The Forum for Charismatic Covenant Community in Italy held a General Conference in Rome on the 11th and 12th of February 2023. The title of the conference was: “The Charismatic Renewal: A Pentecostal Grace for the Whole Church”. During the conference there were plenty of times for worship together and fellowship and there were sessions […]
From February 12 to 17, a group of leaders from the Sword of the Spirit conducted a conference on community formation at the Emmaus Centre in Katimaku, Uganda, about an hour and a half north of Kampala. This was a follow up to a conference conducted in the same location last year by Jean Barbara, […]
The first Life in the Spirit Seminar of the Terra de Santa Cruz Community was quite an experience! It took place in Sao Jose Dos Campos on Saturday the 28th and Sunday the 29th of January, 2023. We had the LSS with married couples and single people together, mothers and daughters, fathers and sons and […]
A testimony by Pete and Amy Coyle We are Pete and Amy Coyle, part of the Antioch Community in London. Our marriage is an ecumenical one, with Pete being a Catholic and Amy from a non-denominational church background. Ecumenism deepens our faith as we see the differences in how we both live our Christian lives. […]
No one has greater love than that they lay down their lives for their friends. John 15:13 Commentary The final two steps in our ladder go well beyond the simple attitudes of acceptance and respect, however important those aspects of love might be. Deference itself is a powerful weapon and antidote to the divisive tendencies […]
A testimony by Rev. Bob Sabean It was December 1961. I was sitting in the Seminary library when God called me to life in covenant community. Before that, when I was 12 years old, he had called me to missionary service. That decision was at a summer camp sponsored by a multidenominational evangelical fellowship. Since […]
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than […]
A testimony by Cristie Bradshaw 33 years ago, when I agreed to marry Todd, a Protestant, my father refused to walk me down the aisle. But Todd and I were fortunate to have the support of our community, Ligaya ng Panginoon (Joy of the Lord). Entering into an ecumenical marriage deepened my understanding of Christian unity. I […]
For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink of one Spirit. For in fact […]
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Romans 12:10 Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning. Proverbs 9:9 Commentary To accept and to welcome each other as family members opens doors to see a new landscape. Once we […]
