Prophetic School for the Black Country

Posted by THE NET on 10 February 2009 | 0 Comments

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Prophetic School for the Black Country 

We recently help our first school of Prophesy in the Black Country where over 60 people attended four monthly 1 day workshops. This school proved to be really successful and we will be running another school early in 2009. If you are interested in more details about the 2009 school when we have them, then register your interest by emailing admin@thenet.org.

Our introduction to the Prophetic School in Summer 08 

Developing a Company of Prophetic People for the Black Country...

 Do you feel that God has given you a prophetic gifting to develop? Do others see you as carrying a prophetic gift? If so, then you'll want to know about the forthcoming prophetic training schools coming to the Black Country. 

For some time, we have been grateful to God for releasing the prophetic to accompany us here on our journey in the Black Country as church. This accompaniment is mainly manifest in Martin Scott, who God has called to walk alongside us. 

Martin is one of the foremost prophets in the UK today, as well as being called to significant ministry in Brazil, Sweden and the USA. Along with us he feels that the Black Country is one the key places in the UK where God is doing something new and pouring out his Spirit in a time of preparation. 

Some years ago, Martin was inspired to see a prophetic voice raised in this land. When he met Chris Meredith, a young post-graduate with a clear prophetic calling upon his life, God revealed that here was someone who could carry the inspiration forward in our nation and together they began to develop COPP, a Company of Prophetic People. 

COPP for the Black Country is an initiative lead by Chris Meredith, which aims to establish a prophetic round table, people from within Black Country church who can grow to mark time, measure the season, declare the tempo of the moment - as we journey together. Regional companies will eventually become a much wider resource speaking into our nation.

 "At its core the prophetic is about re-imagining tomorrow, about catalysing spiritual and material change, about releasing destiny to the lives, spheres and landscapes of which we find ourselves a part. These days are about feeding, or even beginning, journeys which develop us towards doing just that." - Chris Meredith,

COPP Sound exciting? Read on... 
The first step in developing this company, is to run a prophetic school - right here in the Black Country. The school is essentially an environment for the practical training of those who are inexperienced but who carry prophetic anointing – as well as a place for the development of existing gifts. There will be strong elements of biblical teaching, theological discussion and a safe space in which prophetic ministry can both be given and received.  In essence, it is a chance to begin to journey together in discovering what it means to pursue the voice of God.  

Key things we will cover: 
q       Re-imagining the Prophetic
q       Good and bad beliefs about prophecy
q       Protocols and Pitfalls in ministering prophetically
q       Dreams, the Visual, and issues of interpretation.
q       Receiving / Weighing the prophetic 

Each session was a day long (4 Saturdays, once a month). Morning sessions were based around teaching with much of the afternoon given over to practical ‘activations’, which were designed to help us push progressively further in praying / prophesying over one another with insight. 

The costs for each day were £15 per person which included lunch, coffee, tea and materials. If you booked and payed for all four sessions in advance a £10 discount was available; four sessions, normally £60 - reduced to £50. .

 Who is Chris Meredith? Chris lives in Leeds where he is an actively involved in the Body of Christ in a city wide context. He has a degree in modern history and is currently involved in postgraduate research into spatial-literary readings of Biblical Narratives. He has been Involved in personal prophetic ministry for some years, as well as long distance prayer walking across much of the UK and into Europe. More recently Chris has been involved in prophetic input into city-contexts both in the UK and Africa.