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Life in Cheddar.........

Liam has taken over management of The Cafe (our church run cafe in village centre) which has changed our lives dramatically, lil has been learning how to manage and I have been learning how to not be bossy. He is an excellent boss, our time at Bethel has really helped with this as he is so encouraging to our staff, they all seem to love him. I am very proud of him.

It was so wonderful having Paul Skelton come visit The Cafe and look around Cheddar, Paul runs 'Healing on the Streets' outside the Abby in Bath and is just full of God's presence and leaking it as he goes. He loved our cafe and gave us good feedback about what we can be doing to pray for more healing in Cheddar. He stayed on and we had a meeting in the evening at church with cafe staff, boot fair prayer team and church people interested in healing. The whole evening was a success, Paul taught how to pray effectively, told some testimonies and then he prayed for whoever wanted it. A close friend of ours knees got healed and it was amazing to see so many of our young people being prayed for and getting visibly touched by Gods power.

We were so sad to get an email telling us that one of our amazing good friends from Bethel died this week. He was such a wise, strong man after Gods heart, he looked after us like a father and we spent lots of time with him and his family. We will miss him so much but we know he is with his loving Father in heaven pain and cancer free now.

Its starting to feel like winter which was a bit of a shock, i dont think im ready for it, seeing as last week we had 3 wonderfully warm summer days in which i cycled around the reservoir and generally enjoyed being outside. It was sad to see the sun disappear.

We have had lots of lovely dinners our at friends homes, we often invite ourselves round (sorry everyone) and get to eat yummy food at least twice a week. We went to our friends Nige and Georgia in Weston Super Mare on Friday which was great.

I started work back at the hotel on friday which was enjoyable, it was lovely to see everyone again. I have also been booked for lots of facepainting jobs in the next few months which is fun. i do childrens parties and paint tigers, butterflies and spidermans etc.

This week I prayed for a man who is a regular in the cafe, i was chatting to him and he told me his knee was very painful and thought he might have to have a knee replacement, so i offered to pray for it. He said yes of course (not a christian as far as i no) and so we and adam commanded the pain to go. So 2 days later he came into the cafe with his wife and said 'Thankyou so praying for my knee, all day yesterday i forgot about it beacuse it didnt hurt at all' Thankyou Jesus.

Yestersday I went to Bristol to see my bestest uni friends, Esther and Kayleigh. We spent the day looking around bristol, and LOVED st nicks market on corn street. It was great to see them again. :)

This morning we had some words of knowledge for a neck, ear and shoulder, so pippa and I prayed for a number of people, one of whom had a head neck and shoulder pain and was about to leave to go home and curl up because of the pain, so me and another lady prayed and commanded the pain to go. After lunch at church (we had a shared lunch for baby chloes dedication) she told me she was completely healed so she had stayed for the lunch. :) God is SO good.

The same power that rose Jesus from the dead lives in YOU. What an honour!

Thank you for reading my little humble blog.

God Bless you and pour favour onto you. May His beautiful eyes of love burn into your heart.

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Hello everyone,

Its been a while since we blogged so i thought i'd do a quick update on whats been going on in our lives.
Liam has a new job. He has taken over as cafe manager in our church cafe that is on the high street in Cheddar village. he officially starts on the 29th of august and is working in there a lot so he can learn all he needs to.
I have been given a studio space in an annex of a family at church, and my aunty is sharing it with me, which is very exciting. We have put new flooring in and moved all our equipment in and it has taken shape. we are now really excited to start working in there.
I am also redesigning and project managing the renovation of our church house's prayer room/lounge and our pastor John's office. So i have had people in to give me quotes etc and i'm really excited to get started on it. Its going to look loads better then it does now, seeing as it resembles an old peoples home!
We have been seeing lots of friends and having coffee a lot with people and catching up which has been lovely. Liam spends lots of his time now at Costa, the new coffee shop up the gorge on the other side of Cheddar.
Seeing as Liam has taken on the cafe (with my help, whether he wants it or not) we have commited to staying in Cheddar for 2-3 years. Which is slightly scary but exciting to get stuck in where we can.
Liam and Adam preached on Sunday which was great, they talked about love, that God is love and how much he loves us as his children.
New Wine summer camp has started so lots of families from the church are away. They had Heidi Baker speak there last week, which was of course amazing we have been told. She got the kids from another meeting to come into the adults meeting and be the ministry team!
I am going off now to go for a walk in Priddy woods, so help inspire me for new things to paint in the studio. See you later,
Izzy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hey guys,

Hope this finds everyone well and enjoying whatever you're all up to. It's been a little while since we blogged so I'll try remember whats been going on and fill you in...

We had our second taste of Praying on the streets of Weston last Saturday (3rd July). We had a few extra people join us which was great. We were able to pray with a number of people and see God touch people's lives. One lady had trouble lifting her right arm at all, she could literally not lift it but after prayer she could lift it up to a right angle with her shoulder! It was great! And a young girl was prayer for after her heel had been causing her trouble when she walked with her friends, we prayed and God touched her and she was feeling great afterwards, jumping up and down with no problem at all. God is so good!

I was able to go to a men's breakfast in Bath early on Saturday, which was a great time. Met a couple of great men and had a great free breakfast! good times. We've met quite a lot of fun and exciting people since coming back from America. It's been such a blessing because we often felt isolated in Cheddar, but it's been great to meet some people who are excited about what God's doing in this region and it's really on our heart to partner with these people and see unity grow.

We've both not had jobs since being back, which has sometimes led to boredom because of the English rain meaning we can't always go out and walk or do things, so I was really excited to work for a few hours in our church-run Cafe on Tuesday. The Cafe is a great place in Cheddar that offers people the usual selection of food and drink, and it was great to be in there on Tuesday and work with some amazing people. I'll be working in the Cafe on Tuesdays throughout July and possibly picking up some other hours here and there.

Izzy led a housegroup on Monday night on the topic of healing. She did really well, talked about Bethel's take on God's desire for healing and some of the testimonies from when she worked in the Healing Rooms and practically how the Healing Rooms happened. She did amazingly well and finished the night with a time of prayer for the various members of the group. She's amazing and it's exciting to see her grow and become more confident.

The rest of July is shaping up to be great. We're heading up to Nottingham in the East Midlands to spend most of next week with Hannah and Matt, Izzy's sister and brother-in-law which will be great. We're dropping into see our good friends Matt and Elaine on the way up. I'll also be hoping to see some friends from uni who are still in Nottingham. At the end of the month, my friend from university, Dan, will be getting married somewhere near Watford I think. I've also been asked to do a reading at the wedding ceremony which is a great honour and priviledge. My friend Adam and I will be speaking at our church at the end of the month too. Our church will be having some interesting meetings in the coming weeks. Please do pray for wisdom and vision as we have meetings to do with the way forward for us. I also start pre-season training for my local football (or soccer for my American friends!) team tonight. Really looking forward to getting back into it.

Anyways, there's a small insight into what we've been up to the last week or so. We'd love to hear from you wherever you are in the world. Please do get in touch.

Please pray for us for open doors and wisdom on how to continue to move forward.

Thanks for reading. Until next time, may God bless you loads.

Love you all
Liam and Izzy : )

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8

Well we've had another interesting week.
On Thursday we were invited to a meeting in Weston Super Mare to find out about doing a stall at a psychic fair there. We met some lovely people from a church there called St Pauls. My sister Corrie's boyfriend Rich goes to that church so they all knew Corrie. The pychic fair was going to be on saturday so we prayed and chatted about it.
On Saturday we met up with our new wonderful friend called Nigel in the centre of the shopping area in Weston. We set out some chair and A boards with stuff on them explaining what we were doing and set about handing out leaflets about Healing on the Streets. It was a brilliant 2 hours. the first hour was a bit slow but after people realised we didnt want anything from them we wanted to help them they were more receptive. We got to meet lots of lovely people and prayed for some of them to be healed. We met a man who was 77 yr old Scot. He wanted prayer for his knee, it had arthritus. So me and liam prayed for it and commanded the pain to go. He said it felt better and was really happy and left. He came back about 20 minutes later to ask for more prayer, as he had been feeling depressed and suicidal, so we had the priviledge of praying against that and helping him to understand that God is always good.
We also got to pray for a lady who had a painful neck and a bad heel, so me, liam and Nige all prayed and invited the Holy Spirit, she started crying peacefully as she felt His presence, we asked her how her neck was and she said 'oh it feels lovely, thankyou very much!' She left feeling so happy and peaceful and pain free!! :)
We also prayed for a couple, He had a walking stick and explained to me that his ankle was crushed 4 years ago and was still in pain. He was skeptical about God healing and said we should pray for his wife as she was in agony with an infection in her jaw bone. So he went off to get his wife and we sat her down and asked her out of 10 how painful was it, she said an 11. We prayed once and said she thought it was a bit better, probably about an 8/10, so we prayed again and she started saying 'yes yes its going down now, its down to a 3/10' WOW!! so we prayed again and it went down even more. Then I asked the husband if he would like his ankle better and he was hesitant but i said it would just take a minute. So he sat down and me and Liam prayed for his ankle, which had been a 4/10 in pain. We got him to stand on it and test it out and guess what...it was now about a 1/10 in pain, and then said 'actually i dont even think its a 1!' I told them Jesus healed them and if they want to know him to read a little card i gave them, they left really thankful. :) Thankyou Jesus.
We prayed for more people in the next hour. Holy Spirit showed up all day and did His thing. It was wonderful.
Nige, Ted(a man we just met who had been praying for us nearby because God told him to) Liam and me went and got a hot drink on the seafront and them we went to the psychic fair.
It was wierd seeing people getting 'healed' with crystals on them and all sorts of strange things going on. The guyson the st pauls stall did an amazing job praying for people, telling them about Jesus. I did some prophetic art for some of the stall holders, which was interesting. The man next to us was Greek Orthodox, he was lovely. He knew God but had some strange ideas about Him. I just wanted him to know the truth and know Gods presence but he didn't want to change his views. He gave me a painting that he'd done (he was selling them) it was amazing.
Yesterday we had church, then a lot of us went to the South coast to watch our friend Marni get baptised. it was such a sunny warm day, it was perfect.

Thanks for reading
Love izzy
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Hello Everyone,

We have been getting a few requests to keep on with our blog so here it is.

Now we are not in Olive house anymore it seems odd to still call it that.

Well as you know we are back home in Cheddar, England. We are living with my grandmother in her lovely big house in the centre of the village. My parents are also living there which is interesting.

When we first got back everything seemed really small, the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car and everyone drove on the wrong side, which was especially scary going round corners.

Liam, me and Adam spoke a little at church on the 1st sunday we were back, which was fun, and after we prayed for some people and imparted what we were given. At one point i turned round to see where liam and ad were and there were people all on the floor. I heard some testimonies after about people who were healed or half healed, which was exciting.

We were asked to speak at a church about 10 minutes away on the next sunday evening, a friend of ours, Dan Collison runs the evening meeting. Lil spoke with Ad adding to it a little at the end. They both spoke really well. I got some words of knowledge, that I felt God was healing afterwards for knees, backs and diabetes. About 20ish people came up for prayer and lots of knees and backs got healed. It was so exciting. Obviously you cant check with diabetes straight away if the person is healed or not.

Last week out church ran a week long outreach event called the Cheddar Festival. We had bands and dance groups in from a company who were amazing and went into the schools to do music lessons and they also did a lunchtimes in our big top tent and a friday night youth evening. After that on the Friday night some of the kids came to the healing tent, and josh prayed for a boys back and grew his leg out, his back got healed, also a group of 5 girls came over and one of their knees got healed from a sporting injury and then josh and ad prophecied over them all, it was incredible, the words of knowledge were spot on and the girls were saying how do you know that!! On the saturday night we did a meeting in the tent, afterwards we said some words of knowledge and some people came up for prayer and some got healed, also 5 legs grew out. Lots of people get back pain and dont realise it is because they have one leg shorter than the other, but God can grow the other leg out easily :) My uncle Grahams leg grew about a centimetre which was so fun so watch.

We are starting to look for jobs now and have a few prospects, hopefully it wont be too long until we get jobs, Liam is particularly starting to get bored. I am looking for a studio/ room to paint in so i can get back into oil painting, i have really missed it.

Thanks for reading, Take care.

Peace out

Izzy xxxxx

Afternoon lovelies,

So we've started getting the house tidy and clean for leaving it on tuesday. Everyone has been pitching in, Ems been just brilliant shes amazing. We have been seeing a lot of people again this week, saying goodbyes. I,Izzy was helping at our school of creativity conference, which was AMAZING. So many creative people under one roof, and even people who didnt know they were creative in some areas were finding out new things about themselves. The speakers were amazing. I was doing portraits alongside people doing singing telegrams, healing art and creative writing. We got to speak into peoples lives and prophesy about what God has for their future and how he sees them. So that was tuseday to thursday and yesterday we started cleaning. Last night we went for dinner with a couple in the church here. We had a bbq, it was yummy, then homemade creme brulee for desert. We had a great evening and the boys all got to go in their hot tub. Today I was at the healing rooms for the last time. The healing rooms experience has been life changing for me. Seeing God move every week in hundreds of peoples lives will change a person. I have NO doubt that healing is for today, Jesus said 'Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighborhood. Tell them that the kingdom is here. Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead. Touch the untouchables. Kick out the demons. You have been treated generously, so live generously' So that is what we should do. The healing room has provided a place for God to bring health to the sick for years, in person and on skype and everyone who comes in leaves feeling blessed, and as a bonus most people leave healed.
Today me and my team leader prayed for many people, all with high pain levels, some that have come from far far away to meet Jesus and be touched by Him. SO many people got healed! It was amazing. backs and necks and hips and feet and allsorts. It was so easy. We just told the pain to go in Jesus name and it did! Almost everyone we prayed for got healed. They had that smile when they are testing it out like 'oooo wow it actually worked'.One lady who had never had prayer before came over and God healed her elbow, wrist, back and neck, she left pain free. Another lady had had pain in her neck and back for 35 years, we just invited Holy Spirit, she fell over and when she got up she was HEALED! No more pain. Thank my Jesus. A man who was a driver called Rory came in in a lot of pain, he said he is often crying in his cab because of the pain level. It was an 8/10. He left us pain free. We went next door into the waiting/encounter room where there was probably about 150 people waiting for prayer, so the prayer servants all spread around the room and started praying for people for about 5 minutes per person. The 1st lady we came to was sitting next to a child, we got her to lay her hand on the old lady and command the pain to go, she said a simple prayed and the lady was in tears, her hip painthat hs caused her to limp badly which we saw as she got up from ehr chair) had almos gone. The child prayed again for her hips then again for her arthritus and the old lady was pain free. She went off for a walk down the corridor to try out her new hips. :) We then prayed for another 5 or so people, one of whom had tennis elbow. It was painful to lift anything. So we prayed maybe 3 times, and it was gone. I had a word of knowledge that a lady had back and neck pain, so i went over and asked her if she did, she said yes a lot. So i prayed for her once, and all the pain left, meanwhile her daughter was getting rocked by God and He was taking away all her fear. She danced for the 1st time with out fear of pain, and without fear of people. It was beautiful.
So it was wonderful last day in the healing rooms. Chris Gore and Joaquin Evans have done an amazing job following Holy Spirits lead.

We are going out for say goodbye to our lovely friends Tim, Laura and their son Joshua now. Then we are out for dinner with Heidi and Antje. What a lovely day.
Thank You for reading. Love you all
Izzy and Liamxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

16.55 Sunday afternoon.

The last few weeks have been an emotional rollarcoaster. We went to the redwoods, had heidis birthday party, were knighted and commissioned by Bill Johnson and Kris vallotton on friday, we graduated on Monday, had lots of coffee dates and goodbye parties, the tears just keep coming, and there will be more to come this week. Every time i say goodbye to someone my heart hurts as i do not know when i am going to see them again. I have to drink more water than usual because the tears are dehydrating me.

We said goodbye to some of our favourite people on tuesday,Ben and Sarah. They have gone to Florida for a long holiday with sarahs family and then they are going back to Austrailia and we won't see them for a long time. It was a hard goodbye.
On wednesday I had prohetic portrait training, which Theresa Dedmon took, she showed us how to sketch out a face and use pastel to create a portrait. It was good training, I am going to be doing portraits at the Bethel School of Supernatural Creativity conference next week, i'll also be ushering, so i get to hear Patricia King and Shawn Bolz speak on arts and the Kingdom.

On Friday we had our close friends Dave and Justines's goodbye party which was fun and then some of the guys went to Bethel to hear a speaker called Hugh Ross speak, who is the founder of reasons to believe. He is an amazingly smart man. (http://www.reasons.org/dr-hugh-ross.html) They came home very late and were up talking about it with our friend Mark Proeger, there were a lot of LONG words going around! The boys went to hear him again Sat morning and loved it.

Saturday afternoon we went to whiskey town lake for our awesome revival group pastor, Crystal's birthday. It was a hot day so perfect for a bbq on the beach by the lake. lovely. Then about 10 of us went to a new frozen yoghurt place down town called 'spoon me'. It really yummy, me and my lovely friend Heidi went to its grand opening the other night and sampled a LOT of the yoghurt. it was SOOO good, and then we bought a crepe.

Today we went to church and Bill J spoke about Soloman and wisdom. He really feels like this season we are going to need supernatural wisdom, and he spoke about longevity and finishing well. It was a great talk!! Our good friend Lynda left after church, so that was another hard goodbye.:(

Liam has gone out to play football with Josh, Adam and their friend Luke, while Em and I have been sunbathing, but we had to come in as suddenly dark clouds appeared and a storm decided to come.

Thankyou for reading about our week, we hope you had a lovely one.
God Bless you all
love Izzy xx

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Hello everyone!

Sorry it's been a while since we last posted. The last few weeks have flown by, it's been crazy. Most of the last few weeks have been Spring Break so not much has been happening school wise. We had a really nice break though, the weather got hot again which was most welcome and we managed to finish all our homework! A great feeling to have finished it all.

While on Spring Break we also got the chance to go to a John Crowder conference in a town not too far away called Chico. The event was a three day thing and we managed to go on the Friday and Saturday. We had an amazing time. It was great to hear and see John in the flesh, and his teaching was brilliant. The way he outlined and unpacked the Good News was exciting. We really had a great time, spending time with wonderful people, getting to see some of Chico, and most importantly, hearing more and becoming more aware of what Jesus accomplished on the Cross.

The first half of this week we still had off school as the church hosted a Leaders Advance. This is a huge 3 day event where pastors and leaders from all round the world gather to hear teaching and to generally mix around making connections. Izzy and me volunteered for 2 days to man the bookstool, which was great. We had a great time chatting a little to some of the leaders. We met some great people from the UK and America; from Brighton, Southampton, and Detroit to name a few.

The culmination of the Leaders Advance was a meeting on Thursday morning, that attempted to bring together leaders and connect them with us, school of ministry students. So the room was broken into regions of America and the world, and students were invited to come along if they thought or knew they wouldn't be coming back to Bethel next year, which included us. It was a really useful meeting, especially for us as we're not entirely sure what our next step is and we managed to meet some great people from Bath who we're looking forward to connecting with when we get home.

Thursday and Friday we were finally back at school. Thursday we had a great time with Pastor Bill, we're going to miss him so much. He proffered some last minute wisdom to us which was amazing, very useful. And Friday we had a special guest by the name of Mario Murillo, who encouraged us all as we leave Bethel and go off around the world, to stay strong.

Our evenings have been busy too, with various events going on. Thursday was BSSM's got talent, where we watched a host of talented ministry students perform various things such as songs and spoken word. Was a good time. And Friday night was Adoria Fashion show, where our friends Sarah and Taff were modelling some dresses. The night was really great, Sarah and Taff did amazing and looked like proper models as they strutted down the catwalk!

This weekend is fairly hectic for us, as we have various things going on. Tonight it's both the school vs staff Basketball game which is sure to be good fun and we'd love to go see an exhibition by some friends of ours called Life Unscripted. They're both on at the same time so we'll be practicing our bi-location skills! And monday sees one of the most important events of the year for me, being English, as it's the school Football game, 1st years vs 2nd years. So, hopefully I'll get to play some part in the game. The game is preceded by a UK BBQ at Paul and Sue Manwaring's house.

We only have one week left at school now! Crazytown. This year has gone so fast. We're determined to make the most of it though and get everything we can out of our final bit of time here. After school finished we'll be here for another 2 weeks to bring everything to a close and hopefully get a great tan! But in all seriousness, it's really bittersweet as we're looking forward to coming home and seeing our friends and family and eating some delights we've missed so much! but we're so going to miss the friends who have become like family to us from here. Please be praying for us in our last week as we seek to finish on a high.

Thanks for reading, hope you all have a blessed weekend. Do get in touch if you can, we love hearing from people.

Grace and Peace

Izzy and Liam

Gooood Morninggggggggggg,

This week has been amazing. i want to start by showing you a clip from a meeting i was at last wednesday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL96l-MGa5U&feature=share
Isnt it amazing!!! If you just skipped over the link to read my blog, dont! go back, click on the link and watch it all the way through. you wont regret it.

Last week was a very busy one. we were out every night at different friends for dinner, we had bring and share(pot luck) house group, sheesh kebabs and salad at heidi's, apricot chicken at ben and sarah's, and chicken pasta again with ben and sarah, and others i cant remember. But we have eaten well all week.
The wednesday night mandatory healing rooms meeting was cool. we worshipped then the leaders got people up who hadnt had words of knowledge( words about someone God tells you that you didnt know before,eg. diabetes, back pain) for healing before. So about 10 people went up. the leader Josh stevens got them all to call out a word for people in the room, so they did and lots of people stood up with the pain/illness they were calling out. we prayed and many got
healed. Thankyou Jesus.
I was in the healing rooms again on saturday, it was a wonderful day, Holy Spirit was definately doing something. Lots were getting healed, from crippling arthritus, to deaf ears opening.
My team prayed for lots of people, we had words of knowledge for a lot of the people that came to us for prayer, a lot of the time people write down on their form only 1 thing that needs healing, when actually they have other things wrong with them. So God told me about a mans knee that hurt, so i asked him about it and he said yes he had pain in his left knee. So we prayed and Jesus healed him.
We had a lovely lady named Jodi come in and she had a really bad back, it was a 8/10 in pain, so as we prayed the pain went down to a 4 and then to a 1!! I then had a word of knowledge about neck pain, so i asked if she had neck pain, she said yes. So i put my hand on her neck and commanded the pain to leave. We asked her how it felt and she moved it around and said 'wow, it feels amazing'. we also prayed for her stomach, she'd had a historectomy that was making her tummy area enlarged and painful. After we prayed she said it felt different, much better and something was definitely happening. We also prayed for a man with tennis elbow, who had a pain level 4,God healed that all up, and no more pain! We asked him if he had any pain anywhere else, he said his foot was numb a bit from a trapped ciatic nerve, so i placed my hand on his foot and we prayed. He said it felt different after, said it was feeling better. He left really happy.:)

On skype people were getting healed. My friend ruth wrote about this after her time on skype:

'16-year old boy was dying from brain cancer. He was unconscious & unable to move and speak. Got to pray for him over skype and he opened his eyes, said 'mum' and squeezed his mother's hand! Also saw eyes & arthritis healed, 4 legs grow out, hearing improve, other cancer symptoms improve, lumps in throat disappear, shoulders healed, knees get better, backs, necks, heart pounding stop and more!! Thank you Jesus!!'

So Goooooooood Jesus!

Church was really good yesterday, it was Easter sunday, and Bill was speaking, he started off with saying he's never been any good at easter sunday preaches. It was funny. We ended up praying for each other and Bill spoke a little bit. The worship was amazing. Brian Johnson led.
Sunday lunch was at our friend Antje's with Lynda and her cooking, we had LAMB! they dont cook hamb here, so it was amazing. so yummy. Antje is German, so traditionally has lamb on easter sunday. Then in the afternoon we went to visit our good friend Tim in hospital. He has stage 4 liver cancer and other problems including fluid build up, He is amazing, and full of faith for his healing. We are praying for him everyday. Please keep him in your prayers. thankyou.

Well its monday morning and I, izzy, have a meeting in a few hours about publishing a book with Lynda! We are meeting up with a lady who has written, illustrated and published a childrens book. She's going to give us feedback on ours which is exciting.

Hope you all have a blessed easter week. He has risen!!!!

God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

Author Unknown

Our beloved readers, we are so thankful for you.

Here is a link, its a sketch about Gods grace, please watch it to the end, its really impactful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhoFEuw2GPA&feature=share

This week I, izzy was impacted by the love and faithfullness of God to his children. I have just finished the book Heaven is for Real. Its about a 3 year old boy who, whilst being operated on, goes to Heaven, and the event that happened in and around that time of his life. His parents gradually over months asked him questions about his experience to find him answering things about heaven that he would never have known from the bible at three years old. It blew my mind. The reoccuring theme in his answers is love. God loves us so much.

I was in our Friday night service at Bethel this weekend, Joaquin Evans was speaking, and when i say speaking, he was calling out words of knowlege and God was healing people all over the room. He got a few of the people who had been healed up on stage to tell what had happened. One man who went up was an English man called John (ive changed his name) his back had been healed. Joaquin called his daughter up on stage, who was a fellow student of ours, and prophecied over them. It was amazing. I found out later that John had become a christian that night. What a night for him. Saved and healed in one meeting. My friend, his daughter was ecstatic.

I got home from church at 11.30pm that night, church was CRAZY. SO GOOD. Holy Spirit was in a gooooooooooood mood.:)

The next day I was in the healing rooms, as i usually am on a saturday morning at 8.00am. It was an incredible time of seeing Gods hand on peoples lives. My group leader Elizabeth and our group of 4 prayed for many people who had come in for healing, from pain in the back to tumours in the brain. We prayed and prophesied over them, and saw lots of them completely healed! Thankyou Jesus. My group leader moved halfway through to do skype so i moved to another group. The man being prayed for by them happened to be John, my friends dad. So he said his back was still completely cured, no more pain. They led him into an encounter with Jesus, in which he invited Holy Spirit into his life. Then we prayed for his knees which were pretty painful, I think we prayed twice, and the pain was gone! Then we prayed for his ankles which got completely healed, then his shins, which were painful from driving for many years, they got healed, then we prayed for the most painful thing, his ingrown toe nail. This was a 10/10 in pain he said. It hurt a lot walking into the room. So we asked him to take off his shoe and sock and we commanded the pain to go. I think we pray 3 times. The pain went from a 10 to a 0! During this time God had been talking to him, telling him he was totally loved, and God told him how proud He was of him. We all hugged and John left to go and tell one of the testimony team what happened to him.
Our leader came back over 10 minutes later and said that John hadnt even noticed his toe in walking across the room. So the pain had gone so much that he forgot about it. Praise Jesus!!

That was just one testimony of many from saturday morning.

Sunday morning we were in Church at Bethel, we had Danny Silk talk about Favour. Worship was amazing, led by William Matthews. His voice is so lovely. He has an album coming out soon with his own songs on, i definately recommend it.

Today I went to my friends suprise birthday lunch which was fun, then went to the dollar cinema to see Gnomeo and Juliet, an animated film with loadsss of famous people in. It was sweet.

Liam is out with our friend Mark tonight and i am going to get on with some homework.
This year has been so amazing at Bethel and its so strange that in less than 2 months we will be back in Cheddar. We are happy to be going home but sad to be leaving, so its bittersweet really.

God Bless you all, i hope you have a wonderful week, full of the joy of the Lord and encounters with your heavenly Daddy :)

Izzy X

Hey everyone.

Sorry we haven't posted for a little while. The last week has been quite busy because we had Izzy's birthday! We had an amazing party on saturday afternoon, where we held an open house with people dropping in most of the afternoon. It was great and thankfully the weather played it's part so we were able to use the back garden and the BBQ! Thanks for everyone that came and made Izzy's birthday a real special time.

We also had an awesome week at school. Bill spoke to us on Tuesday, which was brilliant. As we're drawing near to the end of term here, it feels like Bill in particular is really laying down some stuff for us to take away as we all head out in various different directions. This week he spoke from 2 Samuel 6 and the priority of ministry to the Lord.

Wednesday saw Kris speak to us from 2 Samuel 13 and the lessons we can learn from David not confronting Amnon, which led to Absalom killing Amnon. Kris went on to unpack this and how seeing someone else's actions, maybe a mother or father figure, can become our reaction. So in the case of David, he became afraid to confront people, even his own sons, because he was abused by the way Saul had treated him, which led David to live in reaction. We must develop our own response. Hope some of that makes sense!

On Thursday we had our revival group (smaller group of 65ish students) leader, Crystal, talk to the whole first year. She was great, talking her own personal journey into the Grace of God, from a life and ministry of striving to earn God's affection. She told us of a dream she had and how God taught her to stop worrying about performance and to just rest in Him. The bible often refers to our output or attributes as fruit, so Crystal was often worrying about how much or what type of fruit she was producing, but God taught her to not worry about it, that He would control the production and make sure she was fruitful! Which is good news! She finished by singing a song which God inspired her to write, which includes a bit about her revelation of being free from religiously following and instead enjoying resting with God. Here are the lyrics:

Come and meet me in the trees
Come and whisper in the breeze to me
Undenying Love
I am yours and you are mine
I am yours and you are mineFather, Spirit, my True Vine
I am yours and you are mine
I’m in you and you’re in me
I’m the fourth one in the Three
This is the garden of my love
This is the garden of my life
No one can take this place from me
No one can take away my peace
I am free, I am free, I am free
I climb the branches of your smile
With this view I can see for miles
We are in the weather of your love
No matter the season
We are in the weather of your love


Hope the song lyrics bless you anyway....
Our weekend has been pretty packed. After having an awesome day celebrating Izzy's birthday on Saturday, we had a revival group party after church Sunday which was great. We all hung out in one of the local parks playing various games.After the park Izzy had her Track group project presentation. The group showed a slide show of the cards they have been making. Izzys cards are going to be printed and sold which is exciting. you can view and buy the cards online at:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501955836#!/pages/Bethel-Impart-Cards/198267633539268

Of course Bill was amazing Sunday morning, talking about something that's very close to his heart, leaving a legacy for future generations. Was brilliant.
In other news, our car has broke. Which is not good. Although a mechanic guy is coming to look at it Wednesday sometime, so in the mean time we're all scrambling around trying to find lifts to the various activities we're involved in, including school tomorrow. Please do pray for a quick and speedy recovery for our car, and not an expensive one!

I've gone on for too long now, so that'll do. Really hope everyone reading this is well and enjoying life.
Bless you all for reading.

Izzy and Liam xxxxxxxx

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to
righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.” - 1 Peter 2:24.

*Izzys bday cake; Lil cooking on the bbq; Lynda,Izzy,Heidi, Antje, Sarah; evening bday party;izzys presentation.

Saturday April 2nd. Healing rooms

The healing rooms were very busy today, we had hundreds come from all over the world for a touch from the King.
My team leader was michael an aussie whose in second year. I told him i want to practice my word of knowledge (God telling us something about someone that i wouldnt know naturally, eg. a pain somewhere in the body, their name). So we prayed for a lot of people today, a lot of them came in for prayer for a body part, but God went deeper than that, and they got their body part healed and emotional healing too. God was incredible.
My favourite healing today was this mexican couple who couldnt speak any english, thankfully mike speaks spanish tho so we were ok. The wife had pain in the head, neck, shoulders, back and feet, she was quite unemotional, she didnt smile at all. So we prayed about 3 times and there was significant healing, but the pain had moved to behind her eys and another part of her back, when pain moves this means its a spirit from the devil causing the pain(otherwise why could it move!?) so i just said 'spirit of pain leave now, in Jesus Name' and suddenly she burst into laughter and was completely pain free! She laughed for about 10 minutes, then we prayed for her husbands back and neck and that got completely healed too. Thankyou Jesus!
We prayed for a lady who had a spot on her back and the doctor thought it might be cancer and so was booked to go for tests but came to the healing rooms first. So me and my friend Lilly prayed for it to go and she said she felt like something was being pulled out of the spot, she said it was a strange feeling. I hear God say she gets headaches, so i asked her and she said yes! she had had one yesterday and gets them a fair bit, so i commanded them to go in the name of Jesus, and we are believing they have gone. She came back 10 minutes later and tol us the feeling on the spot was still going on, so God was definatly doing something.
A lady came in who had ruptured something in her knee and was in a LOT of pain. She was due for an operation in 2 weeks on it. We prayed and got her to check out the knee by walking up some stairs (which she couldnt do before) so she did, and said it was about 50% better.Praise Jesus.
A man who had a bone spur on his foot said he felt something happening on it when I prayed.
A girl from Sweden came in for prayer for hormone inbalance and nausea, so we prayed and i felt a tightening in my chest so we asked her if she had any anxiety, we commanded the anxiety to go, and she suddenly leaned back with her chest out, as though a weight had been lifted off, she said she felt a lot better and thr tightness and nausea was gone. We prophesed over her(gave her words from God about her future) and she left lighter and happier. SO GOOD!

They had people ringing the healing rooms through skype and we heard at the end that lots of people who had cancer had rang in, and all the pain left their body! One lady got healed from something, then got her daughter to be prayed for, then got her son, and kept going and getting more family members for prayer, and they all got healed! there were many more skype testimonys too which i cant remember, but God was definatly moving through skype today!

Thanks for reading about my exciting morning.

Love you and Jesus loves you

xXxXx

Thursday 31st March 2011.
Bill Johnson, senior leader at bethel, was hanging around in school today at the beginning, we had the nicest conversation and he gave me a lovely hug, he is such a fatherly man, so warm.
Also today our friend Elizabeth had a lovely suprise on her birthday, she had a dream about finding money in a purse she doesnt use any more, so when she woke up she checked her purse just in case there was money.......and found a beautiful good sized diamond! It is perfectly cut and SO sparkly we saw it today, shes tried to cut glass with it and it worked, so it is real. God loves to give his children gifts. People have found gems all over the world, all different colours and all different sizes. Thankyou Father God. :) we are waiting for ours, izzys birthdays next thursday....

Religion loved to strain and strive and boast in what its done.we are only going to boast in what He has done. weve been grafted in to the jam of heavens twinky. oh John Crowder we love you

Hello ship mates, hows it going?

Everyone havin' a good ol' time out there?
Last week Canon Andrew White came to speak to us which was awesome. He told us stories of his life, both painfully sad and wonderfully happy. he got rocked at Bethel and has gone home saying Bethels the joint best church with his in the world. haha.
We have had a great week this week, it started off on monday with a football/soccer time for liam, and a lovely walk round shasta lake for izzy.
Tuesday we were in school, we had a time of wonderful worship and then Bill Johnson spoke, it was amazing. He spoke on John 12:37 onwards. about how if we see whats coming, we can ask for it and pull it into the now. twas a good word.
Tuesday night we went to the 1st of 5 meetings called Dream Culture, run by a couple called Andy and Janine Mason, Andy is interning with Danny Silk, one of the pastors here. It was so good! About learning how to dream (as in what we wanna do in life) and that we have permission to dream, and steps on how to make them happen.
Today we had church history with one of the revival pastors, John sturges, which was brilliant, we then had bible teaching with Dann Farrelly, who spoke on the law which was good. Then Paul Manwaring spoke on beauty. It was just SO good. It was a little bit like the Dream Culture stuff. It was about living your life doing what you love which is beautiful, and brings glory to God.
We had revival group in which we played prophetic games, prophecying over people whilst blindfolded so our own judgements and stuff dont cloud our words from God for people. It was fun.
Tonight me and Em went to SOZO training which was really good. Pretty much everythings been really good today :), and tonight we had friends over to play games and eat english chocolate. cadburys!! YUM.

I hope all having a wonderful week. The weather here has been awful, all the rivers are really full because its been raining a lot! but today.........the sun came! wooooooooooo. ive missed it. it felt so good on our skin. i hope it doesnt go away.

Remember, you have permission to have dreams, write them down and think about how you can make them come about. Its not being selfish, God put those dreams into your heart, and he wants you to fulfil them, because he loves you.

Blessings and Grace

*photo of game from revival group.

Rancho de Sus Ninos

Hola!

We've been away for the past week in Mexico on a missions trip where we stayed at Rancho de Sus Ninos. We had an awesome, life changing time so we thought we'd fill you in on some of what happened....

We arrived at Rancho last Saturday, early afternoon after a really really long drive. We left Redding at about 2AM and arrived at about 2PM, the whole journey we rode in a bus. We were all really tired but excited about what the week ahead had in store. We were graciously given the rest of Saturday off to adjust to our new surroundings, apart from we had to be at dinner and we had a welcome talk we attended.

Sunday morning we had a church service which was great. The worship was amazing, the band were incredibly gifted musicians. Izzy was one of our team that was painting and painted a beautiful picture of a bird with various aspects of God's character in it's wings, reflecting Malachi 4:2. The service was a great introduction to the week ahead.

Sunday night we went and ministered in a small local church. To my surprise I was given the task of leading the kid's ministry. After a short time of panic, I thought through what would be good to accomplish during the time with the children and found some helpful and gifted people to fulfill this. We decided to get the kids active in hearing from God and to finish the session off by doing a picture for someone special to them and drawing what they thought God wanted to say to that person. The time went really well, loads of the kids came up with amazing and creative pictures and really seemed to engage with what was going on, even though we had to do the session through a translator.

Having gone on a trip to Uganda a few years ago I thought Mexico would be a kind of step up in terms of quality of living than Africa. Obviously not on a par with the US and UK but somewhere in between. I was shocked, Much of what we saw in Mexico was below the standard of living that we saw in Uganda which really took me by surprise. It was incredibly dry, the landscape was very dusty and most peoples houses were just bits of wood stuck together, nothing nearly as big as the garages we put our cars in. I guess I was ignorant to how Mexican people live.

The rest of the week followed a nice pattern of services with the Bible collage students in the morning, a couple hours of manual work where we helped install a water pipe, sewage pipe and lay foundations for a playground; and then in the afternoon we would go out to various places in the local area and talk to people and invite them to events that were being held. We got to play with the kids who go to school at the Ranch on a couple of days too which was awesome. All of the kids that stay at the Ranch are orphans and it was a pleasure to be able to spend time with them, in my case it was giving them various balloon animals and shapes that we made. The love of God was so evident in their eyes. Even though the world may have forgotten about these kids and these people, God certainly hasn't, it was so humbling to spend time with them. I must say I am in awe of the work that Jimmy and Genea Horner are doing in Tecate, Mexico. It truly was a privilege to be able to partner with the work they are doing.

The group we were with was great too. There was about 57 of us I think, many of whom we had never met or seen around school but by the end we were like a family. It was great to spend the week with them and getting to know them, it was such a great group that was led amazingly by Ben Armstrong, one of the Revival group Pastors at our school of ministry. I could go on and on about what we did, what we saw, but I'm going to leave it there for now. Maybe we'll fill in some details as the weeks go by. I must tell you about the Friday night we had. Friday nights are there healing service, so in the main hall they have a worship and prayer service and some of the class rooms off of the main hall serve as healing rooms where as people are called they head into one of the classrooms to be prayer for. Needless to say, Jesus got some of what He paid for and many people got healed or set free from things that had them in bondage. Absolutely awesome time, such a blessing to be able to serve them at this service. We also got to see a brand new centre they're about to open which is going to be a healing home. It's for people that are terminally ill and doctors have given up hope. They will be able to stay at the home and be cared for and ministered to by the staff there. Such an awesome thing to be doing.

We really hope this wasn't our last time at Rancho de Sus Ninos. It's a very long way from home but we hope one day we'll be back. We were so touched and moved by the staff, children, and students. May God bless them exceedingly abundantly above all they ask or think.

Until our next post, Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee! or Adios!

Healing rooms 6th March:
The Holy Spirit rocked a lot of people today! I wish i could remember them all but i cant, so i will tell you what i know.
My group prayed for about 6 people. The first people we prayed for left with hope and knowing the love of God, we declared divine health over their family. We prayed for a man that had come from somewhere 10 hours away, he come regularly to get his top up of prayer. he had fibromyalgia, scoliosis, spine and joint pain and arthritis. As we prayed he said he felt a little better. we prayed some more and he said his calf's were better than they had been in years and started crying as God showed him how much he was loved, we knighted him and told him he was a beloved son of God. he started bending down and twisting all around and said he was so much better, and he bend down and touched all our feet to show off his newly healed calf's! :)
We prayed for a woman who's aunt had cancer and she just wanted to know God love and joy, she also had pain in her gall bladder. As we prayed i felt like i needed to put my hand on her hair and ask for oil of love to flow over her. After she said her gall bladder had stopped hurting, and as i put my hand on her head she said she felt love pour through her and it felt just delightful. She left really happy.
There were people all over the room getting healed, someone walked without his walker for the 1st time in 2 years, someone who didnt have any intestines and had a bag could feel intestines in him and said it was all moving in there, he also couldnt straighten his arm at all with no pain and could by the end of the 10 minute prayer. Peoples migraines left, pain in bodies left. God just did SO much today. And i'm sure many more will write in saying they got healed in the week that follows, as that's what normally happens.
People ring in on skype to the healing rooms and there were testimonies of a tumour shrinking, a hernia going, holy spirit encounters. SOOO GOOODDD!!!!

I LOVE working in the healing rooms.
I had a bad back from standing all day and told Adam, so he just clicked behind my back and said 'be healed' and i suddenly went bright red in the face and got so hot, then my back felt all warm and fuzzy. it was such a nice feeling : ) Thankyou Jesus.
If any of you are in pain and have anything wrong with you physically, i would definitely recommend calling on skype to the Bethel healing rooms.
http://www.ibethel.org/site/healing-rooms-ministry
Today we are going to relax, go out for a coffee, do some homework and thank God for His awesome goodness.

Take care. God Bless you

Hello lovely supporters, here's an update on our missions situation, so we were going to Ecuador, then we didn't raise the money(it was 4,200 dollors for both of us) so we asked to be put on the waiting list for Tecate,Mexico (which Josh and Em and our friend Tony are on) then they emailed saying there was no space, so we cried for like a week, then they offered us a little 3 day trip to a place 2 hours away and we said no, then we thought we didn't have a trip, then yesterday they emailed and said people dropped out of Tecate so we are in! woooo we were sooo happy.
The trip is 8 days long and we will be driving down. Which is a long drive!
We will tell you more about what we will be doing soon.
Love yas alllllll
xxxxxxx

Good day everyone!

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. Just wanted to update you all with what's been happening this week......

Not a lot.


Just kidding. Sort of. This past week there's been a conference on at church which means we only had school on Tuesday and half of Wednesday and the rest of the week off. When there's a conference on we quite often get some of the speakers in school to talk to us, which is what happened this week.

On Tuesday we had Bob and Bonnie Jones in school to talk to us briefly which was brilliant. Bob shared some of the insight he has from God and being over 80 years old he had some great stuff that he shared. One thing that stood out was the emphasis he feels God is placing on Networking, which has become especially important to us as we've been out here for 6 months with only 3 months left. It's vitally important the church and it's leaders maintain networks and close relationships because we can help each other out.

Tuesday also saw the last session of the Revival history course with Ray Hughes that I've been a part of. Ray's enthusiasm for history and the many moves of God over the years is so infectious, I've really enjoyed listening to Ray for the last 5 weeks and it's a real shame it's over but it has given me an appetite to further study history and the many men and women used by God over the years. It has also coincided with us reading God's Generals by Roberts Liardon as part of our course, which is awesome. The many people in the book are so inspiring and encouraging.

We had Graham Cooke come into school on Wednesday, again another amazing time. Graham is from England but now lives and works in America, so it was refreshing to hear a British accent. Graham shared some awesome stuff, it was so good I gave up taking notes because I didn't want to miss anything. One awesome thing he said was 'You don't become a new person by changing your behavior, you become a new person by discovering the person you already are in Christ and behave accordingly'. So often we try harder to do things different or change a behaviour that we don't like but really we need to realise who God says we are and who God sees us as and understand that we need more of God's grace. I think this is the biggest thing I've learnt this year; who God says I am and who He sees me as.

We spent Thursday and Friday mainly just relaxing and catching up on homework because the weather hasn't been too great recently. More like England really. We had Bill speak on Sunday morning at church, another awesome message I'd encourage you to get hold of. It's such a privilege to be able to call Bethel Church 'home' for a season.

Thanks for reading this, we're so blessed that people read our blog posts and take an interest in how we're doing. Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to contact us and let us know what's going on.

Blessings and Love

Liam and Izzy

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.
Then you will call on me and come and pray to me,
and I will listen to you.
You will seek me and find me when you
seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29v11-13

Dear Reader,
Here's a selection of exciting things that have happened in my life in the last 2 weeks.Enjoy,

Sat 5th Feb: Woke up at 7 to get to the healing rooms at Bethel for 8. Got there, signed in, chatted, started walking around praying and getting jacked up on love.
We split up into teams of 4-5 and at 9 the leaders let people in(by then they would have filled in a form asking what was wrong with them and other questions and been in the encounter room worshiping/ praying/ waiting) we prayed for a lady with arthritis,she said her pain level was a 3/10 at that time but it did get really bad, so we prayed for a while and sure enough when we had finished she was dancing around saying she was pain free. So we all danced together. We prayed for a man who came over looking very sullen, we prayed and prophesied over him, he left with tears in his eyes happier than ever having been healed.
there were many more people that we prayed for and all left smiling and praising God our healer.

Left for San Fran in a tiny little plane that seated about 30. Sat next to a man who was a writer and was looking for a house to buy in Redding. We chatted all the way and ended up giving me his card because his wife had written a children's book and was looking for an illustrator! i got to pray for him and his family about some stuff and it was really good.
waited for 4 hours in San Fran airport, met some nice people including a shoe shine Mexican granddad who was lovely.

Sun 6th Feb: Got to England after a Loooooooong flight and was met by my parents. We got back to Cheddar in time for my little sister Corries baptism, which was amazing. She gave her testimony and got dunked, then everyone stood around her and prayer and prophesied over her. Then John Heather did a wonderful preach about our hearts. Was lovely to meet little Chloe, our friends new baby. Shes just gorgeousness!

Mon 7th: Visiting day. catching up with lovely people i hadn't seen for 6 months. Got to pray for Liam's Nan and some others. was soooooo good.

Tues 8th: Headed to Nottingham to help Hannah with wedding prep, saw her new house.
Fri 11th: Had a great family dinner with extended family, including my Uncle who had come back from Kenya for the wedding.

Sat 12th: WEDDING DAY!! Hannah looked stunning, and it was a perfect day. Was lovely to see everyone and have Matt welcomed into our family, and we met Matt's family who were just brilliant and we are looking forward to seeing them again.

Sun 13th: Drove to Heathrow dropped me off, then mum and dad dropped Corrie off at Gatwick for her flight to France.

Tues 15th: went back to school had so many people say they missed me which was AMAZING. Had Kris Vallotton speak, which was great as always.

Wed 16th: Bill Spoke, and we went to a social justice evening at Bethel, they showed a film and had stalls. It was really eye opening about sex trafficking and slave labour. Always ask if your coffees is fair trade wherever you go!!!

Thurs 17th: It SNOWED. That was a surprise i thought id get back to warm summer sun but no.:(

Fri 18th: Joaquin Evans spoke on the Holy Spirit, Then we had revival group where Joaquin's intern Josh Stevens spoke and had words of knowledge(God telling him what he wants to heal in the room) for healing, so some people got healed! :)

Sat 19th: Healing rooms again! What a day.SOOOO good.We prayed for a lady 1st who had a bad back and kidney problems, so my leader, sat her down and checked the length of her legs, one was shorter than the other so my leader sat her down and commanded in Jesus Name for the leg to grow out, then he asked her if she wanted to be taller, she said yes, so he commanded the left leg to grow even more. I literally saw her leg grow an inch longer than the other.I saw it move. then he commanded the other to grow, this happened a few times until she was a bit taller, probably about an inch and a half. Probably the coolest thing i have seen God do with my own eyes. He loves us so much, and He is so fun!
We saw a lady who had a frozen shoulder get unfrozen, she couldn't kneel cos it was too painful, and God healed her and she was kneeling by the end. We saw a lady who had one foot smaller than the other, so we commanded the smaller foot to grow and it did, so she now has the same size feet, God also healed her headaches and trauma pain from a car accident a few years earlier. A lady who had broken her arm the Thursday before was being prayed for in a group next to us, her pain level went from a 10 to a 0, and she could move her fingers, which she hadn't been able to do when she came in.
Someone in another group prayed for a lady with a brain tumour, she said her head was getting lighter and lighter and when she stood up she wasn't dizzy which she had been before cos her equilibrium was messed up.
There are more testimony's but I haven't got time to tell them all. It all happened between 9 and 12pm that morning.

Sun 20th: Church was amazing, Bill Johnson (senior leader) spoke. after i went up the front with a friend to pray for people (people who want prayer for anything can go up, maybe about 200 people go up each week) we prayed for 2 women, it was really amazing to pray, as Joaquin says ' we don't need to know how to do our job, we just need to let God do his.' all we did was invite the Holy Spirit, then command healing, and God shows up.
If you don't know this Jesus I'm talking about, he really is AMAZING TO KNOW. :) Hes our Savior, Healer and Deliverer.SO GOOD.
That evening Bob Jones was in town for the conference that's going on this week. Bob Jones is a famous prophet, he spoke on some interesting things about the future. (if you'd like to know please email me)

Mon 21st: Today i have been with my lovely friend Lynda who is the writer of the book I'm illustrating. We spent half the day together in a book shop discussing the book.Its been a good day so far. And we're about to have cookies so the day's gonna get even better!

We have Graham Cooke and Bob Jones coming in to school to teach us this week, so we will keep you updated.
hope you've enjoyed reading this diary/blog.
You've done well to reach the end, it's so long!
Thank you xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us.
1John 4:16-19

Hello again!

Sorry again for not blogging for a while. As mentioned before, our latop has been a bit troublesome, but I've managed to prop it up in such a way that it works. For now anyway. So I'll fill you in on what's been going on....

Before I go on and update you all, I'd like to acknowledge the fact that this blog post will be missing something. Or rather someone. Izzy is back at home in the UK for a week for her older sister's, Hannah, wedding. So it's just me for this one, but I'll do my best.

The back end of last week was a very exciting and interesting time at school. We had special guests in the shape of Georgian and Winnie Banov come in and talk and lead worship. What an amazing time! If you're not familiar with the Banov's, well I can only apologise. They're....I'm not really sure what the word is but the fact they're referred to as 'Joy Apostles' sums it up quite rightly. They lead worship in a way that you can't help but be joyful! and they really have an amazing revelation on what Jesus did for us on the cross. If you get chance to listen or see them, do it. It's incredible. A lot of their ministry is to the poorest of the poor around the world, from gypsies in Eastern Europe, to rubbish dumps in Central America. Amazing stuff.

Izzy left for home on Saturday from Redding, with a change at San Francisco. She had been in the Healing Rooms as a prayer servant for the first time on Saturday morning, where she saw amazing breakthroughs in people's physical health including praying for a lady with rheumatoid arthritis who said the pain left and she was now pain-free! Very exciting stuff! As the session was coming to a close,I quickly whisked her off to the airport however to catch her flight. Redding airport was so small, made Bristol airport look like a major hub for air transport. Izzy said the plane was really small too, she had to duck in order to move up and down the plane. But she made it back to Heathrow after about 15 hours or so, just in time to make it back to Cheddar to see her younger sister, Corrie, get baptised! I'm told everyone had a great time, really sad I didn't get to be there but I'm so proud and excited for Corrie. Well done! You're awesome!

Sunday came and it wasn't just Any Given Sunday, it was Superbowl Sunday! First we had church in the morning, where Bill was just amazing. He really hit the nail on the head, with how I've been feeling and thinking for probably the last 2 months or so. It's so easy to get caught in the culture of Bethel while here and not have your own life with God. It's so easy to hear the testimonies and just get caught up in the flow of life without actually having your own history. (I'd like to point you in the direction of our housemates and friends, Josh and Em, who on their last blog entry did a great job of discussing this) And that's going to be the big test for us when we leave, when we'll be away from Bethel and Bill Johnson and all the other awesome ministries here, will we truly have our own well to draw from, as it were. As Bill said, the only way to be a credible witness is to have first hand testimony. Please, I encourage you to listen to the recording if you have chance.

And then came the game. I've watched a few Superbowls back in England so I was really looking forward to this one, especially as it meant I didn't have to stay up til 4 or more in the morning to finish watching it. We had a few people round, mostly non-american's though which was quite funny. We were all fairly new to it all. It was really an international event as the nations of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and Yorkshire were represented. Although Dayna, from Canada, mistakenly took Tony, from the nation of Yorkshire, for an Irishman, which led to a few laughs. The game itself though was good. The main complaint was that it was so long, unlike football (soccer (hurts to type that word)) or rugby which are both quite freeflowing sports, but the Superbowl commercials were good fun, each company really tries hard every year to put out great adverts. My favourite was a Doritos one.

Anyways, it's now getting late and I need to get some beauty sleep. Please be praying for me as I'm all on my own (well, I do have friends but I miss Izzy) and Izzy and her family as they prepare for Hannah's wedding this coming Saturday.

God bless you all, He is awesome!

Peace & Love

Liam
'For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him'
John 3:17

Hello everyone,

Sorry it's been a little while since our last blog, we've had some trouble with our laptop which has not been ideal. But we press on regardless. Feels weird not being able to use our laptop. What did we do before computers? And after just watching the film Social Network, what did we do before Facebook? Incredible how things have changed so quickly and everyone seems to have Facebook now.

Anyways, wanted to update you all (or y'all for any Americans that might be reading) on what's been going on.

Since starting back at school after the Christmas Break everyone, especially in our house, has realised just how quickly time here is going. That soon it'll be May and school will be over and we'll be back home and will anything have changed. So I think we're trying to be more intentional about implementing what we've learnt and agreed with and getting as much out of our time here as we can. The importance of taking ownership of our walk with God is so key to maintaining our devotion to Him. And by that I don't mean religiously strive to keep the flame burning for God but realise Christ died to restore us to a place of relationship and enable us to live as sons and daughters of God, as He originally intended, and as part of that we have the choice to respond to His call. Because He is love, God doesn't force himself on us or force us to choose Him, it is our choice to make.

And it would be so easy for us to have loved our time here, learnt a lot, been inspired by all that's going on, but to not actually have changed or to have been impacted by the idea of God but not by the person of God. So we're all trying to get as much out of the last few months as we can and really live the life that truly satisfies.

With that in mind, we've had a great week. Bill was in Tuesday after just arriving back from a trip to the middle east. The way Bill conducts himself is a lesson in itself. He has so much integrity and strongly believes in the local church, that's why he really tries to make time for the students.

Wednesday we had Kris Vallotton talk to us. It was his birthday and his wife and some of the staff surprised him on stage by walking up behind him with presents and balloons. Was a very nice touch and everyone gave him a big cheer. Afterwards we had a great time with our revival group. Some of our very good friends were struggling financially and unable to make a couple payments so our revival group decided to bless them with money to show how much they are loved and valued by everyone. Was a really good time, very emotional.

Thursday saw a guest speaker in the form of Ray Hughes. He was great and brought an amazing message about the different Hebrew words in the Old Testament that are translated in English simply as 'praise'. Our, particularly, Western church services, miss so much of what it meant in, for example, the time of King David to worship God. We normally just sing a couple of songs or hymns and it's job done. But what the Scripture really meant was a complete range of things. Ray was really inspiring.

Today (Friday) was another good day. Our main speaker today was Jason Vallotton, who talked to us about a subject very close to him after he had to deal with a divorce. He spoke about working through pain and gave many practical tips on how to do it in healthy way.

Anyway, it's late now and I've gone on for far too long. Really hope everyone is well and has an awesome weekend. Thank you to those who have kindly supported us both in prayer and financially. It's much appreciated.

Until the next time, God bless you all.

Izzy and Liam

20 degrees in January??

-Russell Evans, and Bill Johnson, doing his usual stance

Hello to everyone who reads this!
Welcome to another blog post from Redding, California!

What a couple of weeks we've had. I know we updated you a little bit about last week at school, but I just wanted to fill in a few details.

Steve Backlund was incredible. We had him speak to us Tuesday and Thursday and he possesses such a contagious joy. He's so funny and warm. His role at the church is mainly linked with Global Legacy, the network the church runs with other churches and church leaders around the globe. His talks were great and really practical, concerning mindsets we form in our brain and act out in our lives and how these mindsets need to be victorious if we are to live effectively for the kingdom of God. He also talked about hope and what that looks like for us as Christians, and how hopelessness can so easily creep in.
Wednesday was another great day as we had Paul Manwaring speak to us. Paul is a fellow Brit, so it was great to hear a somewhat familar accent from the stage for a change!
He spoke a lot on the subject of glory, some really powerful stuff. It was really helpful to see Paul, and we spent an evening at his house last week with some other Brits that are here too, to see how he and his family have adapted to life in the culture here. Paul really is an inspiration, embracing most if not all of life here and how they do things while at the same time remaining, somewhat resolutely, British. He has certainly taught us lots on how we in the UK can take and live many of the principles out that they have built here in Redding.

After Bill Johnson being away for the last week or so we didn't think we would see him in school for a little while so it was a great surprise that he came and spoke to the class on friday. Bill was his normal, peaceful but powerful self, speaking mainly on the topic of the Holy Spirit and how to host Him. Good stuff.

We had a great, restful weekend, punctuated by Sunday's services which, as always, were amazing. Sunday lunch was different, Josh and Em, who we live with, invited their friends Brandon and Caleb round, so Brandon brought some Venison meat with him. So we had a bit of a roast dinner, something we miss from back home. It was the first time we have had venison, which was interesting. It was ok, can't say I'm desperate to have it again. But we had a great time and the weather over the weekend and into this week has been amazing. It's been about 20-21 degrees! In January! It's like a British Summer! It's brilliant! I can't stop using exclamation marks!

Today (Tuesday) we were back at school again. Danny Silk, one of the senior leaders of the church, was in to talk to us. Danny always has media savvy presentations, full of funny videos and clips which is entertaining. We're currently reading one of his books for our homework, called 'Culture of Honour' (or Honor for the Americans, but I can't bring myself to write it without the 'u') It's a brilliant book so far, highly recommend it. Really like his explanation of the five fold government of the church and his outlining of what the New Covenant in Christ means for us, not a new set of laws but of freedom to manage ourselves as sons and daughters of God.

Really hope everyone is doing well, wherever you all are. We're having an incredible time here, God is so good, teaching us so much. We're still needing money for our missions trips to Ecuador, so if you want to give into that then click on the link to the side of this blog. Many thanks to those who have already given to this and to us in general.

Please do get in touch and let us know how you're doing, what you're up to etc. We love to hear from people!

Until next time...God bless you all.

Izzy and Liam x

'Who shall seperate us from the love of Christ? ....I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord'
Romans 8:35,38-39 - That's some pretty Good News!