# Living Faith Chapel **Summary.** Non-denominational congregation at 8770 Possum Hollow Rd, **Shippensburg, PA**, founded **1982** by lay families (Galen & Jeannie Lehman, Eldon & Betty Martin, Larry & Teresa Ebersole) meeting in the Lehman home; IRS ruling year 1987 (EIN 25-1537971); sanctuary expanded 1998. Of the two Shippensburg churches audited, LFC is the **more clearly NAR-networked**: its pastors trained at [[Randy Clark]]'s **Global Awakening** School of Supernatural Ministry and sit on the **Global Community Network Apostolic Council**. Calibrated **soft-to-medium NAR** — apostolic-council governance and revivalist practice without visible dominionism or political prophecy. ## Core Facts - **Leadership.** Pastors **Ted & Tona Brant** (at LFC since 2015). Former dairy farmers; Ted's healing from multiple chemical sensitivities at a revival service redirected them into ministry. One year at Global Awakening School of Supernatural Ministry (Mechanicsburg, PA — Toronto Blessing lineage: Clark's ministry dates its birth to the January 20, 1994 Toronto outpouring). Eleven international ministry trips "through healing, deliverance, evangelism, and prophetic words." - **Ordinations & covering.** Ordained 2013 by Christian Missionary Fellowship International; Ted re-ordained May 2022 by the **Global Community Network (GCN)**; Ted & Tona serve as **leaders on the GCN Apostolic Council**. GCN is a small relational network founded by "Apostles Dale & Loretta Martin" (LifeGate Ministries), with Chester & Alice Martin (New Life Fellowship) on its Leadership Council — purpose: "to provide spiritual leadership for a network of churches and ministries." - **Practice markers (documented).** Weekly **Saturday Night Soaking Prayer** (6 PM); monthly **"Freedom Friday"** deliverance/inner-healing evening; Wednesday prayer; care groups; support for indigenous church planters. Mission: "Live like Jesus. Share His Love." - **NAR-marker audit.** Documented: apostolic-council governance, fivefold ordination, impartation/activation (Global Awakening's model), soaking, deliverance, personal prophecy, healing ministry. Not found: Seven Mountains/dominion, election prophecy, strategic-level warfare, prosperity/seed-faith, courts of heaven. - **Media.** YouTube @livingfaithchapelshippensb2308; Facebook LFCShippensburg. Worship sources (Bethel/Jesus Culture plausible given lineage) **unverified**; "What We Believe" page only partially retrievable (Squarespace rate-limiting). > [!warning] Network fragility signal > The Global Community Network's own domain (globalcommunitynetworkchurches.org) currently redirects to gambling-spam; its church pages survive only in search caches. A congregation's apostolic covering can rest on a network too small to keep its domain — a concrete illustration of how thin the "covering" institution can be relative to the authority language it carries. Re-verify GCN facts if the network re-establishes a presence. ## Why This Matters for St. John's UCC LFC is the nearest congregation formed directly by the **Global Awakening / Toronto Blessing** stream — soaking, impartation, activation, "supernatural ministry" vocabulary. Ex-members will present with revivalist-experiential formation (encounter-dependency, prophetic words) rather than dominionist politics; the [[NAR Fallacy Taxonomy]] worship-arc analysis (§B.9, §I.1) applies directly to soaking-prayer culture. ## Open Threads - Full "What We Believe" retrieval (Wayback pass). - YouTube livestream archive: guest speakers + worship setlists (the hard/soft test). - **Lehman surname** — LFC founders Galen & Jeannie Lehman vs. [[Overflow Community Church]] planter Doug Lehman: family link plausible in this Anabaptist-surname region, **unverified**. PA corporation filings would test it. ## Related - [[Randy Clark]] · [[Oasis of Love]] · [[Overflow Community Church]] · [[World Harvest Outreach (Chambersburg)]] · [[New Apostolic Reformation]] · [[Translocal Networking, Local Isolation]]