Letter from the Editor

by Kathi Smith
Fall 2015

Recently, my family of four traveled to Israel to participate as teachers and prayer ministers at a conference — myself, my husband Taylor, our daughter Virginia and our son Taylor, Jr. We were so excited to find the house where Judith first opened the House of Prayer on Nablus Street outside the Damascus Gate. It was an amazing conference, and we ministered together as a family — what joy! Taylor and I taught on generational healing and on forgiveness related to inner healing. We have personally experienced healing in these areas, with countless personal testimonies, and in turn we have been equipped to teach others during our fifteen years of involvement at Christian Healing Ministries. Following the teaching, the leadership team held a healing service; my daughter and I were a prayer team, and my son and husband were another prayer team. Alongside us were our friends Jay Jakub, and Bruno and Marianne Roche (who invited us). The purpose of the conference was not specifically centered on healing, but on helping the poor of Israel. The delegates, all businessmen and businesswomen from Asia, came to learn about Tikkun Olam (the Hebrew word for healing the land), but were first introduced to Tikkun Ishi (healing of the individual). Out of the seventy delegates who received prayer, there was deliverance, inner healing, generational healing, forgiveness, physical healing, spiritual healing and more.

If you had told me fifteen years ago that I was going to be in Israel praying on the same team with my family members, I probably would have said, "I would love to do that but it would only happen in my wildest dreams!" Even as I write this, I am humbly reminded of my own healings that have occurred at CHM over many years. Wow! You never know how God is going to use a spark of healing to set a family on fire and send them off to the far reaches of the world.

The Jakubs are members of the Falls Church Anglican where CHM has poured teaching and prayer into leaders and congregants who have developed a now–thriving healing ministry. The Roches are leaders of a healing ministry in their church in Belgium that was jointly planted by CHM (Taylor, Lee Ann Rummell and I were blessed to be a part of the planting team) and the Jakubs and Cooks from the Falls Church Anglican. We met all of these friends as attendees at CHM conferences. And the circle widens. God's supernatural healing ministry continues to become more widespread.

When I think about the history of healing, I am reminded that Jesus taught his 12 disciples to pray. When the word spread and there was need for more, Jesus then commissioned the unnamed 72 (see Luke 10). And they continued to pray for healing and spread Jesus' commission. Eventually the MacNutts learned about praying for healing, and they started Christian Healing Ministries. And then the Smiths needed healing prayer, and they were led to CHM.

An individual is healed. It reaches a family. A family learns to pray for healing as a result. Two families get together and go to a conference and pray for more. And so on and so on.

I thank God for the privilege to minister healing as a family. I want my grandchildren's grandchildren to learn and know how to pray for healing! The MacNutts have been led by God to start a legacy — Christian Healing Ministries. We have become an extension of the 72 who were commissioned and went out to pray. Are you part of the 72? Thank you so much for accepting the commission! Have you been healed? Please don't wait to pass it on — come join us on campus to learn! Our Schools of Healing Prayer and yearly conferences are rich with teaching, personal ministry and further commissioning of the 72.

Kathi Smith is the Senior Editor of Healing Line and an active CHM prayer minister.