Ministry Activities

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Local Ministry – Karen continues to minister with her local church, First Baptist Church of Santa Fe, by leading the Missions Team and participating musically with the Praise Team and the choir.   She also is asked by local churches to be a “fill in” worship leader.

Launch of the Art center: God has opened up the doors to fulfill a vision that YWAM and Karen have had since YWAM Santa Fe was launched in 1996.  This is for an art center that would be a place of performance and learning for many expression of the arts.  It would be based on a Biblical Worldview.   In May of 2023 the door opened to launch such a ministry as Karen connected with a local Nazarene church that had a very small congregation.  Karen was familiar with this location which was right in the middle of Santa Fe.  As she met with the Pastor of this church to inquire if he would be open to renting the fellowship hall and the kitchen to YWAM Santa Fe for a coffee house, the pastor offered the whole church, which included the auditorium.   They both felt this was from the Lord and the “Mosaic Music & Arts caré” was lauched on September 1, 2023 after spending several months to prepare the building.   More can be learned about this new ministry at YWAMSantaFe.org and on FaceBook at the Mosaic Music & Arts Café

Karen Lafferty Teaching/Concert tour

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Australia ~ Kuala Lumpur~ India

My tour has been very good so far. I really enjoyed meeting and teaching the five students in the School of Music in Missions in Perth, Australia. They were from Switzerland, New Zealand, Tanga, USA and Australia. A talented bunch whose love for the Lord shows. I taught on Cultural Restoration and Evangelism. Had a good time of ministry to the homeless in the streets one day too. Pray for them as they finish up the training phase and go to Northern Australia and then to Nagaland, India on outreach.
I had to have an overnight stopover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on my way to India. My friend Benny Prasad connected me with some Indian friends of his there, Georgina & John Fernandez-Peter, who hosted me. They really spoiled me. On Sunday morning I was able to minister at the New Creation Revival Church. It’s such a blessing to be able to see what God is doing all over the world. I get a little glimpse as I see the love of Jesus in these brothers and sisters.
My next stop was Bangelore, India where I was teaching in the SOMM lead by Thanga Nohro. This was another great week connecting with some musicians who really love the Lord and are hungry to learn more how to serve him.
An extra blessing was to meet Brian Garland who is a Southern Baptist Ethnomusicologist missionary. Brian had taught music history in the SOMM. This time I taught on Culture, booking and touring and the history of contemporary Christian music.