Youth Workers
The Commune-ity Meeting – Texas
February 20-21, 2009
A youth ministry training event, sponsored by the Texas District Youth Ministries. This event is designed for Youth Pastors and Leaders, Youth Staff, older teens and young adults who are potential leaders.
DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT!!
Location:
Dallas Emanuel Pentecostal Church
Rev. Richard Flowers
1200 Poplar Dr., Mesquite, TX 75149
Because of the Times 2009 (BOTT) will begin tomorrow and run through Thursday, January 22nd. BOTT is very popular conference for ministers and their families. BOTT is hosted by the Pentecostal of Alexandria in Louisiana.
Thousands of ministers from numerous Apostolic organisations will gather at this conference. BOTT follows a basic format of about twelve or thirteen anointed speakers with diverse delivery methods. The theme for this years conference is II C 7 14, from the familiar passage in II Chronicles 7:14.
Speakers during the conference include: Host Pastor Anthony Mangun, General Superintendent Kenneth Haney of the United Pentecostal Church International, Assistant General Superintendent Randy Keyes, T. F. Tenney, Vesta Mangun, Terry Shock, Jeff Arnold, and others.
For more information click here.
Urshan Graduate School of Theology is hosting its annual symposium this week in cooperation with the Apostolic Leadership Summit. The theme is “Standing Together for Truth” emphasizing the strength that comes from unity. Leaders from the largest Apostolic organizations in the world, along with some of the greatest academic minds from these organizations, are coming together to discuss important topics related to ministry in the 21st century.
Biblical Interpretation, Counselling, Media, 21st Century Holiness and the Emergent Church are some of the presentations that will be given by the likes of David Bernard, Wayne Francis, Nathaniel Binion, Daniel Segraves, and Kent Curry.
You can check out this website for liveblogging from the event.
Want to know what you missed at General Conference? Not hard to find out in today’s Internet society. Below we present a list of everything you might possibly want to know about the conference that just concluded. Special thanks to Collideoscope, LookupSocial, UPCI, and others for blogging about the conference. We will update this post with more content as find it.
Miracle in the Foreign Missions Service
Official Conference Photo Galleries
Oh, and in case you missed it, here is a video of some the UPCI FMD brethren hamming it up.
The 84th General Conference of the UPCI begins today, and Greensboro, NC is hosting the Pentecostal conference. The Koury Convention Center and the Greensboro Coliseum will be filled with UPC Apostolics today through Sunday. You can learn more by visiting the official website of the General Conference. You can click here to catch some the services streamed live on the internet.
The NC District Superintendent, David Elms, announced in at his home church in Charlotte, NC one week ago Sunday morning that it was a possibility that Sarah Palin would speak at Thursday night’s service. Though it was still being discussed at that point, there was one confirmed report circulating the district that the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee would attend.
Daniel Mendoza of lookupsocial.com and part time contributor to AR has been working hard to see if this might really be a possibility. He says that as of last night, it was still unconfirmed that Sarah Palin would attend. While her website does mention that she will be in Greensboro that same day for a fundraiser, it remains to be seen whether she will attend. He speculated that her campaign may feel that they already have “our” vote and chose to turn their focus elsewhere.
Click Here to read the full story.
The Forum conference is scheduled to begin in just a few days. The Conference will be held September 26-27, 2008 at the Urshan Graduate School of Theology. St. Louis, Missouri.
The Forum, which is dubbed the “un-conference,’ is a unique approach to youth conferences. The format is different than most conferences. There will be many break out sessions and round table discussions about topics that might not normally come up at a conference. Click here to see a promotional video about the conference on YouTube.
Some of the topics this year include: Global Warming, Apostolics & Race, Politics, The Emerging Church, and many more.
To learn more about this conference, check out the website here: http://www.iqforum.net
An upcoming concert will feature contemporary christian music artist Russ Taff. The concert will also feature Apostolioc artists Mickey Mangun and Jonathan Moore. Both Mickey Mangun and Jonathan Moore are well known in Apostolic circles and have both recorded CD’s. The concert is being hosted by Abundant Life Center and will be held at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas on July 12th at 7pm.
Russ Taff is an American gospel singer who is originally from Farmersville, California. His contemporary Christian music is pop-rock, often with traditional Southern Gospel influences, and on his 1995 album, a contemporary country music bent. His initial work was as the lead singer for The Imperials. One of his best-known performances is the song “Praise The Lord”. He has also been a member of the Gaither Vocal Band, and toured with Bill Gaither in the Homecoming series. As a solo artist, Taff is known for the 1980s anthem “We Will Stand”.
More information about the concert can be found HERE and HERE.
There will be a group of Apostolics attending two meetings in Washington DC on Auguest 14, 2008. The first will be an Apostolic White House Briefing in the AM, and then an Israeli Embassy Briefing is being held in Jerusalem Hall of the Embassy in the afternoon of August 14, 2008. Apostolics interested in attending these two meetings need to get information in by August 1st.
This meetings are connected with the Apostolic Initiative which has already had several briefings at the White House in the last couple of years. According to their website, the vision of the Apostolic Initiative is, “To promote the Apostolic message and to represent in the halls of power the Apostolic groups and to see Apostolic youth given a vision and desire to one day hold key political office.”
Any Apostolic who wishes to attend will have to contact them to be put on a list. Because of White House security clearance, they will have to provide their personal information, such as: full name, address, social security number and email address. The White House briefing itself is free, but of course, there are expenses for travel and lodging.
The Apostolic Initiative is a representation of all Apostolic Pentecostal organizations in America. Rev. Stan Wachtstetter founded the Apostolic Coalition in the early 1980’s as President Reagan was coming into office and represented Apostolic’s through Bush. The Apostolic Initiative has continued that work since November 2005 under the leadership of Rev. Greg Harris.
Please check out their website for more information, or to contact them.
The Apostolic Ministerial Conference is a large annual conference that is not affiliated with any organization. The conference is well attended by conservative and independent Apostolics. You can learn more about the conference by visiting this website.
The Apostolic Ministerial Conference Steering Committee has just announced the lineup for the 2009 Conference (barring any unexpected developments):
Wednesday Night: Eld. David Smith
Thursday Morning: Eld. Rodney McDonald and Eld. Ray Brown
Thursday Night: Eld. Ben Weeks
Friday Morning: Eld. Chad Craig and Eld. Alan Picklesimer
Friday Night: Eld. Brad Lambeth
Please note that the conference will be held on different dates and days of the week next year, due to scheduling constraints at Opryland Hotel. It will take place on May 6-8, which will be a Wednesday thru Friday.
With summer just around the corner, many UPC districts are already beginning plans for their upcoming camp meetings. Camp meetings are a long standing tradition among Pentecostals. Oneness Pentecostals have been having camp meetings since the early 1900s.
The largest of the Oneness Pentecostal organizations, the UPCI, has over 40 camp meetings scheduled for this summer. The see a PDF file with all the UPCI camp meeting dates, locations, and speakers Click HERE.
Note: Camp Meeting information taken from the May issue of the Pentecostal Herald. To save the file to your computer, right click on link and click “save target as.”
Campus Ministry International and the Apostolic Church of Stillwater held an outdoor concert and student outreach event at Oklahoma State University over the weekend.
The concert featured Apostolic groups including the Ryan Larkins Band and Jonathan Horner and NRG Band. The event also included promotional prizes including mountain bikes, $500 in gift cards for gas and dinner at local restaurants to attract students.
Click here to read the full story.
The World Wide Pentecostal Fellowship began it’s first official conference April 1st, 2008. This three day event was held in Branson, MO.
“Stronger Together” was the theme of the conference and it focused on members of the ministry and their families. The convention center at the Hilton was almost full on the first evening of the conference.
WPF is a fellowship and not an organization. However, from the events of the past few days, it would be a fair assessment to say that the WPF is a very “organized” fellowship.
Dr. Fred Childs is an internationally recognized leadership and organizational authority, author, keynote and conference speaker, pastor and evangelist. His books on the topic of leadership and organization include: Leadership Essentials, The Upside Down Church, and Beyond Imagination.
Best of all… Dr. Childs is Apostolic.
Recently, GracePoint – the church where Dr. Childs pastors – has made several lessons from the Fast Forward series available online for free. Each lesson consists of downloadable MP3 files and a workbook in PDF format.
The GracePoint Leadership Insitute describes Fast Forward as “cutting edge Biblical truth combined with world class business and leadership concepts and tools in one life changing package”.
CLICK HERE to visit the GracePoint Leadership Institute on the web.
The Home Missions Division of the United Pentecostal Church International is hosting the “Direction ‘08″ Conference on May 20-23 in St. Louis. According the the “Director’s Communique” newsletter, this conference will be a combination of a Home Missions Training Seminar, Evangelist Training Seminar, Spanish Training Institute.
Scheduled speakers include: Kenneth Haney, Nathan Scoggins, Jerry Jones, Don Hanscom, Travis Miller, Errin Bryant, Sergio Vitanza, Rex Deckard, Albert Foster, Santos, Sosa, Mike Williams, Jeffery Ralston, David Tipton, Sonny Nugent, Aubrey Jayroe, and others.
According to the Home Missions Division website, financial assistance is available for registration and/or travel, lodging, and meal expenses for CFC sponsored Home Missionaries, district sponsored Home Missionaries, Metro Missionaries, Church-in-a-Day Pastors, daughter work planters, potential church planters, and Evangelists (assistance varies depending on status, etc. – see site for details).
For more information, or to register for “Direction ‘08″ visit the conference page on the HMD site HERE.
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