Minneapolis, Minnesota | Bringing Unity to the Church and Growing in Spiritual Authority
The Twin Cities is full of great diversity, but also deeply segregated still to this day. That’s why Novo staff, Stephanie, has been so moved by what God is doing to bridge the divides and bring the whole Church together, through Novo’s Spiritual Authority Cohorts.
When Stephanie heard that the Cohort was being offered virtually, she gathered three other moms together to learn the prayer tools and discover the spiritual authority they had in Christ. From there, they got the word out to others in the Twin Cities and surrounding region and saw what only God could do! Despite their limited capacity, God used them to launch a new Spiritual Authority Cohort over Zoom including 175 people from over 45 different churches in 2021. Forty different groups gathered in homes and churches to learn the prayer tools and experience the power of God in their lives and community. The following year the Cohort expanded to include over 79 churches. These believers were from a variety of church backgrounds, demographics, and denominations that have traditionally stayed very isolated from one another.
In 2022, Stephanie decided to cross even more barriers, organizing a bilingual Spanish-English version of the Cohort for Spanish speakers in the Twin Cities. It was a learning experience that led to the first Spanish-only Cohort open to the general public in 2023. There are now 25 Latino brothers and sisters regularly gathering to learn about their identity in Christ, practice the prayer tools and experience the intimacy and power of God. Several Latin American countries are represented in the Cohort along with key Latino brothers and sisters from a Twin Cities' church, Espiritu Santo. They are seeing a lot of traction and believe God is going to move exponetially through these anointed Latino brothers and sisters as they pass on what they are experienceing within their sphere of influence and the greater Latin American context.
