Living Branch Ministries was founded by Sam and Diane Hartley who felt called to help disciple people who are struggling with their Christian walk, and especially those who have lived in bondage to past labels of unworthiness or those battling with life controlling addictions. Our hope and dream is to enable people to radically transform their life to become functional and productive in their daily lives, experience the fullness of Christ’s love and have peace and joy within their family life, and also to enter into the fullness of the unique plan of God for their life to become productive and fruit-bearing members of the body of Christ.
The foundation of this ministry is built on the unequivocal Word of God and the Christian values of love and hope; without compromise the absolute authority on everything we believe is Jesus Christ and His Word.
Living Branch Ministries Statement Of Faith
We believe the Bible is the divinely inspired infallible and authoritative Word of God. (2 Tim 3:16)
We believe that there is one eternal God, existent in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. (2 Cor 13:14)
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. (John 1:1; Isa 7:14; John 1:14; 1 Cor 15; Mark 16:19; Rev 1:7)
We believe in the reconciliation of man to God through the substitutionary death and shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe that the universal fall of man means that salvation requires a person to be ‘born again’ through confession and belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, leading to spiritual regeneration by the power of the Holy Spirit.(John 3:3)
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. (Rom 8:9; 1 Cor 6:19)
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit to bestow spiritual gifts upon the body of Christ. (1 Cor 12:4-11)
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:29)
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor 1:10)
Greetings Diane,
My wife, Peggy Sue, and I are blessed to have come to know you. Your heart and your wisdom for those who are fighting addictions and those who feel less than worthy is as Christlike as anyone I have seen yet. You stepping up to send a book from Ireland to the USA for a young lady who was struggling was going above and beyond. It did not surprise me though as you are a mirror of the Suffering Servant that we serve.
We are praying for you and Sam as well of the launch of your new program. After reading the book that you sent (actually two one for CG and the other for Peggy’s future Disciple) I cannot imagine what this program will be like. There are very few that know how to be still and know that he is God and at the same time push forward like a locomotive, you and Sam fit that word picture.
Stay strong and watch as God continues to bless the good work that you do!
YBIC
Terry
Greetings Terry,
I have been so blessed to have come to know you and Peggy Sue. I have to say, that the respect is unreservedly mutual, and I believe our connection was by divine appointment. As I have listened as Peggy Sue fought the system with such tenacity to be a friend to CG, I know her rewards are stored up in heaven.
The program I plan to deliver was originally written with similar young women in mind, however the more deeply involved I became the more I realized how this problem is not unique to extreme cases, but in fact common to all mankind. Most people have the same struggles to varying degrees – some just mask it better than others! We do not need to outwardly portray dysfunctional lives to feel broken inside, we just need to be human! Spending time with the Lord recently, He revealed that individuals who self harm by cutting are only making the outside of the body match the inside, and as such we all have a tendency toward the ‘self-destruct’ mechanism …we just don’t recognize its different forms of presentation in our lives! Once I have this general program (Bringing Order to My World) operational I intend to work specifically on a self-harm program as it is the most misunderstood bondage tactic of the enemy.
You are both a great encouragement to us.
Psalm 61 Trusting in the Rock that is higher than I
Your sister in Christ
Diane