stories from basel
First a couple of stories from the Organic church consultation in Basel; Simon (front right in pic) from normal generation finds himself responsible for around 50 'organic groups' in Germany following a large youth event a couple of years ago. There are 5-600 youngsters involved and it was fascinating to see how they are grappling with what in effect was almost a spontaneous and certainly unexpected movement! This could well become a familiar situation for others in days to come.

Also wit us, though not in this picture as he had to leave early, was a Swiss evangelist who works mainly amongst new age types. Coming from a Salvation Army background he took over an old 'church' as pastor where they had seen no converts for 20 years; praying for a people group to reach God showed him the new age people who were not being reached by anyone. He began a series of talks in a central hall during which several were saved and one man healed of Hepititis B; since then he has travelled around the country taking part in new age/alternative fairs where he offers Christocentric healing, appearing on national TV and has a Christocentric healing room in his city where he prays for the sick. He has seen several cases of almost every well know incurable illness healed, all of which have been witnessed and documented by doctors. He was attending the consultation because over the years he found that many new agers who were coming to the Lord found it impossible to settle in an ordinary church, so he has begun forming clusters of new believers into small organic churches.

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