Equipped to Heal

After over 20 years in medical practice, Rachel is now researching areas of healing and wholeness from a Christian perspective as well as co-leading a House of Prayer in Brussels. In a wide ranging interview we explore being a doctor, shalom in covid, leading a house of prayer and new age.  We discuss the writings of Dr Candy Gunther Brown eg The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America and Father Gareth Leyson.  https://catholicpreacher.wordpress.com/resources/new-age-spirituality/

This week we are joined again by Ruth and Rev Mike Jones. Mike is the Anglican Vicar of St Mary's, Luton. Ruth is an art teacher and co-lead of Agape Freedom Fighters UK Team. Hear from their experiences and learning as they have pursued calming, peace, and healing for themselves and others. They have developed a powerful set of tools - see https://www.joyskills.online/. We discuss the book, 'The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation' by Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51542321-the-other-half-of-church and the resources from https://lifemodelworks.org/

Candice has a burning passion to see others be healed, set completely free and move unhindered into the plans and purposes God has for their lives.  Her heart’s desire is to lead people into Freedom body, mind, spirit and soul. She helps lead https://lovebrave.org/ Candice's absolute conviction to give everything she has for His Name Sake came after Jesus miraculously delivered her from a 20-year crack addiction. Jesus also healed her body from the complete devastation of ingesting hard drugs for over 2 decades. After graduating with a Bachelors of Ministry from Freedom Seminary, Candice attended Wagner University Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance Training as well as Global Awakening Supernatural School, Bethel Supernatural School and Iris Mission/Outreach School. She is a facilitator for both Elijah House Basic 1 and 2 Inner Healing and Restoring the Foundations. For over 15 years Candice ran a long-term drug and alcohol facility and prison ministry.  As an ordained minister she has personally walked hundreds of individuals though deliverance and inner healing.  Rev. Candice Mishkin has been igniting individuals and ministry leaders to fulfill the greatness inside. She has traveled all over the world sharing her testimony and equipping people to love well and do the works of the Kingdom. Candice ministers from her personal testimony and expertise serving as a Certified Addiction Professional and two decades of full-time ministry. Candice is also on the Board of Watts of Love which is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty.

Joanna Wakeman is the Director of Worship and Prayer at Restore Hope, a charity based in Buckinghamshire, England. She joined the charity with her husband Graham and 3 daughters in 2016. She leads the Worship & Prayer life of the charity and the pastoral care for the staff. She is passionate about the work of coming alongside Mums, children and families.  Restore Hope is a Christian charity that has a proven track record of bringing hope to people from all walks of life. The charity was established in 2002 and is based at Latimer Park, a special place of hope and peace set in the heart of the Chilterns countryside, near Little Chalfont, Chesham and Amersham. They come alongside people from a wide variety of backgrounds, but especially those who are experiencing difficult circumstances. see https://www.restorehopelatimer.org/

Terry Young was born to missionary parents working in the Middle East. He has always tried to unify his life of worship and secular missions, and has been part of church leadership teams in Essex, and at Slough Baptist Church. He has written a few books that link worlds, including After the Fishermen, and Jake, Just Learn to Worship. After a mobile early childhood his family settled in the UK to the northwest of Birmingham, and eventually he studied at the local university. After his doctoral studies he worked for 16 years in Chelmsford undertaking research and business development in the aerospace sector, where his interest was in fibre optics and photonics. In the end he gravitated to healthcare systems and move to Datchet with a position as a university professor. Blog series referenced in the interview are from Baptist Times: Pandemic series (1-9 April 2020) · Christians in the crisis · God and the nations · Fear not! · The balance between trust and action (Hezekiah’s tunnel) · Blessings in disguise Lockdown learning series (27 May – 4 June 2020) · Learning under lockdown: trying something new · Learning under lockdown: just listening · Learning under lockdown: fast and slow reading  · Learning under lockdown: driven by curiosity · Learning under lockdown: Bible study in a socially distanced world Series from 1 Peter (7-20 January 2021) · Calling and being called · Alert and sober · Suffering and glory · An upside down world  · Peter and baptism He has also published a number of books including Making sense of Romans and John On… Reflections on an unusual gospel https://www.wordsbydesign.online/shop/making-sense-of-romans-when-you-read-it-for-yourself  study guide https://www.wordsbydesign.online/shop/making-sense-of-romans-study-guide https://www.wordsbydesign.online/shop/john-on-reflections-on-an-unusual-gospel study guide https://www.wordsbydesign.online/shop/john-on-study-guide

Dr Roger Greene, shares about how as a Christian we has coped with the sad loss of his wife, Vicky, from Covid. He talks about loss, grief and finding hope and shalom.  Roger is writing a book on his experiences. He also helps run courses from https://thebereavementjourney.org/. His previous book explores integrating faith with his work, and what he saw God do! https://greatbiglifepublishing.com/books/how-on-earth-did-that-happen/

In Series 3 we will be exploring the theme of 'Finding Shalom in times of Covid.' We start with a n interview with Ruth Rice, Founder of Director of Renew Wellbeing, (https://www.renewwellbeing.org.uk/) a fast growing national charity supporting churches develop open spaces of welcome and inclusion in partnership with mental health teams to improve mental and emotional wellbeing. Ruth set up the first centre, renew 37, whilst leading New Life Baptist Church following her own breakdown. She now works full time for Renew Wellbeing encouraging churches, delivering training and supporting sustainability. Ruth has a background in teaching and Baptist church Ministry and is passionate about seeing churches turn themselves and their great habits of welcome, care and prayer inside out to reduce isolation and increase wellbeing in every community.  Ruth has written a couple of books: an e-book '5 Ways to Inner Wellbeing' is available on Amazon and her second book Slow Down, Show Up and Pray was released in Jan 2021 and is available from https://thebigchurchread.co.uk/slow-down-show-up-and-pray/.

Nicky, a retired Church of England Vicar, and her husband, Alan, previously a civil engineer and church manager, share the story of their call to ministry, and how God has worked in them and through them over the years.  They are now staff pastors at St Andrews, Chorleywood.   

Julian is the National Leader of New Wine Cymru. In 1991 he founded Cornerstone Church Swansea with his wife Sarah and 5 young people in one of the most deprived areas of the city. Today it is a thriving church known across Wales for its community work, people finding Christ regularly and many physical healings. In 2014 they opened Venue2, a former supermarket, as a second Cornerstone site. His passion is to see church leaders equipped and developed, local churches thriving and missionally effective, so that local communities and the nation of Wales would be transformed through the power of Christ and his kingdom. Julian and Sarah have 3 grown-up children who all live with a deep sense of calling to serve Jesus.

Join me, as I chat with two good friends, Mabel and Michael, from the Gate, Reading. Mabel leads 2 local ministries which care for homeless and vulnerable people in the local community. Mike works in software development for a large IT company.  Together we share stories about bringing God's love and healing power in everyday situations at work and home. We discuss how we are called to encourage one another  in the church and how together we operate as as a healing community.