Reports from PEN Newsletter January 2006


How To Direct or Host a Local Outreach Event

On The Go Ministries - Keith Cook Evangelistic Association invites you to an Outreach Training School on "How to Direct or Host a Local Outreach Event". This Outreach Training School will be held February 23-24, 2006 at the On The Go World Outreach Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

This training event is open to any evangelist, pastor, Christian leader, or youth leader who wants to learn how to have area-wide events that reach the masses for Christ. Practical instruction and relevant application will be given by instructors who actually help real evangelists and evangelistic pastors host and hold modern day festivals and crusades. Materials utilized in this training event include resources from Billy Graham, Luis Palau, Steve Wingfield, Keith Cook, and the Proclamation Evangelist Network resources. Some Scholarships are available.

(Courtesy: Keith Cook, On The Go Ministries, Keith Cook Evangelistic Association, Email Keith Cook. For More Information or directions on the Outreach Training School, call
On The Go at 615/299-0222, email info@onthego.org or visit our website at www.onthego.org.

Proclaiming Christ

The Steve Wingfield Evangelistic Association has scheduled three crusades for 2006 and is working toward adding one or two more in the near future.

This year's first event will take place from May 10-14 in Jennersville, Pennsylvania. The Steve Wingfield Festival at Jennersville will feature a blend of different musical styles over the five evenings and a wealth of activities for the youth of Chester County and surrounding area. Steve Wingfield will deliver a fresh and powerful message each night.

From June 21-25, the people of the Martinsburg, Pennsylvania area will experience Encounter Festival with Steve Wingfield on the grounds of North Bedford High School in Loysburg. Both Pennsylvania crusades are return invitations to communities that held Encounters in the late 1990's.

The third major outreach will be SWEA's first held in a state capital. First State Fallfest in Dover, Delaware will be held at the Delaware State University Football Arena from October 6-8.

(Courtesy: Greg Culbertson, Steve Wingfield Evangelistic Association, www.stevewingfield.org)

Simple Conversations Produce Eternal Results

Too often we measure conversions for success in evangelism, that is God's territory to change a heart. A more Biblical way to measure success is by simply have conversations with people about Christ and His truths. To review this article in it's entirety, please go to the following website: http://cmaresources.org/articles/conversations_not.asp.

(Courtesy: Ed Waken, Church Multiplication Associates, Email Ed Waken Ed Waken. For network of other online resources by CMA, please go to http://cmaresources.org)

Metro Manila Franklin Graham Festival

The Metro Manila Franklin Graham Festival is scheduled for February 2-5, 2006. It is time to see what God will do as His Word is proclaimed through song and the spoken word and then the preservation stage begins.

Scores are coming to Christ as several churches and individuals are being motivated by Operation Andrew with some being baptized. Clearly we are seeing a revival in evangelism here. This is the grace of God in operation and proclamation evangelism at its best (Eph. 4:11-12). An evangelist produces evangelism amongst Saints.

The vision of the MMFGF is that:
"The greatest number of people be MOBILIZED
to HEAR the GOSPEL and be invited to RESPOND,
to be DISCIPLED and INTEGRATED to the local church
to WORSHIP and SERVE the Lord"

Please intercede for Franklin Graham, the festival team members, local church leaders, and the thousands of individuals who will find new life through faith in Christ and repentance.

(Courtesy: Franklin Graham, Billy Graham Evangelsitic Association. For more information on MMFGF, visit www.mmfgf.org.)


Evangelists and Church Leaders Network Together

God is moving in great and mighty ways in the Philippines. On June 4-18, 2006 we will host the Asian Advanced Institute for Evangelists (AAIE). So far, we have received over 40 applicants from at least 9 countries.

Most of the applicants are from inside the 10/40 window, and have less then 2% Christian population. For more information on AAIE or to register for the institute, please visit www.heralds.org/aaie/apply.php.

We covet your prayers as we have a dire need for evangelistic organizations and senior evangelists to take a more proactive role in training and developing the evangelists of the twenty-first century. Many of these have wonderful access to the Church and the resources to bless it. It is good to have weeklong massive conferences like the Amsterdam conferences for evangelists. But it would be best to invest in smaller groups, like our Lord did, so that there will be a multiplied ongoing outreach instead of only one evangelist preaching. This is slow hard work, but will pay off on the long run.

It is impossible for a few evangelists to saturate all the major cities of the world with the gospel. Furthermore, just as much God gave "some pastors," He also gave "some evangelists" (Eph. 4:11), not "one" or a "few evangelists". But the gospel should be proclaimed and the harvest reaped through an army of evangelists. The evangelist is a never a substitute for the vibrant personal witness of every believer who knows the Lord.


(Courtesy: Kumar Abraham, Help for Christian Nationals, Email Kumar or visit
www.heralds.org)

Kenya Festival and Street Crusades

The Keith Cook Evangelistic Association and On The Go Ministries held a massive outreach effort in Metropolitan Nairobi, Kenya in conjunction with Shad Williams of Global Field Evangelism and Phil Eyster of Eagle Projects International. Together, the proclamation evangelists teams ministered in Festivals, Crusades, Street Meetings utilizing the Jesus Film, Open Air Meetings, and local Churches. The teams saw over 70,000 inquiries for Christ. Pray for massive follow-up and discipleship efforts that are currently underway.

Keith Cook and On The Go Ministries next international Festival and Campaign will be in Uganda, June 24-July 3, 2006. For more information on past and future events of On The Go Ministries, please email info@onthego.org. We still have a few openings on our Uganda Festival and Campaign Team, but we need to hear from you soon.

(Courtesy: Keith Cook, Keith Cook Evangelistic Association, On the Go Ministries, www.onthego.org. Email Keith Cook)

School of Discipleship

In 2003, the Bob Boyd Evangelistic Association Team traveled to Kenya to conduct an evangelism campaign. While there, they helped to start a School of Discipleship with Kenyan John Matei. The school began with about 200 children attending, and two and a half years later, John reports that the school has grown to over 10,000.

The BBEA has sent several teams back to Kenya to work with the School of Discipleship, and in a recent letter received from John Matei, it was reported that the School of Discipleship now has over 10,000 children and youths in ministry meeting weekly in various zones for discipleship class and more than 6,000 adults converts in different churches.

Please pray for John Matei and each young person and adult who is attending the School of Discipleship that God will continue to open doors for the Gospel to be shared and that more workers will be called out into the harvest.

(Courtesy: Bob Boyd, Bob Boyd Evangelistic Association, bbea@bobboyd.org. For more information on BBEA campaigns visit www.bobboyd.org)

Need Ideas for Reaching Seekers and Skeptics?

Here's an article from Rusty Wright's website to help equip believers in evangelism:

A Campus Atheist Finds What He Wants. A campus atheist enjoyed arguing with believers and mocking their faith. His friend's loving response plus some divine intervention prompted him to reconsider his skepticism. His exciting story holds important lessons for gently nudging your friends toward faith. http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/200502/200502_116_campus.cfm

(Courtesy: Rusty Wright, for more info, visit www.probe.org, or www.probe.org/Rusty. Website resources available free of charge. Please email Rusty for reprint permissions)

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, March 15 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.

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

ation 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 Wilkerson, laurie@onthego.org

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UPCOMING NOTABLE PROCLAMATION EVANGELISM EVENTS
January - March


February 2-5, 2006
Metro Manila Franklin Graham Festival
Rizal Park - Manila, Philippines
www.mmfgf.org

Chaplains Needed Through March 2006
Rapid Response Team
Louisiana and Mississippi
www.bgea.org/RapidResponse_VolunteerInfo.asp

February 1-4, 2006
Empowerment For Exploits Conference
Rev. Michael O. Amamieye
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
www.aggressivefaith.org

March 1-5, 2006
Costa Rica Festival
Luis Palau
San José, Costa Rica
www.festivalpalau.co.cr/
www.palau.org/lpea/resources/news.php?rowid=259


March 11-12, 2006
Celebration of Hope with Franklin Graham
New Orleans Arena - New Orleans, LA
www.bgea.org/COH_Index.asp