Our Purpose
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Acorn Christian Healing is dedicated to providing comprehensive resources and training focused on Christian healing, nurturing faith, and supporting individuals on their spiritual journeys.
Our Charity
Acorn Christian Healing Foundation is engaged in sharing the healing presence of Christ.
Acorn retains the vision of its founder, Bishop Morris Maddocks, in working and praying for health and wholeness in the Church, and in God’s world, through
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Healing,
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Listening, and
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Reconciliation.
Working in the UK and overseas, Acorn provides people, regardless of their circumstances, background or life choices, with the opportunity to experience the "shalom" that is at the heart of the Christian message.
Acorn is directed by a Board of Trustees who all actively seek the healing heart of God. We are privileged to have a Trustee board with a depth of experience in healing and wholeness that contribute to Acorn’s ministry.
The day to day operations of Acorn happen through a small staff team and a fantastic group of volunteers across the UK (and world!).
What is our Mission?
Jesus commissions his disciples to “heal the sick”. In Mathew 10 - 8, He sets this out as a mission statement for us to follow. This is our mandate, with our vision being “healing and wholeness for all”. Bishop Morris Maddocks takes up the mantle in the establishment of a movement dedicated to healings. From this, Acorn has emerged and is now a network of established Healing Hubs, which provide safe havens for all and any to come and receive healing prayer and experience the "shalom" that is at the heart of the Christian message. Acorn stands as a network which augments and stands alongside established Christian churches and organisations specifically for healing prayer. In this way, Acorn provides a degree of Christian discipleship in its delivery of healing.
Meet Our Team
Jessica Johnson
Chair of Trustees
The Acorn Christian Healing Foundation (previously Trust) has impacted on my spiritual journey since the 1980s. Initially, with a St Matthew's Surbiton church group, we were inspired through the Listening and Healing training and warm, welcoming services at Whitehill Chase, Bordon. I'm currently involved, with our Pastoral Team, in providing Healing Prayer opportunities within our community. As a new Trustee, I come with Primary School governance and Parochial Church Council (PCC) strategic experience. I also hope to draw on my portfolio career across child health and wellbeing, education and research - including as a college / university lecturer, and restorative justice / mediation. All of the above has been embedded in an active, blessed family life, facing bereavement and now active granny rotas!
Dianne Roberts
Vice Chair of Trustees
Dianne was a social worker & manager working with Children & Families for over 40 years. She is now retired but keeps busy with her two young grand children, church activities and offering prayer ministry in Acorn's Guildford, Bordon and Digital hubs. She delivers the Listening academy, for Acorn too. She is committed to Acorn and has seen how good listening, can bring healing & reconciliation to Church communities.
Elisabeth Wright
Trustee for hub support
I’ve been part of Acorn since 2017, having first encountered then through the Listening Training. I attended the School of Healing, later to become Healing Academy, and eagerly took back all I learned to my healing ministry team in Skegness, Lincolnshire. In 2021 we set the Lincolnshire Healing Hub.
Director of Ministry
The Rev. Canon Kris Kramer
Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina in the USA, Fr Kris was ordained in the Diocese of London after training at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. His wife Caroline (Team Rector of St Matthews Surbiton) and their two dogs and two cats recently returned to England after a second stint of ministry in the USA. When asked about this opportunity Reverend Kramer said, “Acorn truly offers something that the world is hungry for at the moment. I am so excited to be a part of a healing ministry with such an incredible legacy of reaching out to a hurting world with God’s amazing healing love! Acorn really is an answer to a prayer for me.” Reverend Kramer has four grown children and when he is not working he enjoys watching birds, watering flowers, riding rollercoasters, watching Rugby, hitting golf balls, playing music, and traveling.
Acorn Values
God
We believe that love is the essence of God’s being and that blessing is his default position. God’s first response to the creation of humanity was to bless them. We are to be a ministry of blessing and generosity.
We believe that compassion is the hallmark of the ministry of Jesus. Knowing the Father’s deep love for the world, Jesus is drawn to act, speak, feed, heal and teach and ultimately give his life for the world. We are to serve sacrificially on behalf of Christ.
We believe that God’s word, and words, are true, bringing light and life to the whole person. We, therefore, speak the truth with one another with grace and compassion. We can only speak truth that heals when we do so in love.
Humanity
Every person is unique and made in the image of God. We will identify and enhance the image and work of God in every person. We will not try and make anyone into a copy of ourselves.
Every person has worth derived from the value placed upon them by God, and demonstrated by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We will regard every person, regardless of the situation they find themselves in or the background from which they come, as of immense value to God and therefore to us.
Every person is created with the need to experience God’s ‘life encompassing’ shalom. We will live as a channel of God’s healing grace to all we encounter.
Ministry
Wholeness is healing from God that touches every part of his creation and, therefore, our lives. We will serve the whole person, but we will not assume the place of God in another person’s life or journey.
Every person is the focus of God’s grace, which forms the manner in which he interacts with humanity. We will treat every person with dignity and respect.
Transformation is possible for everyone. We live as people of hope because of the resurrection; therefore, we believe that anything can change.
Community
Relationship - reflects the reality that exists between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We will maintain transparent and emotionally healthy relationships.
Responsibility - we all share in the responsibility for the quality of our own life. We will not transfer on to others issues that we need to deal with ourselves.
Redemptive – failure does not exclude us from relationship or community. We accept that God offers everyone the gift of beginning again.