Celebrating 40

Forty years ago this February Wally & Eleanor Best initiated a gathering of a few people in Lakefield High School that was to become a prophetic influence in Ontario.  Wally had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in '71, and believed that a life in the Spirit would change the church for the good.  The Fellowship as it was known would become a leader in the charismatic renewal, and would go on to evolve into several new and prophetic expressions touching many lives in the years to come.

Some of the original gathering continue to meet with other inspired believers as River Run Fellowship.  True to their roots River Run is posturing itself for the next move  of God, by preparing a new wineskin for the new wine that is to come.  God has said that, 'The whole earth will be filled with a knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea,' and River Run is readying itself for such a time.  God's people must always be versatile and resilient, ready to follow what God is about to do.

In looking back we are grateful for what God has done and for those who pioneered a way, yet we continue to press forward knowing that there is more to come.  It is nice to reminisce about what was, however the purposes of God are always moving forward to reach the current culture, and to resist the devil and his devices.

Thank you Wally and Eleanor, and all those who together helped establish a way that was revolutionary.  We will continue to hold close within our hearts, that sense of expectancy that God can do anything.

"The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity."  2 Cor. 10:4-6