Harrisburg Discipleship Center

A team of Firestarters volunteers traveled to Harrisburg tonight to serve at a missionary training base there named "The Harrisburg Discipleship Center" or HDC. HDC is a ministry of Discipleship Ministries, which is associated with Eastern Mennonite Missions.

The staff and students gathered at around 7:00pm to meet with us. We were asked to do an evening of "prophetic ministry," while keeping it "low-key" since some in the group may never have experienced anything like this before. We were planning to do some impromptu (or prophetic) worship and pretty basic sharing and teaching, intending to keep it "low-key" as we were asked to do.

Well, we started off according to plan - with Sean sharing about having our roots deep in relationship with God. And Jen shared breifly about what "prophetic ministry" is. Jen then explained that one part of prophetic ministry is prophetic worship - and this concept is actually right there in the Greek definition of the root word meaning "prophecy" in the New Testament.

We were not sure how the group would respond to prophetic worship, so we started "slow" but they didn't keep up with our pace at all. :> They went deep and FAST! We spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how to keep up with them!

The students just seemed like sponges in God's presence, soaking up His peace and joy, scribbling His revelations in their journals, ministering and encouraging one another. We spent most of the evening simply worshipping God and being with him together.

Then we noticed it was getting late, so we asked one of the HDC staff if we should go ahead and dismiss and welcome any who would like prayer to stick around. They ok-ed this plan and we proceeded to "dismiss"... Well, dismissals only work if people actually want to leave! Many students stayed and more than we imagined waited until quite late to recieve prayer. We witnessed God bring breakthroughs and we saw many students being very encouraged.

We were inspired by this group's desire for God and we hope we were a blessing and inspiration to them too! We look forward to going back to HDC in November to minister to them one more time before they leave for outreach.