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Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship
By Tim Pettingale

By now the story is well documented, how in 1994 a little known church near the end of a runway at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, came to the world’s attention as a place where God was meeting powerfully with His people. As a result of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the members and staff of the then Toronto Airport Vineyard were thrust into a ministry that would spread around the globe and bring more than 3 million visitors through the doors of their modestly-sized church building to see what was going on.

Many who have visited Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship in the years between then and now have done so out of a desperation to see and experience a greater depth of God’s presence than they have previously known. Others have done so out of a desire simply to bask in God’s presence and have been surprised by the degree to which He has been able to minister to them when they stopped trying and just rested in His presence.
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by Jo Brazier

It’s difficult to imagine the British church without the songs of Matt Redman. From ‘I Will Offer Up My Life’ to ‘You Never Let Go’, his music has been shaping our worship for fifteen years. As he takes his ministry stateside with a new church plant in Atlanta, Matt talks about the Passion Movement, his new album and his desire to paint a big picture of God through his music.
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By Jon Lambert

He’ll tell you he’s not a prolific songwriter, but he is certainly a pathfinder. Robin Mark talks to Jon Lambert about life in Belfast and how worship is bred - in the heart, not the head.



In Ireland giants still walk: from windswept dunes, between the high gable-ends of Belfast and on the tongues of storytellers. Tales are told of the colossus, Finn Mac Cool: he flung the Isle of Man into its place, bridged the wild-green sea and cast his very footprint in the black earth of Northern Ireland. Not all Celtic giants, though, make for romance. In our own time, a creature going by the name ‘Troubles’ has been striding. In his wake reels a raw, forbidding landscape. It may seem strange but in this terrain, a shout of praise is echoing. If you know your Bible, you’ve heard the tale of the shepherd-songwriter versus Goliath: and of a simple trust in the God of stone and sling over the armour of a king.
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By Jon Lambert

The future isn’t another country: its another planet. Jon Lambert docks with the Audacious City Church crew to see what church could look like.



You’ve seen the footage. A lone man steps from the ladder of his lunar module. He utters those immortal words and plants the stars & stripes in the moon-dust. To Neil Armstrong, the Apollo landing was his life’s ambition. It was a chance in a million, and when the call came he was prepared. He simply stepped out and made his mark on history. This summer finds Audacious City Church taking their own small step, and to these guys making history is child’s play.
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By John Lambert

Imagine breaking into your own house. It’s pitch black, it’s midnight and you've locked yourself out. There's no-one around, but as you try to get in, you're expecting a shock of torchlight or a hand on your collar. In 2009, it’s been over half a century since Jesus Christ was locked out of the house of China, but now he's breaking in and no-one has the power to stop him. He is there, not to trespass, not to trample upon the threshold, but to reclaim each of the billions of hearts longing to be broken into.

In 2006, regular Spring Harvest worship leader Mark Tedder and his wife Carrie, both globe-trekking founders of ‘Worshiplanet’ ministry, were called to China, along with their son Daniel. They anchored at Beijing International Christian Fellowship, an evangelical church based in the Bastille of Communist thought. Restrictions are tight, the fellowship is open to foreign passport holders only; you’ll be ID’d on the way in. And in the year that all eyes would be turned on Beijing, God told Mark, “It’s time for ’The Door’.” The dream was to record and film a live worship event with a multinational band. This was no small dream… it became the first ever live worship recording in mainland China! From the start, the government imposed itself. A moratorium hung over the project, right up to the very moment of recording. In the natural it wasn’t on, but in the supernatural the brakes were off.
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By Jon Lambert

If you want a view of grassroots change, pull on your Googlemap shoes, and follow Rhema Church London into street-level Croydon.



Welcome to the gap. This is the place we’re all told to mind. It falls between the slick square mile and the circle line of the M25. The mood here is eardrum tight, spitting with drum ‘n’ bass and the grime of traffic. Tarmac heat chatters away into a sky heavy with high-rise. If you look at the buildings, two specific ones are shaping the future of the gap, and of the nation beyond. Lunar House, the HQ of the UK Borders Agency and the wicket-gate of immigration, is one. Less visible, but just as tangible, is Fairfield Halls, the concert venue where Rhema Church London gathers. On the streets here, the strange fruit of fear, isolation and violence has grown to define the flavour of life. But the RCL family is bringing a fresh fruit: a kind of love-music, expressing hope, community and triumph, realised in their daily lives.
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By Tim Pettingale



The Rivera’s are charting unknown territory in the area of worship, taking a route which defies traditional models and turns accepted ways of doing things on their head. People are loving their music and their CDs are in increasing demand – but creating and selling CDs is not what excites Alberto and Kimberly. Far from it.
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Michael W Smith, one of the founding fathers of contemporary Christian music, talks to Jon Lambert of a deep passion and a realised dream.



"Who's going to rescue these kids?" That question is the beginning of a journey which takes us to a dead-end street warehouse in the small town of Franklin, Tennessee, and the picture of a weeping man sunk to the floor. That man is Michael W Smith and the sound colliding in his ears, on that very first night of Rocketown, was the frenzied traffic of 700 kids, the theme music of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, and the beat of his own racing heart.
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by Jo Brazier


On the streets of California in 1971 a desperate young girl heard God speak to her through the bold words of a stranger. Eight months pregnant and disowned by her family, the Gospel gave her new hope and turned her life around. Reflecting on his mother's experience, Israel Houghton talks about how her dramatic conversion shaped his life and drove his passion for ministry.
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by Jo Brazier

At the age of 27, Kari Jobe is beginning to see the fruit of a dream that has been growing in her heart since she was a young child. Speaking to Jo Brazier a few weeks before the release of her self-titled debut album, Kari talks about her passion for ministry and the ways she has seen God direct her steps this far.
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