Bob and Sue Brasset in Guelph , Canada Nov. 15th to 19th 2007
Sue and I just returned from Guelph, Ontario - a 45 min, drive from Toronto. Several of the pastors of the city came together in unity to have us come in to minister. A precious time of teaching, impartation, salvations, and healing took place. 7 churches joined together to host us. We ministered in a low income housing complex where our friends are facilitating an Alpha Course for the residents - sort of like pizza and prayer. We then had some public healing meetings and a healing training and impartation day on the Saturday. On Saturday and Sunday we ministered in an inner city church for two nights. The pastors are planning on carrying on with regular healing meetings and perhaps Healing Rooms in the future.
Highlights
1. No offerings or pleas for money. The pastors decided to simply emphasize Salvation and Healing so they didn't take up offerings or ask for money.
2. Ministry in School Sue and I were invited to minister in a local school on the Monday morning. It was a delight to release and impart as we brought healing and God's anointing to these precious children.
3. Healing continued when Sue and I were not there. The pastors reported that in their own local churches healing broke out at the Sunday morning service.
4. Salvations People responded publicly each night and in the low income housing project to the call for salvation . That's the greatest miracle by far.
A Report From a Participant
The following note is from a team member who attended these meetings. She's from St. John ,New Brunswick.
Dear Bob and Sue
Thanks to Jesus ( and You and Sue) for the Healing Meetings in Guelph.Throughout the entire time I knew the Lord was with me and could sense the angels all around- even during the plane trip home. I talked with my sister in law on the phone last night. We talked for hours .My brother and Charlene are the most open in my family to more of God since I was healed from those five serious diseases at the Healing Explosion you conducted last year in St. John ,N.B.. Bob, when you told about praying for people on the plane and just being ready and willing anywhere it struck a cord with Charlene. She was so excited to tell me that she had the opportunity to pray with a lady at the airport in Halifax. I realize that spending time with the Lord alone is essential.
I'm now greatly encouraged to step out and pray for people and not just pray for people but to actually heal them, as I watch what God is doing .My faith has increased after witnessing the healings on the weekend .Wow. I watched the faces of the people as God was healing them. Their countenance changed as the healing power of Jesus came upon them and healed them. They seemed to melt. Is this what you mean when you speak of His liquid love?
So much was happening -I am still trying to process everything from the weekend and intend to write it all down. It was simply wonderful. Thank you for showing how simple it is to minister healing. I used to be caught up in making sure I covered all the bases. I have more freedom now . I have a confidence now that I was lacking. I have more confidence to listen, hear and speak out what God is saying.
This has been an enormous blessing and time of learning for me.It has been wonderful to see you and Sue. Also to have met the precious people in Guelph and the rest of your ministry team. Doug and Kevin.
The ladies in the Bible study group are waiting in anticipation for a report from me of the Healing Explosion. I can hardly wait to tell them about the healings I witnessed and all that happened on the weekend.
Love and Blessings
J.. Revival in Arctic Canada: "The building began to shake"
It started like thunder, and at first no one knew what was happening. Moses Kyak, who was operating the sound system, turned the volume off but the noise kept getting louder. Then people began falling down without anyone touching them. James Arreak, who had been leading worship, began to shake. The building began to shake. For about a minute the noise continued to fill the church, like a mighty, rushing wind.
"It sounded like Niagara Falls," says Rev. Joshua Arreak who was helping lead an afternoon youth service at St. Timothy's Anglican Church with his younger brother James . And then the sound went away. Along with the Arreak brothers, about 40 people were in attendance for the service in Pond Inlet, a community of 1,200 high on the northeastern coast of Baffin Island, Canada. This visitation from God had a deep impact on the community.
Why did this happen in Pond Inlet, a remote little town that dwells in darkness half the year, is accessible only by plane and is thousands of miles removed from any population centre? All Joshua Arreak knows is that people had been praying for the community, especially for the young people, on a regular basis. A few years earlier, they had gotten together to destroy, in a huge bonfire, about $100,000 worth of heavy metal music, pornography and drugs. "That's maybe partly why God was so gracious to us," says Arreak. "We've been really humbled by this."
It was probably the most dramatic event marking revival in Canada's Arctic, but it was neither the beginning nor the end of a movement that has swept across the North, touching communities and transforming lives in a way never seen before.
Since the late 1950s, when settlers came to the region, social problems have become rampant among the Inuits. Alcoholism, drug use, sexual abuse, domestic violence, despair, unemployment, and ultimately suicide began to characterize many places that had been previously untouched by such things. Today Arctic Canada has six times the rate of suicide in the south. The rate of heavy drinking is three times the national average, solvent abuse is 26 times higher, the percentage of the population in jail is three times higher, and teen pregnancy rates are six times higher, with the infant death rate twice that found in southern Canada.
Sometimes it is those very desperate circumstances that lay the groundwork for revival. Nain, Labrador, a community of 1,200, 95 percent of whom are Inuit, was devastated by 11 suicides in 2000. When a team was invited for ministry that November, "there was like a cloud of oppression that hung over the town," recalls James Arreak (who, besides pastoring, is director of financing for the Nunavut government). Knowing a week of meetings couldn't possibly fix the problems there, "we just went in there to plant the seeds, and we left." Christians across the country also prayed for Nain. Arreak and others made a second visit in September 2001. "When we landed there, it was like a totally different place," he says. "It was like the cloud of oppression that used to hang over the town was not there." Evidently crime was down, there had been no suicides all year, "and the spirit of the community was up. Only God could do that."
Desperation may have made people ready for God; but none of this new movement of the Spirit would be taking place without prayer, say those who have witnessed dramatic changes. Besides healing from traumas and tragedies and forgiveness of sin, the revival movement has had two other important outgrowths: unity among the churches and the development of dynamic Inuit leaders. People whose background was drinking, gambling and promiscuity are now solid Christians, and some are pastoring churches. But Arreak also has a warning: "I found out that we cannot go on yesterday's visitation. It has to be renewed every day."
Source: Debra Fieguth, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
2. Revival among the Inuits in Arctic Canada (video)
Scores of communities throughout the Eastern Arctic Region of Canada have experienced dramatic changes in families, schools and government, as a result of an outpouring of God's Spirit. This was reported on the Transformations II video, released in 2002 by The Sentinel Group. The two video clips below partly overlap, but both are highly encouraging to watch.
Eyes & Wings
