What we do in the healing ministry of the Order of St. Luke the Physician ought not to be done in a corner. Many times that is exactly where the healing ministry is located in the church. It is relegated to a small slot in the life of the church and given the prominence of a pot roast at a Kosher Wedding. We are so proud of the strides the healing ministry had made over the recent years in every manner of church. Ministers, lay and clerical, are beginning to realize how great is the impact of seeing God relieve people of the all too desperate and mounting needs they face in every day life. The evidence is growing and becoming irrefutable that the Church cannot live without a form of healing ministry in the midst of the congregation that relies upon the supernatural power of God with the attending manifold expressions of gifts the Lord offers. We must have the power of God in our midst.

In fact, we must have signs and wonders. This is, of course, assuming the healing ministry expressed has integrity and true substance.

Evangelism is greatly enhanced by the signs and wonders, and the Kingdom of God is advanced as God performs miracles and healings among the people in and out of the church. Signs and wonders open the hearts of the people to receive the Gospel of Christ. We were made to BE signs and wonders. When I was hit by a 25-ton asphalt truck, and my aorta exploded like a blown out inner tube, the people all around me in the hospital, in the church, and in the community marveled at my miraculous healing. Several months ago a woman was healed in one of our missions. She had polio at age 11, almost lost her leg with multiple surgeries, and recently contracted systemic lupus. She was supernaturally touched by God in a healing eucharist and over a period of several hours, came up out of her crutches. What a wonder!

What do you think happened to her office building when she walked in on Monday and negotiated the stairs for the first time ever. "Now, where do you go to church?" Just imagine the response! The church where she goes is growing leaps and bounds. Not one New Testament church was established without signs and wonders. It is time my friends, to move into the supernatural river of healing grace and mercy. The Church will grow exponentially when we give God back His Church and let Him run it the way He originally intended.

We do not need to be ashamed of this gospel of signs and wonders. There is great evidence that this Holy spirit movement is engulfing the entire Southern Hemisphere on the globe. Some statistics are staggering: In 1960 there were about 60 million Spirit-filled Pentecostal/Charismatic believers worldwide. Today there are approximately 650 million with as many as 65 million coming into the Kingdom in one year recently. The figure is probably higher given the fact that in China we cannot get an accurate count. It is estimated that in the year 2001, 25 million Chinese came into the Kingdom of God, and that all, or most of them, come in with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and with signs and wonders being the norm for their experience. While the rationalistic church of America dissects truth, and languishes as a result. It's time for us to wake up and become who we truly are: a Sign and a Wonder!

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2008

August 22-23
Alpine, Texas
OSL Conference
Contact Thelma Hoyle for information
1-432-837-2088

September 5-6
Plainview, TX
Harvest Christian Fellowship
contact: Alecha Sheppard
alecha@harvest
christianfellowship.org

September 21-24
Shrinemont
Orkney Springs, VA
contact: John Harler 
jharler@verizon.net

October 3-4
St Alban's Church
3001 Wisconsin Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20016
contact: Jim Cantwell
jcantwell@cox.net

October 17-19
La Porte, TX
St. John's Episcopal Church
Contact: Sandi Harris
281-471-0383
sandi@stjohn-laporte.org

October 24-25
Christ Healing Center
135 W. Olmos,
San Antonio, TX
Contact: Hope 210-930-7760
Region V- OSL Healing Conference
Please register!! Space is limited
Speakers: Norma Dearing, Healing Touch Ministries and
William Standish Reed, MD

November 14-16
Del Rio, TX
St. James Episcopal Church
OSL Healing Conference
Contact:  Diane Pattison
830-774-5286
t6airplane@yahoo.com

2009

January 10-11
Houston. TX
Healing Mission
Mission Bend United Methodist Church

February 2-7
Cruise Your Blues Away!
A women’s healing retreat at sea. (spouses are welcomed)
Anna Marie Leading &
Angela Nelson of The 4th Voice providing
Praise and Worship!
Click here for registration form    

February 20-22
Lake Havasu, AZ
OSL Healing Mission
Contact: Jim Wright
928-453-8404 (h)
jimgloriawright@aol.com

March 6-8
Hudson, FL
OSL Healing Mission
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church
The Church is north of Tampa, about 40 miles and is located on the coast just
north of Tarpon Springs, Fl.
The church office phone #:  (727) 863-8560. 
Fax #: (727) 862-9275. 
Email address:  stmartins123@aol.com  
www.stmartinshudsonfl.org. 
Our Order of St. Luke Chaplain: Fr. Fred Scharf
fred.scharf@verizon.net

March 13-14
San Antonio, TX
Christ Healing Center
OSL Mission
WE host: Speakers: Don Jaeger and The Rev. Nigel Mumford
Come hear Don’s awesome testimony of  healing from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Please register!! Space is limited!
Call: Hope 210-930-7760

April 24-25
Philadelphia area
Healing Conference
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church