Reports from PEN Newsletter November
2008
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Dear PEN Brothers and Sisters,
In my time with the Lord this morning I was once again gripped by the urgency of the day in which we are living! I often wonder at the correct view of the unfolding of the last days, but no matter what angle you take it is hard to not see some of the recent happenings in light of prophecy. Just today British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made the statement calling for a new world order. They see the global financial crisis as a perfect opportunity to set up a new world order. Several world leaders are referring to our President elect as the new World President. (I am not making a political statement here). No matter what your views are I trust that you will agree with me that these are urgent days for the gospel. I know that we often face a number of roadblocks but I am always amazed at how many more open doors there are than time and finances to go thru. I really believe that we are seeing a new willingness to work together and an openness among the world to meet the ‘real Jesus’. We have our work cut out for us, however we also have the assurance that he will never call us to something He will not equip and empower us to complete! This is not the time to pull back but to push ahead with everything we have! There is coming a day when no man shall work! Full Steam Ahead Captain!!!!!
For those of you who were at our PEN eschool in August we now have the workshop from Tex Reardon up in MP3 format on our PEN website. Please click on this link to take you to the site. Sincerely,
Dallas Anderson Extend the Impact NGA’s Extend the Impact Conference at Portland City Fest attracted more than 70 evangelists, ministry team members, pastors, and businessmen from around the world. The four day conference included sessions about the evolution of festival evangelism to the present Festival 2.0 Model, having a sustained festival year after year, and the impact of a festival on a city. Several workshops on the inner-workings of a festival were led by Luis Palau Association staff as well as NGA evangelists. The conference was a place for NGA evangelists, business leaders, and pastors to connect with one another, fostering possible new ministry partnerships. (Courtesy Chris Webster, Luis Palau Evangelistic Assoc. For more Haiti Outreach Opportunities The Keith Cook On The Go Team are holding a mass crusade and festivals
in the Peition-ville area of Port Au Prince, Haiti on December 3-8,
2008. One hundred local churches are joining with us to reach the
lost for Christ. We will have teams ministering through pastoral, leadership,
and counselor training, food distribution, street evangelism, festivals,
Due to the great physical, social, and spiritual needs in the area, On The Go is partnering with Luis Palau NGA and Mission Without Borders to provide food and assistance to thousands of individuals and families in the area. Keith and the On The Go Team are in need of other evangelistic teams, evangelists, and short term team members to partner with us in reaching Haiti for Christ. Please contact Keith as soon as possible for information on how you and/or your team can be an active participant in the Haiti GoTeam Outreach. (Courtesy On The Go Ministries - The Keith Cook Team. For more information,
visit www.onthego.org or email info@onthego.org) Columbia Crusades Eight NGA evangelists are heading for Cartagena, Colombia November 17-24 for several simultaneous crusades They are being sponsored by the local churches. There will be three days of mini-crusades in the three zones of the city. They will be followed by a prayer rally and a central crusade in the city stadium with French evangelists Emmanuel Duvieusart and Franck Alexandre. (Courtesy Bill Thomas, Bill Thomas Evangelistic Association. For more information, email contact@bill-thomas.org) Fishers of Fish Ready
to Meet Fishers of Men The Steve Wingfield Evangelistic Association has scheduled a 2009 festival on Grand Manan Island located off the Coast of the Province of News Brunswick in Canada. There are 2,700 people on the island, and for the most part, they are all involved in the fishing industry. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have shared with the ministry their concern about drugs and alcohol usage that is causing havoc with the youth on the island. The Pastors are working hard along with key lay people to make a difference. There are a total of 17 churches on the island, and 16 have pledged their support to the "Festival on the Island." (Courtesy Jessica Taylor, SWEA. For more information, visit the Steve Wingfield's Evangelistic Association website or email Jessica. Evangelism Course to be Launched on University Level Evangelist Steve Wingfield is heading up a group of scholars who are in the process of creating a new exciting Evangelism Course. The course is being considered by a major University that may offer it as a credit course and/or make it available on an audit basis. The writing of the course is close to completion, and should be available in 2009. (Courtesy Jessica Taylor, SWEA. For more information, visit SWEA website) NGA-France On October 7-8 NGA-France held their first meeting. There were over 25 evangelists in attendance. (Courtesy Bill Thomas, Bill Thomas Evangelistic Association. For more information, email contact@bill-thomas.org or visit www.NGA-France.com.) Communicating Christ to Younger Generations More than 120 ministry leaders recently gathered in Minneapolis and were given a challenge to rethink evangelism strategies to reach younger generations. "If you want to get people to be fired up about evangelism and if you want to reach young people, we have to think of the starting point of evangelism…Instead of telling your story, listen to the cries of a broken world." Miles McPherson, Pastor of The Rock Church in San Diego, California. Recent statistics show that 88 percent of churched young adults leave the church after leaving home (Lifeway) and 61 percent of people in their 20s who were once churched are now disengaged (Barna). McPherson's church is an anomaly, thriving with 11,000 young worshippers in their teens, 20s, and 30s. McPherson referenced Exodus 3:7 by noting that God always sent His deliverers at the response of someone crying out. He encouraged the leaders to listen to the cries of the younger generation. (Courtesy Susan Brill, Mission America Coalition. For more information, visit Media@missionamerica.org.) Great Harvest in Ohio This fall YWAM campaigns are conducting a series of 60+ evangelistic events around the Dayton, Ohio region. Twenty-four cities came on board for these campaigns. We are now five weeks into the seven week tour and so far we have preached the gospel to 35,000 people & have seen nearly 4,700 individuals publicly respond to the Gospel! We have seen powerful things take place, with whole families coming to Christ at the altar calls. We have seen parents coming to Christ over the phone, as the Counselors do their follow up phone calls! We still have about twenty events to go & are trusting God that we will see more in the last three weeks than we saw in the first four. (Courtesy Marty Emmett, YWAM. For more information, visit www.impactMV.com or www.impactOH.com or email Marty.) FUTURE PEN ARTICLES We will be correlating the data for the next PEN Newsletter. In order for events and articles to be included in the upcoming PEN Newsletter, we have set Wednesday, January 14, 2009 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 Below you will find a list of qualifications for data that will be included in the PEN Newsletter. 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
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