Community Transformation is Subject
of Free Weekend Movie Screening
The showing, centered around the South Pacific country island of Fiji, will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, January 28, at Wellsville Bible Church, 2908 Andover Road (State Route 417), Wellsville. Free childcare will be provided.
The 79-minute feature is part of the Journey to Transformation twice-a-month Sunday night praise, worship and prayer series at different county churches. It will reflect on the one-year anniversary this month of a multi-church, three night and one full-day Allegany County training to help equip churches and Christian faith organizations for transformation and revival within their communities.
The film is one of several by the national Sentinel Training Group which has documented community and national revivals in various parts of the world.
The event is designed in part to enable churches and congregants who weren't able to attend last year's training with an opportunity to understand how community transformation comes about and flourishes when people fully commit their hearts and minds to God.
Today's Fiji bears no resemblance to its former self, according to the area coalition, with the documentary showing how God supernaturally healed poisoned streams and banished destructive wild pigs that were devastating crops
Repeated testimonies will explain how depopulated fishing grounds suddenly swarmed with vast quantities of fish and crabs - too many to harvest - as villagers dedicated themselves to the Lord.
Filmmakers also visit a village that suffered for generations under a curse brought on when their ancestors killed and cannibalized one of the first missionaries to Fiji, with the film documenting the country's Prime Minister participating in a formal ceremony of apology to the missionary's descendants. The result was confessions of forgiveness and joy among those in attendance, along with a village that now is thriving.
Journey to Transformation churches followed up last January's Allegany County training in May with some 120 church-goers participating in a Solemn Assembly involving worship, declaration of community needs, corporate repentance, and prayer. Twice last year, families also joined together for unity picnics, drawing overflow crowds for praise and worship, prayer, prayerwalking, family activities and more.
Churches and Christian faith organizations also have been seeking God's direction through ongoing prayer activities, including:
--The twice-a-month praise, worship and prayer events, with live music, held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays at various county churches, often focused on a particular subject, such as families, substance abuse and the prescription drug and heroin crisis, schools, and veterans.
These gatherings are designed to provide a communities focus on combating issues of addiction, abuse, racism, suicide, poverty, family dysfunction and more that pastors say are extremely serious issues throughout this area, the United States and the world.
-- Weekly Friday night community prayer, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., also is held on a rotating basis at various churches and Christian organizations and directed at renewal of minds and hearts of individuals and families for county and communities transformation through prayer for the host and other churches, individuals, the community, county and more.
One remaining gathering for this month is January 26 at Southern Tier Youth for Christ, 55 East Fassett Street (lower entrance), Wellsville.
-- Public prayer gatherings also are held from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. each weekday morning at Knights Creek Evangelical Methodist Church, 2987 County Road 9 (Knights Creek Road), Scio; 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesdays at the Belfast Free Methodist Church, 11 Chestnut Street; and 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays at the Powerhouse Youth Center, 23 West Main Street, Fillmore.
Further information on these gatherings and the multi-denominational Journey to Transformation initiative is available at www.facebook.com/
