About
We are located in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas area of the USA near the DFW International airport. This makes it very convenient for anyone who comes to our campus for a season of counsel and ministry or just for retreat.
A smaller body of believers meets regularly at our campus for worship, teaching and fellowship. The care and support of the facilities come from these faithful ones and others who send offerings or come and give their time and talents. Stephen Bell, who lives on the campus, is pastor and director.
Our campus includes an auditorium, fellowship hall, offices, guest rooms, laundry, playground and outdoor facilities for recreation. We have received visitors from all around the world.
You are welcome too.
HERE IS A PROPHETIC VISION FOR OUR MINISTRY GIVEN NOVEMBER 29, 1981 THROUGH IDA MAE HAMMOND:
I have raised you up as a Receiving Station, saith the Lord, and as a Receiving Station you shall be different from every other body in this area. You are not to look at yourself and compare yours self with others, for you will never be as they are. Not that they are wrong and you are right, But you are different, saith the Lord. You are created in a different way. You have been Brought together and established for a different purpose, saith God. Even as all of my, children are of me and yet one is different from another, so are all of my bodies and my churches of me, saith God. But yet one is different from the other, and so I say unto you, you are a Receiving Station.
Now, know the purpose that I have called you for: A Receiving Station, saith God. But in order to receive, you have to first of all be established, and you have to be solidified, and you have to be matured, and you have to be brought into unity, saith the Lord. For this Receiving Station is a place where people shall come from far and from near. Some from your very back door will make their way here, and others across the great land of yours will make their way here. Yes, even around the world, saith the Lord, shall my people find their way here, some in a most peculiar manner, saith God. But they shall arrive and you shall receive them, saith the Lord, and in receiving them you receive me, saith God.
But in order to fulfill the purpose I have in receiving them, you must see them as a whole man, as a total man, and you must Be interested in all of their needs, you must not only Be interested in their deliverance, but in their healing, in their finances, in their personality, in their home, in their needs, saith God, as you receive them. And so you need to be whole persons. You need to Be whole, healthy families, and you need to have a healthy Body here, saith God, so that when you receive these people, they shall not burden you down, But you shall Be able to minister to them and send them on their way, saith God.
Do not think of yourself as growing and growing and Becoming known for numbers, saith God. That is not my purpose. My purpose is to be a Receiving Station, and I shall raise you up for that, and you shall not resist me in it, saith God, and you shall let me bring it forth as I want it to be brought forth. So think not in magnificence of material possessions, saith God. That does not interest me, saith the Lord. But think in terms of people, in terms of need, in terms of meeting the total man, saith God, and receive them in my name, saith Jesus.
Receive them in my name, minister to them, know their needs, love them, meet compassion with compassion, meet needs with needs, saith God. And if thy brother be hungry and if he be without clothing and if he be without food and without shelter, you shall not say to him, "Be thou clothed and be thou fed," and send him on his way, But you shall meet his needs, and you shall minister unto him, and he shall go his way rejoicing.
And do not feel that because they come and they go, they come and they go, they come and they go, that you are failing, saith God. You are not failing, for Receiving Stations only do that. They come and they go. They come and they go. So do not feel guilt ridden. Do not feel as though you are a failure. Do not feel as though you do not have enough here to attract them. I am not interested in attracting them here to stay, necessarily, saith God. I am here that their needs be met, that the total need of the total man can be met. You are my Body, saith God. You are my Receiving Station.
About Stephen Bell, Pastor/Director
What is KEY Church?
We are Non-Denominational
"Christ is head of the church…” Ephesians 5:23
The church is to be like no other organization in the world. The guidelines for its make-up are given in the Bible. There is to be government within each church, but no outside control other than Christ Himself. There are non-denominational churches like us with which we relate, but we are unaffiiliated with any denomination. We want Christ to be our sole Head through the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
We Teach and Practice the Word of God
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God…that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." II Timothy 3:16
At KEY Church we study and teach the Bible. We seek to live by the principles found in the Scriptures. The Word of God is the answer for EVERY need. We don’t just believe it – we find it to be so!
We Believe in Prayer
"My house shall be called a house of prayer…" Matthew 21:13
At least once each week we have a gathering just to pray. We agree for various needs that come before us either through specific requests or through impressions from the Holy Spirit. Also, in all of our meetings we have times of prayer. The Scriptures tell us to “be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God…” Philippians 4:6
We Praise and Worship
“Sing praises to God, sing praises…” Psalms 47:6
Sometimes people who visit our meetings are surprised or have questions about how we sing and praise God. Many of us were taught to believe that church meeting were not a place for strong emotional outbursts. But experience and tradition are not always in line with what the Bible teaches. We at KEY Church have found that God wants us to really praise Him! The Scriptures instruct us to sing, shout, clap, play instruments, leap, raise our hands and even dance in our praise to Him. So in obedience to His Word, we do it! We also do it because we are truly thankful and joyful about what the Lord has done for us.
We Believe in Miracles
“These signs will follow those who believe…” Mark 16:17
“God also bearing witness both with sings and wonders with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Sprit…” Hebrews 2:4
What good news! God hasn’t stopped doing miracles. Yes, most of us have been taught otherwise, but tell someone who has just experienced a miracle that they aren’t for today. At KEY Church we pray for the sick ( and see them healed ). We pray for the oppressed ( and see them delivered ). We pray for those financially stricken ( and see them prosper ). We cast out demons ( and see them go ). We believe God for some impossible situations in marriages and homes ( and we see God do the impossible ).
Without the ministry of the miraculous, the church is just another social organization. Its ministry should be supernaturally endowed by the gifting of God through the Holy Spirit.
So we believe
So we practice
So we stand!
We Believe in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and Tongues
"And they all were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance” Acts 2:4
“Tongues are for a sign; not to those who believe but to unbelievers…” 1 Corinthians 14:22
What are these tongues? Surely they are but foolishness to those who don’t believe. We that speak in tongues were unbelievers too until tongues came to us through the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Now we believe!
Certainly this is a controversial subject for some, but the Jesus Christ that is the same yesterday, today and forever is also the chief cornerstone of the church. His church stands today to grow even more dynamic in the power of the Spirit in these last days.
Nothing has really changed about this. Men only say that it has. We speak in tongues because they have not passed away. We pray in tongues. We sing in tongues. “For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God… I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with understanding…” And as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14:18, “I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all…”
We Have Outreach
“You shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8
Although we are a comparatively smaller church, God has given us an outreach that exceeds our size. Audio and video tapes are sent out, as are booklets published by our own press. It is not unusual to have people come for hundreds of miles to receive ministry at KEY Church. The Lord is training and equipping several of us to be sent out to other places and ministries in the days ahead.
We Enjoy Fellowship
“If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another…” 1 John 1:7
A vital part of real church life is fellowship. Not just time spent together in meetings, but time eating together, working together and recreating together. We help each other move. Brethren who know how, help others repair their cars. Relationships are constantly being developed and strengthened in a healthy church body. Some have even moved from other areas to be closer to this kind of interaction and love. We know it is a vital part of our growth as a Believer.
Come Be With Us!
We hope this helps you know a little more about us at KEY Church. It is not our intent to recruit members. We believe that God must be the one who knits people into this Body. Regardless of some folk’s feelings about this, we are here to minister to you in any way we can. We welcome you to come to some of our gatherings. Reach out for ministry or prayer. Freely we have received and freely we want to give.