Russ Parker

Some times the problems or dysfunctions we battle with do not start with us but may have their origins in our family tree, in wounds or wounded spirits that have repeated themselves through the generations. Generational Healing explores these legacies and offers a way of healing based on a simple and astounding truth about Jesus. He has access to the dead! He said that he was not the God of the dead but the God of the living and mentions Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as examples(cf Matthew 22v31+32). What this means is that for Jesus nobody is dead! He spoke to Lazarus in his grave and the dead heard his voice. Consequently we can bring to Jesus the stories and issues that need healing from our family’s past and he can go there and bring release to the departed as well as to the living.

Rev Dr. Russ Parker was Director of the Acorn Christian Healing Foundation from 1995-2013. Russ’s contribution as Director was to teach, write, develop training materials and lead a dedicated staﬀ of over 20 people. Russ was Acorn's International Ambassador in which he was responsible for developing partnerships on listening and reconciliation in 12 nations ranging from Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Burundi, Hong Kong and the United States. Russ is now the Director of 2Restore: Reconciliation Resources for your Church which oﬀers a range of resources in order to help churches resolve and heal their legacies of unhealed stories and their issues and move forward in a renewed ability to ﬂourish as God intends.

Russ is the author and co-author of a number of books available from Amazon:

Healing Dreams,

Healing Death’s Wounds

Free to Fail

Healing and Evangelism

Forgiveness is Healing

Visions in the Night

In Search of Wholeness

Healing Wounded History

Wild Spirit of the Living God an anthology of prayer poems for public and private use.

The Big Old Tree And Me

Rediscovering the Ministry of Blessing

The Wild Spirit,: a second anthology or prayer poems including a one week series of prayers for a personal Celtic retreat.

His latest book, published in 2021 is “Requiem Healing: Released from Generational Wounds.”

Russ travels extensively throughout the UK and abroad, lecturing and teaching on issues connected with Christian Healing and Healthcare, Reconciliation, and Church Transformation.

He was a Baptist Pastor from 1972 –77, ordained in the Church of England in 1981. He was Assistant Curate in Bolton 1981 –1985, Incumbent of Christ Church, Coalville 1985 – 1990, joined Acorn in 1990 and was Director from 1995-2013.

Russ was the Co-founder and Director of Christian Care and Counsel, a Christian Counselling ministry based in the East Midlands. He is also a co-founder of the Community of Aidan and Hilda whose mother house is situated on the holy island of Lindisfarne.

Revd Dr. Russ Parker is:
- a founder member of the Fellowship of Christ the Healer (UK and USA) which exists to resource leaders of residential healing and healthcare initiatives.
- co-founder of the Whole Person Healthcare Network, an initiate to support and resource Christian healthcare professionals within the National Health Service.
- a Chaplain for the Order of St. Luke(UK). Russ has a post graduate degree in Phenomenology and Theology from Nogngham University in which his thesis was entitled Dreams as a Religious Phenomenon.

He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Columbia Evangelical Seminary in the United States in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Christian ministry and for his many writings and his teaching abilities. In particular it was given for the standard of scholarship in his book "Healing Wounded History" which is about reconciling peoples and healing places.

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Generational Healing Part 2