Elder
Teresa Cooper
Elder Teresa Cooper got her start in the Dance Ministry at Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church and World Outreach Ministries in Chicago, IL. in 1990, when God gave the Founder and (Then Pastor) Chief Apostle Clifford E. Turner a vision for "The Joshua Generation Prophetic Praise Dancers." This was at a time when dance was not widely known, accepted, or celebrated in the Church.
This trailblazing move was a catalyst for what we see today in many churches and ministries, and it is now a movement for Worship and the Arts in "Dance." (Apostle Turner is now in glory as of January 2018), Yet the vision lives on under the covering and oversight of Apostle Darlyn C Turner and our Senior Apostle Sheraine Lathon.
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Elder
Theresa Dickens
Elder Theresa Dickens is a dance instructor who has been teaching in the Chicago Public School (CPS) system, as well as churches in the Liberty International Network and other church organizations for 24 years to date. She began teaching for CPS after-school programs, which entailed choreographing dances for original operas, musicals, and Ravinia's music appreciation program.
My Story
Elder Teresa Cooper has been a part of the team since its inception until now and has traveled extensively with Apostle Turner in the earlier years of the dance ministry. The dancers have traveled to various places like Birmingham Alabama, New York to minister in dance at conferences, and crusades as an outreach to win souls. God began to deal with Teresa about creating a variety of dance items for the dancers, such as garments, wrist-scarves, and headpieces. The more she sewed, the more creative ideas God gave her, and she believes that if God shows it to her, she can create it by the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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Teresa Cooper has served in leadership as an evangelist and elder over the dance ministry at Liberty International Network (LIN), one church in many locations, where God healed her of arthritis through the dance ministry. She was diagnosed with degenerative arthritis having two knee surgeries and a shoulder surgery. The doctors said, "She should have shriveled up long time ago," but through God's healing power and learning how to eat to live, she was healed.
Elder Cooper is a business owner. She owns "Simply Unique Enterprise," which houses H.O.W.-Dance Garments (Handmaidens of Worship, War, and Wealth); W.O.W.- Dance Flags (Weapons of Worship); R.J.B.- (Roses Just Because & Bridal Bouquets); S.S.2.W. (Simply Simple 2 Wear); and Balloon Decorations. Teresa is also the author of the ABC/Coloring Book "Mommy I Wanna Dance.
My Story
Theresa started a modern dance troupe at two elementary schools, that performed at nearby nursing homes, other CPS schools, CPS dinners and luncheons, and at Ravinia by special invitation from the CEO. She also taught Modern Dance as an auxiliary class for grades kindergarten through eighth, and put together recitals featuring the auxiliary classes and the modern dance troupes.
While working for CPS, Theresa Dickens developed a youth dance program at a church that was looking for another way to to get the attention of their youth and channel their energy. She has helped several churches start their dance ministry teams and has service contracts with churches to teach technique classes.
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Theresa Dickens has served at Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church in Chicago as a leader and an elder over the dance ministry. As a team leader, she was instrumental in developing a dance concert that is not only a fundraiser, but also another way to present the gospel to people who might not attend a traditional church service.
As a dance teacher who is a dance minister Theresa endeavors to promote the growth, to improve, to prepare, to form, and refine innate abilities and creativeness within every dance.
Later when Elder Theresa Dickens joined the dance ministry at Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church, she and Elder Teresa Cooper became friends, they began to minister in dance, praying, and laying hands on people for healing and deliverance together under the leading of the Holy Spirit. They are powerful and inseparable. Out of this friendship was birth the "Tried N True Prophetic Dance Ministry".
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