The Ripple Effect

Church Leaders Toolkit Update June 2022 By Apostle Aje Pelser “It’s fully booked, the people are waiting!” This line came up in a dream I had during the lockdown. Chantal had come in and alerted me to the people waiting, “The venue is fully booked,” she said. To give you some context of this dream: during the pandemic, our church meetings had stopped for close to a year and our full time Bible college had no venue to operate. Everything transitioned to digital rooms and online platforms and there was no indication that the lockdown would end any time soon. The last two Church Leaders Training events in the Gauteng Region of South Africa, confirmed the dream. The first event had to be shifted to a larger venue to accommodate the new affiliate leaders from Pretoria, Refilwe, Rustenberg, Zeerust, Balfour, Ratanda, Heidelberg and Vereeniging. The response was tremendous, and we give God all the glory for unity of faith being spread across cultural, traditional and denominational lines....

Ripple Effect of a Church building It was amazing to learn of the impact of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Mont Martre, Paris, France. The Church of the Sacred Heart is one of my favourite sights to visit in the celebrated city of love. I once heard these words in my heart which I believe was from God: “You will build many churches for me.” At the Sacré-Cœur. Mont Martre, Paris, Nov. 2017. 10 Ripple Effects from the building of the Sacred Heart Basilica Church in Paris, France. 1. Hope: The church of the Sacred heart of Christ Basilica was built because the French had just lost a war and the builder wanted to give his people hope again. The French army was defeated by the Prussians army in 1870. Alexandre Legentil, a believer, wanted to relieve the French people from the pain and the humiliation it went through. He wanted the French people to feel better and to rise again, giving them a new basilica. The purpose of the church was to protect the French, but also for them ...