Reports from PEN Newsletter July 2008
Third Quarter

 

Extend the Impact

The goal of the Palau Association's Next Generation Alliance® is to encourage and equip the new generation of evangelists. NGA plans and coordinates outreach initiatives throughout the world and invites its network of evangelists to take part. Luis Palau's Next Generation Alliance Extend the Impact Conference will be held August 20-23, 2008 in conjunction with Portland City-Fest in Portland, Oregon. There's something for everyone … from evangelists and ministry leaders to fundraising directors and spouses of leaders.

The conference will be held at Cedar Mill Bible Church and will be a wonderful opportunity to network with NGA evangelists and attend the Portland Cityfest with Luis Palau.

(Courtesy Chris Webster. Luis Palau Evangelistic Association. For more information, visit the NGA website or email Chris. To register online, go to:
www.palau.org/nga/extend_the_impact/

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PEN eSchool 2008

We count it as a wonderful opportunity to once again offer the PEN eSchool in conjunction with the Billy Graham School of Evangelism. You will be afforded the opportunity to drink from a fountain of knowledge and experience in the days that we are together! Our next PEN E-school is scheduled for August 26-29 at The Cove in Asheville, North Carolina.

This year we are especially excited about a couple of unique opportunities that we will have. Tom Phillips, VP of Crusades for the BGEA, has agreed to lead a special workshop for the PEN Evangelists. Tom has agreed to unpack what BGEA has learned in over 50 years of proclaiming the Good News. Tom will be giving principles as well as helping each of us translate those principles into our present situation.

We have also secured a special hour with our brother Cliff Barrows. He will be speaking directly to us as evangelists from a heart that has given itself to the Good News for all these years.

(Courtesy Dallas Anderson, Proclamation Ministries Director Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, PEN Executive Committee)

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The On The Go - Keith Cook Team is calling other evangelistic teams, evangelists, and ministries to partner with us to reach Karachi, Pakistan for Christ. On The Go is holding an On The Go Festival in Karachi, Pakistan in February 2009. Please contact Keith as soon as possible for more information on how you can be actively involved with our Pakistan Festival Team.

In conjunction with the Next Generation Alliance India project, On The Go will be hosting an area wide Youth Conference in Hyderabad, India in October, 2008.

Keith and the team are also gearing up for two stateside festivals; The Halls On The Go Festival - September 12, 13 and the Robertson County On The Go Festival - September 19, 20.

(Courtesy On The Go Ministries - The Keith Cook Team. For more information, visit www.onthego.org or email info@onthego.org)

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BeachFest in South Carolina was the first Andrew Palau festival to be held in the United States. Andrew has directed and spoken at many evangelistic festivals presented by his father, global evangelist and author Luis Palau. Beachfest was a partnership with area churches, local businesses and close to 1000 volunteers who assembled a free, family friendly festival on the grounds of the former Myrtle Square Mall.

In the remainder of 2008, Palau will speak at evangelistic events in Scotland, England, Uganda, Mexico, and in a number of U.S. cities including his home town of Portland, Oregon.

(Courtesy Craig Chaistain, Luis Palau Association. For more information, visit this link or email craig.chastain@palau.org.

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Rapid Response Team Training School

The Billy Graham Rapid Response Training School in cooperation with the Jerry Drace Evangelistic Association will host a one day training event August 16, 2008 from 8:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. in the chapel at Union University, Jackson, TN. The purpose is to learn how to serve as an RRT chaplain or ministry volunteer.

(Courtesy Jerry Drace, JDEA. For more information, or to register, visit
www.billygraham.org/RRT, call 1-800-335-1337, or email jdeainc@juno.com.

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This is the time of year when many in the Pentecostal/Charismatic family of churches are celebrating camp meetings and youth camps. In these special gatherings there is family-style fellowship, dynamic music and anointed preaching. There is, however, one central transforming experience from these meetings that cannot be replaced: the life-changing experience with God at the altar. The promise that "we have an altar" not only describes our heritage but, if embraced, will determine our horizon for the future.

May we never forget, and never fail to impart to the next generation, that "we have an altar" - that special place and experience with God where we experience confession of our sins, transformational Change, a special consecration/closeness to God, the communion of the saints, and our purpose for living in His Commission into the world.

(Courtesy Grant McClung, COGIEC and the MCPWF. To view the entire article, visit http://www.faithnews.cc/articles.cfm?sid=9045. For more information, visit www.azusastreetandbeyond.com or email Grant at gmeuro@earthlink.net)

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We have just returned from our Columbia Festivals where we were given the use of the Nueva Centro Cultural (New Cultural Center) on the central plaza in Paipa for the evening meetings, and were in the markets and plazas holding street meetings. Hundreds attended, and many received the Lord both in the open-air outreaches as well as in the evening meetings. One drunken hat salesman in the farm market fell to the ground under deep conviction as we ministered to him. When he came back up and received Christ into his heart, he was a different person.


In Chia, Columbia we saw a large percentage of those who were present come forward for prayer, some with real brokenness. One alcoholic fell to the floor and onto his knees during the meeting crying out to God on his with tears to deliver him from the alcoholism that was destroying his life. There were also families who came forward for prayer for a deeper work of the Lord in their hearts and homes. The needs here are very deep and often heartbreaking, and it was a great blessing to have so many available to pray for those who needed help, one by one. The Lord was moving on the hearts of the members of the evangelistic team, also, giving repentance and bringing us all into a deeper yieldedness to our Lord.

(Courtesy Evangelist Chris White, For more information on Columbian Festivals and events visit
www.cnwhite.org/UpcomingEvents.html or email Chris at directly at cwhiteevan@yahoo.com.

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FUTURE PEN ARTICLES

We will be correlating the data for the next PEN Newsletter. In order for events and rticles to be included in the upcoming PEN Newsletter, we have set Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 12:00 noon central time as the deadline. We will try to run as many articles as possible, but we can not guarantee that your article will be included in the upcoming PEN
Newsletter as there are over 300 ministries participating in the PEN Network. In order for your ministry event to be included in the next PEN Newsletter, we will need to receive the following from you by the deadline.

1) Subject or Title Heading
2) Brief Description of Event, Article, or Training Opportunity
3) WebLink to an article or webpage describing full detail of ministry
event, article, or training opportunity

Below you will find a list of qualifications for data that will be included in the PEN ewsletter.

1) The PEN Newsletter will not include any information regarding Fund Raising for your ministry. This is not the role of this newsletter.

2) We will attempt to include brief articles from as many ministries as possible. Articles must be Evangelistic in nature. Most Evangelistic Projects, Training Opportunities, and Conferences will be listed in our upcoming events section of each newsletter.

3) All other information will be included only upon a space availability basis. We will rank importance according to PEN guidelines.

4) All correspondence must be done through emails. Please try not to call our office or fax your articles to us, as it will be more time consuming to retype information in for each of the newsletters.

5) The PEN Network and On The Go Ministries / Keith Cook Evangelistic Association are not responsible for mistakes or miscommunications.

6) All articles received must have Subject/Title line, Brief Description of Article, Information, Evangelistic Event, or Training Opportunity, and Weblink to your ministry event or webpage that contains actual information you want communicated. Full articles that will be included in the PEN Newsletter will only be that of official PEN related articles.

We look forward to working with you so that others may know how they can be more actively involved in your ministry. Again, please remember that we can not promise to enter an article on every ministry that submits information, but we will make an attempt to include as much information as we possibly can, yet keep the newsletter concise and informative as well. In order to list an Upcoming Evangelistic Article, Project, or
Training Opportunity, please send your articles with your Subject or Title line, Brief Description, and Weblink to the following address: Laurie@onthego.org.

While On The Go Ministries / Keith Cook Evangelistic Association serve as editors and producers of this electronic newsletter and materials, the PEN Network maintains all rights and responsibilities for the PEN Newsletter.

PEN Newsletter Editor - Keith Cook, keithcook@onthego.org
PEN Newsletter Assistant Editor - Laurie McTier, laurie@onthego.org