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News from Out of Our Minds Banners

May,  2011  

Banners as  

Worship Garments

 

Many times and across all cultures people will spontaneously wrap a banner around themselves while we are teaching about banners. They wear it as a garment. 

 

In a ministry setting it can evoke feelings of being covered or wrapped in the arms of the Lord, and in a worship setting it can make someone feel as if they are a living banner. Either way, it's very powerful.

 

Georgie 6 

 

Taking the concept further, it is possible to modify a banner to make a garment that can be worn in many different ways. This idea is particularly useful if you have a banner that has been damaged or torn.

 

Georgie 3 

 

The worship garment shown here is made from a "Joy" banner cut in a basic ruana shape. The pole pocket was removed from the banner. Then a deep and narrow u-shape was cut half way down it's length. The edges were finished with narrow silk bias binding (although it would work to just turn under the edges and sew them down). The binding adds a little weight to the edges for better drape.

 

Georgie 7 

 

The photos show the many ways that the garment may be worn. Our beautiful model is Georgie Brodie from South Africa, a prophetic dancer and an OOOMB intercessor who took to the garment right away and danced beautifully with it.

 

 Georgie 8

The banner was designed and made by Nikki Phillips in North Carolina, USA. You can contact her here for design information on how to creatively use or recycle your banner.

 

  

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Give-away!

Restoration

Restoration


This year we began a new banner give-away project. Each month we will randomly draw a name from our database of newsletter subscribers and give them a free banner of their choice. Be sure to check every month to see if your name has been drawn.

 

This month's winner  

of a free banner is

 

Liliane Faci   

of France

 

Liliane, click here to claim your prize!

 

Redeemable until the end of June. 



Check it out ...  

Banner Videos on the Web   

Banners, Dance and Prayer

Banners, Dance and Prayer

Pamela Ayres has produced this short video about banners in dance and prayer, including some banners at the United Nations.

 

Send us links to your videos so we can share them across the globe!


Global Banner  

Photo Project 

 

Send us your artistic

banner photos!

Northumbria Church

Northumbria Church

 

 We are looking for creative photographic art that shows how banners can be used prophetically in different nations around the globe.  Our dream is to create a growing gallery that shows where Out of Our Minds Banners are being used to shift atmospheres over people and nations around the world. The banner can be one of our standard range or a custom banner OOOMB has created for you. 

 

The images will be displayed in an online gallery on our website, "Everyday People Changing the Atmosphere over Nations," and, at some point in the future, images will be selected for their artistic and prophetic impact for publication in the OOOMB newsletter or to produce products like a calendar, cards or a poster.

 

To stimulate your creative juices, we will randomly draw a name out of every 20 participants (who meet the criteria) and give them a free banner of their choice.  

 

Send us an electronic copy of the image using www.yousendit.com to [email protected].  

 

Simultaneously, so that we can properly attribute your work, send us an e-mail which includes:

 

1.  photo  title

2. a  brief description of the essence of what you felt the image captured

3. the photographer

4. the location and

5. if there are people in the shot, the names of the people.



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From David's Desk...

     

Greetings Worshipping Warrior!


I trust that amidst the mayhem that is going on in the world you have not succumbed to the temptation to lay down your banners. 

 

Banners were born for such a time as this! Banners are at their very best amidst turmoil.

 

This month has been wonderfully exciting for me with visits to old friends and ministering to new friends in Switzerland, France and Australia.  

 

I've just returned form a trip through Central Queensland, ministering to the "salt of the earth" people who live in small remote communities where choice for Christian expression is limited, but where they are feeling the urge to raise up their banners over the land.

 

It has been an intense month, but very stimulating, as more and more people  begin to "get it" about banners, from here in my home town of Toowoomba to the other side of the globe.

 

Do not be discouraged. Do not let your hands hang down. Despite any opposition, oppression, or discouragement - NOW is the time for banners!

 

Ask the Lord to show you the opportunities that are around you today. Do not constrain yourself to the four walls of the church; listen to Holy Spirit and ask Him to lead you to places where you can be effective using the revelation, passion and banners that you have available.  

 

In this newsletter we are sharing with you stories about how people are doing just that!

 

To the left you'll see pictures of my good friend Georgie from South Africa on the grounds of a castle in Scotland.  She is wearing a banner garment designed by Nikki in the USA.  It's a global thing!

 

Below we also outline an interesting coincidence where, within days of each other, two different events on two different continents took banners to the beaches to celebrate, declare, intercede and worship on the sand, in the sun and the wind.

 

We also continue with our series on "Banners Outside the Christian Context", detailing how pirates have used the Jolly Roger to instill fear and to communicate.

 

We also have a video form Pamela Ayers from the US and a banner give-away to a banner wielder from France, plus a reminder about great workshops coming up in July in Mississippi and Texas.

 

Whatever season you are moving through, whether you are heading towards summer or winter, NOW is the time to get out your banners, go out into the sunshine andinvite the Lord to give you declarations to speak to your region and your nation.

 

David S  

 

 

Banners on the Beach  

Moving outside the confines of the church

David Stanfield and Nikki Phillips   

Banners on the beach


Many of us struggle with how to have banners accepted in church. It is possible that we are struggling needlessly. Banners are not supposed to be contained within the four walls of a church building! I believe they are designed to be out amongst the people. 

 

This month, spontaneously and independently, two of us here at OOOMB took banners out of the church and onto the beach. I went to the east coast of Australia and Nikki went to the east coast of the USA.  

 

David's story   

My brother and nieces live in Bundaberg, five hours north of where I live. Their eldest daughter wanted to be baptized outside and she wanted banners at her baptism. The family was not sure that the congregational setting was ready for banners yet. So Breanna's BaptismBreanna made her statement of faith during the church service in the morning and invited the congregation to join her at a local beach for her baptism in the afternoon.  

 

We arrived early and set up a perimeter of banners around the baptismal site, with great interest, respect and awe from fishermen and others at the beach.

 

A large number of people turned up and made their way into the baptismal space. The sun and the wind on the banners made a fantastic setting. It was a beautiful atmosphere for a baptism.  

 

After she came up from the water I prayed for her using a banner. In this way a large portion of the congregation was introduced to banners outside the constraints of a traditional church setting and resulted in a beautiful and deeply meaningful service which Breanna and her friends will long remember.

 

Just to give you an idea of how we did it, you can see it on my first ever YouTube video below. 

Banners at a Baptism on the Beach at Bundaberg, Australia

Banners at a Baptism on the Beach

at Bundaberg, Australia

Nikki's story  

In North Carolina, USA, an interdenominational prayer group held a prayer meeting on the beach to pray for their county. It was a gloriously beautiful day with seagulls crying overhead and dolphins swimming just offshore. With chairs arranged in a circle and banners in the sand around and behind them, they interceded and made decrees of blessing.  

 

At one point the prayer leader asked everyone to just shut their eyes and listen to the voice of the Lord in the sound of the waves crashing on the shore and the wind flapping the banners. It was a very powerful moment.  

 

At the end of the meeting, and led by a shofar and the Breakthrough banner,  the participants took a short march on the beach while praying and praising the Lord for his goodness and the beauty of His creation. All activity on the beach came to a standstill as the curious onlookers stopped what they were doing to watch the procession.   

Wednesday Morning Inter-denominational Women's Prayer Group 4

Wednesday Morning Inter-denominational Women's Prayer Group 4

Just to add to the coincidence of our meetings, a friend of mine, Bill Yount, released a prophetic word on the Elijah List. He called it "Angelic Beachcombers Storming the Beaches of the Nations". You can read this powerful word here.


 

Banners Outside the Christian Context

The Jolly Roger  

 

Jolly Roger 

 This is the flag flown by pirate Calico Jack Rackham

 


Because flags and banners are part of the cultures we live in, it is wise for us to understand those cultures so we can bring light and understanding to those amongst whom we are ministering.

 

Banners have been used outside Christian culture positively, neutrally and in negative or evil ways . The basic principles of banners remains true no matter what the context.  Banners provide a source of identity, communicate information and rally unity behind the banner whoever is wielding them. Below we outline one of the best known and darkest symbols of a banner outside the Christian context.

 

In last month's newsletter we wrote about the anarchists' black flag  

as a symbol of defiance and opposition to surrender. Many believe that the anarchist flag has its origin in the black flag known as the Jolly Roger, flown by pirates in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

 

The Jolly Roger with its skull and crossed bones became a symbol of terror on the seas. The flag was run up when approaching a vessel to warn them not to resist capture. If the captain of the ship under attack refused to surrender, then the pirates would run up a red flag to indicate that no mercy would be shown to their victims. 


Over time different pirates modified the Jolly Roger by adding their own symbols to the flag to identify themselves more specifically, including hourglasses, daggers, skeletons and bleeding hearts.  

You can read more about pirates and see more versions of the Jolly Roger flag at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger.

 

A Jolly Roger story   

Three years ago two intercessors went to David's office in Toowoomba with a concern.  A small group of campers at a large Christian festival called Easter Fest were using the Jolly Roger flag to mark their campsite so they and their friends could find themselves in the sea of tents.  

 

After exploring and confirming the intent of the Jolly Roger flag, the intercessors decided to buy one of the OOOMB banners and give it to the campers. They explained that this banner represented one of the names of the Lord, whereas the one they were using represented defiance and impending assault. With that new understanding, the campers happily swapped the banners.

 

It is worth knowing what banners can mean outside the Christian context!

      

Where David is going to be in 2011 

 

Jerusalem March 2

   

There are some dates where David is available to train either side of around these 2011 events.  Contact us now to arrange a booking for your workshop, conference or worship event.  

   

Nigeria - June 15- June 30

 

USA/Caribbean/Latin America - July 19- 24 

 

Puerto Rico -July 26-30  

International Christian Dance Fellowship Conference

 

Suriname - August 3-8 

 

Spokane, Washington, USA  - Sept. 20-25  

Healing Rooms Conference 

 

Jerusalem, Israel - Sept 28- Oct. 18

 

Perth, Australia - Oct. 20- 30  

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and Christian Assembly

 

NSW Tour, Australia - November

 

Switzerland - November, December

 

Bookings have already begun for 2012.  

 

Contact us to arrange for David  

to come to your area!


Movement in Worship.

Movement in Worship Coming to the US Again

 

Our friends Andy Au and Kirsti Hallet of Movement in Worship in the UK are going to be in the
United States in July. They are conducting a two-day workshop in Columbus, Mississippi on July 22-23. Click here for more information.


They will also be at Abbey Church in Azle Texas on July 29-30, and will be training people up to take worship outside to be part of a 'Concert in the Park' event on the evening of Friday 29th July. For more information contact  [email protected].

 


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