worldwide to empower and activate churches into a naturally supernatural lifestyle. She is an Overseer of the weekly Friday Night Strikes and Bar Ministry at Bethel Church as well as being a coach for Bethel's Firestarters Class. She is a 3rd Year graduate of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. Anne has a passion for prophetic evangelism and regularly leads teams out into the marketplace to share the Father's love. Her calling, as a mother to the body of Christ, is to help birth and raise up sons and daughters into the Kingdom through encouragement, prophecy, teaching and activation.

The Return of Kel

Kel Reaume is back in town and leading worship -9pm Friday Night @ Newport Beach Cafe.

9pm Tomorrow Night at Newport Beach Cafe

 










Angelo Molina will be preaching out of Luke 6 & Kellie Robinson will be leading worship.

Pastor Joe Atkinson in RMS Tomorrow Morning

 
Tomorrow morning from 11:30am - 1pm Pastor Joe will be sharing about the origins of Redeemer Fellowship and his own journey into the gifts of The Holy Spirit.
 
Everyone is welcome to attend!

Newport Beach Cafe Tonight

 

Ben Collins is preaching tonight & Kellie Robinson  (she is cool) is leading worship.

The Kingdom of the “Not Likely”

The following is an article that I wrote for the RFC Newsletter's May edition:

Dear Redeemer Family,

This trimester in Redeemer Ministry School I am teaching about places in history where God's presence has seemed to manifest and linger. My favorite movement to teach about is the one that began on Azusa Street (in Los Angeles) in April of 1906. William Seymour was the pastor and leader of The Azusa Street Mission. He was a black man in his mid-thirties with only one working eye. His parents were still slaves when he was born in Louisiana a few years after The Civil War ended.

Azusa Street has been mostly forgotten by both secular and church historians. The great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called groups like Seymour's at Azusa Street the "step-children of Christian history" because of the lack of attention paid to them. Those who do remember their story usually think glossolalia (speaking in tongues) was the major contribution made to Christendom by Seymour and Azusa Street. While speaking in tongues were a substantial part of the worship times at Azusa there is a different contribution I would like to note.

 Azusa Street was the first recorded integrated congregation ever led by a black man in the United States.  In 1906 the Jim Crow laws were in full effect and many cities even had a special earlier curfew for blacks. In fact, the Apostolic Faith ministry school that Seymour had previously attended required him to sit outside of the classroom in a separate room segregated from the Caucasian students. He was not allowed to do any ministry to whites while attending that school. Seymour believed that "the blood of Jesus washed away the color line" and his leadership practices matched that belief. The church was comprised of blacks, lower and upper class whites, Mexican migrant workers and a community of Russian immigrants. Both whites and blacks served as elders. He had many women serving in evangelism and teaching ministries. The multi –ethnic congregation and leadership team of Azusa was a microcosm of the melting pot Los Angeles had become.

The newspaper reports of Azusa almost always had openly hostile racist language. Many of the headlines feel too inappropriate to even quote here. The thought of a black man in America placing his hands on and praying for a white woman in a church a century ago was abhorrent to societal norms. In fact, the integration at Azusa Street caused Seymour's former mentor to claim that all of the manifestations expressed there were the work of Satan.

The upside down kingdom of Jesus so often takes the least likely of people and turns them into world changers. Who was less likely to bring about a multicultural revival than a son of slaves in "Jim Crow" America? The story of Azusa reminds me that the upside down kingdom of Jesus still wants to use the least likely people to shape the world. I look around and wonder, what seemingly impossible things do You want to do with us God?

Love, 

Josh

William Seymour part 1 (from 1870-1906)

I own 10 books that are specifically about the Azusa Street Revival. I have maybe a dozen that cover the revival in part. Of all of those books my favorite by far is Cecil M. Robeck's The Azusa Street Mission Revival. Below I am putting my own notes from Chapter 1 of that book. These are the notes I will use as I teach at Redeemer Ministry School on Friday morning.

William Seymour

Born May 2, 1870 in Centerville, Louisiana

Parents were slaves

William moved to Indiana to 127 ½ Indiana ave (renumbered in 1898 to 427)

He was employed as a waiter

William Seymour became a Christian in the “colored Methodist Episcopal Church” in Indianapolis

Seymour left the Methodist Church because:

1. They held amillennial (the millennial reign is figurative or spiritual) rather than the literal premillenial view that he held.

2. They did not value “special revelation” from God as having much value – He did.

He probably had a sanctification experience with the Evening Light Saints (later became The Church of God Anderson, Indiana) in Indianapolis led by Daniel S. Warner. They were a radical Holiness movement that stressed wearing plain clothing and forbid the use of coffee and tobacco. They were named after Zech. 14:7. The Evening Light Saints practiced:

• Baptism by Immersion

• The Lord’s Supper

• Washing one another’s feet

The term “Saints” in the title led to gender and racial inclusiveness which was incredibly rare in that time.

In 1900 Seymour moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to attend “God’s Bible School and Missionary Training Home” led by Martin Wells Knapp. The school was:

• Racially Inclusive

• Believed in a literal premillenial return of Jesus

• Open to special revelations and impressions from God to individuals

Tuition was $150 for the 15 week course. More than 70 people took the course in 1900.

He contracted smallpox during his time in Cincinnati (during a outbreak of the disease in the area) and lost his eye due to the scarring. It was replaced with a fake one.

Seymour left in 1903 and headed toward Houston. From 1903 -1905 Houston was his home base. During those years Seymour travelled to Chicago and spent time with John G. Lake.

He also held meetings in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

During the winter of 1904-1905 Seymour felt directed by God to go get spiritual advice from a well known minister in Jackson, Mississippi. It was probably either Charles Price Jones or Charles H. Mason Co-founders of Church of God in Christ).

While in Houston he attended Lucy Farrow’s congregation in Houston.

In 1905 Charles Parham arrived in Houston with much fanfare.

Farrow became the Parham family nanny (9 children). She went back to Kansas with the Parham family for a time and Seymour took over her duties at the church.

During this time Neely Terry visited relatives in Houston and heard Seymour preach. That led to her recommending him to her church in Los Angeles and Seymour eventually being invited there to pastor.

By December of 1905 Charles Parham had moved his family and ministry base full-time to Houston.

In January 1906 Parham began the Apostolic Bible Training School. The school was conducted according to military rule with set hours for rising, eating, studying, and working.

Parham taught that the experience of Sanctification was not the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Seymour was recommended to Parham as a student by Farrow. He was accepted with the proviso that he would sit in the hall rather than the class and that he would minister only to blacks.

Parham depended on Warren Faye Carrothers (who later became a Assembly of God Executive Presbyter) in ministry due to his connections to the Houston area.

The Apostolic Bible Training School used the bible as its primary textbook. Students were expected to use it to search out topics such as:

• Conviction

• Repentance

• Conversion

• Consecration

• Sanctification

• Healing

• The Holy Spirit in His different operations

• Prophecies.

The students would listen to Parham lecture, discuss the lectures in class, preach in the streets, spend extended periods in prayer, visit the sick, teach Sunday school, preach in local churches (if available) and do the practical things necessary for the school to operate.

Parham encouraged the students to pray that God would open the doors of ministry for them to be able to serve somewhere. When Julia Hutchins invited Seymour to pastor in Los Angeles it meant that he would have to quit school. Parham and Carothers were reluctant since they wanted to accompany Seymour as he evangelized the black areas of Texas. They were also opposed since he had not been baptized in the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues.

Mrs. Hutchinson forwarded the money for his train fare. Parham was very disappointed but said that he would send lapel pins that would identify Seymour’s workers as being a part of the Apostolic Faith movement.

Seymour departed by train on February 18, 1906 toward Los Angeles by way of Denver, Colorado. He stopped at the Pillar of Fire Training School founded by Alma White in 1898.

Seymour shared a meal with Alma White and others while in Denver. White said that he was, “very untidy in his appearance…wearing no collar, and had a greenish looking brass button in the band of his shirt.” The brass button was probably the one identifying him as a worker of the Apostolic Faith Movement. She said he prayed with “a good a deal of fervor.” She said that she had seen “all kinds of fakirs and tramps” in her life but he “excelled them all.” When Seymour prayed Alma White said, “I felt that serpents and other slimy creatures were creeping all around me.” She believed that he came her way so that she could witness “the person the devil was to use” in Los Angeles.

Sadly, Alma and her husband Kent White divorced after he accepted the doctrine of tongues as part of the baptism of The Holy Spirit. The two engaged in a vicious public feud that lasted the rest of their lives.