Phillip and Laura Baker from Texas, USA were our guests on September, 26. They taught a seminar on " Christian family". Phillip Baker is a lecturer in the Bible Institute Texas. In 1990 he graduated from Bilble College Rhema in Oklahoma. From 1990 to 1994 he is a youth pastor in Magnolia, Arizona. From 1994 to 2004 he is a director of "Centre for leaders' equipment" in Columbas, Texas. From 2003 he starts Phillip Baker Ministries. Along with his wife Laura , he minister, sharing their experince about christian family. On the seminar they shared valuable principles of marriage and family. You can watch the seminars video on the internet page of Bulgarian christian television (http://www.christiantv-bg.com/main.php?p=vid&psec=46)

On September, 27 on our Sunday morning service, pastor Phillip Baker shared powerful message - " The miracle of God - sequences from His love". He shared his experience that always when he preaches about the love of God and when the people receive the Word of God , God starts to move with miracles in the congregation. We saw this manifestation during the same service when , after the prayer, we saw a lot of risen hands as a sign for healing testamony.
When the love is the message , healing is the manifestation.

There was also a seminar for leaders with the Messiah church board as well as pastors and leaders of the other Messiah churches, starting from the evening of September 27 (Sunday) till the noon of September, 28. The gathering took place in a hotel in Stara Zagora's mineral baths. Phillip Baker shared the following sentence as a basic one:
"Jesus Christ is teh answer for every person, Holy Spirit is the answer for the church and the church is the answer for the world."
The first discussed topic was: "The leader - servent and worshipper". Valuable examples from the Bible about leader's characteristics and what actually God appreciates about him. Jesus- the best model of a leader.

On the next day, there was another theme - "The power of the vision". The leader, who ministers with a vision is filled with passion. There are two types of leaders - leader because of duty and leader who does things from a vision. The first type of a leader considers that he makes a favour of God and of the church while serving, but the second one is filled with passion. Jesus didn't go to the cross because of an obligation, but because of a vision.