Proverbs 31:30 says “Charm can mislead and beauty soon fades.  The woman to be admired and praised is the woman who lives in the fear of God.”

Our princess theme is sure to be fun and insightful.  We all had dreams as a little girl of marrying prince charming.  Ministry can be royal and ordinary all at the same time.  Our weekend will hold many different thoughts of being a princess to the King of Kings.

Friday PM will be a fun night of ice breakers to get to know each other.
Saturday AM will feature Ruth Puleo leading us in communion as we ponder what we have been given to “bring to the King’s table.”
Saturday afternoon will feature a new workshop “Treat Your Feet.  You will give yourself a pedicure, receive a free file for your feet, products to try, and your own footbath pan.  (Please bring your own polish for your toenails.)
Saturday PM will be testimonies and “PennDel Has Talent.”  New to this year, it is a time to smile as you entertain us with fun skits and songs.  If you plan to participate, please email me (Marjie @penndel.org).  We need at least 10 participants.
Sunday AM will feature a panel of ministers wives of various ages.  Please email your topics/questions to me.

Please register early. If you have never attended a PennDel Ministers’ Wives retreat, you can use the enclosed $20 coupon to reduce the cost of your weekend.  There will be partial scholarships available on a first come, first serve basis.  Email or call to request a scholarship Marjie@penndel.org or 717-795-5921.  Please note:  there will be no refunds after September 1.

Please encourage your staff wives to join you (even if their husbands are not credentialed).  If they are not credentialed, they did not receive a brochure, so feel free to copy it for them.  However, this weekend is only for pastors’ wives, not lay church staff.  Encourage ministry wives in your town to attend with you.

Extra incentive: Receive a gift if you are a driver for another minister’s wife who is not from your church.  Ride together – that is part of the fun of the weekend!

Note to husbands: Please encourage the church board to provide the funds for your ministry wives.  This weekend is designed to pamper, renew, and refresh your diligent wife.

Any questions?? Call or email Marjie Tourville at 717-795-5921 or Marjie@penndel.org.  I’m so looking forward to being with you September 16-18, 2011.

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2011 HonorBound Men’s Conference

Trinity Assembly of God, Lutherville, Maryland

October 14-15, 2011

Click here to download the CONFERENCE BROCHURE

FRIDAY NIGHT: PURITY

Fred Stoeker: Every Man’s Battle

SATURDAY MORNING: PRIORITIES

Gordon McDonald: When Men Think Private Thoughts

Brian Pruitt: The Eight Mirrors of a Man

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: POWER

Johnny Jernigan: City Church of Mobile

The Katinas will be leading worship for the weekend.

November 12 & 13, 2010

Hershey Lodge, Hershey, PA

Guests – Liz Curtis Higgs, Kathy Wampler and Kim Walker

Conference T-shirt sale – preorder your shirts on-line or by mail when registering.  Pick up your order at our table.

Conference Schedule

Evening of Prayer

Thursday  7 – 9 pm

Refresh & Refuel Sessions

Friday 9 – 11 am (Select one)

“Walking with Those Who Have Suffered from Sexual Abuse” – Dr. Diane Langberg

“Journey to Wholeness”  – Carol Showalter & Maggie Davis

“Personality Puzzle” – Angela Coon

Conference Sessions

Friday  1 pm & 7 pm*

Saturday  9:30 am

Special note:  After the Friday night session and altar time, Kim Walker will lead us in a time of “Soaking in His Presence through Worship” for those that wish to remain.

Hershey Lodging

$158.73 per night - Price increased due to hotel taxes

More Information

www.penndelwomenofpurpose.org and www.hersheyPA.com

Jessie@penndelwomenofpurpose.org or call 724-654-2258

Equip Conference

Workshops for Women at the Equip Conference – East and West

Topic: “Ministering to Today’s Woman”

Monroeville – September 25

Sue Willis teaching – AM & PM  Workshops
Reading – October 2

Christine Kreisher  – AM Workshop
Jacquie McCauslin  – PM Workshop

What if someone offered the new Churchmaster 2010.  This tool of tools could activate the potential of church members into effective ministry.  It would generate creativity, organization and discipline among teens.  It would captivate and excite kids.  It would begin and maintain the process of leadership propagation through mentoring and discipleship.   It would sharpen and shape men into leadership roles.  It would appeal to all shapes, sizes and interests.  And yes, all from this one universal tool.  It could be formed and molded to do anything you need it to do. All you need to do was to open it up and select a different tool from its assorted collection.  If you need something different still, just select another one of its tools.  Would you want it in the toolbox of your church?  It’s already here.  It’s Royal Rangers.

There are several major misnomers about Royal Rangers that hide the power it holds for every church.  Some think of it as a camping only program.  Others think of it as a little boys program.  Some think it’s outdated.  Some say it’s too expensive.  Some say it takes to many leaders to run.  These are all very incorrect.  We are a mentoring ministry of future men with many tools and options at your disposal.  We have something for every boy, teen and adult man of every age and background.  Yes, many of our activities and merits center around the outdoors.  We’d be fools not to.  Doctor James Dobson says it very well in his book Bringing up boys, “Boys like things bright, loud, and unusual”.  We never grow out of that.  And a lot of those bright, loud and unusual things are found in the outdoors and in nature.  However, just as many bright, loud and unusual things can be found in other places.  What’s often overlooked is the availability of curriculum in Royal Rangers that deals in technical fields, sports, and trade fields.  If a man wants to minister to boys, loves computers, and doesn’t like Camping, Royal Rangers is still for him.  You have someone skilled in a profession like an electrician, mechanic, plumber, or carpenter? These men can make an impact in young lives through Royal Rangers as well.  How about a sports coach, an artist, or a gardener?  There’s something for them also.  The only limitations I’ve found for Royal Rangers in a church is self imposed.  Usually it is a lack of knowledge or creativity.

Check it out.  You don’t need to go camping, hiking or fishing to have a successful Royal Rangers ministry.  You need to look at what the whole collection of tools can do.  There is no “one tool” that will replace all the others.  The tools you use all depends on what you are trying to build and the condition of the raw materials when you start.  It’s all about mentoring boys and men.  Our goal as mentors is to build Godly men.  That is our finished product – yet each one will be unique.  Our raw materials are boys and they are also unique individuals.  Because we are working with thousands of different types of boys, there isn’t just one tool (camping) that will work.  We need a complete toolbox.  We don’t throw the first tool away, it still works well – but we add to our tool box.  The Royal Rangers has continually added to their toolbox.  Use the tools Royal Rangers offers and see what it can build in your church.  If you want to see how, our staff would be glad to show you.

Coming Events in 2010:

You’ve heard it said, “you can’t judge a book by its cover.”  It doesn’t end there.   I’ve discovered as well that you can’t judge a golf club by a golf score and you can’t judge a tool by the end product it produces.   Listen, just because you got a golf club on sale that originally goes for $300 doesn’t mean your score is going to improve that much.   Really?   You think such an inanimate object is going to have that kind of affect? Sure it can give some assistance to progress, but not enough to get you from a 120 to below 80 on the course.

Let’s face it, we are infatuated with tools, resources and any new gadget.  We see them and just imagine what we could do with them.   I’m right there.  My favorite stores are Best Buy, Ace and Radio Shack.  Why, because I like tools, gismos and gadgets.    But just as a golf club doesn’t guarantee a better score, a tool cannot guarantee a better product.   It will assist, but it will not produce.   The production is still up to the one utilizing the apparatus.   Before Craftsman was a tool, it was a person and Skil was what he had, not what he used.

The Seven Project is a tool that was brought to our District Youth Ministries in 2004.   As any tool it carries great potential.   It is a piece of equipment designed to help build a bridge from the local church to the public school.   This tool will be on display at this year’s Minister’s Summit taking place May 5th in Camp Hill High School.  Pastors and Leaders are invited to be a part of this school assembly and @Night outreach.   Space is limited for the daytime assembly.   If you are interested in attending the school assembly during the afternoon of May 5^th or would like more information, please contact Jason@7project.org or call 717-645-5467.   The evening event is open to all.   It’s just a tool, but like any tool in the right hands, it carries great potential for building student’s hope and God’s Kingdom.

Mike has served as a church planter extraordinaire!  During his first term he concentrated on planting the church where it didn’t exist in the North District.  He held open air crusades, did radio work, children’s ministries, built churches and started a Bible School.  The Lord enabled them to plant churches in the capital cities and other areas.  25 main churches and 25 daughter churches have been planted with one of the church surpassing 1,000 in attendance.  More recently, a TV ministry has been added in the area to continue reaching lost people.

After 15 years of ministry in the North District, Mike relocated to the Plains of the Caribbean and conducted 30 open air crusades.  A national pastor partnered with Mike and the Lord began an intense ministry of planting over 20 churches in little more than 6 years.  All of this was accomplished in an area identified as a “red zone” – a place with communist guerrilla activity.

A number of years were spent in the Western District and then in Medellin, Antioquia where he concluded his ministry.  Medellin is known for being the drug capitol of the world, violence and the “second Vatican.”  More than 50 churches were planted in the Western District under his guidance and ministry.

Mike and Aldona have helped with radio work, open air crusades, remodeling buildings for new church plants, mentoring, teaching seminars and preaching.  Another important ministry has been to help raise up the Foundation, “Hands Reaching Out” that not only ministers to the poor but has a training ministry to keep people from Drug addiction, HIV/AIDs, and other problems. This ministry opened doors to plant churches.  9 Boot Camps to train the Colombian church pastors to plant churches were an integral part of the ministry during these last years.

Mike and Aldona wish to thank all the pastors, churches, and individuals that have faithfully supported their work as missionaries to Colombia.  Because of their dedicated ministry, hundreds of churches have been planted,  the gospel is being preached, and lost people have come to know Christ.  Thank you, Mike and Aldonna, for your obedience to God’s call!

AMENT, Jason (Licensed) – To Northwest

BENNETT, Homer D (Ordained) – To Potomac

BOUSA, Jess J (Licensed) – To Potomac

HOLLEN, Nathan (Licensed) – To Northern New England

KOLLAR, Nathan (Licensed) – To Southern California

LINDSAY, Michael (Licensed) – To Ohio

STREET, Jack (Licensed) – To Potomac

VISSER, Virginia (Licensed) – To Michigan

Ministers Transferring In:

BUCHANAN, Charissa A (Certified) – From Ohio

CLAFIN, Ken (Ordained) – From Montana

DECAN, David (Ordained) – From Montana

HULETT JR, Robert (Ordained) – From New York

LEACH, Brad (Ordained) – From Michigan

LECOCQ, Anthony J (Licensed) – From Southern Missouri

MCELHANEY, Steven D (Licensed) – From Georgia

Church Transitions:

New and Upgraded Credentials:

Licensed:

Dennis Mark Bupp

William Whisel

Ordained:

Corbyn M Bartels

William C Cross

Jeffrey L Dean

Albert DiSalvatore

Ashley M Dukeman

Kevin Folk

Courtney L Good

Christopher D Griffin

Daniel C Haas

Sean A Hinton

Scott M Kramer

Jesse A Ledbetter

Daniel W Mortensen

Kwaku Owusu-Boachie

James D Paisley

John Rehill

Rickey K Roth Jr

Philip D Sinclair

Jonathan D Srock

Steven J Trader

Mark P Tuttle

Elizabeth A Wirtz

Helping You Answer GOD’S CALL

The network secretary’s office is here to assist you in “Answering God’s Call!”  If you have questions on the credentialing process, please go to  http://penndel.org/credentialing and access credentialing information under the heading, Ministers Resources.  Here you will discover the process, qualifications, educational requirements, and the steps to receiving a credential.  Send an email from the page to receive answers to your questions.

I must say, I agree.

However, such a statement invites many questions, including the structure of such a local church, the means by which it gives hope to the world, and, maybe most importantly, the kind of leadership we recognize and train for the sake of the local church.

Most leadership training tends to focus on the pastoral gift/office, as well it should.  The vast majority of credentialed local church leaders are pastors, or under shepherds of the Chief Shepherd.

But are they the only ones?

Well, no.  In fact, it has become a recent trend for the word “pastor” to be used for absolutely anyone in credentialed ministry, as a substitute for the old word, “reverend.”  But not everyone in credentialed ministry is called or gifted to be a pastor.

Ephesians 4:11 tells us that the Master Carpenter has given five (some translators say four, combining the last two) leadership gifts to the Church, that is, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.

The last three seem to be the least controversial, although it seems that some “evangelists” are more itinerant prophets or teachers than they are gifted soul-winners and equippers of the same.

The most controversial are apostles and prophets.  Are there apostles and prophets today?  I would say absolutely yes, but we are having great difficulty defining them.

The harder of the two to define is probably the gift of apostle.  Some seem to define it as simply someone who is a great Christian leader in the church or in the world.  It has to be more specific than that.  Some seem to equate it with the traditional office of ‘bishop,’ but the New Testament seems to indicate it to be more relational than hierarchical or ruling.

Here is my short, thumbnail list of what I believe are biblical criteria for ‘continuing (those since the foundational twelve) apostles’:

They must be sent. The word “apostle” simply means ‘sent one.’  The foundational

Twelve and Paul (Gal. 1:1) were sent by the Master himself.  Subsequent ones were also sent by the Church.  Probably the clearest example of this today are those missionaries who are called and sent to pioneer in unreached territories for the Kingdom (Rom. 15:20).

They must be Spirit-anointed.  Not just led by the Spirit, but used in supernatural ways (2 Cor. 12:12).  Signs and wonders are part of Kingdom expansion (Mark 16:20, Acts 2:43).

They think in strategic terms.  Not only do they lay a foundation in new territory for others to build upon (1 Cor. 3:13), relationally they become spiritual fathers (1 Cor. 4:14-15), training up leaders to replace themselves.

• 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 (Jon Baker)
• 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.

20/20 PLAN  

• Our goal is to plant 20 churches with an initial investment of $20,000.00 each.     
• PennDel has committed the first $200,000.00 for the Church Planting Fund.
• Please partner with us as we plant many more churches in PennDel through the Church Planting Fund. 

20/20 PLAN

• INVEST THROUGH THE 20/20 CHURCH PLANTING FUND

Provide funding up to $20,000.00 as part of the 20/20 Church Planting Fund.

• PAY IT FORWARD

50% of the new church’s tithe will be used to invest into new church plants by replenishing the 20/20 Church Planting  Fund until the original investment is paid forward. 

• MULTIPLICATION PARTNERS

Once the original investment has been replenished in the 20/20 Church Planting Fund, the newly planted church will continue to invest 1% of their annual income in the 20/20 Church Planting Fund until they plant a church as a parent.