Kingdom Come

The discussion with Steve Leifheit and John Marshall continues with discussing our settings, sharing stories and discussing how beautiful and genuine our house churches are.  Some would even call this simple church.

In this episode we discuss some of the common misnomer's of church.  Things like do we take offerings?  Who is our covering?  Do we have elders or a pastor we follow?

You'll love the chat and appreciate you sharing it with a friend. 

Acts 2:46  - "House to House"
Acts 5:42  - "House to House"
Acts 8:3 -    "House after House"
Acts 10:22  "Cornelius House"
Acts 12:12 - "Mary's House"
Acts 16:32 - "Jailer's House"
Acts 16:40 - "Lydia's House"
Acts 18:7    - "Titius Justus House"
Acts 20:20 -  "House to House"
Romans 16:5 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
1 Cor. 16:19 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
Colossians 4:15 "Nympha's House"
Philemon 1:2 - "Philemon's House"

For the past three or four years we have been walking out modeling the early church model both locally and regionally here in New England.  It has been a total complete blast.  A few of the folks I have done that with are Steve Leifheit, from York, ME as well as John Marshall from Nashua, NH.

Both Steve and John aren't strangers to the show as they've both been on in the past to discuss similar topics.  If you've not listened to those shows go back and find them...it's worth your time.

Today we catch up with Steve and John - getting an update on where things are at with them as well diving into answering some of the many questions brought up in different circles surrounding doing this lifestyle. 
Acts 2:46  - "House to House"
Acts 5:42  - "House to House"
Acts 8:3 -    "House after House"
Acts 10:22  "Cornelius House"
Acts 12:12 - "Mary's House"
Acts 16:32 - "Jailer's House"
Acts 16:40 - "Lydia's House"
Acts 18:7    - "Titius Justus House"
Acts 20:20 -  "House to House"
Romans 16:5 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
1 Cor. 16:19 - "Prisca + Aquila's House
Colossians 4:15 "Nympha's House"
Philemon 1:2 - "Philemon's House"

For 7 years now since 2016 we have been taking tents to festivals all over New England as a paid vendor asking folks if they need prayer.  This year, something unique occurred...folks were walking into the tent on their own.  We made a simple yet profound change to what we were doing.

Listen to the stories from the field of God moving across New England through everyday believers hungry to give out the gospel to anyone....mind you...this wasn't a church service or a paid conference.  

It was folks inconveniencing themselves on a Friday or Saturday sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, getting annoyed I'm sure to find out Salvation would be coming. 

We did a podcast with, Eli (his old name, ha!) & Erica almost two years ago now prior to Covid happening.  They're an amazing couple that I was introduced to us by another guest of this show Steve Leifheit.  Their house church setting was the first one I had ever been too...it changed me and helped me have courage to launch our own.

All that to say, Elisha had been battling depression as well as they were struggling as a couple with their role inside their own house church gathering.  Their perception of church leadership wasn't the healthiest like many Christians in America today.

As our path's continued to cross and intersect I noticed this past Spring, Elisha had a massive transformation.

This recording was our first ever one done outside on their porch...fitting for their story.  Listen to an amazing conversation about the power of community, perseverance and grit with a breakthru testimony! 

We connected with Daniel and Jess Penn through Jess' dad, Rick Demmon's close to a year ago now.  They showed up for our annual Barn Dinner hosted on our farm and 200 year old barn.   We gather folks from the region for a dinner and worship in the barn.

Daniel and Jess are a married couple with a son, Matthew who got touched in our barn, listen to the episode to hear how they got touched...a year has passed and they have been a part of our community since then.

Listen to their journey from a church they'd been a part of for decades to a house church setting.  They growth the Lord has brought them through is astounding, but what's even better is the way the Lord has been using them all over our town! 

For years I have been toting around my prayer in the back of our car or truck all over New England.  Since that time the Lord has given me a strategy about a year ago an this prayer tent story you are about to listen to is the first of it's kind!  Tune in to hear from someone who stepped up to do a prayer tent in her own town, Katherine Eaton.

Katherine and I met almost a year ago now when she came out to help in Pittsfield last August at the Hot Air Balloon Festival there.  We connected and since then, Katherine has sparked a heart for doing this and furthermore senses a calling and burden to do this.  

We have been serving Harmony Homes and Henry in Manchester, NH for the last 5 years.  This year however, something changed.  Something shifted.  There was an incredibly strong presence of God.  It was so tangible and seen and modeled.  From the minute the church service started to the homeless doing all their shopping downstairs...God was there! 

Henry has done an amazing job all these years touching the hearts of hundreds.  There was roughly 100 plus volunteers from over a dozen churches across NH.  Our team manned the 'prayer tent' area.  

This year we prayed for over 200 plus homeless!  There was, like never before a massive desire from them to us for prayer...they wanted it! 

Listen in as my new friend Rick Demmons shares stories from the team.

Years ago we started out having a few pastors over for dinner.  We'd sit around and talk, brainstorm and share about the Ephesians 4:11 model - one of my favorite things...the 5 fold ministry.

From those humble beginnings to hosting pastors these gatherings have grown to now having upwards of 65 people come.  This past dinner was very sweet.  Very special with worship, prayer, prophecy and break-thru for many. 

Today's show is the testimony of a new local friend from Concord, NH Rick Demmons.  Rick and I got introduced to each other about 7-8 weeks ago.  He and his family have richly blessed our lives as friends but as kingdom minded believers.  They've helped in two prayer tents now as well as attended their first barn dinner

Guess what happen....you'll have to listen...but God moved mightily. 

For 5-6 years we've been doing prayer tent ministry at public festivals all over New England.  In the last year, the Lord had us pivot from going all over to focus on the state we live in - New Hampshire.

The Deerfield Fair in particular HAS been one of the most challenging festivals.  The toughest places to go...but not anymore.  That is changing.  We're starting to see people from festival's we've done prayer tents at before...we starting to see them over and over.  The work we are doing is starting to penetrate the darkness.  It's starting to penetrate the unbelief...it's working!  But we need your help. 

We share on today's show stories from the field praying for others.  We prayed for a man two years ago at this festival who came running down the sidewalk looking for the prayer tent to tell us - He's OUT OF HIS WHEELCHAIR!  

We've been doing regional gatherings at our home here in New Hampshire for the last year.  It started out of friendship and has evolved to include upwards of around 30-40 leadership type folks around the area.  Many of us all have in common, the movement in our area that is ever expanding.  

Last weekend in Kittery, ME we had a similar type setting but open the gathering up to anyone who wanted to come and hear about house church.  We had roughly 7 house church homes represented with about 35 folks present.

Each time we meet the settings differ as do the outcome.  We were honored today at Kingdom Come to have a friend of the show Steve Leifheit on the program again.  Steve took the lead on setting up the Maine get together which was a nice break for us here in Concord.  His passion for this movement is contagious.  The show we had him on in the past called The Great Spiritual Reset Part 4 is one of our most listened to program's after 3 years!  

Thanks for listening and believing in what God is building.