Welcome to our 2006 Rekindle the Flame summary update. We've compiled the feedback we received from the "Feedback" forms many filled out at the Gathering along with input from subsequent meetings and phone calls. As you read through the material we're confident you'll join us in expressing gratitude and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ for all He accomplished for His glory in and through the lives of the people He gathered. The prayers He so graciously motivated His people to pray; He so faithfully and graciously answered!

We also want to thank many of you who gave us constructive criticism and words of encouragement. We didn't know what to fully expect going into this Gathering but we certainly knew we would learn a lot; and we did! Through prayer and the process of sifting through the responses of participants we believe the Lord is giving further shape and direction for future Gatherings. There is a sense of spiritual "momentum" coming out of this Gathering which we and the denominational leadership we've consulted, believe we should continue to walk in. So where do we go from here?

  • Plans are now tentatively underway for a fall 2007
    and a spring 2008 Rekindle the Flame Gathering. The
    fall 2007 Gathering will again be hosted by Maple Ridge Community Church and the spring 2008 Gathering will
    hosted by another Alliance church (yet to be determined) outside of the Midwest region of the country. Look for the promotional booth and watch for information on these Gatherings at Council next year.

  • Gradually develop an "Advisory Team"

  • Establish a website or electronic newsletter for Rekindle
    the Flame     which would include among other things: updates on future Gatherings, testimonies, ordering information for tapes and CD's, recommended resources and speakers, a place for comments and questions and an email network for those who would like to interact with other Gathering participants.

As followers of Jesus Christ each of us are His new creations and as such are continually being transformed by His Spirit into His image. We are a work of grace in progress. This is no less true of what we believe the Lord intends through these Gatherings. They will be works of grace in progress.
So we deeply covet your prayers and continued interest in what the Lord has begun in the hearts of His people.

May what began as a spark in so many hearts grow into a blazing passion for His glory!

Brad Bush
Senior Pastor
Maple Ridge Community Church

Jon Graf
Assistant to the President
C&MA Prayer Moblization



Our desire is to attract those of 'like heart' who desire to see God move in greater ways within the Christian & Missionary Alliance. To find out more:

The Gathering Synopsis


A summary update follows the outline of the feedback form used at the Gathering, i.e. the Fuel, the Format, the Future along with additional comments, suggestions and testimonies (used with permission).

The Fuel

Additional Comments
The Format Testimonies
The Future Resources


This Alliance work is necessarily a deep
spiritual movement...built up by real
spiritual forces, by prayer, by faith,
by supernatural working in bodies
and souls of men... It's growth must
come from vital centers in the hearts
of living men and women, and increase
by closer fellowship with the life of God and the power of
the Holy Spirit. The Alliance truth is so fitted to satisfy
the instinctive longings of the hearts that God has touched that it finds an echo in true souls when truly represented.
It is God's work for the times in which we live.

~A. B. Simpson