In this session, Dr Ben from Ghana shared by teleconferencing about his experience with John’s apostolic covering.

Derek Ott talked about the original slander against God and how the apostles witness to overcome satan’s accusations.

1 Kings 22:17-21
God has a heavenly household. He wants us to be involved in his counsel.

Deuteronomy 13:1-2
False prophets are allowed in order to test God’s people.

Deuteronomy 32:7-8
God gives nations inheritance
We are God’s nation and we need to be cleansed and purified.
The Lord’s portion is His people.
All the other nations were ruled by lesser spirits but Israel ruled by God.

The first person to be slandered was the Lord by satan. Genesis 3.

Numbers 14
You have rebellion in church, God had rebellion in heaven.
People are rebellious because they believe bad report. God threatens to destroy the people but Moses said if you do this the nation’s will think God is not able to save.

1 Corinthians 4:9
Apostles are witnesses. God’s answer to slander is apostles. They model the goodness of Christ and it multiplies through the church. This is the answer to the original slander against God.

Acts 8:4
Revival in Samaria but distracted by Simon the Sorcerer. He wants to buy the power to give the Holy Spirit. V. 21.He had not repented. They needed the apostles to come and bring discernment and confrontation.

Promise Isaiah 59: 21

 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.

It was unusually cool this morning, but warmed up as the day progressed.

It was Lloyd Gill’s time to share. Lloyd has probably as close a relationship with John as anyone. His special area of ministry is Africa.

When people say they are honouring John & Hazel (or anyone else for that matter), we are in fact honouring Christ who moulded them, raised them, placed them in families, and gifted them.

While it is true that there are false apostles, sometimes it means that they are people who have a calling but are not yet mature enough to take up the calling. This is like Moses who was called at the burning bush, but did not step into leadership of the Hebrews for another 40 years.

In Exodus 3:4-10, God says “I am coming to rescue your people so go and do it.” The fact is that God always uses people to achieve His purposes.

Whatever your call is, it is holy ground, whether that is to be an apostle or a mother or a labourer.

The Friday evening session started with testimonies fro Peter Staines and Veronika Ott about how the Lord had led them into partnership with Apostle John Alley.

John then proceeded to talk about the error of cessationism, the doctrine that the gifts of the Holy Spirit and miracles ceased after the death of the first apostles or the completion of the New Testament.

Biblical errors of cessationism as evidenced in a polemic against NAR
1.Signs and wonders = miracles but see Hebrews 2:4

2. Signs are meant to confirm a message from the Lord. But miracles often come without a message

3. Signs and wonders confirm end times teaching by NAR

3. They assert that people always responded to Jesus’s miracles with faith. False.

4. If NAR miracles are to equal Jesus’s miracles, they should be easy to see.

5. Miracles will be so highly acclaimed leads to public news.

6. Surely the world would know if these miracles happened by NAR people. Countless people get miracles, but they are to meet needs not to be signs. The world is not interested in miracles and tends to ignore or dismiss them.

7. For the time being the NAR people have not changed the world in the way they claim.

“We are a civilised people,” intones John Alley in announcing that we will have 30 minutes for morning tea, even if we are running late. We were running to time, but John likes to ensure that there is time for fellowship between the sessions.

Debbie Gadd is the pastor of Snowy Valley Community Church in Tumbarumba, NSW. As you might guess, it is a cold place, even in summer. Debbie shared how she and her church came to be participants in the fellowship of John Alley’s apostolic network.

Derek Ott is a prophet and teacher from Arizona in the USA. It is the opposite of cold for most of the year. Derek was the main speaker for Session 3.

We were baptised into Christ’s death, and so our responsibility is to live from Christ not from ourselves. As spiritual sons of John Alley, we all need to step up in a bigger way in joining with John’s battle. If God calls a father to a mission. He is certainly calling the sons also. We need to be aware that battle weariness can catch up with us, but God prepares a feast for us on His holy mountain (Is. 25.) We are moving into a season where instead of fighting battles, we are sharing in this feast prepared by Jesus for His people,

For some reason I didn’t sleep well last night, so I was quite weary to start off with.

Mostly, everyone so-operated and we got to the church with a couple of minutes to spare.

The session started with a powerful time of worship. Linden Scilley spoke about why he believes that John Alley is a genuine apostle. Linden is a Salvation Army officer based in south western Sydney.

The main speaker was David Alley, John’s eldest son, who was born in Narrabri when John and Hazel were stationed there. David is now the pastor of Peace Church, and has worked tirelessly amongst the pastors and priests of Rockhampton, bringing a very real sense of unity amongst the churches.

The lighting of the stage has been confusing for the camera, and for some reason ir decided not to fire the flash.

David talked about how we can learn to feel love for other christians, especially those who are not of our “tribe.”

1. Make a deliberate choice to feel God’s love for me- we cannot love others until we have experienced God’s love as a reality.
2. Make a deliberate choice to ask God to give you love for others. Some people are easy to love; others not so much.
3. Make a deliberate choice to pray for God’s people. Prayer is like an investment. We pray for things that are important to us. Equally when we pray for other christians, we start to care about them

On Thursday we set off on the epic pilgrimage to Rockhampton for the 2026 Apostolic Summit. This year, we took Kate and Daniielle, which made it a cosy fit in the back seat.

We left at 7 am, arriving for our traditional lunch time stop of Condamine. Thursday is Donut Day in tiny Condamine. The donuts here are excellent, and the centres are guaranteed to be 100% fat free!

We arrived at the Peace Church after a quick dinner, and in time for the start. We met up with the Coopers and the Boltons, all of us thankful for a safe journey of nearly 1000 km.

In the first session, John talked about the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), which we are definitely not part of.

There are criticisms made of NAR, some of which are valid and some of which are not. The problem with many critics of the NAR is that they typically have little or no experience or knowledge of the charismatic and Pentecostal movements. They lump anyone who is prophetic or apostolic in with NAR. Many Pentecostal/ charismatic ideas and organisations are also seen as “contaminated” or “influenced” by the NAR, even those that were around long before the NAR.

This led on to a discussion of the idea of revelation. Again some critics of the NAR teach that when people have a “revelation” from the Holy Spirit, they are putting their own ideas as equal to Scripture. No, Scripture is the test of whether a personal revelation is genuinely from God or not.

The session concluded with prayers for more revelations, prophecies and words of knowledge for the attendees.