At Kingsway Church we will be doing something specific in prayer. Every few weeks, we will intentionally pray for a different Foursquare Church, learning what God is doing through them, in them and with their communities. Our goal is that by connecting to and praying for other Churches across Canada, God will open our eyes - we will see the bigger picture of how He is working and moving through the power of prayer in this nation. We will Look and Watch... (Habakkuk 1:5)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Yukon Bible Fellowship Foursquare Church

I invite you to meet Pastor Rick and Nancy Turner and the Yukon Bible Fellowship Church. God is advancing His Kingdom through this body of believers in the North!



Praying for our brothers and sisters at Yukon Bible Fellowship, and what God is working there, Pastor Rick shares,

Pastor Bergman founded the work in 1974 with a special call to the First Nation People. YBF became a training center for the equipping of the Body of Christ and her influence in the many communities around the Yukon. Many Outreach churches were established.

Nancy and I have ministered in this church 3 different times since 1981 for a total of 19 years. We returned in June 2007 to help rebuild the work and refocus on YBF's original call.

The greatest stronghold in the North is the "spirit of independence". Our challenge becomes the message of "Joining", seeing the Body of Christ coming together.

Our praise has been to see the Lord add to His church over the past year; to see a fresh passion burn in peoples' hearts for the Lord and His Kingdom.

There has been a redefining of the vision: "To see the fullness of Christ's Image formed in each person and corporately and its powerful outworking in our community." We have begun a course "In Christ's Image."

We still have need for skilled workers: Worship leader, Youth Worker, Sunday School Supervisor. "Pray the Lord of the Harvest, that He may send Labourers in the field."

Nicole our 26 year old daughter has moved back with us. Nicole has been challenged with Spina-Bifida and is in a wheelchair. We pray for her continued health.

In Christ
Rick Turner (pastor)
Yukon Bible Fellowship
Foursquare Church





Friday, October 17, 2008

Vision


The first verse that God ever put on my heart for Canada is Hab 1:5 "Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am about to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." We are thankful that God's response is different and he no longer routs a foreign army to demolish us... and take us into exile. BUT, the root of it still stands, and that is this-- God loves to do the impossible. He will increase our faith in and through it. He will do things that we would not believe even if we were told, because we live in a place where the "Law is paralyzed" (Hab 1:4) ... sin is still sin... And God is still GOD. He loves the active vision. Prayer is not the ONLY thing we do, but it is the FIRST thing we do.