Vision Academy 2011
“Raising up Strong, Spirit-filled Believers”
Cassy Smith, Founder/Director
for information email: FOFVisionAcademy@gmail.com
Term 1 - August through December, 2011
Term 2 - January through May, 2012
This term we also offer PeeWee JV for ages 4-7 year olds and Jr VS for ages 8-13 year olds.
Our Mandate:
Capture the heart of a generation and lead them to the heart of God.
A generation is everyone drawing breath at the same time. It is not, in my opinion an “older” generation and a “younger” generation. Joel 2 says, “I will pour my Spirit out on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters. Your old men will dream, your young men will see visions.”
God shows us, through Joel, what an outpouring looks like. Peter stands up in Acts 2, quoting Joel, and says “this is that”. Any outpouring that separates or excludes a group is not the perfect will of God when it comes to His kind of outpouring. Outpourings or revival was never meant to be a series of meetings with an on and off switch. It is meant to be an artesian well within us as in John 7, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says."
The outpouring we are experiencing is this: generations coming together digging deep wells through prayer, fasting, and studying the Word of God. The Spirit of God begins to pour out from within. We are not waiting for Him to come down, He did that in Acts 2, He is waiting for us (The Church) to let Him come out. An artesian well is a deep drilled well through which water is forced upward under pressure. We must let the Spirit out as a steady fountain in the midst of pressures all around us.
Win souls, Train Disciples, Send out workers...
WIN • TRAIN • SEND
Classes:
First Year: Find Your Vision
Your First Block at Vision Academy is to Find Your Vision.
“Without vision people perish.” Proverbs 29:18
Questions you will be able to answer after Block 1...
Find Your Vision:
“What is my dream?”
“What are my strengths and weaknesses?”
“What is my mission statement?”
Second Year: Find Your Voice
It is one thing to know, and another thing to act on what you know. The book of Acts in the Bible was called that for a reason, the apostles acted on what they knew.
The Second Block at Vision Academy is to Find Your Voice.
The apostles knew who they were because they had spent personal time with Jesus. The knowledge of who we are in Christ Jesus compels us to action. In Matthew 28:18-20 (The Message) says, “Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: "God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I'll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age."
It takes having the Word of God “shut up in your bones like fire” to produce a lifestyle where you live out this command from Jesus every day.
We partner with you at Vision Academy to helping you Find Your Voice through personal time with Jesus, and meditating on God’s Word.
Third Year: Be Vigorous
Third Block is an ever-increasing block. It involves taking the Base of Block 1 + Block 2 and perpetually building upon it.
•Grow deeper in the Word.
•Be fueled by fasting.
•Be powerful in prayer.
•Be a dedicated dreamer.
•Be a visionary for the Church.
Vigorous means strong; active; robust: energetic; forceful: powerful in action or effect: growing well, as a plant; sturdy, sound mind, healthy; a ball of fire.
