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Rising Ground Church · The Divine Flow Home
From Striving
To Flow
The Divine Flow Home is a residential ministry environment where home, hospitality, family, rest, reflection, and spiritual formation exist together naturally. It is a place where invited individuals can temporarily step away from their normal surroundings and find room to recognize where God is moving, receive clarity, and move forward transformed. It is not a retreat center, an institution, or a lodging business. It is a home.
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Transformation
A Word From Our Founders · 2:17
Before anything else, hear the heart behind this vision.
Our Vision
Room to move with God, not a destination.
The Divine Flow Home is a physical expression of Rising Ground Church's commission to help believers recognize God's movement and learn to move with Him — slowing down, becoming attentive, surrendering resistance, and becoming increasingly positioned, surrendered, and responsive to His leadership. It is not a place for more teaching, information, counseling, or answers. It is a catalyst where what God has already begun revealing can become increasingly lived. Identity clarity and formation are fruit that develops within learning to move with Him.
People can receive correct teaching, Scripture, and revelation while still being internally positioned in ways that interfere with how they receive, interpret, and respond to God. The Home creates space to become aware of that internal orientation, surrender to God's process, and grow spiritually malleable—no longer controlled by expectations, fear, striving, previous experiences, or the need for certainty.
The Home belongs to the same Rising Ground ecosystem as the 90-Day Formation Journey, online teachings, books, the RGC Counseling Assistant/Ministry Companion, and future ministry tools. For some, formation may have already begun through the 90-Day Journey; the Home then provides an embodied environment where that internal formation can deepen through welcome, rest, prayer, reflection, conversation, relationship, and real-life participation. Both experiences remain distinct—neither is an application, prerequisite, or guarantee for the other. Together they help believers stop fighting the current and learn to float in the Divine Flow: positioned in Christ, responsive to His unique leadership.
To be clear about scope: the Divine Flow Home is not therapy, mental health treatment, medical treatment, addiction recovery, crisis stabilization, housing, or long-term residential care. It is also not a retreat center, an institutional facility, or a commercial lodging operation. Pastoral leaders are present to help create an environment for recognition, biblical clarity, surrender, and response — not to tell participants what God is saying or to become their source of spiritual direction. The Holy Spirit reveals and renews; the environment simply makes room.
Founding Leadership
Pastor Jamal Christmas
Prophetess LaShaundra Christmas
What Is Known
- • A single residential ministry environment
- • Home, hospitality, formation, transformation
- • Invitational rather than public or commercial
- • Physical form intentionally left open
Home & Ministry
One environment, not two worlds.
Home and ministry do not have to exist as two separate physical worlds. The Divine Flow Home represents the possibility of family life, hospitality, conversation, prayer, mentoring, reflection, and spiritual formation existing together within one warm and relational environment.
The purpose is known. The eventual physical form is intentionally being left open. We are not defining details or plans that God has not yet revealed — we are preparing to steward faithfully what He places in our hands.
A home, not a facility
This remains a genuine home. It is not an institution or a commercial lodging operation, and not every part of it is a public ministry space.
Invitation, not admission
Access to the deeper ministry environment is intentional and invitational — welcomed as guests are welcomed, not processed as clients.
Ministry inside ordinary life
Family life, hospitality, conversation, meals, prayer, reflection, and spiritual development do not have to live in two separate worlds.
Stewardship, not ownership
Rising Ground Church believes this home is something entrusted to the ministry to steward — not something manufactured through a predetermined plan.
Welcome → Rest → Clarity → Formation → Transformation → Forward Movement. The environment supports maturity and movement forward — never dependency upon Rising Ground Church.
At a Glance
A place to recognize God and move with Him.
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Home
One residential environment, relational rather than institutional
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Marks of the environment
Home · Hospitality · Formation · Transformation
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Movements toward responsiveness
Reveal · Renew · Practice · Return
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Divine Flow commission
One ecosystem: the Home, teaching, counseling, and community
Learning to Move With God
Reveal · Renew · Practice · Return.
Four movements describing how the Home helps someone recognize where God is moving, surrender what resists Him, and practice responding — then carry that home into everyday life.
These are movements, not scheduled stages. They may occur naturally and repeatedly — Reveal at breakfast, Renew on a walk, Practice in an unexpected conversation, Reveal again that afternoon.
Step 1 of 4
Reveal
Slow down long enough to become attentive. The environment simply makes room; the Holy Spirit surfaces the beliefs, expectations, and assumptions that have been fighting against His movement. It begins with honest sight — not shame, but clarity.
The Participant Experience
A rhythm, not a program.
Just as a home provides an environment where welcome, rest, and honest conversation become lived experience, the Divine Flow Home gives believers room to practice the spiritual responsiveness they have already begun learning. It doesn't manufacture Divine Flow — it reduces some of the ordinary noise, pressure, striving, and distraction that make God's movement hard to recognize.
The goal isn't “I experienced God better while I was away.” It's “I am becoming better able to recognize and move with God wherever I am.”
Freedom to slow down
No pressure to produce revelation, accomplish something spiritual, or manufacture an outcome.
Freedom to notice
Attentiveness to God, Scripture, yourself, conversation, creation, silence, and whatever naturally comes into awareness.
Freedom to respond
Pray, rest, write, sit quietly, talk with someone, share a meal — or simply remain still.
Freedom to interact
Leadership is present and available, but participants are not continually monitored or spiritually managed.
From interest to ordinary life
What we ask
The application is short and conversational. It exists to help leadership understand what is already happening — not to prove spiritual qualification. There is no readiness score.
- What has been happening in your relationship with God lately that made you interested in spending time in this environment?
- Is there something you sense God drawing you toward that you don't completely understand yet?
- What have you already done — or felt willing to do — in response to what you've been recognizing?
- What do you believe a few days in this environment would give you room for?
When a stay isn’t the right environment
The Home is not the appropriate environment when someone’s primary need is crisis intervention, emergency stabilization, mental-health or medical treatment, addiction recovery, housing, intensive counseling, or long-term residential support.
It is also not the right fit when someone primarily expects leadership to tell them what God is saying, or expects a guaranteed answer, a produced breakthrough, or to remain until an answer comes. In those cases we simply say a stay isn’t the right environment for what is needed at this time — not as spiritual rejection, and not as failure.
The 90-Day Formation Journey may help reveal or develop readiness, but completing it does not qualify someone for a stay, and a stay does not require it. Formation grows awareness of how a person recognizes, surrenders, positions, and responds; the Home gives that responsiveness an environment to be lived.
The environment serves the process; it does not produce the outcome. Welcome, rest, quiet, shared meals, honest conversation, and pastoral presence create room. God remains the source, and the participant remains responsible for recognizing and responding.
The Need
The Need & Long-Term Impact
Across local communities, regions, and online spaces, believers are increasingly aware that something in their walk with God is not forming. Many have inherited the language of Christianity without ever being formed into their identity in Christ. Others carry distorted perspectives about God, themselves, and grace that quietly prevent them from living freely. The Divine Flow Home exists to give believers room to recognize where God is moving, surrender what has been resisting Him, and learn to move with Him.
A Pause
Why this
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Rising Ground Church believes that environment shapes formation. Many believers have not stopped desiring God — they have simply been unable to slow down long enough to identify the beliefs, expectations, and assumptions that are keeping them from living freely in Him. Formation requires clarity, and clarity requires space.
The Divine Flow Home is intended to be that space — an environment where Scripture, prayer, rest, and unhurried conversation make room for the Holy Spirit to bring clarity and renew perspective.
Unlike a retreat center or clinical counseling facility, the Home is not where transformation is completed. It is the catalyst — a place to begin or accelerate the lifelong walk of “Divine Flow” — recognizing God's movement and responding to it in every ordinary moment of everyday life.
Long-Term Impact
What moving with God unlocks
Distorted perspectives revealed and replaced with the truth of Christ
Believers growing toward a living, experiential relationship with Christ
Marriages and families learning to live from identity, not from striving
Leaders re-rooted so ministry flows from being, not doing
Believers equipped to hear God clearly in the noise of everyday life
Practical rhythms for continuing to recognize and respond to God at home
Supporting resources available after returning home, anchored in Christ's identity perspective
One Divine Flow commission expressed across the Rising Ground ecosystem
The Long View
What begins here is sustained through the wider Rising Ground ecosystem — teachings, books, counseling, mentorship, and future ministry tools — all anchored in Christ's identity perspective.
Recognize · Surrender · Respond
Stewardship Posture
Preparing to steward what God places in our hands.
Rising Ground Church is not raising a predetermined amount toward a predetermined property. We are preparing — spiritually, relationally, and practically — to receive and faithfully steward a home where believers can find welcome, rest, clarity, formation, and the freedom to move forward.
Honest Communication
Partners receive donation receipts and periodic updates on how the vision is being prepared and stewarded — without projections, promises, or pressure.
Simplicity & Restraint
The posture is restraint rather than ambition. We are not committing to specifications, plans, or costs that have not been revealed.
Prepared to Receive
Gifts support the vision, preparation, stewardship, and ministry connected with establishing and sustaining The Divine Flow Home as God provides direction and opportunity.
A Word From the Founders
Why we're preparing for the Divine Flow Home.
"The Divine Flow Home is not where transformation is completed. It is an environment of welcome and rest that helps believers recognize where God is moving and learn to move with Him — one integrated part of the Rising Ground ecosystem."
This is not a development project. It is a home — a place where hospitality, family, prayer, conversation, and formation belong together, and where believers can slow down, become attentive, surrender what has been resisting God's leadership, and practice responding to Him.
A few days in this environment does not complete formation — no environment can. What it does is make room for the process, then hand it off to the wider ministry: online teachings, books, counseling, and supporting tools such as the RGC Counseling Assistant/Ministry Companion, available once someone is home. Together they serve one commission, anchored in Christ's identity perspective.
We invite you in — not as a transaction, but as a co-laborer. We are not asking you to finance a predetermined plan. We are asking you to walk with us as we prepare to receive and steward what God provides, in the hope that inherited Christianity gives way to a living relationship with Christ.
Pastor Jamal Christmas
Prophetess LaShaundra Christmas
Founders · Rising Ground Church
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Support The Vision
Sow into the Divine Flow.
If this vision resonates with you, you are invited to participate. Gifts support the vision, preparation, stewardship, and ministry connected with establishing and sustaining The Divine Flow Home as God provides direction and opportunity. There is no deadline and no goal to meet — only an invitation to walk with us.
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A Final Word
A Catalyst For A
Lifelong Formation In Christ
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28