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Dan Almeter has asked me to write about my experience on April 10 when we were in Alleluia Community for a 3-day visit. My wife and I had read the Dove article in March about deliverance, and the Lord showed us the need to go through ministry. Dan scheduled my wife and I for 10:00 a.m.

separately for ministry. We had lived in Alleluia from 1994-1999 and were familiar with deliverance, although I was a bit nervous this time because I wrote down eight demons I have been effected by after re-reading Pigs in the Parlor.

Chuck and Dan explained that

deliverance ministry has evolved into using prayers from the books Un-bound by Ann White, Wholeness in Christ, Holy Scripture and Theophos-tic Prayer from Jack Smith. Chuck explained Wholeness in Christ was divided into areas of sin, demons, bondages and wounds. Three of these I knew had to be dealt with.

During ministry I was asked to briefly tell my life story. The first was a spirit of rejection when my biologi-cal mother gave me up for adoption when I was two weeks old. Since my early childhood, I have been plagued with rejection from people. When I was five years old, I overheard through my bedroom door, my adop-tive parents telling their good friends while playing cards how I was adopt-ed in Oklahoma City from a Catholic Orphanage. I returned to my bed cry-ing and then heard audibly God the Father tell me; “My son, I love you. I have adopted you, and I will be your Father forever, and I will never aban-don you.” I thought my brother-in-

Freedom From Bondages and Spirits

Comes Through MinistryBy Don Zander, LPC

The ACS Auditorium got its first use as a concert venue on Thursday, 4/23, when a string quartet from the Augusta Symphony Orchestra performed for the stu-dent body.

String Quartet Performs at ACS

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Great Joy

Once I told Maria that my will was

to love her. She understood and believed me. What great joy!

Today I told Jesus my will is to love Him. He not only told me that He already knew I

loved Him, He told me He had

caused it.

Faith, Hope and Loveand the greatest of

these is Love

Paul Balducci

law was playing a trick on me saying this, but as I grew up, I learned to be-lieve and trust that these words were from Abba and were true.

My adoptive parents were very good at raising me, and I am grateful for them. My adoptive mom, though, used to tell me growing up that if I had bad behaviors, she would return me to the Catholic Adoption Home. For years I walked on egg shells think-ing, “if I make a mistake or I’m bad, I will be returned.” Thus entered in anxiety and depression.

Well, one day when I was eleven, my parents said we were going for a drive in the country. The drive was nice until I looked up and read on a sign, “Catholic Adoption Home.” To say I flipped out in the backseat of a 1955 blue and white Pontiac would be an understatement! I was crying and screaming saying, “I will be good, please don’t return me here.” My father stopped the car, got out and opened the back door to ask, “What is wrong, son?” I told him what mom had said, threatening to return me. He said, “Come here,” and opened the trunk to show me my old clothes and toys they were giving to the home. That night I heard my father tell my mother never to threaten me again with returning me. She never did!

Besides the three spirits named above, I also had witchcraft, as was evident in my life trying to control cir-cumstances and people so I would not be rejected. They were all dealt with by the ministry team and broken. Praise God! Chuck explained that witchcraft 1) hates legitimate authori-ty; 2) hates other spirits of witchcraft; and 3) hates rejection (the part of me that is the weakest). My self-talk had

to change from thinking/feeling that I was rejected to recalling what God our Father, Abba, said to me “…I will never abandon you.” When I pray and meditate on these words, I am filled with the Holy Spirit and God’s love, peace and joy.

What I had to do during ministry was to forgive my biological mother, biological grandparents, and adoptive mother and father. In 2013, I discov-ered my biological family. My aunt re-ports that my biological mother never wanted to give me away. She was a sophomore in the University of Okla-homa and after she became pregnant, her Christian parents were so embar-rassed, they made her give me away to the Catholic Adoption Home in Oklahoma City.

There was more deliverance that I went through successfully. I am grateful to the Lord for using Dan and Chuck to free me from unwanted evil spirits, sin and wounds. Ministry was peaceful in between some tears and healing of memories. I was happy and relieved to be able to go through this, and I recommend ministry to anyone in the community. Be not afraid, Je-sus will be with you. Just talk to your spouse or head. When my wife, Janet, and I lived in Alleluia, we would go through deliverance every March and September. It was very cleansing and worthwhile. Glory to God!

Don Zander, LPC is a mental health therapist and a member of a charis-matic prayer group in Maggie Valley, N.C. He and his wife, Janet, are asso-ciate members of Alleluia Community. They have one daughter and attend St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church in Maggie Valley.

Deliverance is Cleansing

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Alleluia participated in the Inau-gural GICAA Robotics Competition Saturday, April 18. The GICAA is the school association ACS belongs to and participated in the literary com-petition earlier in the spring. For this competition we had to drive 2½ hours to Praise Academy in Powder Springs, Ga. (meaning a very early start!) for a day full of robots. Dave Dolin, Kevin King, Andy Hatfield, and Clare Sulli-van were the coaches/adults, and we were able to participate with three teams.

The Middle School team consisted of Kolbe Dolin, Cameron King, Law-rence Almeter, Nicholas Sullivan and Aaron Milligan with Robot Lenny.

High School team 1 consisted of Colette Sullivan, Francis Sullivan, Sam Freed, Ania Hatfield and Tim Do-lin with Robot Karen.

High School team 2 consisted of Philip Hatfield, Dominic Germann, Hannah King and Joe Stenger with Ro-bot Toss.

The robots used were the Lego Mindstorm system NXT units. We had five days to practice programming and building, with many of the team members having never done anything like this before. The nice thing about this competition was that we were going to have all morning to build, tweak and ask questions! As we made modifications to the robots, we could practice on the game “layout.”

There were nine teams participat-ing and we had two of our teams go to the final round. We ended the compe-tition with Robot Karen (Colette, Tim, Francis, Ania and Sam) winning 2nd place overall, and Robot Toss (Philip, Dominic, Hannah, and Joe) placing 4th overall and Robot Lenny (Kolbe, Cameron, Lawrence, Aaron, and Nich-olas) placing 5th.

By Clare Sullivan

Alleluia Community School students who competed in the Inaugural GICAA Robotics Competition

Robots Toss, Karen and Lenny

Hannah King, Philip Hatfield, Joe Stenger and Dominic Germann with

Robot Toss

Joe and Dominic setting up Robot Toss Colette Sullivan setting up Robot Karen

Robotics Competition Proves Challenging

GICAA Robotics Competition

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The Alleluia Trail Life Troop GA-0017 held their annual Pinewood Der-by races on Sunday, April 19. As always, this was a thrilling and fun-filled event for Scouts, family and friends.

Hunter Vittetoe took home first place among the Kindergartners and first graders, with Max Parris placing 2nd and Mark Dooley placing 3rd.

John Dolin’s car was the fastest among the second and third graders. Sebastian Krementz placed 2nd and Henry Balducci placed 3rd.

John Conkright topped the fourth and fifth grade racers. Martin Kre-mentz placed 2nd and Michael Almeter placed 3rd.

In the final race for over-all cham-pion, John Conkright took the prize and set a record for being undefeated in every race.

Congratulations to John and to all the boys and dads who worked so hard to produce fast, cool cars.

A lot of work goes into the Derby. Thanks to Brad Vittetoe, Josh Dooley, and David Germann for leading the boys and helping put this together; to Dave Dolin and Larry Sullivan for helping on Race Day; to Eric Sterett and Frank Densmore who helped with setup,

For several years Luc Ceyssens has been their colorful emcee. His humor-ous and enthusiastic commentary makes the Derby memorable. Thanks, Luc!

Anne Seith popped by to take these pictures. Thanks, Anne! Finally, many of the older Scouts turned up to watch their younger brothers race and to help with judging, setting up chairs, sweep-ing floors, etc. They couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks to all!

Get Ready... Get Set... Go!Story by Larry Sullivan

Photos by Anne Seith

2-3 Graders (L-R): John Dolin (1st), Henry Balducci (3rd) and Sebastian

Krementz (2nd)John Conkright, Undefeated Overall

Winner

K-1 graders: Mark Dooley (3rd), Hunter Vittetoe (1st) and Max Parris (2nd)

The view from the starting line

All cars that entered the Derby

4-5 graders: Michael Almeter (3rd), Martin Krementz (2nd) and

John Conkright (1st)

Everyone avidly watching the racers