A Live Conversation with Wm Paul Young - July 31st, 2021

”A Live Conversation with Wm Paul Young”

Author of the Christian Fiction/Fantasy Genre:

The Shack, Eve, & Cross Roads

 

 

FHM Zoom Conversation

Saturday – July 31, 2021

6:30pm to 9:00pm (CST in the US)

JOIN the conversation with YOUR

personal questions!

 

 

 

Sit in as Wm Paul Young chats with Mari Anne & Tommy

  • In a real dialog, learn about trauma and how it impacts our lives.
  • Explore more of the Shack with Paul and recognize how we ALL have a “Shack” in our own lives—a place where we store our shame, pain, and trauma.
  • Consequently, we all need healing for our image of God, but how do we get there?
  • Discover how when we were hurt or in crisis, we ran into our Shack, thinking it a place of hiding and protection, but it was only false comfort that failed us.
  • Come and talk with Tommy, Mari Anne, & Paul about the power of grace, healing, and learning to be present.
  • Understand the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit up close and personal with Paul, hearing His life-changing encounters with Papa God that can also be YOURS.

 

Time for Q&A—to get your questions answered!

Cost:  $22.00 Single & $32 Married Couple

 

  • Pay Online: By PayPal or Credit Card:
  • Pay by Mail: Send checks made payable to “Freedom House Ministry,” and names of attendees to The Andersens, Freedom House Ministry, 652 Thunderbird Trl, Carol Stream, IL 60188-9262
  • Register by Friday, July 30th
  • Zoom link will be emailed to you on Saturday, July 31st
  • After Zoom Event, all registrants will receive the link to watch the conversation with Wm Paul Young again or if you can’t attend on July 31st, you’ll be able to watch it at your convenience.
  • Questions: Contact Dorie at 224-434-1200, iPhone


June 21st, 2021 Teaching Event - Hebraic Roots of Our Faith to Understanding Jesus

Joe Amaral – Author, Teacher, Speaker, Tour Leader

https://joeamaral.org/

FHM Zoom Teaching Event

Monday – June 21, 2021

6:30pm to 8:30pm (CST in the US)

 

 

Overview of Joe Amaral’s Teaching:

  1. Modern-day Christians often use a 21st-century worldview to understand Jesus. However, Joe Amaral delves deep into Jewish history, societal mores, and cultural traditions, closing the gap created by geographical distance and more than two thousand years of history so that the full beauty and power of Jesus’ teachings come alive.
  2. Using a chronological approach to the life of Christ, Amaral guides the reader through significant events such as Jesus’ birth, baptism, and crucifixion, pointing out illuminating details that the Western mind normally misses.
  3. Amaral explains to understand Jesus: we must understand the time and place in which he was born, the background from which he drew his illustrations, and the audience he spoke to.
  4. He’ll explore specific terms, places, and events for their significance and show how they add richness and meaning to the text: the connection between Jesus and John the Baptist, the annual Feasts and why they are important to modern Christianity, Jewish customs such as foot-washing, clean and unclean foods, paying tribute to political governments, and the significance of various miracles.
  5. Get back to the foundation of your faith, exploring these ancient Hebraic roots.

 Zoom Event Includes:

  • Teaching and Q&A Time.
  • Two drawings for Understanding Jesus: Cultural Insights into the Words and Deeds of Christ.

Cost:  $22.00 Single & $32 Married Couple

  • Pay Online: By PayPal or Credit Card:
  • Pay by Mail: Send checks made payable to “Freedom House Ministry” to The Andersens, Freedom House Ministry, 652 Thunderbird Trl, Carol Stream, IL 60188-9262
  • Register by Saturday, June 19.
  • Zoom link will be sent to you via email on Sunday, June 20.
  • After Zoom Event, all registrants will receive the link by email to watch Amaral’s teaching again or if you can’t attend on June 20, you’ll be able to watch it at your convenience.
  • Questions: Contact Dorie at 224-434-1200, iPhone


April & May 2021 Newsletter

Dear Friends,

Hear these words from your Savior…

. . .  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. 

He who believes in me will live . . .”  (john 11:25)

What a powerful statement of truth, power, and glory as well as a bountiful and abundant life on this side of the resurrection as well as our eternal life on the othermay2021pic1 side!  My loving challenge to each of YOU is not to just think about resurrection glory and power just during Easter but to ask the Holy Spirit to bring you into a “resurrection mentally.”

Living from the resurrection side of the cross here and now is to live out the call, purpose, and life God has destined for YOU before the foundations of the world, which is a life of hope, healing, freedom, peace, and a life of power all because of the Great I AM who gives resurrection life here and now.

Living from the resurrection side of the cross means: to live a life of honor to our Lord and Savior, to experience the places of true life in every area of our lives, and to experience real and lasting transformation here on this side of eternity.

Living from the resurrection side of the cross is stepping into our genuine and legitimate heritage as sons and daughters of the Most-High God.

Here at Freedom House, we believe inner healing involves both crucifixion and resurrection.  On the crucifixion side of the cross, we call to death old structures and practices which dishonor—those bitter root judgments, foundational lies, and inner-vows that keep us stuck in wrong patterns of thinking and doing.  Consequentially, on the resurrection and life side, we call to restoration and LIFE that which honors, such as your true personhood and the original design and joy that God created for you.

Once you have dealt with those old structures that dishonor God, your life, your heritage, along with your woundedness, you bring it all to death on the cross.  Then, Christ Jesus is right there to release you into blessing, honor, and healing which means:

  1. He will call you and your personality into a place of honor and your natural bent of personality, identity, and destiny.
  2. He will tell you who YOU are in Him.
  3. He will restore both personal and generational blessings.
  4. He will give YOU real power through His Holy Spirit.

You will learn to walk out the resurrection side of healing and love and  

“not return evil for evil but giving blessing instead; for YOU were called

for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.” (1 Peter 3:9)

Living from the resurrection side of the cross here and now, in your lifetime, means Jesus Christ will enable YOU to become the person you were always meant to be.

In this newsletter, because of the cross and the resurrection, I wanted you to read some of our counselees’ testimonies in how they have begun living from the resurrection side of the cross and to see how transformation took place because of the Great, I AM – and His resurrection.

Bridget’s Testimony:
After a very difficult 2020, – the most difficult year of my life -, I knew we needed help that only God could give.  We live in the Far East, and friends had expressed their desire for us to receive counselling …, but I couldn’t see a way for that.  To find Freedom House’s website was a pure miracle.  As we read through the materials found there, our hearts resounded with a deep and settled “Yes”.  Through this online counselling, the Lord has been meeting us with His love.  He has shown us connections between roots and fruit so much more clearly than before.  We have felt great support as we continue to invite the Lord into our family to heal us deeply, and to cleanse and deliver our family lines.  Thank you, Freedom House!

Emmanuel’s Testimony:
may2021pic2We have been blessed by the ministry of Freedom House.  The change in our daughter has been pronounced.  Much healing has taken place and is taking place in our lives.  I get along much better with my wife now, and family/generational issues are being dealt with. As if to confirm the restoration that is taking place in our family, the Lord connected us with some nieces we have not been in contact with for a very long time and with another one we have never even met.  And we have been talking. We praise God for that. Prayers offered for us in faith by Mari Anne have also helped us locate misplaced important documents in our home soon after the prayers were offered. We thank God for all these answers to prayer and the blessings we are experiencing under the ministry of Freedom House. A very satisfied client in the Far East!

S & L’s Testimony:

My wife and I have been married for 11 years.  We have three boys who are 13, 10, and 8.  Two years ago we experienced a trauma that was unimaginable and unforgettable.  Through our trauma, we were both in brokenness and in what felt like unrepairable everlasting damage and pain with no escape in sight.  We are both Christians, we both believe in grace, and we both believe in redemption; however, leaning into those beliefs and relying on Christ in the midst of darkness is difficult, for us.  And the process of healing feels overwhelming.

Finding a place that is centered in Christ and in Biblical Truths has been a true lifeline. We needed someone who carried no bias to walk with us through our trauma and we knew it needed to be someone who would point us towards Christ. When I think of pointing someone towards Christ, I think of John the Baptist. He went to the wilderness and shouted for anyone who was listening, “Prepare the way for the Lord, make strait paths for Him!” (Matthew 3:3)

We truly believe that the hope and goal of Freedom House Ministries is to help us, as a couple seeking Christ together, make way for the Lord and to create strait paths for Him.  Our story is not one of Jesus intervening and the Holy Spirit fixing everything at once and we are healed in an instant.  We have been going to Freedom House for almost two years, and during that time, have been facing our individual and marital issues, which has been hard.  We have cried, we have fought, we have sinned, we have loved, we forgiven.  We are imperfect people who continue to miss the mark in new ways, and sometimes, in the same way.  I guess you could say, we are exactly the helpless needy people we read stories about in the Bible whom Jesus came to save.  We are thankful to have a place like Freedom House which stays beside us through our ups and downs and continues to point us towards Christ.  We truly believe finding ourselves in Freedom House Ministries was orchestrated by God. 

TR’s Testimony:

If I were to summarize the past year in one word, I would say “liberating. I had been in counselling with Freedom House Ministry years ago, and another life crisis brought me back to them, seeking some way to simply get through.  When I called, I was crushed—my marriage was shattered, my mind filled with confusion and despair.  Mari Anne spoke one sentence of freedom that carried me through to our first counselling session.  I could not have foreseen the changes God brought about in me.  We always start with prayer, setting the tone for fruitful discussion.  While not at the end of my journey, I feel I am the healthiest (spiritually, emotionally, mentally) I have ever been.  I thought I was going to address circumstances and issues, but God had something else in store.

Mari Anne keeps detailed notes of our sessions that provide fodder for future discussions. Through counseling with Mari Anne, I have reached a level of self-acceptance I wasn’t even aware I needed (which directly impacts my marriage and other relationships).  She has shared a wealth of resources in the form of teachings, book suggestions, research, and connecting me with others who have walked in similar circumstances.  Her counsel has always been biblically based, often with a specific scripture for what is being addressed.  At the end of each session, I have direction (sometimes a word, sometimes an assignment), and each meeting builds on the previous. The meetings are not always easy but are always productive.  What a blessing this has been.  I am overcoming fear, self-loathing, anxiety, grief, and other battles.  I look forward to the future, instead of dreading it.

Mari Anne has imparted stability, faith, hope, and bravery as she has graciously counselled me.  This has dramatically impacted me, and I feel that the day is coming where I can join the woman Jesus addressed in Matthew 9:22 – “Courage, daughter.  You took a risk of faith, and now you’re well.” (The Message) – TR

These are just a few examples of what God is doing in people’s lives, and He desires greatly to see areas of healing generated within you as well to live out your purpose and destiny on the resurrection side of the cross.

Updates & Praise Reports from Freedom House

  1. Tommy and I will be going to Bloomington, IL throughout the Summer, teaching/ministering to a house-church. Great people who are so hungry.
  2. Prayer/Intercessors Meetings are going great under our new Intercessory Team Leader.
  3. Course 201 & 202 Schools to begin in September 2021 going through May 2022. Application deadline is August 18. Go to the freedomhouseministry.com website and choose the Schools link to read about Course 201 and Course 202.  You can find an application there for new, returning or auditing students.  More to come soon about the Schools.
  4. Mari Anne’s meeting with Staff, Small Group Leaders over the summer to renew, recharge, and replenish before our Schools begin in September 2021.
  5. Mari Anne’s teaching opportunities are opening more to churches and home groups.
  6. Tommy’s counseling sessions are exploding and thriving with God’s healing touch.
  7. Mari Anne even has prayer counseling sessions in India now!
  8. Mari Anne started filming with her media managers, Noelle and Ali, and will soon be releasing weekly “Life-Lessons on the Road to Emmaus” on YouTube. Keep an eye out for the announcement.
  9. A new release of God’s anointing and favor is resting upon FHM.
  10. Tommy, I, and the family will be going on a vacation to Disneyland in May.
  11. We celebrated 39 years of marriage on April 3rd.

So many wonderful developments are taking place that we feel so blessed and so thrilled! The only words we can say are from our wedding song To God Be the Glory:

 

My Tribute by Andraé Crouch, Felix Roach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQmuSt7rSvs

How can I say thanks
For the things You have done for me?
Things so undeserved,
Yet You gave to prove Your love for me;

The voices of a million angels
Could not express my gratitude.
All that I am and ever hope to be,
I owe it all to Thee.

To God be the glory,
To God be the glory,
To God be the glory
For the things He has done.

Our Heartfelt Thanks to Each of You Who Support FHM

First, your prayers for us are being answered as we see God’s outpouring of blessings.  We couldn’t do what we do without your prayers undergirding us.  Secondly, your sacrificial and generous contributions to Freedom House make all that God is doing through our prayer counseling ministry, Zoom Events, YouTube teachings, and Schools possible.  Like this song, it’s hard for us to express our thanks to you for your generosity!

You can donate today:

OR:

Send a check made out to “Freedom House Ministry” to Freedom House Ministry, c/o The Andersens, 652 THUNDERBIRD TRL, CAROL STREAM IL 60188-9262 

With My Burning Heart of Love & Thankfulness,

 

Mari Anne Andersen

Director, Freedom House Ministry


February 28th, 2021 "Lord, Is That You?" Teaching Event

Lord, Is That You?

Tommy & Mari Anne Andersen, Freedom House Leaders

 

 Zoom Teaching Event

Sunday – February 28, 2021

4:00pm to 6:30pm (CST)

 

 

 

 

 

Questions to be addressed:

  1. How to hear the voice of the Lord? What does that look and sound like?
  2. How do we know it is the Lord speaking or our own inner voice?
  3. What are the different ways the Lord speaks to us?
  4. Dark Speech—what is that?
  5. Did the modern-day prophets get the 2020 election results wrong?
  6. How did Old and New Testament prophets hear from God?
  7. How does God speak through our personality and temperament?

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 

John 10:27 (NASB)

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:21 (ESV)

Zoom Event Includes:

  • Teaching, Q&A Time, and Corporate Prayer
  • PDF documents as follow up and reference sent via email after event.

Cost:  $15.00

  • Pay Online: PayPal or Credit Card: Click Here
  • By Mail: Checks payable to “Freedom House Ministry.” Send to: The Andersens, Freedom House Ministry, 652 Thunderbird Trl, Carol Stream, IL 60188-9262 
  • Register by Friday, February 26.
  • Zoom link will be sent to you via email on Saturday, February 27.
  • Questions:  Contact Dorie at 224-434-1200, iPhone


Walking Out in Spiritual Maturity - FHM Schools

LET FREEDOM HOUSE SCHOOLS ASSIST IN MAKING IT HAPPEN!

Freedom House Schools are here to help facilitate and accelerate our maturity as sons and daughters so that we can fulfill God’s will for you and for me. You may be wondering how Freedom House Schools can assist in making this happen. Let’s consider three benefits of attending the Schools:

Firstly, in our schools we help each student learn how to receive and believe what the Father thinks, feels, and proclaims about us as His sons and daughters. For many of us, we have built false perceptions about ourselves and over time, due to our earlier wounding experiences and painful traumas, our filters of how we experience life have clogged and our glasses that we wear to view life have become fogged. Furthermore, our basic trust has been broken, lost, or depleted. So we then live out our lives cautiously and carefully protecting ourselves from not getting hurt again; thus we are afraid to receive love and give love away.

Freedom House Schools help to open up these places in our hearts that have been sealed off for many years. By His Holy Spirit, through the Lessons being taught, the intimate and safe setting of a small group, and along with prayer ministry, you begin to let down the drawbridge of your heart to receive and believe His love and truths for you.

Ephesians 4:13 – until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ. (NLT)

Spiritual maturity is marrying the faith and knowledge of Jesus in our life. However, because we all have logjams (strongholds), faulty perceptions and misbeliefs of who we are and who God is, we will not know how to live out life in Jesus through our true Christian identity, our God-given personality, and our spiritual destiny leading us into full spiritual maturity. The Schools assist us in removing the strongholds and restoring truthful, biblical perceptions and beliefs upon which spiritual maturity is based.

Secondly, through Freedom House Schools we help equip you with skills, insights, and tools for understanding why we do the things we do. We come to recognize repeated patterns that bring bad fruit and more pain/shame. We help you to bring the old structured ways of acting and thinking to death on the cross and then dismantle those places that continue to hurt us, hurt others, and hurt our Lord. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit’s love, comfort and truth, YOU can begin to live full, whole, and mature lives in Him.

Colossians 4:12 (Phillips) “That you may become mature Christians and that YOU may fulfill God’s will for you.”

Thirdly, Freedom House Schools will be like a caring family walking along side of you in the places that the Father is releasing healing and transformation. It’s with arms of love and truth that our staff and leaders encourage, uplift, and minister to you as spiritual mothers and fathers, and brothers and sisters in Christ. We release the Father’s Love and pour His Storge Love (Family Love) into those deepest places of longing to be heard, understood, and cherished. You come to the place where you can know in the inner-core of your being how much the Father loves you and how much you are a gift to Him and all those around you.

Galatians 6:10 – So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Join us at our 2018-19 Schools as a new student, a repeat, or an audit student.

Application Deadline is August 28 to avoid a late fee.

Submit your application today:

Course 201 Info   Course 202 Info


Change Your Life in 8 Months - One Saturday a Month

There are not many things I am as sure of as this, that the schools Freedom House Ministry offers—Course 201 and Course 202—will impact your life for good more than most other courses, seminars, conferences, or weekend retreats.

Having been part of these schools for over 20 years, I have personally been positively impacted each and every year, and we have hundreds of students that have testified to the same personal and spiritual impact.

You will experience being loved and accepted in a more profound way than ever before.

You will have your ways of thinking and feeling challenged in a way that transforms how you view and feel about yourself, others, life, even how you view God and how you feel about Him.

This is so worth one Saturday a month, only ONE Saturday a month for 8 months!

Aren’t you worth this investment?

Yes, You’re Worth It!

Submit your application today.

Course 201

Course 202

 

Deadline for applications is August 28 by US mail.


Laughing Your Way to Healing - Freedom House Ministry

Laughing Your Way to Healing Workshop - March 24, 2018

Freedom House Ministry is excited to host an afternoon of joy & laughter led by…

Mari Anne Andersen & Melliney Saltarelli

Saturday, March 24, 2018 – 12:30 to 4:30pm (Doors open at 12:00pm)

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Did you hear about why the cookie went to the hospital?   Because he felt crummy!

Why did Johnny throw the clock out of the window? He wanted to see time fly!

What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta!

 

Do you know the answers to these questions?

  1. What happens to your blood vessels when you laugh? Is it good or bad for them?
  2. How does laughter affect your emotional brain health?
  3. What can laughter do for your struggle with stress and anxiety?
  4. Can laughter be a “food” for your body? If so, how?
  5. How can you increase your respiratory rate and oxygen consumption without paying a doctor’s bill?
  6. Isn’t the Bible an old, stuffy book that makes people feel condemned and sad?
  7. What can laughter do to fear? We all have it, and don’t know what to do with it!
  8. How can you stop wasting your life?

According to that adorable and hysterical comic Charlie Chaplin, you are wasting your life if you spend your days without laughter: “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

Come and get the answers to these questions and many more. Find out how you can change “a day wasted” to a “day of investment” in your heart, emotional, and brain health!

The Bible is right! – A merry heart does good, like medicine Proverbs 17:22a

Join us as we learn the value of laughter from God’s perspective, from science’s perspective, and from medicine’s perspective.

 

Three aspects will be presented and experienced at this workshop:

  1. The Scriptural, scientific, and medical foundation for the importance of laughter in our lives.
  2. Handouts to use during the workshop and to take home for practice—to understand what happens to the brain, the heart, and the spirit when YOU laugh.
  3. Practice exercises that will equip you to laugh in the days to come, to respond in new ways to the events in your life, to empower you to see from God’s perspective, to have childlike faith to believe that with God all things are possible!

Beware!!! Laughter will be on the premises!

Location:

Kingsland Properties
25W560 Geneva Rd
Carol Stream, IL 60188

(0.2 miles west of Gary Ave on the north side of Geneva Rd. “Kingsland Properties” name is on the marquee in front. Looks like a one-story office building in front, but two-story in back. Just west of blue building. Set back from the road. Parking and entrance at the rear of the building.)


Cost & Registration:

  • $40* per person $60* per couple
  • Hors d'oeuvres & desserts served
  • Free-will offering will be taken.

*PayPal fees will be applied.

 

To Register & Pay:

  • By PayPal or Credit Card:

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  • By Check or Cash: Call or text Dorie 224-434-1200 or drlorden@att.net. Include names attending.
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A Christmas Miracle Truce - It Can Really Happen | Freedom House Ministry

A Christmas Miracle Truce - It Can Really Happen [VIDEO]

Please join me and listen to a special Christmas message I have prepared just for you.  May you be blessed as I share His wondrous love, miracles and truth at this Christmas Season of pure joy and wondrous love because Emanuel - our God is with us. A very Merry & Blessed Christmas from my heart to your heart.

https://youtu.be/MrQlIqcGNHE

 

- Mari Anne Andersen

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Write Mari Anne with any thoughts, questions or comments you may have: marianne@freedomhouseministry.com


Fall Fun-Raiser 2017

We invite you to join us at Freedom House Ministry's Fall 2017 Fun-Raiser!

Comedy w/ Tracy DeGraaf

Our speaker for comedy night, Tracy DeGraaf, is well-known and speaks across the USA so you won’t want to miss out on a night of laughs and inspiration, while you are blessing FHM.  We all need fun and laughter to cheer and feed our spirits.  And who better to do that with than the FHM family?!

Tribute to Rose Marie

Our dear Rose Marie Borrelli (RMB) is going to be honored as we give a tribute to her and her amazing legacy at this event!
  • RMB is our spiritual mother and just think how thrilled and encouraged she will be to see each one of you at this special event—something she has wanted FHM to do for a long time—have a Fun night.
  • Will you make a special effort to come to bless RMB?

Download the updated event flyer

DATE: Saturday, November 18
TIME: 5:00pm
WHAT: Comedy Night
WHERE: Kingsland Properties (25W560 Geneva Rd, Carol Stream, IL 60188)

Tickets are $50 per person, which includes dinner & dessert, a chance to win door prizes, and a chance to bid on over 15 amazing silent auction items.

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"Taking Care of Business" A Personal Invitation by Mari Anne Andersen to FHM Schools

Hear from Mari Anne about the heart of FHM Schools and how you can benefit from participating:

Freedom House's Schools Course 201 & 202 start September 9th. Learn more about our courses:

Course 201 Info Course 202 Info

- Mari Anne Andersen

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Write Mari Anne with any thoughts, questions or comments you may have: marianne@freedomhouseministry.com