Register Online for Coaching Here

Registration Fee:
The PennDel District is providing a partial scholarship to its pastors and leaders.

PennDel Cost: $150.00
Outside the PennDel District: $399.00

Fee includes registration, lunch and training materials.

Lodging: To reserve your room please contact Penny at 717.795.5921.

Bongiorno Conference Center
Guest Rooms per person, per night
(Breakfast & Dinner included)
Single   $80.00
Double $65.00
Triple    $50.00

Option to arrive the night before for just $20.00 more.

Schedule:

November 10, 2011
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM  Session 1
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM -  5:00 PM   Session 2

November 11, 2011
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM  Session 1
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM -  5:00 PM   Session 2

Venue:

Bongiorno Conference Center
430 Union Hall Road
Carlisle, PA 17013

Contact Information:
Eliza Delgado edelgado@ag.org
417.862.2781 ext 3508

Register Online for Coaching Here

Registration Fee:
The PennDel District is providing a full scholarships to its pastors and leaders.

Materials: $50.00 for training materials and lunch.

Outside the PennDel District the cost is $399. This fee includes training materials and lunch.

Lodging: To reserve your room please contact Penny at 717.795.5921.

Bongiorno Conference Center
Guest Rooms per person, per night
(Breakfast & Dinner included)
Single   $80.00
Double $65.00
Triple    $50.00

Option to arrive the night before for just $20.00 more.

Schedule:

September 20, 2011
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM  Session 1
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM -  5:00 PM   Session 2

September 21, 2011
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM  Session 1
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM -  5:00 PM   Session 2

Venue:

Bongiorno Conference Center
430 Union Hall Road
Carlisle, PA 17013

Register Online for Coaching Here

Registration Fee:

The PennDel District is providing a partial scholarship to its pastors and leaders.

PennDel Cost: $150.00
Outside the PennDel District: $399.00

Fee includes registration, lunch and training materials.

Lodging: To reserve your room please contact Penny at 717.795.5921.

Bongiorno Conference Center
Guest Rooms per person, per night
(Breakfast & Dinner included)
Single   $80.00
Double $65.00
Triple    $50.00

Option to arrive the night before for just $20.00 more.

Schedule:
September 22, 2011
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM  Session 1
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM -  5:00 PM   Session 2

September 23, 2011
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM  Session 1
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  Lunch
1:00 PM -  5:00 PM   Session 2

Venue:
Bongiorno Conference Center
430 Union Hall Road
Carlisle, PA 17013

It’s a beautiful thing when a healthy young couple plans carefully, saves money, and prepares well for a wonderful new child. Baby things are gathered, the financial cost is counted and prepared for, and the extended family is carefully informed.

But for whatever reason(s), babies don’t often come that way. Some come unplanned, even to the c couple who plans carefully. Some come when many things are not right and maybe even the parents did not prepare even a healthy parental relationship (marriage) for the new child to be born into.

But however they come, all children are a heritage of the Lord, and a blessing. As believers we celebrate the little life and rejoice that God sent them into the world to care for it and make it better, as Genesis tells us we were created to do. As we know from simple life experience that many who were “unplanned” by the parents, are nevertheless huge blessing to their world!

Maybe churches are like that too. Some are well-planned, beautifully orchestrated, and well put together. Baby things are gathered, and finances are well prepared. The extended family is carefully informed and everyone is happy about the birth. Right?

But then there are those churches that came about the wrong way. Not so well planned, without enough finances and a shock to many people around them.

Yet God uses them.

Acts has all kinds of examples. The Bereans studied, the Jerusalem church exploded, and so many others seemed so well done. Then along comes Ephesus, born out of a riot, lies about the founding Pastor, and all kinds of ugliness.

But each one, however they come, have potential to become a house of great repute, and a recycling station for hurting lives. They are God’s idea to rock the world, and create new disciples.

Outreach magazine last month quoted Ed Stetzer: The American Church is on birth control”. It is unnatural and wrong, Stetzer went on say, that most church do not procreate. He said they seem to worry too much about doing it right and making every effort a success.

I like his way of thinking. Maybe we should be more desperate about being barren, than we are about doing everything perfect.

- Posted by Gerry Stoltzfoos

Here are some findings: 83% of people in Northeast are lost. The population of these states (basically Pennsylvania and north) is 55 million. 83% of this population will be in Hell unless we do something. Currently, there is no growth in numbers of people in this area attending church, so it seems unlikely that we will reach them in my lifetime. They are likely to remain lost.

What will I say when I stand before Jesus, and we talk about the sad fact that in my lifetime, church attendance has slidden to far less than half the numbers that there were when I started ministry?

What will Pastor’s say when they stand in front of the One who gave everything to get them to eternal life? What might be the top ten list of excuses that we mumble out to “Him with whom we have to do”?

1. It was too hard.
2. I didn’t know what to do
3. I was busy doing church stuff
4. My church wasn’t yet large enough to plant another one
5. Really, there are lost people in America?
6. I didn’t have the money
7. My church needed me!
8. I tried to reach some, but I’m not very good at it.
9. That other church tried some stuff, but it was a joke.
10. My fellowship didn’t tell me what to do!

I am sick to death of my own stupid excuses. Jesus gave it all, so the least I can do is give more, work harder, stop doing stupid religious stuff, and resolve to flounder my way toward some kind of progress.

Any body with me?

- Posted by Gerry Stoltzfoos

• Bethany Beach/Ocean View, Delaware (Tim Satryan)
• Braddock (Brian Bolt) *
• Cranberry, Venango County (Chris Clark)
• Downingtown (Sam Masteller) *
• DuBois (Chris Clark)
• Elsmere Hispanic, Delaware (Tim Satryan)
• Fogalsville (Mark Caston)
• Frackville (Richard Earl)
• Gettysburg (Gerry Stoltzfoos) *
• Greensburg (Don Immel) *
• Hanover (Gerry Stoltzfoos)
• Inner city/South Side Wilmington, Delaware (Tim Satryan)
• Lewisburg (Paul Grabill)
• Marshall’s Creek (Jim Rugg)
• Milton (Jon Baker)
• New Castle/Minquadale, Delaware (Tim Satryan)
• Philadelphia (Dan Clark)
• Pottstown (Steve DeFrain)
• Southside Pittsburgh (Jeff Leake) *
• Three Springs (Dan Fox) *
• York (Gerry Stoltzfoos)

* Church Planter has been identified and in process.

The first week of November is less than 1 month away, and registration is open! You can go to www.freedomvalley.org to find the link on our home page, and register.

Penn-Del is offering scholarships for credential holders. You can pay online. After you have registered, order your boot camp materials and start the exciting journey toward planting a church.

We are encouraging church planters to bring whatever team that is being developed around you. If finances are a problem for you, call me personally (717-398-9033) for plans to help- such as a home opener to stay with, or a reduced registration fee if needed.

A few weeks ago, I did a church planting seminar for a couple of sections in the western part of the state (the sections led by Ken Martin and Christ Clark). At lunch afterward, a retired Pastor told me about “the good old days” where it was generally expected, he said that EVERY Bible college worth his salt planted a church! He said it was a standard expectation!

Ironically, those were also the days just before the Assemblies of God was named “the fastest growing denomination” in the country.

The old timer told me when he heard the seminar, that he hoped maybe it could happen again, where the AG became the aggressive church planting movement that it once was.

Maybe it could…

This is a follow up post about the need for a church plant in the Lower Anthracite Coal Region between Hazleton and Shamokin:

I was on my way to Bethlehem today and met Todd Dewire for breakfast. He pastors the Foursquare church in Frackville. There is a young man in Teen Challenge right now who I met this weekend and he is from Todd’s church.
Todd is a former missionary to Honduras, 50 years old. He has an older Pentecostal church of about 30 faithful saints, and is looking to open a church plant in the Frackville Mall. Sounds like a stretch, but his heart is right. He just needs resources.
Is this an answer to our prayers concerning the tremendous need for healthy churches in the small coal towns of this region? Is this an opportunity for selfless kingdom synergy?
I invited him to our Catalyst group since we had been on a prayer journey through that area. He will share his heart with our guys and we will pray for kingdom growth there.