A Shift in Leadership

Building Antioch Churches

Their previous training in teaching and prophetic ministry has developed and matured them for this hour. The same is true concerning many churches. They have moved through the previous moves of restoration and are now poised for this present move. Churches need to receive the restoration of the prophetic ministry to be in a position to move apostolically. Crusaders Church of Chicago was blessed in the nineties to relate to Christian International and the ministry of Bishop Bill Hamon. God has used Christian International to help restore the prophetic ministry in a mighty way to the worldwide Church. We began to send many of our leaders to Christian International conferences to be trained and activated in prophetic ministry. In addition to Christian International, we were blessed to relate to Pastors Buddy and Mary Crum and Life Center Church of Dunwoody, Georgia. Their Activation Workshops and Prophetic Team Workshops helped train many of our current prophetic leaders. Hundreds of our members would drive and fly to these workshops to be activated and trained in prophetic ministry. As a result, we are currently activating and training hundreds of leaders around the world to minister prophetically. We now have hundreds of people in our church that prophesy. We also have ordained prophets and prophetic teams that travel the nations. The release of the prophetic was a key step in the development of our church. One of the leaders of our prophetic ministry has been released to function as an apostle. He travels around the world with apostolic teams to help churches activate their leaders and members to prophesy. His development for apostolic

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