New Book sent to UPCI Ministers

A new book entitled “Turning The World Upside Down” recently began to arrive in the mail boxes of ministers of the United Pentecostal Church International.  The 125 page book is a collaborative effort of ten leaders within the UPCI designed to share their insights about how to achieve the lofty goals of the Global Impact Initiative.

The General Superintendent of the UPCI, Rev. Kenneth Haney, is the predominant editor of this book. He not only chose the contributors and their subjects, he also wrote the opening chapter of the book.

Other contributors include: Robin Johnston, David Bernard, Jerry Jones, Jerry Dillon, Randy Keyes, Carlton Coon Sr, Bruce Howell, Paul Mooney, and Jack Cunningham.

Apostolic Leadership Expert Provides Free Online Resources

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.

UPCI Direction ‘08 Conference

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.

AR Interview: Jack Cunningham

The Apostolic Report conducted a Q&A session with the Director of Global Impact, Jack Cunningham. Global Impact is the new ten year initiative of the United Pentecostal Church International. Simply put, the goal of Global Impact is to double the United Pentecostal Church in one decade.

To achieve this goal, Global Impact presents a 10 year growth plan, which includes several different segments. One of the keys to Global Impact is a seven-percent annual growth rate. We asked Jack Cunningham a few questions about the procedure and progress of this new initiative.

To Learn more about Global Impact, and download the free resources, Click Here.

AR:  Tell us about the progress of Global Impact, and what has the response been so far?

Cunningham: The official kick-off date was January 1, 2008—a little less than two months ago. Even though Global Impact has been up-and-running a very short time, the number of districts, churches, and ministers already committed and involved is nothing short of astounding. I believe the response is proof that the United Pentecostal Church is hungry for revival and committed to impacting this generation with the Truth.

AR: One of the segments of Global Impact is the “My Family” segment, which asks families to start the first several weeks of the year by going through a weekly Home Bible study. Tell us more about this segment.

Global Tracts

Global tracts is a new website that features oneness tracts in twelve different languages. Global tracts is a collaborative effort between the General Home Missions Division, the General Foreign Missions Division, and the Ladies Ministries Division of the United Pentecostal Church International.

The site will be an on-going, concerted effort to provide as much printed material on God’s Word as possible, free of charge. Global tracts is sure to be a help to both North American Churches, and Foreign Missionaries alike.

Check out the website: GlobalTracts.com 

Nederland Church in a Day

The countdown began just minutes shy of 7:00 a.m. Friday morning. Nearly 200 volunteers were on hand, some armed with nail guns, buzzing circular saws and hammers. Their goal? A church building built in 24 hours.

It is to be the home for Pentecostals of Nederland, which is affiliated with the First United Pentecostal Church of Port Arthur, TX.

The Pentecostals of Nederland had previously been meeting in a chapel attached to the Pastor’s home for the past 18 months. The Pastor, Darryl McCoy, explained that his father, Pastor B.H McCoy,  purchased the 2.2-acre building site on Spurlock 30 years ago with a dream to build a church on the land.

With the help of Church in a Day mission program, a project of the United Pentecostal Church International, that dream became a reality Friday.

Church in a Day (CIAD) assists congregations in building new church buildings, all in a single day.  With CIAD, a church receives the equivalent of a $100,000 to $250,000 donation, and most importantly, goes from an empty lot to a service-ready sanctuary in just 24 hours. The completed church is equipped with a sound system, baptistery, pews, and landscaping, and it seats 125-150 people, putting a congregation years ahead.

• News Story about the Nederland, TX CIAD
• Video of Nederland CIAD
• Learn more about CIAD

“Lessons from the Field” Webcast

The General Home Mission director for the UPCI, Carlton Coon, Sr, just concluded a two part interview with two great leaders in Pentecost. In the two part series entitled “Lessons from the Field,” Carlton Coon interviewed G. A. Mangun and T. L. Craft. The two men share some of their life experiences.  

Carlton Coon, Sr. is the host of the Tuesday webcast entitled “HM Live.” HM live is a weekly webcast featuring a variety of subjects and preachers. For more information on the weekly show, visit this website. You can subscribe via podcasts, to either audio or video versions of the show. There is also a “low or “high” version of the show, depending upon your internet connection speed.  

Click below to watch the webcast: 

Part One:  Low/High
Part Two:  Low/High