 Alleluia Community, located in Augusta GA is an ecumenical charismatic community that believes the Holy Spirit has called them together to live the Christian life, culture, and unity that God desires for all people and all denominations. The majority of Alleluia Community members live in an Augusta neighborhood affectionately called Faith Village. Through their daily life of prayer and friendships they seek to help each other live their lives so as to glorify God under the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit.
Recently some Alleluia Community members gathered to pray the Litany for the Coming of the Lord in Glory in anticipation of the season of Advent. Click below to access the video.
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"Love Song for the Bride" by Brother Isaiah, Franciscan Friar of the Renewal.
Brother Isaiah wrote this song for the Church to remind her of the One who loves her. He sings, "Behold he makes all things new just looking at you". The phrase "makes all things new" reminds me of Revelation 21:5 where the Lord says, "Behold, I make all things new". I sense there is a connection between the Lord seeing the Bride ready to come down from heaven and the new heaven and a new earth. The Lord creates a whole new environment for the heavenly Jerusalem to dwell on earth. "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband" (Revelation 21:1-2). Taizé music comes from the Taizé Community, a French ecumenical religious community founded in 1940. The hallmark ministries of this community are ecumenical prayer and hospitality, and music plays a significant role in both.
Taizé (pronounced: tay-zay) is a prayerful form of music known for its simple, yet rich and meditative character. Taizé music often takes the structure of an ostinato (a simple melody that repeats over and over) and is meant to serve as a kind of musical centering prayer. Because Taizé music itself is intentionally simple, it provides a great way to move our prayer from the head to the heart. For more information, see https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/how-to-pray-with-taiz%C3%A9-music Kish and Rachel Johnson are like a tree planted by streams of water that bears fruit in every season. Their faith is rooted in the Word of God; their passion for God and their desire to make Him known has taken them to serve in mission fields on three continents. Kish and Rachel are comfortable praying and ministering with people from different Christian churches, a testament to the teachers and mentors they have had in their lives. Their worship ministry style is simple and abandoned: "cut to the chase" and go for intimacy with God. Responsive to the movement of the Holy Spirit in a place they are ready to stop and give a prophetic word of knowledge. Kish and Rachel and their three sons live on a farm in Virginia.
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Terri Celmerhas been active in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal since 1975. When she was baptized in the Spirit, Terri experienced the strengthening of an ecumenical calling that she received when she had her personal conversion experience in 1971. Archives
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