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This came in an e-newsletter from Ken Blanchard - use the format when training leadership - "If you are ready to start working on your legacy as a leader . . . explore leadership from four perspectives: The Heart—Motivation and Character The Head—Assumptions and Beliefs The Hands—Application and Behavior The Habits—Daily Recalibration of Commitment" Share a scripture foundation as a lead-in to each of the perspectives.
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Pastor's report on recent FBC Machesney Park prayer meeting"We never prayed the same way twice" >>>
The right place to start is with your own church pastor.
- Pray for your pastor and his family each day for a week.
- Let the pastor know your are praying for him and his family,
- Ask if there is any special needs that you should include in your time of prayer for him.
- Send him a note of appreciation through the mail.
- Ask the leadership of your church to participate in the Pastor Appreciation Month, October 2013. If you are looking for ideas about how to appreciate your pastor, you can go towww.namb.net/pastor-support/
You will be receiving more information soon as we unite to pray for additional pastors across our nation.Serving with joy,
CL & Ginger Chappell - National Prayer Consultants
chappellg@carolina.rr.com
Bob & Phyllis Foy
Take a stroll . . .
Unengaged, unreached people groups represent approximately 207 million people globally. Join
others in prayer for those untouched by the Gospel. Visitprayerthreads.imb.org and click on the UUPG Virtual Prayerwalk button. Check back often for updates.
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RESOURCE!
An Hour of Prayer (free sample)
by Ralph F. Wilson
A sample guide for prayer vigil participants.
Format:
Type: Article
TRAINING RESOURCE
If your church is planning a prayer vigil, you might find that some people will hesitate to commit themselves, because they feel inadequate at prayer. To allay those fears, a church can offer suggestions on what to do during a prayer vigil. Here are a few:
Mapping out the Hour
The following outline can help people fill their prayer time meaningfully. People's times may differ, but if they are given times and instructions such as these, they can get started.
Preparation (one minute): Ask God to help you spend this time profitably with him.
Confession (four minutes): Spend a moment going over with him recent sins that weigh on you. Ask for his cleansing, accept it by faith, and thank him for it.
Praise and thanksgiving (nine minutes): Sing your adoration to the Lord using a hymnal or choruses you know. As your heart begins to adore him, you'll sense his presence more deeply.
Petition (nine minutes): Pray about life's difficulties. Use this time to talk over with the Lord your own struggles.
Intercession (nine minutes): Pray for friends, loved ones, relatives, neighbors, fellow workers. Don't just read a list of names to God, but talk to him about their lives and needs.
Prayer for the church (twelve minutes): Pray for your pastor and church leaders. Intercede for the Sunday school children and the youth, the families, the singles, the widows, the sick, the shut-ins.
Prayer for the nation (eight minutes): Pray that God will guide our public officials and those who serve our communities. Pray for righteousness in government and a public policy sensitive to true justice.
Prayer for other nations (eight minutes): Pray for the work of Christ throughout the world. Intercede for unreached peoples. Pray for missionaries, for Third World pastors and churches, for the people of God who are suffering persecution. Pray for peace.
As people see how they can actually pray for an hour, they're more willing to risk it. After one successful experience, they'll be eager to sign up the next time.
Excerpted from our sister publication Leadership journal, © 1988 Christianity Today International or the author. For more articles like this, visit www.Leadershipjournal.net.
Author and evangelist Dennis Pethers urges Christians to take a “rooftop” view of their cities and towns to spark their outreach in a culture that increasingly is drifting from God.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) — Much like Peter’s rooftop vision experience, author and evangelist Dennis Pethers says a clearer understanding of God’s vision for a city and people can be found from a rooftop overview.
Pethers, from London, addressed the State Convention Summit at LifeWay Christian Resources in Nashville, Tenn., an annual meeting that brings discipleship directors and other network partners to LifeWay to engage in ministry dialog and collaboration.
As recounted in Acts 10, Peter went up on a rooftop in Joppa to pray, but what the apostle got was an attitude adjustment that rocked his world, Pethers said in the Dec. 6-8 summit’s group sessions.
In Peter’s vision, he saw all kinds of animals that, according to Jewish law, could not be eaten. Peter, as a good Jew, would know that condemnation would come upon him if he ate anything unclean, Pethers said.
In the vision, three times the voice of God told Peter to “kill and eat” and each time Peter said, “no.”
“Peter wouldn’t obey God because he wanted to be obedient to God,” Pethers said. “Doesn’t that sound confusing to you?”
Pethers, author of the “More to Life” line of evangelism resources, said people make the same kind of senseless decision as Peter.
“We look at our traditions and our customs, none of which may be bad in themselves, but then we miss it when God is telling us to do something different,” he said.
“But finally, Peter understood,” Pethers continued. “And because he understood and he encountered God on the rooftop, Peter was freed to go to the house of Cornelius to preach the Gospel to non-Jews.
“Without that encounter, he’d never have associated with a Gentile,” Pethers said. “Peter was out of his comfort zone, but he understood that God wants to have relationship with all people — even Gentiles.”
Using the metaphor of the rooftop, Pethers and LifeWay have designed a new resource named “The Rooftop.” Pethers has traveled throughout the United States and in several other countries where he and local ministry leaders literally go up on the rooftop of a building to get a view of a city or area and pray that God will give them a vision, like He did Peter, for God’s plan for the area and how they can be a part of it.
“Sometimes it takes getting on a rooftop to get a clear vision of what God wants to do,” Pethers said.
Summit participants were divided into groups sent to different areas of the LifeWay buildings to get a view of part of the city of Nashville. The activity gave them an idea of how a rooftop view would work in their own towns. As they looked out at the city views, they were asked to pray for the people represented in those areas who need to be reached with the Gospel.
A century ago, Pethers noted, about 94 percent of people in England were churchgoers, whereas today about 94 percent don’t attend church. He cautioned summit attendees that America is heading toward the same future if things don’t change immediately.
“Over decades in England, people have been sliding away from church and a belief in God,” Pethers said. “Generation after generation have stopped coming to church until now most people not only have never been to church, but they don’t know anyone else who has ever gone to church.”
Most of these people haven’t rejected Jesus or turned their backs
on Jesus, Pethers said. They just don’t know who He is.
“The real tragedy is that they don’t even know that they don’t know,” he said.
“It can’t be about what happens inside the church,” Pethers said. “What is more difficult: to get people outside the church interested in Jesus or to get the people inside the church interested enough in the people outside the church to tell them about Jesus? Unfortunately, it is much harder to get the people to go outside.”
Pethers admitted that it broke his heart to realize it’s more critical for Christians to be changed than for nonbelievers to be changed.
“If Christians change and gain confidence and power to share their stories of how God is working in their lives right now, not in the past, but right now, the nonbelievers would be taken care of,” he said.
Pethers cited four crucial avenues for helping equip churched people to go to the world:
– Sunday School, in training people to know how to go out and invest their lives in others.
– Small groups, where people share their life stories in small groups and gain the confidence to go out and share with people outside the church.
– Church starts. In England, Pethers observed, a church start is usually just a few people in a home sharing about their lives while in the United States, it’s more likely to be an actual new place.
– Collegiate ministry. “This is the most pivotal age for turning around the hemorrhage of people leaving the church,” Pethers said, “but also calling those who still have a memory of their parents or grandparents attending church to come back before they are lost for good.”
“We must get Jesus not just in the church, but also out into the world,” he said. “I believe that the measure of a church is not how many come, but how many people go.
“Revival used to look like this: How many people are lined up to get in the church? But true revival will look like this: How many people are lined up to leave?” he said. “I’m just afraid that our churches may be full of people who aren’t Christian, but they don’t know that they don’t know.”
Polly House writes for LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. LifeWay and Dennis Pethers will host a Nationwide Rooftop Experience Simulcast on Oct. 1, 2012. A website, LifeWay.com/TheRooftop, is being constructed and will offer information on how people and churches can join in the experience.
Senior Pastor / Church Planting Leader / 1Stone Campus Pastor
When Katherine and I moved to the Chicagoland area in 2003, we were completely unaware of what the Lord had in store for us. The ministry of Trinity International Baptist Mission started with just our small family – then just us and our toddler son, Christopher. Over the years, God has grown both our family and this ministry. We are now a family of five and overseeing a ministry team of more than a dozen full-time missionaries and interns. The little house church that began in 2005 has now multiplied into seven church plants and several related ministries. >>>
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Choose from a list of over 20 options led by various members of your IBSA Leadership Teams...
Practical, cutting-edge, useful training that is designed to equip and strengthen your church's ministries...
Prayer workshop for churches that believe in prayer!
The 2011 Engage schedule and locations:
·August 20, First Baptist Church, Woodlawn
·September 10, Second Baptist Church, Marion
·September 24, Broadview Missionary Baptist Church, Broadview
·October 8, Greater Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Rock Island
·October 15, First Baptist Church, Ramsey
This is an excellent way to get as many people as possible trained in as many areas of ministry as your church has.
Tons of free resources and materials will be handed out.
Begin recruiting a van full of folks and participate in this year's "ENGAGE CONFERENCE" in your area.
For more information, contact Cathy Waters at (217) 391-3124 or
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SUMMER SURFIN'
IBSA churches will receive promotional materials for the Illinois Missions Offering (IMO), an annual emphasis to support nearly 100 missionaries across the state. Suggested dates for this year's offering are Sept. 18-25, but churches are encouraged to plan a week of prayer and offering date that works best with their calendar.
The state-wide IMO goal is $430,000; last year, Illinois Baptists gave $390,229 to the IMO, $20,000 more than the previous year.
Gifts to this year's offering will be spent next year to make it possible to do more missions including supporting nearly 100 Illinois missionaries, starting 25 Southern Baptist churches, training 20,000 church leaders, initiating more and supporting 30 existing campus ministries, providing salary support for associational directors of missions and partnering with 33 local associations.
Promotional materials include a planning guide, posters, prayer guides, offering envelopes and a DVD with four videos that can be shown in church services or mission group meetings are being mailed to churches in August. Some of these materials are also available below.
For more information call (217) 391-3116 or email IMO@IBSA.org.
Why Support the Illinois Mission Offering? - IBSA Executive Director Nate Adams' response will help churches and church members answer this important question. More information
Changing Lives of Students - IBSA's many student conferences and camps, supported by gifts to the IMO, are an investment in the the lives of students as well as the future of Illinois Baptist churches. More information
Brooke and Emmaus Church - Brooke was a college student who had never been to church before an IBSA collegiate church planter, supported by the Illinois Mission Offering, knocked on the door of her dormitory room. More information
Erica and The Church in Dekalb - The story of Erica and her three Bibles shows the impact your gifts to the Illinois Mission Offering can have in changing lives. More information
Impact Communities for Christ
Churches Planting Churches
By Meredith Day, associate editor
DEKALB, Ill.
When Erica Kelley started attending
The Church in Dekalb (TCD), she thought she had Christianity figured out.
"At the beginning of the process, I thought I was a Christian. I wasn't," said Kelley, who attends the IBSA church plant started two years ago by Pastor Jamie Page. "Honestly, nobody had ever really taught me the Gospel...I didn't fully understand. I knew Jesus died for my sins, but I guess I hadn't fully let all of that in." Read more
When someone asks you for a donation, or to give a special offering, how do you decide whether to give, or how much to give? That's what I asked myself recently as we were preparing promotion materials for this year's Illinois Mission Offering. With all the good causes out there, and all the questionable ones, how do you decide when something or someone deserves your financial support?
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