CRI-PHILIPPINES – ACTS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP
“. . . And Mt. Carmel Was Shaken!”

Philippines

Submitted by Dr. Edgar Auñgon -- CRI Philippines

 

The Tribal Convention pastors made it to their ACTS School of leadership Module 4 in Mt. Carmel. The total attendance was perfect: 100 pastors including the trainers. A couple (husband and wife) who met a motorcycle accident the week before the module made it on the second day when the wife was finally able to manage the pain on her broken wrest and shoulder. They had to do make up classes with their trainer until late in the evenings to complete the 32-hour requirement for each module which is a 2-unit course.

 

The second day of the module was a significant time for the 90% of the students/pastors who did their 7-hour Personal Prayer Retreat and fasting FOR THE FIRST TIME since they entered their pastorate. The Mt. Carmel Camp was so silent at the beginning of the retreat but one could tell that praises, prayers, requests and petitions went up to heaven. Each one had to bring Brad’s recommended Prayer Retreat pattern. There was silence as each one occupied every available room, shed and shade in the camp. But not long after the silence Mt. Carmel seemed to have been shaken when each one sang their devotional songs and songs of praise individually. Though scattered all over the camp, it seemed that they all sang as one and at the same time. The pastors came out of their personal prayer retreat and voluntary fasting a different people.