Stephen
& Kathy Gardner attended The Basic Elijah Challenge
Training in the Bahamas in November 2007 and The
Advanced Elijah Challenge Training in February 2008. They pastor
Fresh Presence Church in Phoenix and founded Crown of Hope International,
an organization for church planting, for apostolic presbytery
and the network of ministry leaders.
Five
deaf ears opened at Teen Challenge event
"We had
an outreach with Teen Challenge in Phoenix. There were about 100+
individuals present. Mainly men who were in this program for drug
rehabilitation. We had an overwhelmingly great response to the
gospel message and The Elijah Challenge approach to healing. Several
men who were
not saved
came and accepted Christ. As part of the challenge I first called
for those who were deaf in one hear to come forward 5 men came
forward and Kathy assisted me in ministering to them. ALL the men
testified that they could hear now. After this miracle many more
came forward
with other ailments for healing. The Teen Challenge Director talked
with us about returning on a periodic basis to have an outreach
to these men were fresh off the streets with substance abuse challenges."