Everyday Evergreen

Pastors Brad and Derik unpack the history and experience of "Meeting Place Prayer" - a type of imaginative prayer used in healing prayer sessions. They share their own experiences and history of meeting place prayer and discuss logistics to help you discern is a healing prayer session is your next step with Jesus.

Pastors Brad and Derik discuss the meanings and implications of Advent and connect this season of a new church calendar year to our 2024-2025 vision focus of partnering with the Spirit to take our next step of healing, uprooting strongholds of death, and cultivating flourishing communities.

Pastor Derik introduces and facilitates morning prayer through the book of common prayer. 
Outline:
1. Call to Worship
2. Confession & Absolution
3. The Invitatory & Psalms - Psalm 95 and 105
4. Scripture Reading - Revelation 3:7-22
5. The Creed
6. The Lord's Prayer & Intercession
7. The Collect & Benediction

In our first Evergreen Interview, Pastor Derik interviews Emily Hlavka Freed from our Brighton Missional Community. Emily currently serves as one of Evergreen's board members and delegates to the Free Methodist . In the second half of the episode we discuss her work with Wunders, an international ministry program addressing period poverty. Evergreen supports Wunders as one of our two strategic global partnerships. You can learn more about them at their website - https://www.wunderspartners.com/
 

Pastor Derik returns from the holiday break and unpacks a clearer definition of healing in light of our church's one year vision focus for 100% of Disciples to take their next healing step, weeding out strongholds of death, and cultivating flourishing communities.
 
Works Cited: https://lexhampress.com/product/45638/lexham-theological-wordbook
 

Pastors Brad and Derik reflect on the most recent feedback from Grove Gathering and discuss the broader context of healing in light of our discipleship with Jesus and answering the following questions:
1. What's the "ideal" person for healing prayer?
2. Role of discipleship and healing
3. Healing and cultivating flourishing communities
 
Also an invitation for Healing Prayer Training Huddle March 14-15th at New Harvest Church!

Pastor Derik interviews former Evergreen Leader Jordan Moss reflecting on discipleship, healing, and formation during his time in Evergreen (2019-2022). Jordan also shares the ways he's living out his sentness in a new church and context in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pastor Derik shares wisdom around John 15:1-17 connecting being with Jesus or "radical abiding" with healing that leads to being a more faithful and fruitful disciplemaker. Pastor Derik also facilitates space for Lectio Divina and Listening Prayer around this passage.

The Evergreen staff engage in a "down in the dirt" conversation about identifying strongholds of death in a very practical sense in order for all of us to take a next step of healing. Shame is one stronghold that's specifically explored.
 
Here's the field guide Elise made to help us:
Field Guide on Uprooting Strongholds of Death
 

Pastors Brad and Derik continue the conversation from last time on "uprooting strongholds of death" by contrasting with fruits of spirit.  Galatians 5:13-26 serves as a backdrop for conversation.