Welcome to Marketplace Transformation

Welcome to Marketplace Transformation - Mahoning Valley.

Over the course of the last few years the Lord has been doing a unique work in people all across the world. We’ve heard the words of transition and shifting that have been brought forth, but there’s a sense that the defining of this shift is yet to be fully revealed. What has been revealed is that to change the city, the marketplace must be changed. To change the marketplace, Marketplace Ministers must be recognized, equipped and released.

The picture that I saw was of a still body of water that began to ripple bit by bit as the drops of restoration and redemption were raining down upon it. Each drop had a ripple effect that began to meet with other drops. As one overlapped the other a great sense of ‘synergy’ was created and the ripples quickly became a wave. This wave was a transformation wave that effected every strata in it’s wake.

Here in the Mahoning Valley there is a sense that much of this is beginning to happen in part already. We haven’t synergized to the point of a wave yet, but the drops are falling in unique places. As I’ve spoken with Pastors, Marketplace ministers and many others who are sensing this I asked myself, is it time for a synergistic work here? Yes, and the work must be that of the Holy Spirit. For ultimately the first step is personal heart transformation. Without this, we simply engage in another program or organization that lacks the influence and power of God’s presence.

“I simply argue that the cross be raised again
at the center of the market-place -
as well as on the steeple of the church,
I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not
Crucified in a cathedral between two candles:
But on a cross between two thieves;
On a town garbage heap;
At a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan
That they had to write His title
In Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek…
And at the kind of place where cynics talk smut,
And thieves curse and soldiers gamble.
Because that is where He died,
And that is what he died about.
And that is where Christ’s men ought to be,
And what church people ought to be about.”

- George MacLeod

So, over the course of the next months and years a combination of information, testimonies and encouragements will be set forth from this site to contribute to the work we desire to join the Lord in now.

Blessings in the Harvest!

Patrick