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2007 PEN eSchool - Back
to Back with the Billy Graham School of Evangelism
Dear PEN Evangelists:
As you know in the past several years the PEN Exec Committee
has moved toward a collaborative eSchool such as the one we did
last year with NGA in Portland. We are excited to announce
preliminary details or a school in collaboration with the BGEA
(Billy Graham Evangelistic Associatoin) in the fall of 2007.
This will be a chance not only for PEN members to attend one of
the premier schools of evangelism in the nation but also a chance
for us to spend an extra day together.
If any of you have been to a BGEA School of Evangelism you know
how helpful they are. BGEA has been very willing and cooperative
with us giving input to the School and also giving us the opportunity
to extend their school for the PEN members by a day. We are not
sure of all of the details quite yet but we encourage you to mark
off the time:
November 27-29, 2007 for this special opportunity. BGEA
has made available scholarships which we will get to you in more
details soon.
Sincerely,
Rev. Dallas C.Anderson
Director of Proclamation Ministries Billy Graham Center
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Hundreds Drawn to NGA Innovative
Evangelism Conference
Nearly 300 men and women from around the world came to Portland,
Oregon, for Luis Palau's Next Generation Alliance first-time Innovative
Evangelism Conference October 24-27, 2006. "It was
truly amazing to watch the networking that happened, new friendships
were established, and plans were made for future evangelistic
events," said conference coordinator Carey Dow. "From
Australia, France, Canada, India, and Malaysia to our neighbors
in Portland, people came from all over the world for the same
purpose: to increase our reach and impact for Jesus Christ.
The conference included: Moving times of worship and dynamic
speakers including Luis Palau, bestselling author Donald Miller,
Dare 2 Share founder Greg Stier, and youth evangelist Jose Zayas'
Workshops addressing issues including balancing family with ministry,
international opportunities with NGA, principles of fundraising,
and many others. We also had working lunches and dinners with
speakers who were both practical and inspiring including Mark
Mittelberg and Joan Cook.
Shane Ginn and Brad Buchanan traveled from Australia for the
conference. They came seeking insights for church planning and
evangelism. "We came here to get and take back as much information
as possible." Both work with youth for churches in Australia.
Buchanan, who planted a church, said, "We want to connect
the church community with the local community. I'm doing the groundwork
of establishing relationships so that when accomplished evangelists
come, they're readily welcomed in our area."
Due to the great response, NGA is planning another conference
for the fall 2008.
(Courtesy Carey Dow, Next Generation Alliance, Luis Palau Evangelistic
Assoc. To listen to audio recordings of conference workshops or
for more information on the conference visit visit the NGA
website or email carey.dow@palau.org
or call 1-888-877-5847).
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Harvest Thiruvallur - NGA Evangelists
head back to India
Preparations for Harvest Thiruvallur began 20 years ago with
the salvation of Muthu Mayandy at a crusade put on by Dr. Bill
Thomas. Muthu and Dr. Bill Thomas have kept in touch and have
been dreaming about teaming up in a big way to reach India. This
past February, eleven evangelistic teams went to the district
of Madurai in southern India: with still more people to reach,
NGA, the Bill Thomas Evangelistic Association, Passion 4 People
International and Muthu's New Life Ministries are working together
to present Harvest Thiruvallur in February 2007.
Bill Thomas, a partner evangelist with the Next Generation Alliance,
will be conducting the main crusade in Tiruvallur February
15-18. This will be preceded by 11 satellite crusades with
as many other NGA evangelists, February 8-13. The area
has 4 million people, with many social, economic, and spiritual
needs. Please be much in prayer for the evangelists and their
teams, that God will give them safe travel, and great blessings
in ministry.
NGA will be helping to coordinate 11 evangelistic teams as they
reach out to the people in the district of Thiruvallur through
service projects, trips to schools and orphanages, and special
affinity events for pastors, women and youth. Please pray for
these teams as they make their preparations, and pray for the
people of India - that their hearts would be open when the teams
head there in February.
Pray for the following evangelists and their team members as
they travel abroad and minister in India: Andrew Palau - Palau
Association; Andrew Friesen - World Gospel Explosion; Bill Thomas
- Bill Thomas Evangelistic Assoc.; Brad Butcher - Passion 4 People;
Christian Holst - Drenched Ministries/Passion 4 People; Carter
Scheel - Reid Saunders Evangelistic Assoc.; Keith Cook - On The
Go Ministries/Keith Cook Evangelistic Assoc.; Kumar Abraham -
Good News Evangelistic Assoc.; Mike Parker - All Nations Ministiries;
PJ Meduri - PJ Meduri Ministires; Reid Saunders - Reid Saunders
Evangelistic Assoc.;
Rob Welch - For His Glory Ministries.
(Courtesy Bill Thomas, Bill Thomas Evangelistic Assoc. For more
information, email bill.thomas@wanadoo.fr
or visit the website.
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Congratulations
The PEN Executive Committee and Next Generation Alliance Evangelists
would like to congratulate Rev. Keith Cook for his election as
President of the Fellowship of Tennessee Evangelists. Keith serves
with the Keith Cook Evangelistic Association and On The Go Ministries.
He is also an NGA Evangelist and serves on the PEN Executive Committee.
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Burundi's President calls
people to Repent an Seek God
I have just come here from Burundi after a successful preaching
opportunity. The President of Burundi, a devout Christian, organized
a massive festival at the national stadium to give thanks for
13 years of peace in his land. He invited me and three other speakers
to address his nation. What a powerful time we had! More than
30,000 people gathered each day to celebrate with singing, dancing
and listening to the preaching of God's Word.
On the day that I preached more than 500 came forward to receive
Christ. Several thousands also gave their lives when the other
speakers issued a call to follow Christ. In all, it was glorious
to see a nation bow their knees before God and seek his face.
Leading them at the forefront was the President and his wife.
The President and a choir made up of soldiers, cabinet and parliament
members led in worship each day, his 3 year old son, also joined
him on one occasion. It was a sight to behold, the President and
his tiny tot singing praises to God. I observed the audience,
young boys and girls, soldiers, police men, they were smiling
ear to ear with great joy and dancing along with the President.
They had never seen such a sight, the President ministering to
them. What a sight to behold the President of a nation in Africa
leading their people in worship of God! Hallelujah!! On the final
day he knelt on the platform and led his people in prayer, it
was a prayer of confession and thanksgiving.
(Courtesy: Wesley Paul, Wesley Paul International Ministries.
For more information on African Festivals, please contact Wesley
Paul at wesleypaul@juno.com
or 1-859-260-8800).
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Need for Evangelists in
Africa
The Kisumu Great Festival will be held in Kenya on July 26-29th.
One week prior to the Festival (July 20-22) smaller festivals
will take place in satellite cities. Wesley Paul International
Ministries would like to invite PEN and NGA evangelists to join
in this great harvest in Kenya. Contact Cost for the mission including
the festival cost, travel, lodging, etc will be $3,000.
We have also been invited to Lusaka, Zambia to conduct a festival
in Lusaka October 4-7. A week prior to this, satellite
festivals will take place in 10 cities. Evangelists are needed
to help with this mission. Cost for this mission including satellite
festival, travel, lodging, etc will be $4,000.
(Courtesy: Wesley Paul, Wesley Paul International Ministries.
For more information on African Festivals, please contact Wesley
Paul at wesleypaul@juno.com
or 1-859-260-8800).
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Update From the Field
We have just returned from Sydney this past week. We were called
in to serve the New South Wales Tamil Church. God answered your
prayer for our preparation to speak on the topic, "Sri Lankan
Culture & Biblical Values." I led six sessions with college
and working young adults while Dileeni spoke to the women and
helped with the children.
As a result of coming to Australia, God seems to be binding us
back with the Sri Lankan culture. Our family will lead a local
Tamil congregation in worship and in the word on Jan 28th evening.
This will be a first time experience for us and we would appreciate
prayer for effective ministry.
(Courtesy: Kumar Abraham, Good News Evangelistic Assoc. For more
information on upcoming events, please visit Kumar's website
or http://heralds.org/
or email kumar@heralds.org).
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People of Persuasion: Evangelism
and the Pentecostal/Charismatic Revival
Only the coming of the power of the Holy Spirit to those who
are witnesses for Christ makes the work of evangelism possible.
Evangelism has been the first priority from the very outset of
the modern pentecostal/Charismatic movement. The historical self-image
in the "Pentecostal/Charismatic story" is that we were
raised up by God to be an instrument of revival and evangelism
in the world.
(Courtesy: Grant McClung, Church of God Theological Seminary
and International Executive Council. For more information about
this article, email gmeuro@earthlink.net
or visit http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/perspectives/445.
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Need Ideas for Reaching
Seekers and Skeptics?
Here's a short outreach article from Rusty Wright's website.
It illustrates how you can tap secular news to tactfully communicate
Christ:
A
Little "Kramer" in All of Us? Comedian Michael Richards
- "Kramer" on TV's Seinfeld - saw his racist tirade
at African-American hecklers ignite a firestorm. Lots of people
have dark sides. Maybe everyone. Maybe you. I do. Click on this
link
to view the full article.
(Courtesy: Rusty Wright, For more information, visit www.probe.org/Rusty
Website resources available free of charge. Please email Rusty
Wright for reprint permissions.)
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Upcoming Notable Proclamation Evangelism Events
(February - April 2007)
February 8-16
Harvest Thiruvallur - NGA Evangelists in India
NGA Evangelists include: Bill Thomas, Andrew Palau, Andrew Friesen,
Brad Butcher, Christian Holst, Carter Scheel, Keith Cook, Kumar
Abraham, Mike Parker, PJ Meduri, Reid Saunders, Rob Welch
Visit the website
February 12-24, 2007
Sri Lanka Outreach
Kumar Abraham
Visit the website
February 14-18, 2007 - Mission to Uganda
February 21-25, 2007 - Mission to Kenya
Bishop Michael O. Amamieye
www.aggressivefaith.org
March 1-6, 2007
Women On The Go with Joan Cook
Women's Evangelism Conference
Montego Bay, Jamaica
www.onthego.org
March 3-4, 2007
Tampa Bay Festival with Luis Palau
Tampa, FL
www.tampabayfestival.org
March 13-18, 2007
Mission To Sierra Leone
March 20-25, 2007
Mission To Niger Republic, Niamey & Maradi
March 27-31, 2007
Mission To Mali
Bishop Michael O. Amamieye
www.aggressivefaith.org
April 17-19, 2007
International Congress on Preaching
Cambridge, England
Jerry Drace
jdeainc@juno.com
April 22-25, 2007
Area wide Festival
Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Jerry Drace
www.jdea.tn.org
www.HopefortheHome.org
May 19-20, 2007
Luis Palau Nashville CityFest
Nashville, TN
www.nashvillecityfest.com
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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, April 11,
2007 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
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