October 20, 2024
Dear Covenant Family,
Our hearts and prayers are with you as we recently experienced Hurricane Milton in Central Florida. The storm brought challenges for many, and we are thankful that those in our community are safe.
We want to keep you updated on what has transpired since the building closing and a vision for the future.
After sorting through the TCC property and making several donations, this week, as of October 20, we finished moving equipment, supplies, and materials to storage. After twenty-six years of life as a community, this has been no small feat. We are grateful to all who assisted. We also thank our Covenant Family for your patience and prayers and for hanging in there with us during this challenging transition. We know it has been difficult for many of you, too.
Even with limited prayer time due to the busyness of the building closing, we have continually sensed His presence and experienced miraculous provision. We received generous offerings that covered our moving expenses and monthly storage facility payments. God’s hands have been actively overseeing this move. He is faithful!
We are grateful to each of you who have continued to provide financial support to help preserve the ministry's ongoing aspects, such as our online School of Ministry, CovenantU, thecovenantcenter.com website, License and Ordination certification, Missions, Prayer and Intercession.
It was brought to our attention that our website's “Giving” button stopped working for a few days. We apologize for any inconvenience, and it should be functioning correctly now. In addition to giving online, you can continue sending donations to The Covenant Center, PO Box 524, Lakeland, Florida 33802-0524. Thank you for helping us continue to train, equip, and release His people into the world. God bless and keep you and your family always!
It is great to hear of the many activities, home groups, and outreach taking place as you release your gifts to those around you. You are the ecclesia/church releasing His kingdom.
Reformation of the Church
The church at large is in a Reformation. God is purifying His body, pruning, and reorganizing it. As a prophetic community, we have anticipated this season, but it is still a bit shocking when it happens and looks different from what we could perceive or understand.
When you give your heart to the Lord, it is for eternity. We do not choose our life and destiny; it all lies within Him. Every day, we wake up pursuing His heart - to know Him, His ways, and what He desires for us in service. This will never change, and He has taught us there is no retirement in His kingdom.
He is not done with The Covenant Center family; He is “reforming” what we look like. In our midst, He has been building an apostolic center that houses the five-fold ministry working together, training, teaching, developing giftings, establishing the Tabernacle of David, honoring and serving one another, hearing His voice, and understanding His ways. We have been growing together to build and activate His plan.
We have been a salvation center, training center, halal center, creative arts center, prophetic center, worship and prayer center, counseling center, healing center, spiritual hospital center, evangelism center, outreach center, benevolence center, missions center, market-place ministry center, fellowship center, while teaching adults and our children in their gifts to know and hear God.
The Second Phase: Apostolic Center
As our prophetic words convey, we have moved into the second phase of The Covenant Center. God is developing a Kingdom House as He continues to create and build an Apostolic Sender Center. He placed the five-fold ministry gifts within our TCC family, functioning in our community without competition. Every person is called to develop their gifts with training, moving to a place of release for Kingdom service. When you take CovenantU classes, the last course is designed for you to develop and build the vision God gives you. Everyone in His Kingdom is valuable, and everyone has gifts to release.
TCC as a prophetic center has been a prophetic sender, and now a prophetic revelation will usher in new apostolic understanding. God is bringing new apostolic revelation. Apostle is defined in the Jewish Dictionary, “Apostle and Apostleship, by Kaufmann Kohler, “to send,” (Apostle, Greek ἀπόστολοσ, from ἀποστήλλειν, "to send, a person delegated for a certain purpose.” (www.JewishEncyclopedia.com.) In Acts 13 Paul is a prophet at the church in Antioch and certain prophets teach. Then Holy Ghost spoke and said, “Send Paul and Barnabas,” Acts 13; and by Acts 14 they were sent. In Acts 13 they are prophets. By Acts 14 they become apostles. The only difference is they were sent. The apostolic often downplays the prophetic; however, it is the prophetic that reveals the apostolic. It is not the apostolic that reveals the prophetic. God will continue to bring greater clarity regarding the apostolic revelation in the coming days.
What’s Next - The Timing of The Lord
As you share your spiritual gifts by exhorting one another, laying down your life for each other, and helping one another as needs and challenges arise, you become the hand of Jesus. This is what God has said that He wants. As we enter this new season and era, we want to continue to help you develop the vision and plan God is giving you. You may assist a neighbor or travel to a distant land. Whatever your vision and calling, It is time for many of you to attend to the focus or desire within your heart. His timing is always perfect.
One challenging aspect of Kingdom transition is waiting for His plans. Jesus is the Master Builder, and He builds his church in steps: He gathers people to Himself, forms, appoints, commissions, trains, and sends them into the world (John 17:18).
We wait for Him to bring the plans for this new second phase, just as He built the first phase. In the coming days, we will see Him giving assignments, vision, and plans to various faithful individuals and groups. He will establish numerous outposts and apostolic centers. When He builds, it is established. So, as much as we would like to bring comfort and say we know the way, we want His way and will wait for Him to establish the plan.
I hope you will be enlightened by His vision as He continues to build, not only for us now, but for future generations to come. We are so thankful for you! Your continued love and support, standing beside us in His grace; your faithful prayers, and patience have undergirded us for twenty-six years. How grateful we are for our Father who brought us all together. Only He could build this beautiful multi-age, multi-talented, multi-gifted, multi-cultural family. And as we stated in our first letter to you – “Stay tuned! There is more to come!”
In His Covenant Love,
Richard and Becky Maisenbacher
www.thecovenantcenter.com
info@thecovenantcenter.com