Fire School '07 application formReport: Fire School '06
Its January 2007 and Fireschool ‘06 is underway. 25 students of different nationalities and from around the country are now entering their second term and things are really heating up.
Having overcome minor teething problems, the three components of the Fireschool -intercession, passion and mission are being zealously and eagerly undertaken.
Being trained as intercessors, the students have been learning to stand in the gap, as in Ezekiel 22, and are each developing the ability to catch the dreams of the heart of God in their spirits and cry out that He would come with mercy and save our nation. But beyond any teaching or learning God has been birthing a burden for souls and a deep desire for the restoration of the UK in each individual and the prayer is truly powerful and full of fire.
The House of Prayer has been invaluable in facilitating intense periods of persistent prayer around the clock as the Fireschool continues to take up the call to incessantly lift prayer like incense before the throne of God and fill the heavenly bowls.
The outworking of these prayers through the missions aspect has been incredible and God has worked miracles. The first assignment was to plant a church and so, after much spiritual preparation and hard work, October saw the launch of the Durham congregation. This meeting is aimed specifically at the students in the university town of Durham and is seeing steady growth with around 30 students regularly attending alongside the Fireschool. Meeting every Sunday evening in a bar on campus, the church is exciting, fresh and radical.
Perhaps the greatest answer to prayer is the way the students of the university have become family and are taking ownership of the dream of a campus revolution and student revival and the pursuit of this.
Furthermore, outreach and evangelism to impact inner city estates in Newcastle has begun, which will increase and no doubt bear much fruit in the coming year.
The Fireschool are aptly named, for they are very obviously full of Holy Spirit fire and, although a lot of the time there is a need to really fight and push in the spirit, God has placed a passion for prayer in each heart and more importantly each individual is discovering a deep and burning passion for Jesus Christ. A hunger for God is evident and much time is spent seeking his face and pursuing his presence. Worship plays a large part in this and the plan is to build up a Fireschool worship band so that, at any point, worship and intercession can be lifted up together.
An exciting new development is the Fireschool blog which is now available to read online. Containing accounts of what is going on at a corporate level, reports of personal encounters, experiences and revelation, and general fire filled, radical comments.
This is definitely worth checking out if you want to get a taste of what God is doing here.
www.fireschool.org.uk
…And so, with Fireschool 06 underway the call is going out once again, for those who will take their stand in the gap in 2007. A call to those who will give a year to live and die for peace and revolution and burn, shoulder to shoulder with other firebrands, as torches in the darkness. Those who will lift up intercession for the future of this nation and the honour of the name of Jesus Christ. This is the opportunity and the question is;