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While enjoying the view at a scenic overlook on North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway, in 1954, Carl Hewitt had a spontaneous vision. For the very first time, Spirit showed him, a church he would create, which would educate its parishioners about the Gifts of the Spirit. At this point in his life, founding a church was an outlandish idea to Carl; he hadn’t even considered studying to become a minister. Yet 23 years later, on July 7, 1977, Rev. Carl R. Hewitt held the first service of Gifts of the Spirit Church.The small gathering took place in the kitchen (which became the main office) of “the center” that was located at 1595 Route 85, Chesterfield, CT. Since that date, Rev. Hewitt followed the instructions of Spirit and presented Spirit’s teachings that have touched the lives of thousands of people. He served as the Pastor of Gifts of the Spirit Church for nearly 25 years. |
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Rev. Sidney Schwartz attended Gifts of the Spirit Church since 1978. On Oct. 28, 1979, he was certified as a healer and served as Assistant Pastor for many years. In 1984, heproduced The Golden Thread, “a 10-hour documentary discussing psychic phenomena and mediumship in the Bible. He was ordained on February 25, 2001. Beginning in 2002, Rev. Schwartz was a regular contributor and guest on a cable-access TV show Making Known the Unknown. He was ordained as a minister on Feb. 25, 2001, and became the Pastor of Gifts of the Spirit Church in 2005, after its Founder and first Pastor, Rev. Hewitt, transitioned to the Spirit World.
Rev. Schwartz’s interest in mediumship began in 1975, after having his first mediumistic reading with Rev. Carl R. Hewitt. Eventually, he began conversations with AWAN [Angel Without a Name], an Ascended Master, who spoke through Rev. Hewitt in a trance state. AWAN challenged Mr. Schwartz’s religious beliefs, by saying: “Theologians repeatedly edited and changed the text of the Bible.” Rev. Schwartz began researching Bibles to disprove Awan’s claim, but discovered that AWAN told the truth. To date, he has studied 460 Bibles and has collected a database of over 200,000 Bible verses.
In 2006, Rev. Schwartz began his own mediumistic development by attending classes at the Arthur Findlay College (of Mediumship) in Stansted, England, where he took numerous classes in trance and platform mediumship. He continued his studies with several mediums in New York metropolitan area. Mr. Schwartz resides in New Jersey. He is a retired Middle School history teacher and librarian.
He has authored The Golden Thread: Mediumship in the Bible with Rev. Carl Hewitt: and four books of AWAN’s teachings: My First, Second and Third Encounters with an Angel, and Crossovers: The Origins of Homosexuality Revealed. In addition, he has written The Bible as Psychic History, What Did Moses See at the Burning Bush?, and How I Survived the Holocaust: Rita Teper Schwartz's Story. |
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On July 7, 1977, a group of people gathered at 1595 Hartford Turnpike, in Chesterfired, CTand participated in the very first service of Gifts of the Spirit Church. 40 years later, on the exact date, another group of people gathered to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of that occassion. We took time to honor our founder, Rev. Carl R. Hewitt, and to remember milestones in our church histtory. This special service was held at the Hilton Garden Inn, 224 Gold Star Highway, Groton, CT. To mark this milestone event 4 mediums participated at this service, sharing their unique gifts with those who had gathered. This very special evening will always be treasured.
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Ria Hennink is an international spiritual medium and artist. Together with her husband, Hans Vet, a spiritual healer, they operate Haus Parzival in Scharnachtal, Switzerland (hausparzival.org). This is a magnificent alpine location for their Tourmaline School, where Hans holds healing sessions, and Ria lectures on spiritual themes, runs courses in spiritual development, and does private sittings and coaching.
During Ria’s sittings and public presentations, she demonstrates psychic art, by drawing the portrait of the Spirit who is transmitting information to her, which she repeats to the physical sitter.
Ria studied Arabic language and literature at Leyden University. She worked in the Middle East and then for many years as cultural attaché of the Netherlands Embassy in Berne, Switzerland.
Ria studied the Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner since the 1980’s. Steiner claimed a new age had already begun, in which a new natural clairvoyance enabled communication, once again, between physical people and the spirits of the “dead.”
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Rev. Kevin Lee is the Senior Minister of the Metaphysical Chapel of South Florida (www.MetaphysicalChapel.com), a chartered church with the United Metaphysical Churches (Roanoke, Virginia). He is dedicated to researching and sharing the metaphysical truths of the “Continuity of Life after the change called death”; of spirit communication and its various phenomenal forms; along with helping others to unfold their innate “Gifts of Spirit” as discussed in the Bible. Rev. Lee was both Ordained as a Minister and certified as a Medium through UMC’s four year seminary program.
An avid researcher and experiencer, Rev. Lee has travelled extensively to witness first hand both traditional and exotic forms of Mediumship. In 2014, he began presenting his research: “Precipitation Mediumship: Aspects of Art as Spirit Communication.” Rev Lee is now presenting at various conferences and speaking engagements focused on Afterlife Communication, Mediumship and Research.
Rev. Lee once founded a nonprofit real estate association to help bring to light and educate practitioners on the issues of GLBT discrimination in real estate nationwide. It is through his extensive business experiences that he today is well known for coordinating and facilitating various metaphysical speakers and headlining mediums at his quickly growing Center of Light.
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After an intimate encounter with Jesus during a near death experience in 2000, and being touched by the Christ Ray, Susan's sensitivity to the unseen realms heightened to a much higher vibratory frequency. Since that time, Susan has become internationally recognized for illuminating truth and empowering people as a Psychic Medium, Spiritual Teacher, Medical Intuitive, Healer, and Animal Communicator.
In 2007 Eighteen Masters of The Spiritual Hierarchy introduced themselves to Susan as The Council of Engma; and since that time, they have been working very closely with Susan. The combined love, wisdom, and healing of Engma consists of Jesus, and his 12 Apostles, Archangel Michael, Archangel Raphael, Moses, Mohammed, and Einstein.
Client testimonials speak of sessions with Engma and Susan as highly accurate, healing, and profoundly transformative. Engma are Soul Therapists and with their assistance Susan has undeniable vision into one’s soul, physical body, and life path allowing her to assist clients in finding their way back to the clarity of their spirit, and the loving state of their God-self.
As a team Susan and Engma are highly effective and instrumental in assisting those grieving from loss, deepened self-awareness, spirituality, healing, communication with beloved pets, and more. Unveiling their client’s highest potential in the evolution of their soul and achieving healing on a soul level is always their heartfelt desire and goal..
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