Welcome!
We love you, and are glad you've stopped by!
We work with and support those who are recovering from abuse in fundamentalist and legalistic religious circumstances and who also are sorting through religious belief related issues in an effort to retain their faith.
It can be confusing when those who pretended to represent God to you were perpetrators of coercion, manipulation, spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional and financial abuse. It is right for you to want to sort through what you believe and why in an encouraging environment*.
Our heart is helping people thrive and flourish in their lives, body soul & spirit with a focus on the spirtual. We may still use "chritianese" language, but we are real people who support and encourage you to think critically. God gave you a brain, and you are licensed and ordained to use it.
We are not your "answer," We are your equals, and we're glad to share the road with you, and perhaps help as you continue to look to Jesus as your source of love, life, purpose and ministry!
The twelve were commissioned with:
" And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. "
- Matthew 10:7-8
The seventy were given a similar commission, which is ours today, as well. You are of value and you have ways to give as well as receive that are unique to you, your gifts and talents. You don't need to be a cookie cutter Christian pressured into polarized positions on environment or politics. You are free to think for yourself, and live true to yourself. If a minister or church pressures you to "fit in" with their non-organic teaching (i.e. teaching that has additives and artificial rules and requirements), you don't have to agree or join in.
We encourage you in what God's leading you to do, in an environment of love, care and respect and honor. We still speak churchy language here, and it has its place, but please don't let it put you off if you have a different background or experience.
You are free to find and grow in your relationship with God without coercion or undue influence. There is a good middle ground where people can share their opinions and insights and hold to their beliefs without feeling pressured to comply or be polarized or have to agree where not convinced. Too much of the "business" of religion and politics these days forces people into having to choose sides on many issues where there are gray areas.
We believe that all who accept Jesus's work on their behalf are members of the body of Christ. We welcome those who want to explore this type of life and we don't reject you if you've been hurt by religious abuse or prejudice. This is a good place to explore how your faith and beliefs interact with real life, no matter where or whether you physically go to a building and have church there, too.
You are welcome to join us and call us your church home, or join us as part of the larger body of Christ while you participate in other local churches or gatherings and activities in the body of Christ.
Please come and go as it fits for you. In fact, we encourage you to fellowship with other people in your geographical area, via in person gatherings, with others who believe Jesus Christ.
We are not the only church teaching God's word (the Bible). We believe the whole body of Christ is of worth and value, and that includes you. We also believe that God gave you a brain and you are licensed and ordained to use it. It is okay to think critically and examine what you learn here or elsewhere.
It is beneficial to have a broad base of relationships where you can be encouraged and encourage others, each benefitting from the other's experience and knowledge. The body of Christ needs you, as God has designed you to be a unique and precious son or daughter of God.
Please NOTE. We are upgrading our MEDIA section, in fact the entire Engrafted Word Fellowship Church website. Some media and resources may not be available until Early 2018 and not fully restored until Mid 2018. It takes much time to do things right, so it will be worth the wait.
If you are local to the SF Bay area - Volunteers are needed for a trial project doing some volunteer work for local members, helping them while they go through transition. Please contact us for more information.
*If you are dealing with spiritual or other types of abuse, please go to the training page which has a broad discussion on subjects of abuse that one may experience in a religious context. This is a good place to start, opening the conversation about this topic and related topics to find help for yourself or those who are supporting.
Please note that the section on Abuse (relationship & spiritual) has been updated and reopened as of 1/14. This is located under the"TRAINING" dropdown menu under the "Abuse" submenu.
People have been asking how they may support this work.
Please scroll down to the RED "How Can I Give?" section [toward the middle of this home page] if that's you.
There's a link to a page where you can make a gift to Engrafted Word Fellowship Church there.
Explore this website for:
2. The Healing & Overcoming Spiritual Abuse Page opened 1/1/2016 - Find this page under the "Training" menu
Register for the Engrafted Word Fellowship Church Newsletter and you will receive additional invitations and access codes in the newsletter. We are accessible to you, but we also receive lots of spam, so the newsletter or contact forms are the best way to make contact with us. We try to reply within 24-48 hours.
We work with and support those who are recovering from abuse in fundamentalist and legalistic religious circumstances and who also are sorting through religious belief related issues in an effort to retain their faith.
It can be confusing when those who pretended to represent God to you were perpetrators of coercion, manipulation, spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional and financial abuse. It is right for you to want to sort through what you believe and why in an encouraging environment*.
Our heart is helping people thrive and flourish in their lives, body soul & spirit with a focus on the spirtual. We may still use "chritianese" language, but we are real people who support and encourage you to think critically. God gave you a brain, and you are licensed and ordained to use it.
We are not your "answer," We are your equals, and we're glad to share the road with you, and perhaps help as you continue to look to Jesus as your source of love, life, purpose and ministry!
The twelve were commissioned with:
" And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. "
- Matthew 10:7-8
The seventy were given a similar commission, which is ours today, as well. You are of value and you have ways to give as well as receive that are unique to you, your gifts and talents. You don't need to be a cookie cutter Christian pressured into polarized positions on environment or politics. You are free to think for yourself, and live true to yourself. If a minister or church pressures you to "fit in" with their non-organic teaching (i.e. teaching that has additives and artificial rules and requirements), you don't have to agree or join in.
We encourage you in what God's leading you to do, in an environment of love, care and respect and honor. We still speak churchy language here, and it has its place, but please don't let it put you off if you have a different background or experience.
You are free to find and grow in your relationship with God without coercion or undue influence. There is a good middle ground where people can share their opinions and insights and hold to their beliefs without feeling pressured to comply or be polarized or have to agree where not convinced. Too much of the "business" of religion and politics these days forces people into having to choose sides on many issues where there are gray areas.
We believe that all who accept Jesus's work on their behalf are members of the body of Christ. We welcome those who want to explore this type of life and we don't reject you if you've been hurt by religious abuse or prejudice. This is a good place to explore how your faith and beliefs interact with real life, no matter where or whether you physically go to a building and have church there, too.
You are welcome to join us and call us your church home, or join us as part of the larger body of Christ while you participate in other local churches or gatherings and activities in the body of Christ.
Please come and go as it fits for you. In fact, we encourage you to fellowship with other people in your geographical area, via in person gatherings, with others who believe Jesus Christ.
We are not the only church teaching God's word (the Bible). We believe the whole body of Christ is of worth and value, and that includes you. We also believe that God gave you a brain and you are licensed and ordained to use it. It is okay to think critically and examine what you learn here or elsewhere.
It is beneficial to have a broad base of relationships where you can be encouraged and encourage others, each benefitting from the other's experience and knowledge. The body of Christ needs you, as God has designed you to be a unique and precious son or daughter of God.
Please NOTE. We are upgrading our MEDIA section, in fact the entire Engrafted Word Fellowship Church website. Some media and resources may not be available until Early 2018 and not fully restored until Mid 2018. It takes much time to do things right, so it will be worth the wait.
If you are local to the SF Bay area - Volunteers are needed for a trial project doing some volunteer work for local members, helping them while they go through transition. Please contact us for more information.
*If you are dealing with spiritual or other types of abuse, please go to the training page which has a broad discussion on subjects of abuse that one may experience in a religious context. This is a good place to start, opening the conversation about this topic and related topics to find help for yourself or those who are supporting.
Please note that the section on Abuse (relationship & spiritual) has been updated and reopened as of 1/14. This is located under the"TRAINING" dropdown menu under the "Abuse" submenu.
People have been asking how they may support this work.
Please scroll down to the RED "How Can I Give?" section [toward the middle of this home page] if that's you.
There's a link to a page where you can make a gift to Engrafted Word Fellowship Church there.
Explore this website for:
- Audio Media (see media menu above)
- Video Media (coming soon)
- Curriculum Media from prior and the current 2015-2017 Series of Healing For Today
- Notes, Graphics & Ministry Helps (see above in the Media, Training & Graphics (under "more") Menus)
- Teachings for your heart (human spirit)
- Teaching for healing in your spirit, soul & body and recovering from things that have wounded you
- Encouragement in who you are in Christ
- Help with finding and feeling and knowing the love of God
- Living Life knowing who God called you to be, and flourishing in your gifts and callings
- Getting to Know God better while overcoming a religious spirit & legalism (which we, ourselves, are endeavoring to overcome)
- CD & Art Print Media For Yourself Or To Share With Friends
- Training In Ministering To Others & Yourself
- Learning about the balance of living in God's grace, while being unafraid to deal with "sin" and not have to be under works/legalism in doing so (yep, that's a challenge - but a good one)
- Resources in abuse recovery - We are learning how to be a safe place for those recovering from abusive churches, relationships and groups without you having to abandon your faith in God to do so.
2. The Healing & Overcoming Spiritual Abuse Page opened 1/1/2016 - Find this page under the "Training" menu
Register for the Engrafted Word Fellowship Church Newsletter and you will receive additional invitations and access codes in the newsletter. We are accessible to you, but we also receive lots of spam, so the newsletter or contact forms are the best way to make contact with us. We try to reply within 24-48 hours.
On this site you will find writing, audio and other helpful material - teaching and ministry - for your walk with God.
We have live church services that are usually schedule on the first Monday of every month, and often have additional teaching and ministry series. Please check the website as we are flexible and sometimes have LIVE CHURCH on the 2nd or other week of the month instead of the first.
We provide training for ministry, including the ministry of healing, and ministry for spirit, soul & body. Our emphasis is on the spiritual, but you can't neglect good sleep and drinking water and basics of self care and expect to thrive spiritually. We put a lot of time into providing additional material, freely accessible on this site. We are also working to provide ministry manuals, training material and handouts from the experience of good fruit in people being helped and able to live the great commandments as part of daily life.
We regularly interact with believers of many different denominations and it is our heart to encourage unity without error and without a religious spirit... and this means that you may find something on this site that is "outside of the box", and so we encourage you to research things that challenge you. Look to God's Word and His love. Don't sweat the small stuff in terms of stressing about something where someone is not 100% on point. Each of us in the body of Christ has something to offer the body. We are all needed. If you are not yet in the body of Christ or don't know what that is, you are also welcome to roam the site, enjoy, ask questions and connect with us. We hope to be dropping some of our religious language and to be more accessible to you from a place of real love and care.
If you are looking to renew your relationship with God, from a Christian perspective, or take time out to reflect upon the gifts of God, the print version titled GIFTS FROM GOD was released a few years ago. It is available in print now. The Amazon Kindle, version has also been released. Please check back for more good news.
Jesus taught, healed and ministered. We don't just do 'intellectual' teaching here, meaning that most teaching has personal ministry as that is what Jesus did and told us to do. We see lives changed and people healed as they continue in the Word of God and abide (remain) in vital relationship with the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit).
We have live church services that are usually schedule on the first Monday of every month, and often have additional teaching and ministry series. Please check the website as we are flexible and sometimes have LIVE CHURCH on the 2nd or other week of the month instead of the first.
We provide training for ministry, including the ministry of healing, and ministry for spirit, soul & body. Our emphasis is on the spiritual, but you can't neglect good sleep and drinking water and basics of self care and expect to thrive spiritually. We put a lot of time into providing additional material, freely accessible on this site. We are also working to provide ministry manuals, training material and handouts from the experience of good fruit in people being helped and able to live the great commandments as part of daily life.
We regularly interact with believers of many different denominations and it is our heart to encourage unity without error and without a religious spirit... and this means that you may find something on this site that is "outside of the box", and so we encourage you to research things that challenge you. Look to God's Word and His love. Don't sweat the small stuff in terms of stressing about something where someone is not 100% on point. Each of us in the body of Christ has something to offer the body. We are all needed. If you are not yet in the body of Christ or don't know what that is, you are also welcome to roam the site, enjoy, ask questions and connect with us. We hope to be dropping some of our religious language and to be more accessible to you from a place of real love and care.
If you are looking to renew your relationship with God, from a Christian perspective, or take time out to reflect upon the gifts of God, the print version titled GIFTS FROM GOD was released a few years ago. It is available in print now. The Amazon Kindle, version has also been released. Please check back for more good news.
Jesus taught, healed and ministered. We don't just do 'intellectual' teaching here, meaning that most teaching has personal ministry as that is what Jesus did and told us to do. We see lives changed and people healed as they continue in the Word of God and abide (remain) in vital relationship with the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit).
LIVE! Join us live for Church right from where you are ...
Though we have been teaching and encouraging and training people in ministry since 1993, this site has been growing since 2006. Over the past few years we've taught on: RELATIONSHIPS, RECOVERING FROM ABUSE & TRAUMA, OVERCOMING RELIGIOUS ABUSE, FORGIVENESS & HOW TO FORGIVE, REVISITING FORGIVENESS & THE BROKEN HEART, REMOVING REJECTION, IDOLATRY, GENERATIONAL ISSUES, OUR FATHER'S LOVE, PRIDE & FEAR,WHO WE ARE IN THE BODY of CHRIST & More! Please see "Live Teaching" page for more information. We've had other past services on HOW TO HAVE AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE: EVEN WHEN EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS NOT ALL FIXED YET, RUNNING WITH PATIENCE, IT's NOT ABOUT THE PROBLEM IT'S MY RESPONSE, PERFECTIONISM vs PATIENCE, SELF HATRED vs DYING TO SELF, Victim? Survivor? Overcomer? Real Help for Walking in Who The Word of God Says I am. RELATIONSHIPS: Idols & Villains - How can we overcome, and how we can start seeing ourselves and others as God sees us, Your Bible, Bitterness, Landmines & overcoming hidden bitterness, WALKING OUT OF UNLOVING, WHO YOU ARE IN CREATION & CHRIST & More!
You are welcome whether you are a believer or not. God loves you with equal opportunity without regard to political persuasion, issues or preferences. Please join us.
Please sign up for our newsletter to be kept up to date on church events and activities, and feel free to listen to past services or teachings.
Most of us have also "learned Church" wrapped in traditions which are death-producing, so our heart is to unwrap who God is and who we are from those extraneous traditions. Our standard for faith and practice is the Holy Bible, in the context of the Spirit of God and His love, including His life-giving ways.If you would like a doctrinal statement, that's the one we're going for. Of course, many say they are Bible based and get off on tangents or have done some not-so-nice things while speaking about love or God. Our hope is not to replicate that error.
Look to God as your Source, your Helper, and the One who loves you, and wants to heal you. He is the author and finisher of your faith. He is faithful in what He has begun in you, and will be faithful to complete it if you participate with Him according to knowledge, casting away error, and if you let Him help you to obey Him in love. This takes time, humility, a willingness to search out the scriptures in a balanced way, to eject tradition, resist legalism and prejudice, and yet not to compromise either truth or love. Along the way there is loving, godly, relationship with imperfect people like yourself, and there are times we submit to one another in love, and also times when two cannot walk together in peace, that there are separations, temporary or ongoing. Patience develops with time, as does hope and confidence. We firmly believe that the excellency is in God, and as we get to live out his love, life and manifest His glory that is all of our calling in Him, and it is healing and beautiful. It is time you recognize your legitimacy and value is in that you are God's daughter or son.
Be encouraged in your walk with God, and go out and encourage others.
You are the only one like you on the planet and it just would not be the same without you here. The world and the body of Christ needs you. You are worth much love and time. God the Father and His Son Jesus think you are very valuable, and that you belong and have a purpose, and we agree. You are welcome here, feel free to join us.
Thank you again for just being you!
The Engrafted Word Fellowship Ministry Team :-)
