On Easter Sunday, 2024, hundreds of worshipers gathered at a beach in Clearwater, Florida, to celebrate Christ’s resurrection. They were there thanks to Jenny Weaver, the Revivalist & Senior Leader of the Core Group, which was hosting “Resurrection Sunday Held on the Beach” and was ready to help bring hundreds of new people into the church.
As background, as CBN News reported, Ms. Weaver was homeless at just 17 years old, and in addition to spending time on the streets and addicted to drugs, she embraced the occult and supernatural, becoming a witch. But, eventually, she was able to overcome those early wrong decisions and disadvantages and decided to embrace Christ Jesus.
Explaining her life in the occult after she converted, she said, “You would feel demon spirits literally walking by you like a human being was walking by you. Touching you. Scraping the wall. It went from, ‘Oh, this is gonna be really fun,’ into, ‘I’m gonna choke you out until you die. I’m gonna take your life.’ All the time. Constantly tormented.”
Then, after converting to Christianity and embracing Christ, she decided to help out women like herself who were struggling in life and in need to help and guidance. So, she started the Core Group in 2022, according to CBN News, with the goal of mentoring women. But while it started off with that narrow focus, it has since expanded to thousands of men, women, and children across the Anglosphere.
Discussing the group and how she aimed to transform faith for the better with it in the hope of helping people meet God, she said, “People are so used to going to church, hearing a sermon, high-fiving their neighbor, walking out, but sometimes there is no real transformation and actual change.” She continued, “In these groups, the women come in and they expect to meet with God.”
Weaver then added, “When they come in, there is deliverance that is happening.” And, explaining how that helps people find God, she said, “There’s restoration that is happening. Women are crying and holding each other. They’re forming life-long kingdom relationships and then they are going out on Saturdays, with this same group, and they are ministering to the community.”
Adding to that and explaining how big of an effect the Core Group has had, she said, “We probably have thousands of testimonies at this point.” She added, “Women giving up pill addiction, putting down weed. We have testimonies of women’s legs growing out while in prayer with us. After years and years of being wobbly and having pain in their body… being completely healed.”
That massive effect wasn’t just in the past, however. Weaver and Core have kept the mission going and, on Easter Sunday, converted hundred of people at the Clearwater beach at which they gathered. Posting about the successful event on Facebook and giving God the glory for it, she said, “Jesus Christ gets all the glory for what happened today on the beach! Over 200 baptisms!!!!!😭😭”
In another post about the event, she wrote, “The News has spread this incredible story far and wide!!! We went down to the beach to baptize people but had no clue a massive crowd of tourist and beach goers would stand watching and begin to feel the conviction to be baptized right there with us!!!! It was EPIC!!! @coregroupmentorship”
And, in yet another post on the massive Easter event, she said, “This was something out of the pages of the Bible or a movie!! It was so surreal to see this massive crowd gather and mind you they had to walk through a magic show at the entrance of the pier to get to where we where and the people were draw in by the presence of God to walk away from the magic show and come to the water of baptisms and many watched and cried THIS IS A MOVE OF GOD!!!”
Watch the event here:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1885000068584401
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