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A N A R T I C L E F R O M :
VISION CHURCH OF ATLANTA ADDS PSYCHIC MEDIUM
TO MINISTERIAL STAFF
BY: LEONARDO BLAIR | MAY 24, 2019
The Vision Church of Atlanta, Georgia, a
progressive congregation, has added a psychic
medium who claims to commune with the dead to
their staff.
Lakara Foster, who holds a doctorate of ministry
from The Interdenominational Theological Center,
is now a licensed minister at The Vision Church of
Atlanta, Rolling Out reported. She is also the
creator and star of the YouTube series “The Gift,”
which she argues God told her to do. It follows her
life as a medium, minister, and spiritual teacher.
“God told me to do the show. Honestly, I was
reluctant at first because I felt very vulnerable and
thought I would get a lot of pushback and negative
feedback being a minister and a medium. I thought
people wouldn’t understand but I knew I still had to
do it. I knew I had been called to do it. When I asked
God, ‘Why this gift? Why not singing? God said, ‘I
promised my people eternal life. How will my
people know that I’ve kept promise if you don’t
demonstrate your gift?’” she told Rolling Out.
Foster argues that psychic mediumship should be
included among the spiritual gifts of the modern
Church because James 1:17 teaches that “every
good and perfect gift is from above.”
URL: https://www.christianpost.com/news/vision-church-atlanta-psychic-medium-ministerial-staff.html
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The Christian Post reached out to The Vision
Church for comment on the appointment Thursday
but no one was immediately available.
In an interview with Great Day Louisiana earlier this
year, Foster discussed how her gift allows her to
communicate with the dead.
“A psychic medium, what I try to explain to people
is, psychic is a very umbrella term. I believe to some
degree we all have some type of psychic intuition. A
medium falls under that umbrella. Being a medium
allows me to communicate with our loved ones
who are departed. So I tell people all mediums are
psychic but all psychics are not medium,” she said.
She explained that she has been using her gift for a
long time and had always wanted to use her gift
without sacrificing her faith in Jesus.
“For me it was very important that I was able to
merge the two. My love for God, my love for Jesus.
But really ... I knew that I could heal through
ministry but I’ve always been healing, so it was kind
of natural to be able to merge the two to continue
that level of healing,” she said.
“One of the reasons I pursued my doctorate on this
topic is because I really wanted to understand my
gift from the intersections of Afrocentrism and
Christianity, and why the church believes this gift
shouldn’t be considered a spiritual gift among those
listed in the Bible,” she further stated to Rolling Out.
Foster noted that she has received a lot of support
from her church and members of her family, like her
father who also claims to possesses the gift to
commune with the dead.
“My church family has been super supportive. … My
family has been just as incredible. My father shares
a similar gift and my mother is the executive
producer of the web-series ‘The Gift,’” she said.