2008 began with a declaration from Brian Burton, our Senior Pastor at Phuket Christian Centre that this was the year of birthing for us as a church.
The end of nine months was the beginning of the conference! The birth of many dreams, visions and even restored identity was about to take place.

The trip to Argentina was an incredible experience for me personally as well as corporately for Phuket Christian Centre. For many years God has been preparing my heart as a leader in the church and a Pilates company owner on the island of Phuket to receive all that was imparted in Argentina this year. When Brian Burton returned back last year with all that he had experienced on his first trip and led us as a body down the road of nation transformation, my whole inner being cried out in joy knowing that this is what my Spirit had been waiting for. So this year for me was a bringing together of many pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of my life and having it firmly gelled together so that I, together with my brothers and sisters here can move in greater measures of confidence and security into our destiny as nation transformers.

Among the many things that God touched me with and birthed during this trip, 2 things stand out from the rest. Firstly was in my new role as an Ambassador for Phuket Christian Centre. It had only recently been announced and I knew that God would give me divine appointments to develop relations with significant people around the globe and to further enhance what is happening in Thailand, most notably right now in Phuket. So when I met Adel and Werner Swart I was not surprised that something deep within me knew I had to spend some time with them and talk. After hearing Adel give testimonies of assisting and ministering to the First Lady of Uganda, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall and other women of influence, I knew that God had placed dreams in my heart along similar lines and was drawing them out. This together with Joseph’s various words about Uganda; what God is doing there and how it is so tangibly being transformed, I knew that God was showing me that this was a significant time there. This led to relationships being built and as a church we knew that the first place Phuket Christian Centre needed to sow into was Uganda, so I will be representing Thailand there at the Kampala City outreach in December!

I also had the honour of serving in the Spiritual Spa and learning so much from Joyce Kawakami, Robin and Alma who led us in blessing many individuals and couples by giving them spiritual spa treatments that would lead them to new measures of freedom in Christ.
It was significant for me because of the work I do with the alignment of the spine with Pilates. With the Spiritual spa I could see that as Christians, at every level of influence and authority, we all need to keep our hearts and minds aligned with the Truth and that often a misalignment can show itself physically so when the spiritual issue is dealt with, the physical problem then leaves. Sometimes this means a release from generational bondage, wrong mindsets and influences and each time it is done with such love, gentleness, and honour. It was a privilege to be a blessing in this way, but I also knew that God was showing me how I could bring this into my work with regards to alignment of the physical and spiritual. All over the world people with physical, stress related problems are seeking either alternative medicine or spiritual help. I could see how God was opening a door to do both! That as clients come to me with physical problems, God often shows me spiritual connections too, and this will help me lead them to a place of both physical and spiritual alignment. This will take time to develop within my work and will need much prayer but I am grateful for being able to see this connection and anointing now.

It has only been 4 weeks since the 14 of us have returned from Argentina and it is already almost most impossible to keep up with what is taking place here in Phuket since we returned. The coals are burning hotter and hotter within each of us and everything we touch is beginning to heat up too.
Thank you Ed and Ruth and God bless you all at Harvest Evangelism. I will see you in December!

Love

Jill

“This conference changed the course of our lives. We received not just a prophetic word, but a prophetic destiny from Ed as our spiritual father.”

We had an amazing time in Argentina. It was LIFE CHANGING FOR US!! Things are starting to happen here in Australia. We now meet weekly in our board room for PRAY REDLANDS- CITY OF GOD and we are influencing other market place ministers to their real calling! As we move into 2009, we believe to be meeting in the civic chambers with government, clergy and market place ministers and we are confidently expecting TRANSFORMATION OF REDLANDS CITY, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA quickly!! Upon our return home, we were blessed to win the Champions Award for the top Real Estate Agency in Australia! It is a great encouragement for us to tangibly see God’s favor on our business. We will be able to use this award prosperously in all of our marketing and to impact other marketplace leaders for Jesus. God is so good!! Janice and I will definitely be at the 2009 Argentina conference.
~Janice and Alan Lucas

This conference changed the course of our lives. We received not just a prophetic word, but a prophetic destiny from Ed as our spiritual father.
~ David and Mary Lee Lobach

Thnaks Dave,
I can relate
Jim Cardinale

Thank you so much for sharing Dave - We love you guys and are praying for more breakthroughs.

Chris and Becky

Dave,

Dave, Though you don't likely remember me, I have noticed you from afar in the few times I've had the opportunity to be with you in North Carolina. I was always so impressed with your sense of servanthood, loyalty to the purpose (and Ed) but you also walked and talked like a CEO (you also resemble my deceased, but loving dad). Thanks for sharing these intimate, healing words.

Thank You I'm from the inner city of chicago and a dreamer who desires to see chicago transformed. preach on buses and trains city streets of chicago. pray for the sick in emergecy rooms, took over crack house under the power of God and now I know i can be a father. Thank Ed you have another son and I hope to meet you one day.. God told me years ago when asked what are the people missing as i watched a young lady looking to sale her self for drugs; he told me thier missing the love of the father...Thank you again cause now I understand

An Orphan No Longer
From Anita Letkemann (Photographer)

Before leaving for Argentina, I declared in faith to my husband that I would return “whole and on fire”. I did not know how God would accomplish this, but I believed that, indeed, He would. It seemed like the fullness of God time.

Now, my soul is at rest, for the very first time. Wholeness is a very distinct feeling; like the final piece of the puzzle, after being misplaced for a very long time, was found and finally put into place. I have been a believer and disciple of Christ for over 25 years. God had restored me in many areas in my life, but the heart of a “father” was a foreign thing to me.

I was a victim of incest as a young child. Otherwise, my dad rarely made time for me. I tried to be the ‘son’ my dad never had by involving myself in his interests; hoping that he would someday really see me and love me. My father’s chief methods of relating were dominance and intimidation. A prime example of this: shooting our beloved dog in the head after an argument with my mother. If he wanted your opinion, he would ask for it. My parents divorced when I was 12 years old. I grew up silent, fearful and hopeless. I never dared to dream.

Over the years, I have learned how to receive the Lord as my provider, friend and teacher, but what was is a father? Can a father really love a female child? How? What was that like? How do I comprehend that which is so far-off to me?

On that day in Argentina, when Ed spoke about an orphan spirit, I was stopped in my tracks. The veil had been rent. Then, when Bishop Vaughn McLaughlin spoke about having three empty seats, I could totally relate, and was able to see that this stronghold in my life is what has been keeping me from becoming whole all these years. I was totally undone; shaken to the very core of my being.

The moment for which I had been seeking had arrived. Ed Silvoso, obedient to The Father, stood in the gap, and “with His authorization”, declared to those who had come forward, that they were orphans no longer. As the meeting drew to a close, Ed sealed it with a hug of deep compassion. I cried tears of joy and release.

As my life slowly returns to ‘normal’, I realize that I have been changed. That hole in my spirit has been filled. This has already changed the way I see & respond to things in my life. It used to be difficult to declare the Lord as repairer of the breech, when I myself, was still broken. But, I can boldly proclaim His love and victory Christ, like never before.

Anita Letkemann