Freedom House Ministry BASIC 2 School
for Prayer Counseling Training

Graduating with an Elijah House Diploma from the Basic 1 School, is a prerequisite to attend the Basic 2 School.

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Vision and Purpose for the BASIC 2 School
Elijah House Ministry's Video Schools was created from the ministry of John and Paula Sandford. In prayerfully planned instructional and ministry settings, we impart "Keys of Knowledge," opening the heart to receive truth and renewing the mind which results in life transformation through Christ. Led by the Holy Spirit, we are co-workers with Christ, working to "restore" broken and hurting hearts, reconciling relationships. In keeping with the Elijah House mission, our vision for the school is to equip, encourage, and release "Ambassadors for Christ" (II Corinthians 5:18 - 20), who will pick up His mantle and continue His mission of restoration and healing.

School Goals

• To provide a safe setting for building relationships, learning, and practicing prayer ministry in small groups
• To provide Scriptural foundation for Christ-centered Inner Healing (Sanctification and Transformation)
• To offer students the opportunity to experience personal healing through small group ministry from their peers
• To teach, model, and provide opportunity to practice ministry to one another according to the Word of God and in the power and sensitivity of Christ through the Holy Spirit

Who Should Attend the School?
Any layman, Pastor, Christian leader, counselor, or therapist, seeking experience in prayer ministry and healing from life's hurts, and desire to begin restoring healthy relationships with God and others, this school is for you.

What Can I Expect From This Course?
These school's will help you discover Scriptural answers to many searching questions we all have about life, God, and ourselves. Have you ever wondered why you think, feel, speak, and act the way you do? Have you ever wondered why things happen in your lives and relationships the way they do, and why God allows certain things to happen? Jesus desires to bring you into wholeness through true change and to break through long-standing areas of your life. He wants to equip you with greater vision and hope for the future…to take you into a deeper, more exciting and fulfilling love relationship with Him…and to prepare, empower, and release you into a new anointing to minister to others.

With each lesson, you will gain understanding, be given principles of healing, and begin the healing process. Because we are dealing with the hearts of people, the school can, at times, be very intense. Personal responses to teaching and small group interaction may include, but is certainly not limited to, some of the following: expression of anger, prejudices and resentments; apprehension, anxiety, insomnia, depression, dissociation, etc. Because of time restraints and that your group is learning together, all of your personal life issues will not be dealt with during the course of the school, but some healing will happen. This is a life long process. We simply give you the tools to further your healing, restore your relationships, and minister to others. Many seek further ministry once the school is complete. If you feel there are already significant life issues that need to be addressed, prayer ministry or counseling prior to your enrollment in the school is advisable and always beneficial.

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Basic 2 Curriculum Lesson Briefs

Prenatal & Childhood Issues, Part One
It is important to understand the truth about the physical and spiritual life God gives within the womb. This lesson presents both the scriptural base and modern research supporting the belief that God gives unborn children a personal spirit at conception. Through their spirit, and with the propensity to sin because of their sin nature, children may react wrongly in the womb to circumstances of the parents. These natural, but wrong reactions will affect them later in life. We also discuss abortion and offer help to bring healing to those living under its dark shadow.

Prenatal & Childhood Issues, Part Two
This lesson explores the conditions, symptoms and healing of several common in-utero experiences. In each of these cases, a child may react sinfully to the wounding, and then later in life reap the consequences of those reactions made in the womb. Special emphasis on the problems of adoption gives prayer ministers tools with which to help adoptive parents bring their adopted children to life.

Captive Spirit
Captive spirit is a condition related to but more serious than that of slumbering spirit. Rather than simply being awakened to life, a captive or imprisoned spirit must be set free from the powers of darkness. In this lesson we explore the symptoms and discuss healing for the person whose spirit is captive.

Emotional Abuse
Arbitrary, inconsistent, or abusive parental discipline can damage the emotional well-being and security of a child. They destroy the natural sense of justice that God imparts to our being. God’s Word provides us with healthy and appropriate forms of discipline necessary to raising children. These guidelines are examined at length in this lesson.

Healing Common Sexual Experiences
In this lesson, we discuss the common sexual experiences of childhood and adolescence, including potty training, genital play, pornography, masturbation, and dating. Mishandled by parents and tabooed by society, common sexual experiences can often lead to shame in adulthood. Healing of adult sexual sin will often necessitate recognition and healing of these earlier roots.

Profile of the Abuser
Those who minister to abusers need to respond with compassion and understanding, yet without excusing the sin. As prayer ministers, we need to be able to help abusers to deal with root issues without condemning them. This lesson brings insight and understanding through a typical life history and character of a sexual abuser, and teaches how to extend God's healing love and grace while still holding abusers accountable for their actions.

Healing the Sexually Abused
Those having been sexually abused often live with a barrage of emotions that keep them in bondage to the wounds of the molestation. This lesson explores these feelings and common responses to these most damaging violations of our being. Factors such as trust, time, patience, understanding, and perseverance will be discussed in the healing process. Intercession is also an essential ingredient, ministering the Lord’s healing grace and blessing on these so deeply wounded.

Generational Sin
Scripture testifies to the sin of man passing from one generation to the next. In this lesson, we study the three ways we are defiled through generational sin. We will learn of the authority given believers in Christ Jesus, enabling us to break the bonds of generational sin. Through prayer, we can help free families from their generational patterns of destruction.

Shame, Part One
Shame causes us to build walls of protection around our heart, and causes us to hide, from God, and from man. This lesson explores the root causes of shame, how to recognize the fruit and how to effectively minister and bring healing to those bound by shame.

Shame, Part Two
In this lesson, we will continue to explore how shame affects us in our individual lives, in our families, in our churches, in our generations and culture. We will continue to look at the fruit and talk about how to effectively minister and bring healing.

Grieving Losses
Any type of major loss invokes an intense emotional suffering called grief. This lesson discusses the stages of grief, those most susceptible to "stuffing" grief, helping children in their grieving process, and getting people "un-stuck" from their own mistakes in grieving.

Care and Feeding of the Spirit
Our spirits have three primary needs: worship, relationship, and affection. Lacking these life experiences, or wounds to these areas, our spirit is unable to sustain us. This lesson shares many ways parents can nurture the spirits of children. But these are not for children only. Just as we are to care for the temple of our bodies, we are also to engage in disciplines that will strengthen our own spirits, enabling us to live life fully and to serve God. Forgiveness begins the Lord's work of healing. Other keys to healing are included at the end of this lesson.

Resurrection Side of Healing
In this lesson, we will look at why it is important to remember the resurrection side of prayer ministry and not just focus on the death side. Prayer ministry is the continual process of bring issues to death on the Cross, but also letting Christ bring to life areas in our lives.

Development of the Believer
In this lesson we look at the stages of growth we experience physically, emotionally and mentally, experienced in our spiritual development. These stages are meant to bring us into maturity as people of God, with integrity of character, able to give love sacrificially and receive love in its fullness.

Overcoming Fears
Scripture says that "an anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up." (Proverbs 12:25) This lesson explores the nature of anxiety in general, the more potent panic attacks and phobias, and how they can be overcome.

Depression
Many Christians believe that depression is sinful in that it denies the hope and joy of the Lord in our lives. But depressed people are not at fault for their condition. They truly cannot help themselves. In this lesson, we learn what depression is and why depressed people need the help of others. This lesson explains the steps necessary to begin the healing process.

Burnout
This lesson discusses the physical, emotional and spiritual conditions associated with burnout; explores it's causes and possible prevention; and specifies what is needed to help bring healing to one suffering from it. We also explore how burnout relates to conditions of depression and wounding.

Homosexuality
Though the Bible clearly defines homosexual behavior as sin, as ministers of the Gospel, we must learn to respond and stand lovingly in truth. This lesson outlines the contributing factors and consequences of homosexuality, yet gives hope and healing through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sexual Addiction
Those who minister to those who struggle with sexual addiction know how prevalent it is even in the church. This lesson brings insight and understanding through a typical life history and character of those struggling with sexual addiction and teaches how to extend God's healing love.

False Refuges
This lesson helps us understand the ways in which we seek shelter or protection in places other than the Lord, and how He invites us to find refuge in Him. It explains how false refuges are developed and the problems they can cause. It gives hope and healing to overcome some of life's most plaguing and addictive issues.

Spiritual Adultery
When assented to and allowed to continue, spiritual adultery inevitably leads to physical adultery. This lesson outlines its roots and symptoms and gives guidelines as to what to do when spiritual adultery occurs in the prayer ministry relationship. Additional information is also given on the problem of empathetic defilement, a concern in any relationship.

The Ties that Bless & Bind
As with "Spiritual Adultery," closeness and intimacy between people in ministry situations may give rise to inappropriate attachments, dependencies, or confusion from transference in relationships. This lesson offers insights and help for prayer ministers in handling these situations in godly ways.

Corporateness
While our teachings are written with the individual person in mind, corporateness is the one teaching that specifically points beyond ourselves to the vision and purposes of God in our everyday relationships, be it in society, family, marriage, or the Body of Christ. This final lesson helps us go forth from the school to do the will of our Lord.

Burden Bearing Rightly
This lesson looks at how God intercedes through us to bear others’ burdens without our being crushed as we try to help. We look at how this gift of burden bearing in intercession can bring us into a closer relationship with Jesus, in which we can feel His heart for those whom we are interceding. How this gift of burden bearing can become a gift instead of a heavy burden.

Basic 2 Classes are held one Saturday a month, start at 8am and go to 5:30pm. It will have 3 video lectures with Q & A time, 2 small groups for discussion and some ministry. Lunch break is 1.5 hours. Graduation for this school is scheduled to be held together with the Basic 1 school's graduation.

Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
September 22, 2007
October 20, 2007
November 17, 2007
December No Classes
January 26, 2008
February 23, 2008
March 22, 2008
April 26, 2008
May 24, 2008
Graduation: June 14, 2008

Attendance Requirements
Plan to attend all dates, only one date can be missed. If more dates are missed, you will not be able to receive an Elijah House diploma. You may receive a generic diploma of completion, but it will not provide you what you need to go on to an internship program at Elijah House or in Freedom House.

The Location of all Basic 2 Classes are:
Elmwood Park Presbyterian Church
7600 W. Armitage Ave.
Elmwood Park, IL. 60635

BASIC 2 Registration and Cost
$200 Tuition per student must be submitted with all application forms no later than August 1, 2006 Balance due 1st. day of school. An additional $20 fee for late registration or late payment.

Download and Print all BASIC 2 Application Forms Here

Basic 2 School Cost
Please make all checks payable to Freedom House Ministries. All correspondence and payments should be sent to:
Freedom House Ministries
c/o The Andersen's
3217 S. Scoville Ave,
Berwyn, IL 60402

Questions call 708-656-3658

	Singles	Couples
Elijah House Tuition	$100.00	$200.00
Course Notebook	$50.00	$100.00
Course Text Books	$20.00	$20.00
Shipping/Handling	$10.00	$15.00
Facilitators Fee	$170.00	$300.00
Total:	$350.00	$635.00

In addition to still using the text books used in the Basic 1 School, these two books are required for the Basic 2 School

	Paula offers the love, acceptance and redemptive healing of Christ to the victims of sexual abuse—the abused, the abuser, and their families. (Paperback, 156 pages).
	Understand the dynamics that tempt and capture even veterans of the Christian faith, and learn how to bring healing to those who have fallen. John discusses the historical and cultural causes for the drastic increase of sexual sin among Christians today, and calls the body of Christ to repentance and healing. (Paperback, 203 pages)