Event Hosting Inquiry for Church and City Transformation

Above  Pic: Salvation appeal at gospel crusade, Kenya Aug 2024. 

We often get asked to come to a pastors church, event or country because they see the work that we are doing. That is nice, but they usually lack details (often they lack real intent too)  so we are setting out a few things that will help you to make a clear and God inspired expression of interest in Beautiful Feet Task Force ministry. (BFTF)

We hope this message finds you well. We are thankful for the many who have expressed interest in having a BFTF team in their church, denomination or city over recent times. 

We are seeking expressions of interest from Christian leaders who may be willing and able to host Howard Sands and or a BFTF team for one or more of the following significant events in your city or region:

• City-Wide Leaders Unity Conference. An event designed for a minimum of 200 leaders focused on fostering unity and equipping leaders to work together for greater Kingdom Impact.  
• City-Wide Leaders Training Seminar:, with essential knowledge and skills for ministry leadership and community impact.
• Combined Churches City-Wide Outdoor Mass Crusade for Salvation and Healing:            A large-scale outreach with a minimum attendance of 2,000 people, aimed at bringing together churches across your city for a powerful time of salvation, healing, and transformation leading to growth.

To ensure the effectiveness and impact of these initiatives, please note the minimum attendance requirements: at least 200 leaders for the conference or seminar, and at least 2,000 attendees for the outdoor mass crusade. Any amount above that is OK, We just need to meet these minimums for efficiency reasons. 

We kindly invite you to consider which of these events your city or church network would be interested in hosting, and to indicate your preference by private mail after checking the details of this blog 
https://beautifulfeettaskforce.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-to-request-visiting-speaker-to.html

We request that you respond to all items mentioned in the blog as part of your expression of interest. 

Please reply to this message directly via either
Africa Network BFTF
Facebook messenger 

LinkedIn

In your response, kindly specify:

• Your interest in hosting an event (and which type).
• Confirmation that you are able to meet the minimum attendance requirements.
• You are able to work with a diverse group of 6-8 senior leaders from your city/region which you can gather.
• Responses to all items referenced in the blog.
• Confirmation you will be able to fund the event.
• Location - city, town or region/ state/country 
• Your preferred date or date range and whether or not you are open to alternative dates. 
  
• Any additional relevant information or questions

Your partnership and input are highly valued, and we look forward to hearing from you soon regarding your interest and capacity to host one of these transformative events. 

Thank you for your ongoing commitment to Kingdom unity and growth. 

 

Warm regards,

BFTF  

Pic: Pastors leadership training conference in Dominican Republic Aug 2025

 

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Rev Dr Howard Sands 

With over 40 years of ministry experience in over 26 countries on every continent, from village home meetings in developing countries to crowds up to 50,000, from stadiums to street meetings, he is equally comfortable, from pastoring local churches, special guest at church meetings, keynote speaker at conferences, youth conferences, pastors and leaders training, Bible college lectures, outreaches, crusades, tent crusades and business leaders equipping. 

Howard brings a refreshing dynamic to understanding who you are in Christ and will help to lift your congregation or conference from where they are in their experience to where God says they are in His word. He is strongly word based, Spirit led and tangible healings and renewed relationships with the Lord are often experienced.

He moves in the anointing and healings and miracles are often evidenced in his meetings. He has led thousands to Christ and into the baptism with the Holy Spirit. He has ministered in all kinds of outreach events, conferences, seminars leadership training and churches around the world including Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Fiji, India, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Burundi, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Romania, Dominican Republic, Columbia, USA, UAE, NZ & UK. (list updated Nov 2025) 

See ministry and business overview here https://about.me/HowardSands

See full ministry bio and ministry references here 

http://beautifulfeettaskforce.blogspot.com/2011/02/your-church-can-benefit-from-ministry.html

 

The Beautiful Feet Lecture 
https://beautifulfeettaskforce.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-2017-beautiful-feet-lecture-why.html


See Beautiful Feet Task Force facebook page here 

https://www.facebook.com/BeautifulFeetTaskForce

Hear samples of preaching and ministry here on YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/user/VideoBFTF 

See Africa Network BFTF membership site here 

https://bftfafricanetwork.ning.com

To send an invitation to Howard or Joy Sands or Beautiful Feet Task Force we prefer your message with the above details by messenger here  
https://www.facebook.com/howard.sands.5

Your integrity is more valuable than EVERYTHING you have ever done.

Why and What is it. 

By keeping your word you keep your integrity, by not keeping it you destroy it. Whatever you may have done and achieved in the past is coloured by the opinion of you others hold based purely on if you can be trusted. Well most Christian leaders would say that they can be trusted, but what does that mean? It means if you say you will do something, then you do it, if you say I will do it by tomorrow, then you do it by tomorrow because if it is not done by the day after tomorrow, you haven not kept your word, your integrity is is blown to pieces because you cannot be relied upon to fulfil that which you promised.

I can say that many times in a week I find people online, that will say to me they will do a certain thing by a certain time but the time elapses and there is no sign of its fulfilment. I am talking about pastors and a variety of Christian leaders. This ought not to be. Having spoken - you are bound to your word, If your word cannot be relied on, neither can you.

It is better for you to not promise anything than to promise something you may not fulfil (or worse - have no intention of fulfilling).

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out. People with integrity walk safely, but those who follow crooked paths will be exposed. Proverbs 10.9

... in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, Titus 2.7

When people lose trust in your word because you have not fulfilled it you have destroyed trust, without trust relationships are of no value.

Be a person who honours your word. Be trustworthy.

In this case, moreover, it is required [as essential and demanded] of stewards that one be found faithful and trustworthy. 1 Cor 4.2 AMP

As a pastor or leader, not everyone that you lead may meet this standard, judge a book by what is written in it, you are exhorted to lead, encourage, teach, and correct. You can love them, respect them, encourage them, give them opportunity but trust is earned not granted without performance. Choose wisely.

example, faithful, faithfulness, honor, honour, integrity, intent, trust, trustworthy, value, walk

When it just can't be done

When it just can't be done 

Read Joshua 3

Have you ever been here? everything seemed to be going against you.

You thought you should do something but nothing seemed to work out right.

You may have thought that God had directed you this way but now you are starting to wonder.

You’re not the first to be in this situation and neither will you be the last.

Do you know what is really happening and do you know how to deal with it?

If there is a God given opportunity before you and it doesn’t seem to be working out don’t despair,

“for what the devil meant for evil for you, God will use for good.” 

 “We know that all things work together for good for those that love God, to those that are called according to His purposes.” Rom 8.28

Not every door that God presents to us is an open door

but still He intends for us to go through.

Before we can do that we have to:-

get to the door,  -  many obstacles in our way 

the door won’t open. -   locks,   bolts to unfasten,

find the keys to unlock the locks

slide back the bolts

turn the handle and

PUSH the door.

The kind of obstacles we face to going through the door may be:-

people not doing what they said they would do;

something not happening at an appointed time;

people, even well meaning people, family or friends, mislead you   - take offence at you -                              although you fail to see how or why;

there’s a strike;

the weather is adverse;

some scheduling changes;

a relationship with someone suddenly deteriorates over a small thing.

The door  is the Jordan river and the problem is -water, people, carts, animals -millions of them.

It just can't be done.

but no-one said it.

Can you say while you are going through these obstacles?

“If God is for me who can be against me.”  Rom 8.31

“He has blessed me with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” Eph 1.3 

“No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against me in judgement I shall condemn.”  Isa 54.17

 

"I am saying to this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and I shall not doubt in my heart, but shall believe that those things which I saith shall come to pass, I shall have whatsoever I saith.”      Mark 11.23

personalised Scriptures  - in the first person  - that they relate to me, not someone else – 

You can do that when things go wrong?

Crossing Jordan -  bapt HS - Spirit led life

no sin   - they've all died in wilderness

no rebellion  - all swallowed up by ground

no carnal/natural thinking - poisoned by snakes and died

There's more to the total solution than simply saying positive statements from God’s word  but without doing that we can’t proceed to the next step.

We must believe in what we are saying and that it is making a difference,

We need to keep on confessing these principles of God regardless of the situation we find ourselves in.

Recognise the real problems, whether - people or circumstances,

it’s not people disagreeing with us and purposely trying to make it hard for us.

                  Most often in their hearts - well meaning people

recognise that:- 

• Satan uses people/events trying to prevent Christians living in the promises
• If he can stop you making your positive faith confession he’ll stop you.
• If he can get you thinking that people are against you, - you may get an unnecessary attitude against people;

It will stop you until you repent of it.

Hold no grudge against the people that SEEM to be part of your problem.

People and things are not your problem, Satan is.

"We fight not with flesh and blood (people) but against principalities, against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Satan and his hordes). Eph 6.12

Now start to exercise that authority that Jesus has placed in you,

“You are the head and not the tail,” Duet 28.13

“all power is given to you in Jesus name, go ye therefore…”   Matt 28.18

Even Jesus said to one of his closest disciples, Peter, “Get thee behind me Satan.” Matt 16.23.

He understood that Satan was using Peter, (albeit unknowingly) to try to prevent Jesus fulfilling the plan of God.

Through all this keep your heart pure.

“there is no temptation taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” 1 Cor 10.13

Prior to crossing Joshua 3.5

consecrate yourselves

“…but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Phil 4.6 

“Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.” Prov 4.23

Don’t say you’re the only one that has to go through this – it’s happened to others – the question is, how are you going to travel this road? 

Prior to Crossing:- 

Ark & priests have to lead

People must follow - or you won't go in (Because you haven't been this way before)

Now it was the time of harvest and the Jordan river was in flood. 

Get your feet wet before evidence of river drying up

water stopped flowing from Adam (natural man) Joshua 3.16

about 30km away 

took some time for water to flow past    1-2 hours

spirit led  vs  natural thinking       ( a great distance away)

all the nation crossed over

ark stayed in the river until they were all across

God will hold back the tide that is against you if you follow the plan.

BLOG Makers instructions When All Else Fails - read the instructions

Summary

keep your heart pure,

see the good in all,

repent of natural thinking

recognise Satan as your enemy, the deceiver and destroyer,

confidently speak to your circumstances

tell Satan that his deceits won’t work with you.

Keep a pure heart

stay in worship to God and fellowship with the saints.

Put faith to work by saying and believing the word of God,

use your authority against the deceiver

nothing can stop you from possessing the promises of God.

The victory is yours,

repent, confess it, believe it, and stick to it until you physically take hold of it,

That’s Faith. Heb 11.1

YOU WILL BE CHANGED.

YOU WILL CROSS OVER & POSSESS THE PROMISED LAND 

Additional information about Beautiful Feet Task Force can be found here 

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Become a partner at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/BFTF

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A networking place for African leaders (and those interested in African church development) to grow in faith, unity and maturity and development of the great commission. Free membership. 

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Growing African Christian Leaders,  https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingafricanchristianleaders  

Rev Dr Howard Sands is the International Director of Beautiful Feet Task Force, is available as a speaker for churches, outreaches, business & missions. 

INTERESTED IN INVITING HOWARD SANDS 

to speak at your church, College or organisation? 

For more details on how to frame an invitation see here.

See ministry recommendations here. 

Send your invitation here via facebook messenger

If you would like to donate to BFTF International Missions for training leaders in developing world countries donate here.  

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When All Else Fails -

 When all Else Fails - Read the instructions.

Like many men, I have been guilty of knowing better than the manufacturer and starting on a project (such as building kit furniture) without referring to the instructions, only to come stuck before finishing because I put something together wrong.

In teaching my grandchildren to build Lego models, I taught them how to follow the instructions, they are frustrated with the slow and tedious progress sometimes, but always excited when the finished model looks just like the picture on the box.

When you buy a product, any product, it usually comes with some instructions, assembly instructions, how to use instructions, safety instructions etc.

The manufacturer has a vested interest in you assembling the project correctly for the best use, they don't want your failed project to bad mouth their product because you failed to follow the instructions.

As an architect and developer of a website now with thousands of members, I prepared a series of instructions for joining, setting up a personal profile and how to use the site for maximum impact. It never ceases to amaze me that the vast majority of members don't follow the instructions, don't do the simple training, don't get much interest from other members and subsequently fall into oblivion on the site, suggesting that it doesn't work.

The human creator, also created a set of instructions for best use, we tell our children to follow them, we employ people to help us (pastors and priests), yet the vast majority of the problems we encounter in life are from one simple mistake; not following the instructions. Read your Bible. God knows best.

Religion vs covenant

God never intended to start a new religion when He spoke to Moses, 

He planned to bring Israel back into a relationship lost,  

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua had relationship with the Father. 

Over time and generations that relationship was lost. 

They referred to the God of their fathers, not their God. 

10 commandments, (as we call them, when they became commandment not relationship) became the start of religion, before religion they were part of the covenant. You do this, I’ll do that. 

God said to Moses if you (as a nation) do this, I will do that. 

If you - worship me,  honour me & live a life that honours me in the sight of the gentiles, 

I will provide for you, 

protect you and bless you, 

and you will be revered among the nations. 

EG. Walking arm in arm, 

Relationship is not a list of do's and don'ts, 

It is like walking together, protection provided, like an umbrella.

If you walk away from my covenant, there will be no protection or provision from the Father.

But rather, if you behave in this manner it honours me. 

That will bring my blessing on you. 

Moses was not religious, he knew God, 

Neither was Joshua. he stayed in the tent of meeting after Moses went out. 

He was the next to lead Israel.  

After him came a slide into religion. 

The things God commanded Moses as behaviour to show honour, became rules without heart. 

People lost the relationship and kept the ritual and Judaism was born, 

a religion that Jesus did not want any part of. 

He criticised its leaders for doing the minor things but not the major things 

Israel knew religion in Egypt, they also knew commandments, (whip).

God wanted something more from His chosen people.

He wanted people who loved him from a free will & heart, 

not following a set of rules someone made up to avoid penalty and judgement. 

The prophets came saying that God said, 

"A new heart and a new spirit will I put within you, I will take out hard cold stony heart & give you a heart of flesh."

They said, "sacrifices I have not desired."

David the shepherd king knew God, he wanted to please him, he often failed, but his heart always came back to God. 

God made with him an unconditional everlasting covenant. 

He set out to build a temple to honour God's name, God told him , "no, but your son will build it. "

The early years of Solomon’s reign were the pinnacle of the nation of Israel, they enjoyed relationship, (because of the Godly leadership of David and Solomon).  

Sacrifice was a pleasure, not a duty. Sacrifice was generous, not begrudging. 

It indicated a deeper relationship happening between the Father and Israel. 

Jesus said,  "You tithe but forget love and justice." You are majoring on minors but forget the most important things.

"You travel the world to make one proselyte but make him twice the son of hell as you."

You teach rules not relationship. 

Jesus set us free from that, 

I have come that you might have life, and life more abundantly." 

100’s of years of church history have taught us that man (leaders of religion) put us back under the bondage. 

• Do this  - Attend ceremony. 

• Eat this  - Don’t eat that. 

• Perform this way. 

• Pay indulgence, tithe- sacrifice. 

• Only come to the pastor for prayer. 

• Come to church to honour the bishop. 

• Healing and special prayer is the domain of the few in control. 

All to keep religious leaders in power and control, 

because men love control, they refuse to teach relationship with God because they fear losing control. 

In fact the leaders that show the way of relationship enjoy more reverence and respect, 

Because people are free, they learn how to know God for themselves, 

to pray and use their own faith for miracles and are also able to show others the way. 

Say to this mountain, “be removed and cast into the sea, ……… whatsoever YOU SAY will happen."  Mark 11.22-24

No more, “come to the pastor for prayer,” but rather  “come to my God through faith. “ 

Pastors can still pray, (lead by example) but prayer for any kind of need is not their domain alone. 

Over the last 500 years or so this pattern of 

revelation, relationship, ritual, relegation, 

has been repeated and repeated. 

Marin Luther nailed his thesis to the church door, 

salvation is by grace through faith and not through works. 

John and Charles Wesley, 

brought up in the Anglican Church, studied for priesthood - they had a revelation of God & his interest in relationship. They went the length & breadth of the country preaching salvation - the only place big enough for the crowds were the open fields. 

They ended up starting a church that followed a new method, personal relationship with God. 

John Wycliffe  - Preached to massive crowds, repentance & salvation were hallmarks of his meetings. 

Salvation follows repentance.  -  It does not follow ritual, sacrifice, indulgences,  

It’s a heart thing not a religious thing. 

Great leaders like these and many others, John Knox, Charles Finley, William Booth, Into 1900’s John Seymour-

All bringing people into relationship, their followers understood and continued the work after they passed, but by the 2nd generation the work in almost all cases descended into ritual and religion. Living organism became structured organisation, with form but not life.

Pentecostals in many places are just as religious as the long established church they once criticised. 

You can’t legislate for men to love God, they either do, or not, by their choice, 

some (many) follow religion out of fear and 

Some out of laziness (because they won’t search out God themselves), 

rules neither give life or salvation. 

Men want to control men but God wants to set them free. 

Men want the recognition from others that their prayer was important. 

God said your faith in me is important. 

John the Baptist said it best,  "He must increase and I must decrease." 

We have people in the pulpit that should not be there. 

People running an institution, a denomination, a church, like a company - for profit, personal gain and reputation. 

Many will come in that day and say, didn’t we do miracles, cast out demons in your name, 

Jesus will say,  "Depart from me, I never knew you."

Structure, wisdom, practises and policies are required for good governance, but the governance is NOT to control people into an orderly sub ordinate unit, 

But to bring freedom & release for people to know their God & do exploits (Daniel) not to control, Lord it over them. 

Working together requires cooperation, communication, 

Coordination for the complete performance of a thing. 

Proper. prior planning. prevents pitiful. poor performance. 

When we have done our part, let God do His. 

Sometimes structure can descend into Godly chaos. 

EG. day of Pentecost. Acts 2.

What is this? 

Where are you on the freedom continuum? 

LEFT Stickler for the rules, control and power, 

Or 

RIGHT Good governance -orderly flow of grace into lives of individuals, who know & honour God out of a free will, who are living in freedom, faith and personal relationship. Set free and setting others free. 

It's time to bring back the relationship with the Father in our own lives. 

You can’t set others free if you are not free  - You can’t show the way if you don’t know the way. 

Do you need repentance from doing your own thing? 

Decide to seek His way and bring people back to knowing God themselves. 

Teach transformative principles. 

Teach the church the Foundations. 

Show the church how to be disciple duplicators. 

We don’t need more followers, we need more leaders. 

We don’t want to gasp in awe at how many are in your church, 

We want to be excited about how your church is creating new believers, new disciples and new churches. 

How many have you sent to the mission fields? 

• So they go out and do exploits, 

• Win people for Christ 

• Heal the sick 

• Overcome the devil 

• Change circumstances 

• Set others free 

This is revival 

Re- viving that which was once alive and is now dead or dying. 

NOW 

Allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you. 

Repent of your controlling ways. 

Ask forgiveness. 

Search for Christ. 

Ask for healing in your life or others. 

Ask to be filled with Holy Spirit, for the first time or again. 

Ask for revelation, wisdom, and empowerment by Spirit language. 

Until we have revival in the church and the ministers are prepared and equipped to lead freedom, we will not have transformation in society. 

You are the ministers, 

Not those who have completed cemetery/ seminary,  

But those with a passion to pursue the presence of God. 

Respond now. 

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Additional information about Beautiful Feet Task Force can be found here

Connect with BFTF on other media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeautifulFeetTaskForce

YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/VideoBFTF

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beautiful-feet-task-force/?viewAsMember=true

Become a partner at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/BFTF

Africa Network BFTF: http://bftfafricanetwork.ning.com/

a networking place for African leaders (and those interested in African church development) to grow in faith, unity and maturity and development of the great commission. Free membership.

Facebook Group by Beautiful Feet Task Force Growing African Christian Leaders, https://www.facebook.com/groups/growingafricanchristianleaders  

Rev Dr Howard Sands is the International Director of Beautiful Feet Task Force, is available as a speaker for churches, outreaches, business & missions. 

INTERESTED IN INVITING HOWARD SANDS 

to speak at your church, College or organisation? 

For more details on how to frame an invitation see here.

See ministry recommendations here. 

See products and services here.

Send your invitation here via facebook messenger

If you would like to donate to BFTF International Missions for training leaders in developing world countries donate here.  

Payment options

PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online! 

or

Bank account Direct Deposit

Beautiful Feet Task Force

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

BSB 062 614

Account 94 0442