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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
Proclamation Ministries Director
Billy Graham Center at Wheaton Colege
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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
information, visit the website
or email Chris.)
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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,
and a mass crusade.
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)
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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)
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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.
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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)
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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.)
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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.)
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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
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 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
as editors and producers of this electronic newsletter and materials,
the PEN Network maintains all rights and responsibilities for
the PEN
Newsletter.
EN Newsletter Editor - Keith Cook, keithcook@onthego.org
PEN Newsletter Assistant Editor - Laurie McTier, laurie@onthego.org
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