Tools to Build a Healthy Healing Room

TOOLS TO BUILD A HEALTHY HEALING ROOM Cal Pierce – July 23, 2011 at Santa Maria Director’s Retreat

I. BECOMING BUILDERS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD Mt. 6:10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. When you build the Kingdom, you fulfill God’s will and you have divine provision rather than natural. You can’t operate a healing room, if you just have a worldly perspective. If you don’t have a Kingdom perspective, you will just hope that someone comes by to pay your bill. You need to have a building perspective. Jesus is the chief cornerstone, and the household of God is built upon it.

II. TOOLS FOR BUILDING HEALTHY HEALING ROOMS As directors we can be so focused on the spiritual aspect of running a healing room that we forget to utilize the practical tools that make a healing room healthy. 1. Testimonies –Record the healing testimonies, as it builds a highway for sick to come in. It will draw people into your healing rooms. When you release a testimony, you are prophesying over the city. a. A Newsletter – Produce a newsletter. Put this on the bulletin boards around your city and in other churches. b. Radio and TV programming. Utilize the media. Sue’s additions: c. Website – Record your testimonies on your website, e-mail them into Spokane for their website. d. Bulletin Boards in Healing Rooms – Place the testimonies on a bulletin board in your healing room. 2. Bookstore – Set up a bookstore. As an IAHR director, you can purchase IAHR products ½ off through IAHR’s bookstore and then resell them at full price. A bookstore provides people who come in for healing with information about the Healer. These resources will help people’s lives be transformed by the Truth. If you put “suggested donations” for these resources, you don’t have to pay taxes.

3. Partners – Designate someone to oversee the Partner’s Program. By doing this, your healing room will provide a place for people to sow into. All the partner information is private. Ask the partners about their prayer needs. a. Make people aware of the Partner’s Program in your healing room. i. Have a brochure to give people, when they come in for prayer. ii. Put the Partner’s Program into your newsletter and on your website. b. Partner newsletter – send out a newsletter to your partners c. Have a fund raiser for your healing room in which you make people aware of the partner’s program. You may want to have a lunch or dinner. d. Will - In this program, you can have the partners designate that they want a certain percentage or sum of their estate to sow into the kingdom. They can write this in their will. e. Send questions to Jessica to see how partner’s program is set up. [email protected] 1 4. DVD IAHR School of Transformation – Equip the saints for end time revelation. Line up some students. When you have 2-3 students, you can do the school. It costs $3000 from IAHR. Contact Joshua Fry at IAHR. $100 per student goes to IAHR. IAHR suggests charging $1, 500 per student. Any money over your initial investment for the course from IAHR, would go back to your healing room. See if you can have people sponsor students that cannot afford it; you can have scholarships for students that cannot pay. If there are updates following the initial purchase, IAHR would just send them to you. There is a certificate once you go through the training. Do streamlining also of this course. a. Question: How does this differ from Bethel’s school? Bethel’s school is church based and is in the day. IAHR is shorter and more “doable for the healing rooms” as you meet two evenings per week. b. Once you pay for the basic DVD set then the majority of the income goes back to your healing room. 5. Monthly Meeting – Have a monthly meeting with your team and staff. Be relational. Have kingdom perspective. 6. Training – Are you doing training on a continual basis? If your teams are getting smaller and smaller, then you need to consider doing a basic healing room training. Get the word out and people will come, as they want to learn about healing.

7. Connecting with your coordinators, state and regional directors. This relationship helps keep you and your healing room healthy. There are issues that may try to take you down. It helps you to stay connected with those over you. Once a month connect with them via e-mail or a phone call and let them know what is going on in your healing room. Send them testimonies. When you connect, you will find simple things that you may not be doing that will help your HR to run more smoothly.

8. Birth Healing Rooms – When you want to help birth a healing room in Central CA, have them contact your coordinator or state director. (For Central CA – connect healing room to Sue Burdullis. For Northern CA – connect the healing room to Bill Edmund.)

9. Journal of Healing for IAHR – Read and share with team. (Each person on your team, I believe, can sign up for this.)

10. Financial Support to IAHR in Spokane. Consider financially supporting the home base in Spokane once a month, so IAHR can continue growing the ministry. IAHR in Spokane has about 30-35 staff members and about 150 volunteers running IAHR headquarters. IAHR is not a church based ministry, so they rely on membership fees and partnerships. Your HR’s $25 monthly fee goes to fund the other nations – training manuals and other resources. In third world countries these healing rooms can’t afford a monthly fee to IAHR.

11. Maintain Integrity of Ministry – We need to maintain integrity of the HR work. The model must be maintained. We are not deliverance or counseling ministry. We need to protect this model. Sick need a safe place to come.

2 12. Maintain Kingdom Perspective – You need to know how to steward the Kingdom of God. Some people are coming from different churches that don’t understand the Kingdom perspective.

13. What do you do with health message in HR? Do you need to teach on health? No. Don’t tell people what type of exercise and supplements to take as that could sink your ship fast. Everyone is different. Let them come into discovery that God wants them to exercise and eat well. Have the people find paths for themselves outside of HR.

14. 501 C3 Your HR can come under the church as a DBA – Doing Business As. If you are very relational with the pastor of the church where you have the HR then it may be okay to go under their 501 C3. If not, you may not want to think about doing this. However, IAHR encourages the HR’s to get their own 501 C3. Getting your own 501 C3 has a tax advantage. Need a paralegal or an attorney to come alongside of you. I feel that there are people that would like to sow into the Kingdom.

15. Spiritual Hunger Conference – Plan on coming at least every other year. About 4,000 people from about 20 countries come.

16. Change of Board Members or Associate Directors – Send any changes to birthinghealingrooms.com – Elaine Perkins

*Note: IAHR is developing and android app. for healing rooms, so that people who are travelling can locate your healing room.