A few days ago I spotted a sign on the local Supa Valu notice board advertising a ‘healing festival’ to be held in the local area over the weekend of Feb 19 & 20. There are over 40 different forms of healing going to be doing their thing over those two days… but I didn’t see anybody practicing ‘prayer healing’.

Now I wouldn’t say I have any kind of ‘gifts’ in healing per se, but I believe God heals and I believe I can pray…

So I figured I’d give the coordinator a call and see if we could have a space in the hall to do our thing alongside the 40 different new age healing specialities. She wasn’t real keen at first… bad experiences with Christians… bad experience growing up pentecostal… bad experience being told she is a devil worshipper (by Christians) because she is a ‘pagan’…

But even when we got past that and had a few laughs she still had no spaces to give me… All gone… join the queue… maybe next year… bugger…

I was rapt to hear that Dennis, my friend from the Uniting church had managed to find a way in and was going to do some ‘prayer healing’ so even if we couldn’t get there he would be able to take the opportunity to mix it in this environment and provide a different spiritual perspective.

Then tonight Dennis rang and told me he can’t use the spot and we can have his spot if we want it…

Two days at a ‘healing festival’ with all the local new agers and heaps of people from the community coming thru. Sounds like a ‘too good to miss’ opportunity.

I reckon these guys will be there, this mob and this crew as well.

So my question to all you incarnational thinkers and missioners is ‘how would you go about being a part of this festival’? Leave me your ‘tips’ for how we could be most effective in this context.