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NOTICE CELEBRATION
17 Years of Ministry!!
Dear Friends of Chicago Prophetic Voice and Praise Ministries International
We would like to take a few moments to acknowledge that on August 17 at 1030 am we will be celebrating 17 years of Ministry with The Rev Theresa Phillips (founder of PMI) and her husband The Rev TSGT Robert Phillips.
The Ministry Started in a farmhouse in a room what was formally called the North Edition. August 1991 Just 1 day after her father Russell Forkins one of St Charles IL.City Leaders Passed to Heaven That edition was originally built to hold church services for the local farm hands and often had traveling Baptist Ministers facilitating services there. It later became one of the first Baptist churches in the St Charles IL region. When Pastor Theresa received the call to minister she opened up that wing and started church there.
Within a few short months they had outgrown the facility and moved to an unprecedented store front church in Geneva IL The Farm was demolished by law of Eminent Domain in the year of 1996..
Fighting City hall who wanted to close such a church down Pastor Theresa stood her ground and fought to keep her church alive in Geneva . When told she may have to purchase for an exorbitant fee the use city parking she then met privately with the local building commissioner and established her knowledge of prejudices and extortion. His response was to make some quick changes.
What he did not know what that Pastor Theresa had already contacted ACLJ and the Rutherford Institute ready to fight if necessary .
The city relented during a City Council meeting in which legal assistance was accompanying her ..
She abruptly shouted "if we out grow this space we move it is simple as that !" The City then finally approved of the small church.
After that meeting ...as the media approached her on this. She only answered all the questions with a calm resolve "come to church Sunday morning at 1100 am " That settled it .
There she and her congregants have often seen various miracles including one man raising from the dead!
From there the ministry moved to a warehouse that held a few hundred people.
There the Ministry Training Center was established and Pastor Theresa saw Gods hand move.She was named Regional Director for IAOGI ( Independent Assemblies of God International.)for the Midwest.
She also became ordained as Bishop for Praise Ministries
She then established a Center For Learning from Berean Bible College with College accredited courses available for home study Sill available today.
One of the most desirable callings in her ministry is to see leaders birthed in excellence.
" My Father once said if you want to make a good leader make one better than yourself " I feel they are all better than me! "says Pastor Theresa .
Pastor Theresa is an expert on Royal Protocol and practices it with her students and her church. It has become a lifestyle for her family.
Bishop Theresa has to date has credentialed nearly 200 people from various backgrounds and denominations into ministry in her 17 years of service!
Pastor Theresa ( as she is called) has been the director of National Day of Prayer in Geneva for 15 years and she is a 9-11 remembrance contact. She also has served as The Geneva Ministerial; President for 5 Years and is currently Presidential Prayer Team Ambassador for Chicago Region.
Pastor Theresa is a "freind to pastors" and often is asked to speak in other minisries. When asked what has been the best part of her ministry career so far ? She said "Not only to see lives saved and changed But to see God brought back into the forefront of our city leaders". "Espically the Church" is God not in the church?
"Yes He is" says pastor Theresa "But we need more of Him He is so much bigger and greater than we can imagine!" "On Sept 11 2001 our Nation was attacked by terrorists our local city council voted to NOT say God Bless America That has been one of the most spiritually damaging things I have ever seen" says Pastor Theresa.
It took my Secretary and I , 3 months to work with local pastors to come up with a Mission Statement for our city and Christian Leaders .
The statement was this
"The Geneva Ministerial Association is a fellowship of local congregations from a broad variety of Christian traditions:.... Serving the spiritual needs and common good of our community and welcoming the dialog and cooperation with other faith traditions
13 MARCH 2002 ministers of Geneva Ministerial Association assembled together to establish a mission statement.. 15 Local Pastors signed the doncument and all recived a copy of it as well.
Pastor Theresa and her secretary Rev Karen Tews visited City Hall once again... this time to present the City Leaders with the statement .
Sadly No other pastor would join her... On Sept 11 2006 five years later 5 ministers and leaders said 5 times in City Hall God Bless America! The 5th anniversary of a dark day. What's next? Pastor Theresa sill moves on in the callings of God and still is the Presiding Bishop of Praise Ministries ..The latest?
THE ENCOUNTERa sub ministry of Praise Ministries Church reaching out to the Church with a heart for Intimate relationship with Jesus so that the people would once again fall on there face Encounter the living God and be filled with His Glory... which is to say the manifested Presence of the Living Breathing God..... of Abraham Isaac Jacob and Jesus .... yes its about Jesus the Christ! Pastor Theresa and her husband Robert had started an on-line publication called www.ChicagoPropheticVoice.net
This on-line publication is designed to ignite a person into seeing and hearing the unseen and unheard realms of God,as they are portrayed on the Written Scriptures of the Holy Bible
Won't you come to visit us Sunday August 17 at 1030 am and share in celebrating with us 17 years of ministry? Celebration will be at 1310 Whitfield Drive Geneva Il 60174 More info at 630 377 5355 If you can't come... Please email your thoughts and well wishes to Pastor Theresa at ChicagoProphets@aol.com
Thank you all for serving with us as we move on and on and on with The Lord for the Region for Kane County.IL USA
"I asked the Lord, 'Send me somewhere to pray with somebody'." - PPT Ambassador and Pastor Theresa Phillips (in white t-shirt) with troops at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.
Funny thing is…they weren't sure at first where they wanted to go for vacation this summer.
But when Theresa Phillips and her husband Robert chose Washington D.C., little did they know they were in for a Divine appointment of prayer with hundreds of men and women of the military. Nor did they realize that they, and those they prayed for, would never be the same again.
"We felt like we were Stealth Bombers for God," Theresa said, laughing. "As we began to speak with them and appreciate them, their faces lit up. As their faces lit up, our hearts went up. And as our hearts went up, God's hand came down."
Theresa is Senior Pastor of Praise Ministries International in St. Charles, IL. Her husband Robert is a retired Air Force veteran with over two decades of service. Both are longtime Ambassadors with The Presidential Prayer Team for the Chicago region. On August 7, they arrived in the nation's capitol and lodged at Andrews Air Force Base.
"As soon as we hit Andrews, I saw tears well up in my husband's eyes, and I knew it was just Divine that we were there," Theresa said. "We went into the mess hall…and I looked out at all the faces of the troops that were there, and my heart just began to beat. I asked the Lord, 'Send me somewhere to pray with somebody'."
God did just that. Clad in their Presidential Prayer Team t-shirts, Theresa and Robert began talking to as many of the hundreds of men and women in the hall as they could. "I asked if they would allow us to pray with them. Every one of them said, 'Yes, maam.' Not one person turned down prayer," Theresa said. "We prayed and invoked God's blessings and protection on them, and I wanted to also thank them and honor them for serving our country and preventing us from having war inside the boundaries of the United States. Almost all of them said that's why they were serving overseas, and that they were in it until it's finished. My heart just leaped for joy, because that's not what the modern-day media tells us. One woman said, 'I love my country and I love what I do and I love being here'."
"That's what The Presidential Prayer Team is for: to pray for our president, leaders and Armed Forces, and we were able to do that together at the table with them, and I thought that was amazing," she said. "It reminded me of sitting at the Lord's Table doing what PPT does best, and that's pray."
Theresa said another incredible moment came later that day when she and her husband felt led to stop by the National Cathedral. "They had just finished up the service," she said, "and I went over and gave my Ambassador's Prayer Guide, a book of prayer for people in civil and liturgical services, to Pastor Linda, who was serving there. She asked us to wait, and when everyone had left, put us on the high altar and her and her assistant gave us private communion."
"As we were on our knees, she reached over and said, 'God sent you here today to pray for me. I had just asked God to do something today, or I was out'," Theresa added. "It was just an honor to be there, and we felt God's kingdom had been advanced even further than we could ever imagine."
Finally, the day before returning home, Theresa and Robert drove around Andrews, "and we invoked God's blessing and protection over the presidential plane, the vice president's plane, over every plane that we could see. We then went back to the B-X and blessed every one of the soldiers and workers. Then we felt like we had done what God had commissioned us to do."
Theresa says the involvement of people like you in the Adopt Our Troops in Prayer outreach is vital "because every troop wants prayer. There wasn't one who turned us away," she said. "In the military, you are connected, but to also be connected with the outside world, so to speak, means a great deal to them; to know they have somebody that's rooting for them and praying for them. They need to hear from us that we love them and appreciate and respect what they're doing, because it gives them encouragement to keep going."
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