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What are the keys of the N. Omaha story?

It’s important to consider both the context and the process of the N. Omaha testimony. First, we are talking about a remnant of leaders and congregations – 7 to be exact. We are NOT claiming that all the churches in N. Omaha are involved presently in this process. Neither is anybody claiming transformation of the whole community at this stage!

What we believe is happening is the Lord has put a stake in the ground and given the beginning of a real breakthrough of revival and transformation in the community because of the obedience of this remnant of believers. Certainly this is not the whole of ministry processes going on in the community. What has and is occurring is the process focused on presence-based transformation.

It is tempting to look at this breaking through with its encouraging signs and fruit and just want to “pick the fruit”, or to find out what has happened and try to replicate it. We must be very clear regarding this – we can’t look at the transformation process and try to just do that in our communities. The journey of the N. Omaha story started 14 months ago! Don’t forget they spent over a year preparing themselves through humility and repentance, changing of mindsets, reconciling, praying and fasting, restoring broken covenants. If we want to see the fruit of THAT, then we must follow THAT process and prepare ourselves.There are no shortcuts to Transformation!

Each of these leaders had some things in common before April that made their hearts ripe for the transformation message:

• Desperation for their community which was filled with violence, bloodshed, immorality, poverty, broken families, hopelessness, etc.

• The cumulative effect of years of failures from past ministry attempts to fix the community on their own and through their individual efforts or programs. This contributed to their desperation

• They had the heartbeat of the city. They were already in touch with its pain, its history. They had a burden but were without  direction forward.

• They each wanted the community to be transformed but understood none of them could do it by themselves. Brokenness and humility was already present in their hearts. They had been in the wilderness for a long time.

• Their mindsets were not focused on hope from another event or program. Their hope was in a Person, and seeking wholeheartedly His Kingdom as a lifestyle, a journey and a process.

Principles Identified During the Preparation Process:

After watching “up close” these leaders work together for over a year, several critical transformational principles are evident! This list is a brief summary of some of the more important principles:

• Humility of the leaders. They live out a lifestyle of humility before the Lord and before each other, before their congregations and other leaders in the community. In their humility they work together closely with ministry “partners” such as Fusion Ministries who they recognize carry particular revelation and ability to serve them in their transformation journey. They submitted to the word of the Lord when they heard it because they realized they have never been this way before.
• Willingness to quickly repent. They live out a lifestyle of repentance. One of their mottos is “we refuse to be offended”. They work through disagreements, community ministry, with open hearts. Pride never gains a foothold among them, so the Lord is able to stay close to them.

• Absolute dependence on the leading of the Lord. Another key motto for them is: “we don’t know where we are going”.

• Desperation for their devastated community. These are leaders whose hearts are literally breaking over the ravaging effect of the enemy on their families, friends, congregations and community. They have hearts of compassion and enter into the role of intercession with a desperate cry for justice and mercy and breaking in of God’s power.

• Willing to respond quickly, not procrastinate. If God is moving and speaking they will respond immediately.

• New corporate identity. Their new corporate identity as leaders and congregations, along with the identification of their “village” gave them confidence and validation that God would lead them to success. 

• Repentance begins with the household of God. The conviction that what is going on in the streets won’t change until they get it right INSIDE the church

• Kingdom culture. They didn’t gather a large group of leaders and find the lowest common denominator for unity. They intentionally kept the group small, until a Kingdom value system and culture was established.

• No quick fix. They understood the amount of work to be done inside and they had patience with God’s process, they didn’t rush ahead.

• Adjusting priorities. They adjusted their calendars to make meeting weekly and praying for the Kingdom to come to their village their highest ministry priority.

• Presence-based unity. The Lord’s presence in their weekly prayer meetings motivated them to be together.

• Kingdom camaraderie. These leadersmoved from being pastors to brothers to friends. They no longer relate to each other according to ministerial titles and positions.