- Hope's healing ministry is a branch of the intercessory prayer ministry. Activities include offering healing prayer
on Sundays and at a monthly healing service, offering private prayer appointments, and this year, a new chapter
of the healing Order of St. Luke. Hope's healing prayer practitioners are trained in healing prayer techniques
and ethics and operate under the authority and oversight of Hope's vicar.
Hope continues its monthly healing service with musicians from a number of denominational backgrounds, and
healing prayer teams from Hope. The service is for anyone who is sick (in body, heart and mind), tired, or
spiritually wounded, and is structured so as to draw them to the love of God through direct experience of the
healing power, love and peace of the Holy Spirit, in an environment that offers anonymity with no pressure. The
service is an evangelistic instrument through the power of the Word, the worship music, prayers, and the power
of the Holy Spirit.
For those who want more in-depth or ongoing prayer, Hope continues to offer confidential "soaking prayer"
appointments following the models of the Christian Healing Ministries (CHM) of Francis and Judith MacNutt and
Bishop David and Mary Pytches' ministry. This ministry has attracted prayer clients from across Albuquerque,
across denominations and even out of state callers. Hope also is blessed by having several trained spiritual
directors who offered private, confidential, appointments. One of Hope's healing prayer practitioners has been
accepted into the school of spiritual direction at the Pecos Benedictine Monastery for 2006.
In March, the Hope and Faith Chapter of the Order of St. Luke was established at Hope. This chapter views its
role as the service and education arm of Hope's healing ministry, to bring along the members of Hope into a
deeper understanding of Christian healing, even if they are not going to become active prayer practitioners. To
this end, the Order of St. Luke offered a book study throughout fall 2005 on The Healing Power of Prayer, by
Chester Tolson and Harold Koenig, MD, and made plans to offer the CHM School of Healing Prayer Level I
course on video to the community in January and February with plans to offer level II courses in the future.
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