A Call from Melbourne, Australia to the Nations

As I have been considering the church and this generation I have been stirred by the cry,

God, where are the Martin Luthers and John Knoxs the prophets and reformers of this generation? Where are those who will lay down their lives their material comfort, reputation, and dreams for the sake of the gospel and the reformation of the church those possessed by a cry for the nations?

We are, therefore, putting out the call for 30 young radicals like Davids 30 mighty men (2 Sam 23), who are serious about the kingdom of God and are committed to moving into it with uninhibited spiritual force (Mtt 11:12). We are asking for those who will sell their lives for the gospel without asking, Whats in it for me?

In consultation with several leaders from Australia we are issuing a call to the nations for 30 mighty young men and women of God (in the 18-35 age group) to come to Melbourne, Australia for the advancing of Christs kingdom.

Melbourne as a multicultural city of 4 million people serves as a gateway to the nations. Gods design for Melbourne as a fountainhead of revival and as a gateway to the nations is imprinted in its history. The famed Welsh revival of 1904 can be traced to its roots here1, which in turn helped spark the 1906 Los Angeles, Azusa Street revival and the 20th Century global outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

The call is to radically follow Jesus and sow your life into the gospel. As an expression of this, you are being invited to partner with us in the vision of The Gathering Melbourne. In doing so you will serve a 6-month internship. While only God calls and commissions we will do everything within our power to equip you as an emerging prophet and reformer.

Forsaking status quo institutional religion

If like the great prophets and reformers of yesteryear, you are willing to fully follow Christ in this way, bearing his reproach outside the camp (Heb 13:13), we want to hear from you. Responding to this call means forsaking your friends, your reputation, and the status quo constraints of institutional religion. It means forsaking the securities of this world and the systems of men.

We, therefore, cant promise you an easy time you will not be entertained, nor baby-sat. What we can promise you is the soul-travail of selfless obedience to Jesus in the pursuit of a cause bigger than yourself. We cannot guarantee popularity or advancement in institutional religion. But, if you fearlessly play to an audience of One in the current reformation, we know that your life will count in heaven and that fire will fall on earth.

Training as revolutionaries & forerunners

This is a call to revolution. It is neither for the timid nor the faint hearted. As a new generation of prophets and reformers you will be trained under intense conditions as a band of revolutionaries and forerunners. You will be supernaturally equipped to blaze new trails and take new territory for Christ and his kingdom.

In addition to supporting yourself financially and paying your intern fees, you will provide your own accommodation (although shared accommodation with other interns may be available), and serve the vision of the Lord for the reformation of the church and the taking of a city. You will be a self-starter fully committed to putting in the spiritual hard yards to be a history-maker.

If you choose to respond to this call you will engage in a vision of Gods kingdom coming to earth in this generation; and also in a unique strategy for a city (Melbourne) and for the nations. You will receive impartation from the Lord through the Leadershift War-Room team, several spiritual fathers and grandfathers from this nation (e.g. Paul & Bunty Collins, Kevin Conner), and myself; plus other international ministries such as Marc Dupont. Craig Kirkby of CrossWave Global will serve as the program coordinator.

An army of post-denominational kingdom-church pioneers

You will be on the ground floor of The Gathering Melbourne a strategy to revolutionise the church and take a city. This is a vision from God to blaze the trail for a proto-type city-church, bringing the kingdom of God to earth. We see an army of post-denominational kingdom-church pioneers led by the Spirit invading a city and sowing it with rapidly multiplying simple churches. We see Daniels and Josephs being raised up by God as prophets and seers to disciple the nations in business, arts, media, and politics. We see the old categories of secular and sacred demolished as a new world emerges, governed by Christs supernatural kingdom. Imagine a city without a temple or a priesthood a city, which itself becomes the city of God one without the baggage of institutional religion and its constraints. Imagine instead, a city loved into the kingdom of God through a people who are spiritually free filled with the agape nature of God and moving in his supernatural power.

A lifestyle of prayer, fasting, and saturation in the word of God

You will be committing to a lifestyle of prayer, fasting, and saturation in the word of God. There will be large amounts of time carved out to create a space for God in extended times of worship and waiting on him. There will be loads of opportunity to learn how to flow in the prophetic in prophecy, dreams, visions and miraculous healings. We are firm believers in impartation you will have hands laid on you by proven men and women of God from around the world.

As God leads, teams will be thrust from this city into the harvest of the nations.

It is time for fire to fall on the earth but are you ready?

If you are stirred let us know of your interest by taking this 2-minute survey:
Yes, I am interested!
 

Yours for this generation
 

 
David Orton
The Gathering Melbourne Internship
Sponsored by Lifemessenger School

www.lifemessenger.org
Lifemessenger Inc.
PO Box 777
Mount Eliza VIC 3930 Australia

Endorsements:

Tony Fitzgerald

There are few things more powerful or significant than investing a considerable portion of time into an apostolically potent and prophetically relevant venture. In my opinion, The Gathering-Melbourne Internship is such an initiative. Melbourne is a key city in the heart of God and it is right now, at this very moment, pregnant with the brooding activity of the Holy Spirit; ripe and ready for such an endeavour. I am convinced that your life will be substantially enlarged through the input and mentoring of David Orton and Craig Kirkby as they spearhead this project. But even more than that, I can foresee your collective synergy and impact having prevailing ramifications across the globe. Now is the time. God is looking for an altar upon which He can pour out His fire. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him (2 Chronicles 16:9). I wholeheartedly support The Gathering-Melbourne Internship and urge you to consider applying for this initiative.

Tony Fitzgerald
Church of the Nations

Brian Medway

The Gathering-Melbourne Internship will provide servants of God with a sharpness of vision and a fullness of heart sufficient for these days. It will serve the need to see reformational leaders raised up to challenge a compromised and culturally captured church. I commend the work that David and his team are doing.

Brian Medway

Crosslink Christian Network, Australia
 

Don Atkin

I fully support David Orton in his vision of a post-denominational kingdom church of the city. Bringing young people together for intentional training and impartation strikes at the heart of God's passion and mirrors the strategy executed by Jesus' earth walk.  Jesus is the wine, and His body is the wineskin.   This new wineskin needs to be conformed by the movement of the Wine. The Gathering-Melbourne Internship will be a proto-type for other cities, modelling a bold and courageous twenty-first century response to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

Don Atkin

Kingdomquest International Ministries

Ron McGatlin

Although there exist lifetime opportunities in every generation of believers, there has been only a few major pivotal points in the history of mankind in which men of God have had opportunity to participate in major worldwide turning on Planet Earth. One of the greatest of these opportunities was the first century in which young men like Peter, James, John, Paul and others, Jesus working with them, first proclaimed the gospel of the kingdom of God from heaven on earth. In my opinion we are in one of those historical pivotal points of shift from religion to reality of God's kingdom proclaimed and established on Planet Earth. The gospel of the kingdom is again being proclaimed. I believe the work of David Orton and "The Gathering -Melbourne Internship" to be an excellent opportunity to prepare and participate in this present pivotal worldwide transformation into the greater reality of the kingdom of God.

Ron McGatlin

Openheaven

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