We’re asking for donations for this brand-new $600 refrigerator.  The refrigerator will be purchased here in Guayaquil and delivered ANONYMOUSLY to the family.  We want it to be a complete surprise and a blessing.

Please help by donating any amount, from $5 to $25 or maybe $50.

This is a very simple and powerful way to bless a family in need.  Imagine the look of shock and joy on their faces when they see their brand-new refrigerator delivered to their door… and they have no idea why!

DONATE NOW!! Click on the Donate button below to use your credit or debit card.

Come join us for this amazing and life-changing weekend as we learn to experience the love of God through His power.

Lighthouse Church is located at:
49 Boulder Blvd.
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Email: lighthouse@lhpc.biz
Phone: 780-963-3110

Please contact the church for service times during this Firestorm weekend.

The video below shows the entire process as a screen capture video recording. The video is 97 minutes long.

This Word template is available here:

Download Word Document

Right-click the link to the Word document and choose “Save Target As” to save it to your computer.

Lulu.com has document templates for each of their book sizes available for either Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.

The video below is a screen capture video recording showing how to format a book document in Microsoft Word. The video is about 2 hours and 7 minutes long.

Service Schedule

Friday: 7 pm
Saturday morning: 10 am
Saturday night: 7 pm
Sunday morning: 9 am

Everyone is welcome and there is no cost.  Bring anyone who needs healing in their bodies, whether it’s finger pain or terminal illness.  God is Jehova Rapha — The Lord Who Heals (Exodus 15:22-26).  He sent His son Jesus to die for our sins… AND to bring restoration into our bodies (Isaiah 54:4-5).

The first 8 weeks focused on “writing your book”.  These final 8 weeks show you how to “publish, market and sell your book”.  Every student who attends these classes will create their own professionally-printed book.  The only requirement is that you have at least 3,000 words written which will be printed in your own book.

These classes are free.  Everyone is welcome so bring your friends and your manuscript, whether it’s ready for publishing or still rough.  I want to take you through the whole publishing, marketing and selling journey.  Even though your document may be nowhere near ready to print, bring it anyway so you can learn by doing.  Later, when your document is ready to be a book (whether it’s a month from now or a year), you’ll know what to do next!

See you on January 26th!

The cost is $1,900 which includes everything… airfare, hotel, transportation, food, etc.  Optionally, you can purchase your own airplane ticket if you want to use airline miles or for any other reason.  Your trip cost would be adjusted to cover the other costs of the trip minus the airfare budget.

For more information or to apply for the trip, please visit Bethel Church’s mission trip website.

We are going to see God do amazing miracles through us as we step out in faith!  All I ask of my team is that they were willing to take risks.  We are going to see many salvations, healings, and deliverances.  We are going to give people on the streets powerful encounters with the love of Jesus.  The blind will see, the deaf will hear, stroke victims will regain the use of their bodies, cataracts will dissolve and disappear, cancer will go… all in the powerful name of Jesus!

Come and join this powerful team and be transformed as we empower and activate you into a lifestyle of miracles.  If you’re Spirit-filled, you have the same Holy Spirit living in you that lived in Jesus.  (If you’re not Spirit-filled, we’ll take care of that!)  Jesus couldn’t do any miracles without the Holy Spirit.  We’ve also been empowered to do miracles, to demonstrate that we’re sent by the Father.  Let’s demonstrate the goodness and love of God to the churches and streets of Quito, Ecuador!

For writers of all levels, these workshops will help you:

• Finally write that novel
• Understand publishing
• Explore self-publishing
• Polish your work
• Write fiction and non-fiction for children, teens or adults

Special Guest Speaker: Steve Brewer

Steve Brewer is the author of 16 books, as well as a humor writer whose columns have appeared in newspapers across the United States and Canada.

Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010

Time:
Registration 8:00-8:30 am
Seminar: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Location: Neighborhood Church of Anderson/Cottonwood
4684 Rhonda Road, Anderson, CA

Cost: $65 if postmarked by January 22 or $75 at the door

For registration information, contact:
Maxine Cambra at (530) 365-1848
or email: MaxCambra@aol.com

a vision and revelation given to Vincent Rodriguez

As I woke up one morning last week, I saw a picture of angels pouring out two things on us in the book writing class.

The first thing I saw was angels pouring oil on people’s head in the class.

The second thing I saw was the angels had pitchers of white powdered paper, and were pouring than on people. As they poured it on people, it turned into white pages, then more pages, then into expanding stacks, like stacks of manuscripts. The stacks kept growing and filled much of the room. Then the stacks of stacks began to spill out into the hall, and looked like a white cloud. I think it looked like a white cloud because the Presence of God goes with them.

A few days later, as I was looking at the picture again (you know how you can revisit a vision, and God continues to develop it?), instead of powdered paper, now water was being poured out, and the pitchers now looked like the kind of pitchers waiters use in a restaurant. I think this is us pouring out the life giving water of the Holy Spirit on people after our books are finished, both through our books and through continuing ministry.

1. Angels pouring oil on our heads – Anointing for our own life

Psalm 92:10-15   “You have poured over me fresh oil” What does the fresh oil do?

You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox [Strength]; you have poured over me fresh oil. [Fresh anointing] My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants. [victory] The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. [Life]. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. [Established and growing in God's house] They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, [fruitful and growing regardless of age] to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. [Anointing to declare how good God is. Books are a vehicle for declaring things] (ESV)

2. Angels pouring powdered paper on us – Anointing to impart our anointing in writing

Isaiah 61:1-4 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. (ESV)

3. Water being poured on people with waiter’s pitchers – People receiving ministry through the book, and through continuing ministry.

Psalm 107:20 He sent out his word and healed them (ESV)

Send your word through us! Thank you for the privilege of this ministry!

Steve and his wife Wendy were senior church leaders for 17 years.  In 2008, they transitioned to Bethel Church where Steve now trains students in Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry to get them ready for career ministry.  He also co-leads Global Legacy’s Leadership Development Program with Paul Manwaring and travels regularly ministering to churches and leadership teams.

Steve is the author of five revival books:

• Igniting Faith in 40 Days (co-authored with his wife Wendy)
• Cracks in the Foundation
• Possessing Joy
• You’re Crazy if You Don’t Talk to Yourself
• Victorious Mindsets

Managing Your Life to Write a Book

The Three Key Areas to “Manage”

1. Your beliefs – unlocking the unlimited potential in you
   • We must believe who God says we are, not what our experience says we are
   • Apply the Joel 3:10 principle to every area of your life – including your writing
   • Put greater emphasis on your beliefs than your conduct (grace is released when you do)
   • Deal a death blow to unworthiness and performance based Christianity – it blocks creativity
2. Your message and purpose – sharpening your axe
   • Burn for something and increase the fire
   • Position yourself to receive radical input into this area of your passion
   • Note unusual coincidences, repeated prophecies, the things that you are drawn to
   • Keep growing as a person – stretch yourself and build new “muscles”
   • Do things that you have never heard anyone ever doing before
   • Take risks and experiment in God
3. Your time – giving God something to work with
   • The Bruce Jenner principle
   • The tyranny of the urgent has to be overcome. How important is your book?  If you believe it is very important, then you are going to have to say “no” to less important things.
   • Find your writing method and then put it in the calendar. Be accountable.

Final Thought: Those who succeed the most also fail the most!

To learn more about Steve and Wendy Backlund, visit their website.

If you attended the class last spring, you know how powerful it was.  God’s wind was all over the class and we saw many breakthroughs in people’s writing projects!  Once again, God’s presence and power will be in the class, ready to empower every book author to write and complete their book projects.  If you’re not sure whether or not you even want to write a book, just come!  Let the Holy Spirit speak to you, breathe on you, and set your dream on fire.  Writing a book is easier than you think!  Just ask all the people who are now book authors thanks to the previous book-writing class!

UPDATE: Please show up early!  Arrive at 6:30 if possible to take care of class registration.

Student Success Stories

There are now at least six people who have fully completed and published their books.  Others are still in the finishing process, getting endorsements and forewords written.  If you want to see the books that have been published and are now for sale, check out the Student Success Stories page that lists the books that have been published.  If your book is ready for sale but isn’t on there, let me know!  I want to track all of my students’ progress so please keep me updated.

Testimonials & Ideas

I’d like to ask a favor from those of you who attended the class last time.  Could you please write up a sentence or two to describe the class, my teaching, the practicality, God’s presence, and anything else that impacted you?  I want to know how the class affected you and how it has helped or is helping you with your writing project.  Can you please submit a short testimonial about me and the class to  aaron [at] aaronmcmahon (dot) com.  Please submit them by Tuesday, September 8th.  I may use some of these on a testimonials page of my book-writing manual and perhaps on my website.  This will be really helpful as I expand the class and may need to take these to Bethel leadership to let them know what you think of the class.  Thanks!

If you have any ideas or constructive feedback about the class and how I can change it for the next series, please email me and let me know.  My assistant Angelo and I have spent all summer discussing ways we can make the class better.

Exciting class changes!

Perhaps the most important change is that the class is now broken up into two class series of 8 weeks each.  This should be much easier than a single 15-week run like last time.  I think that wore some people out (it certainly wore me out!).  The first 8-week series will focus on writing your book and will go from October 8th through November 24th.  The second 8-week series will start in late January.  I’ll give you the exact details sometime in November once I’ve gotten things figured out.  The second 8-week series will focus on publishing, marketing and selling your book.  Having a two month break between the two classes during the holidays and early January will also give you time to get some writing done before we get into the publishing process where you’ll be able to publish whatever you’ve written into a professional book form.

Every class will now be professionally videotaped and DVDs will be made available.

It’s time to write our books!

When the class series ended in April, we had about 25 students who wrote at least one chapter of their book (many wrote more chapters) and printed them as books through Lulu.com.  I’ve never seen such happy, proud and excited people!  We had a chance for everyone to walk around and see each book, talk to the book authors, and we had food and snacks to create a fun casual atmosphere.  We’ll do the same thing again next February or March as the last class of the series.

I really want to encourage you to come to my class in October if you weren’t able to go through the who series last time.  I think you’ll find it much easier having it broken up.  Eight weeks is totally do-able for most schedules.  I will also reiterate that if you want to write a book, you will need to sacrifice some of your time… for a season!  Once your book is done, you’ll get that time back.  Can you commit to a season of about 4 to 6 months to write and finish your book?  If so, you’ll be a published book author!

Feel free to invite friends you know who want to write a book but don’t know how to get started.  I want to see MANY book authors coming out of this class, living their God-given destiny.  Will that be you?  All you have to do is come and be activated.  Let God water the seed of passion he’s placed inside you.  If you can commit to your vision and give it your time for a season, I can promise you’ll have your book finished, published and ready to sell!