JOHN AND PAULA SANDFORD 

When John and Paula Sandford founded Elijah House five decades ago, they intended it to be a place to train prophetically gifted people. But they quickly found out how much healing such people need! God puts them through seasons of great difficulty to build the character needed to exercise their gifts with temperance and humility and to teach them to seek the Giver more than the gift. So, from the beginning, John and Paula focused primarily on teaching about inner healing and transformation of the heart.

PASSING THE MANTLE 

As those whom John and Paula mentored grew into greater maturity, the prophetic gradually came more the fore. By the time they passed their mantels to Mark and Maureen, the four of them together were discovering that the focus on inner healing had given them a unique perspective on the prophetic. They had seen how spiritually sensitive hearts can bitterly react to life’s bruises, and how bitterness can corrupt the use of God’s gifts. But they had also seen that the same sensitivity can attune prophetic people to the Healer of Hearts. Mark and Maureen desire to see prophetically gifted people healed and made whole, and have created teachings on that subject.

SPEAKING HEALING AND REPENTANCE TO GOD'S PEOPLE

Our calling goes far beyond one-on-one prayer counseling. By counseling hundreds of persons from all over this nation and the world we have been blessed with a unique vantage point on general trends in the hearts of God's people. So we are able to speak healing and repentance not only to individuals, but also to the Body of Christ as the Holy Spirit leads.

© Mark Sandford 2019