Special Service Just Announced!

In light of the explosions in Boston and of all the evil we see in the world and experience in our own lives, a special service is being held at New Creation Healing Center, Kingston, NH.  

 

This will be an opportunity to come together and remember, to look at these questions which our hearts and minds raise, have some prayer and singing, and, for those wishing it, have an opportunity for individual talking and being prayed with.

 

Rev. Canon Mark A. Pearson will be speaking  on the subject of “How Could God Allow Such a Thing?” 

 

 People from several area churches will assist. 

 

The service will be held Friday, May 3, 7 to 8:15, second floor chapel, New Creation Healing Center, 80 Route 125, Kingston, NH.

 

Any questions should go to New Creation Healing Center 603 642 6700

Some Truly Exciting News!

We thought our window for erecting the second building on our currently approved site plan would end September 30. Instead, the town gave us an extension — their offer! Moreover, instead of us having to pay a bank for a line of credit, we could place the money in an interest bearing account with the town! This will keep the opportunity open until the Spring of 2013.

 
If we are not able to raise adequate funds by Spring, we will still be able to build the second building, but we will need to start all over again the lengthy and expensive process of obtaining approval for a site plan.

 

We need to raise $600,000 in the next six months. The widow’s mite and the wealthy person’s major gift (name a room or a floor in the new building) will both be gratefully received … as will the gift most of us are able to make. Can you help us build that residential center that will help change many lives?

Ministry in Richmond

Canon Mark spent several days recently at St. Giles Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia. He had several sessions with the church’s healing team (pictured below), giving them some advanced level teaching. He ministered at three services (Sunday morning and evening, Monday evening), and taught the combined adult Sunday School classes.

 
Team co-leader Judy Roberts emailed us to say, “People were sharing the many good things they took away from the weekend. Thanks for all of your great input and encouragement. There’s definitely a fresh wind of the Spirit here.”

 
Dr. John Harler noted that “Canon Mark’s teaching was very comprehensive and balanced, covering all aspects of healing. I particularly liked the talks on why we should believe in the power of Christ for today, and the talk on how our healing can be blocked by sin.”

 
St. Giles’ pastor, the Rev. Keith Hill, reflected, “Canon Mark has a great knack for adding both ardor and order to the healing ministry of a local church. Our ardor was boosted as we saw how God used him during the services. We would like to be so used ourselves. And our order for a comprehensive healing ministry was boosted as he taught. We now have a much better sense of how to organize this ministry for sustainable growth. Thanks, Mark!

 

Special Dedication Service

Special Service, Sunday, August 5, 10:00 a.m.

We’re dedicating a bench in the Memorial Garden given in loving memory of R. Stanley and Madeline W. Pearson — Canon Mark’s grandparents by their daughter Nancy and her husband Robert Smith.  We’re doing this dedication in the context of our Sunday worship service. The service will be outside by the Memorial Garden.  We hope you can come.  We’ll have chairs and some umbrellas to provide shade.  Lunch will be provided afterwards.  We hope you’ll come and join with us.

Location is the Institute for Christian Renewal / Healing Center property, 80 Route 125, Kingston, New Hampshire.

 

You Are Invited

CLEAN UP MORNING, Saturday, June 2

Our center is blessed with beautiful grounds and we can use your help both to clean up the legacy of the winter and also to do some work on various projects. We’ve got something at every level of experience, expertise and physical ability. Clean up morning runs from 9 am to noon followed by a light lunch. Bring bug spray, sun tan lotion, work gloves, and whatever garden tools you wish. For more information call Sundy Clark at 603 483 2972 or email her at sundylee@cnonline.net

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SPECIAL TIME OF DEDICATION, Saturday, June 9

Over the years many people have donated at certain financial levels, sometimes just in their own name, sometimes in thanksgiving for something special, and sometimes in loving memory of someone. We have commemmorated those people with their names carved into bricks and paving stones, placed on a beautiful path around the Ten Commandments / Beatitudes Monument on the Healing Center property. We will be having a special time of dedication at 11 a.m. on June 9. Then we’ll do a prayer walk around the property and have a brief explanation of what’s next, including the second building and the Formal garden. A light lunch follows. Any questions call the Institute for Christian Renewal office at 603 642 3002.

Christian Healing Seminar Saturday April 28

The Institute for Christian Renewal team will lead an all-day seminar on Saturday, April 28, on the subject of Christian healing ministry, at our facility, 80 Route 125, Kingston, New Hampshire.

There will be two distinct tracks:

1.  Introduction.  This is for people who want to learn the basics of the Christian healing ministry — what is it, what does the Bible say about it, how can I pray for a friend for healing, how can I start ministering at Church, and the like.

2.  Advanced level.  This is for those people who have read some books and watched various levels of training videos but are ready to go to the next step.  Canon Mark Pearson, who has been leading conferences and workshops on Christian healing ministry around the world for nearly 30 years will address some of the issues that come up in us as we minister, and he will offer an extensive time for questions — something books and videos cannot give.  Additionally, Dr. Mary Pearson will address the issue of “difficult persons.”  When a church offers a healing ministry it attracts people who need God’s loving help but often bring issues with them.  We don’t want to be overwhelmed by them and we don’t want to turn them away.  What do we do?

Rev. Canon Dr. Mark Pearson

For more information and how to register contact conference coordinator Marlene Weitemeyer at 603 642 6700 during the day (it’s the new Creation Healing Center office) or email her at marlene@newcreationhc.org.  (Don’t call or email Institute for Christian Renewal.)  Preregistration price $40.  At the door $50.

Dr. Mary Pearson

The day ends with a service with both healing prayer and prayer for empowerment and runs from 9 to 4:30 pm.

Canon’s January, 2012, “Fortnight” in England

Okay, we would say “two weeks” in the United States, but since he spent that time in England we’ll use the British term “fortnight.”

Anyway, he spent that amount of time recently in England at four different places.

First, he attended the annual retreat of the Fellowship of Christ the Healer.  This is a gathering of leaders of major healing centers in England.  The group meets to update each other as to what God is doing in their ministries and to pray in-depth for each other.  Canon Mark attends about every two or three years in combination with speaking and ministry in various places in England.  Each time he brings back some ideas for our healing center and is encouraged and empowered by the prayers of the others.

Second, he spent two days at Harnhill Centre for Christian Healing in a little village outside Cirencester, near Gloucester, in England’s west country.  Classical and church music lovers might find it interesting that Harnhill is just a few miles away from the village of Down Ampney, where composer Ralph Vaughan Williams lived for many years.  Over the years the vision of Church of England priest the Rev. Canon Arthur Dodds has unfolded into a center of healing, counseling, and teaching. 

Canon Mark presided and preached at the Friday morning healing Eucharist attended by nearly 100 people.  On Saturday he led a day-long conference on the subject of using the gifts of the Holy Spirit in ministry.  In the photo are him with some of the Harnhill leadership.

Third, he preached on the Sunday morning in the parish church of the Somerset village of Nether Stowey and that evening in the church of the tiny country hamlet of Goathurst.  (See photo of Nether Stowey church.)

 

Years ago on one of his early ministry trips to England, Canon Mark met a solicitor (lawyer, to us) named Stephen Morley.  Years later Mr. Morley felt led of God to train for ordination in the Church of England.  He did a three week “placement” as a chaplain intern at New Creation Healing Center and was ordained a priest in Wells Cathedral on July 2, 2011.  Canon Mark was there as a presenter and in sharing in the laying-on-of-hands of ordination.  (See photo of the newly ordained priest with Canon Mark and the Bishop of Taunton who presided.)  Steve joined the ministry team of a six church cluster centered around Nether Stowey as one of the priests.

Fourth, Canon Mark went to the far west area of North Devonshire to teach a four day conference at Lee Abbey.  (Readers of classical English literature may have read the book Lorna Doone which mentions both Lee Abbey and the area immediately around it.)  Lee Abbey is a large manor house and was the site of a school evacuted from London during the Second World War.  Since then it has become a very large retreat and conference center.  Canon Mark led a conference on Christian Healing ministry for four days.

But he was not yet done!  It’s not uncommon for churches in England to take a sizeable number of their parishioners off for a retreat weekend and Canon Mark was asked to lead such a weekend for the Nether Stowey cluster of churches.

Then the fortnight drew to a close.  On the way to the airport he wondered if the flight home would be — please Jesus! — uneventful given his recent experiences in trying to leave London.  Four years back his was the last flight out of Heathrow before the airport was shut for a rare English snowstorm.  The pilots of the airplane, flying for Northwest Airlines and based in Minneapolis, convinced air traffic control that, yes, they could quite handily roar down a runway with snow on it!  Then, in April of 2010, the Icelandic volcanic eruption grounded him in London for a week.

Canon tried to elicit sympathy from people back in the U.S. for his being stranded.  However, his emails reported he was having fun with friends, taking in lots of London sites, and having fish, chips and a tankard of ale every night in a British pub.  His “pity me” please fell on deaf ears.

Once again, it is the financial assistance Institute for Christian Renewal newsletter readers and friends provide that makes his ministry trips possible.  Thank you so much.