touching His presence, imparting His power
Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within our reach. He demonstrated that by healing sickness, restoring the broken hearted, freeing those gripped by diabolical bondage and inviting people into intimacy with the Father. Church is called to be a community that lives in the love and power of this. As a ministry of YWAM England, Purefire is called to equip and build up the body of Christ to live in the freedom and power that Christ demonstrated and called us to. We want to inspire people to live cherishing the presence of the Spirit. We aim to equip people in destroying the works of the evil one in their own and others lives. We want to train people to live seeing what God is doing and to do it.
Pure
For people to understand the power of the gospel, what sin is, how we can walk into freedom because of Christ and knowing our authority and inheritance in Christ – we are a new creation!
To see the Kingdom of God preached and demonstrated as a present tense reality through healing, deliverance, signs and wonders. To take this message to the hungry bringing the compassion of Christ – love that makes a difference, a supernatural difference in people’s lives. To draw people to obedience to Christ and experience this Kingdom in and through their own lives.
Fire
How do we do this?
Investing in the Body
We burn to see the body of Christ rise up in who we really are in Christ, reaching that full measure of the maturity of Christ so that through both words and actions people see the true nature of God. To see people set free through the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
To this end we invest in individuals who are hungry, YWAMers on DTS and staff, local churches and other agencies to play our part in raising the body to maturity. We seek to invest on an ongoing basis, building partnership with where we sense God giving us an open door with local churches and YWAM bases and teams.
Leading into Mission
We seek to directly demonstrate that the Kingdom is at hand to those who do not yet know this truth. Along with this we seek to draw others with us, from our partnership network, to bring wholeness to broken lives through the power of the gospel. We do this both within this nation and out to the nations.
Ministering as Team
We seek to minister as a team, believing that Christ has called us to minister together, drawing on each others giftings, flowing in love so that two can put ten thousand to flight.
We are called to walk in both purity and power… repentance and freedom from sin and the power that sets the captives free and opens the eyes of the blind. We are convinced that the two go hand in hand and that we, in this ministry, must be pursuing both of these facets in our own personal lives.
Key Strategies
• Seek to carry both character and power amongst ourselves so we speak from ‘what we have’.
• Partnership with YWAM bases, their staff and their DTS’s.
• Partnerships with UK Churches (Currently 6) and churches in Europe (currently one stream of churches in Germany, and a church plant in Berlin).
• Freedom Courses
• Teaching and Ministry weeks on DTS’s (usually sin, the cross, repentance and living in Christ). In
• Praying for staff at YWAM bases (approximately 500 hours this last year), helping them to deal with the things that have held them back that they have learned to ‘cope with’. Lies, unforgiveness and a lack of understanding of who they are in Christ.
• Investment into local church leadership
• Midlands Pastors Days