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Florida Church of God Ministries, Inc. Constant Comment
Newsletter November 16, 2009 |
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SYC 2009 For a complete registration packet, click here. For more information,
please visit www.floridayouth.net |
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The Boxing Ring By Dr. Greg Wiens These past
few weeks, I have talked about the training room and the waiting
room. Today I will talk about the boxing ring. In other
words: what to do as leaders at the times when we have conflict on the radar.
An older pastor once told me: "As a leader we can't always choose our
battles, but we can choose when and how we will face them". This
great advice has held true throughout my ministry. When
dealing with conflict, we first must look at Jesus. As you study
Jesus life, you quickly realize that He had many different strategies for
handling conflict. Throughout the gospels, Jesus was often in conflict
of one sort or another. At times, He was very aggressive and in the
face of the Pharisees; not willing to budge one bit (Matthew 23). Jesus was
also in a one-sided conflict when He threw the moneychangers out of the
Temple (Matthew 21.12-13). At other
times, Jesus avoided conflict completely by ignoring the issues. He
ignored Herod and refused to answer his questions (Luke 23.8-10). The
same can be said of the time He refused to answer Pilate (Matthew
27.12). In another occasion, Jesus didn't banter with the guards and would
not discuss the contentious issues with the Council of Elders (Luke
22.63-71). In another example, we see Him simply slipping away from of
a crowd rather than causing a problem (Luke 4.30). To read
the rest of the article, clickhere. |
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STATE YOUTH CONVENTION UPDATE: Adult Leaders' Conference We are 5 days away from the 2009
Florida Church of God State Youth Convention!! . There is STILL TIME if your youth group has not yet
registered.
We're expecting 800 students and leaders - make sure your group doesn't miss this
important youth event! Nov. 20-22, 2009 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, Orlando,
FL. Contact Bill Ferguson (billf@flcog.org,
786-521-1505) immediately if you'd like your group to attend. For more information go to the Florida Church of God Youth
Ministry website - www.floridayouth.net. Adult Leaders' Conference Saturday,
9:40 a.m. - 11: 25 a.m. This year at the 2009 SYC, the adult leaders' conference will
focus on "Best Practices for Effective
Student Ministry." I have assemble 5 student ministry
leaders who bring a level of passion and effectiveness to ministry with
youth. They will each share best practices, ideas and honest struggles
in ministry on one of the topics below. They will also ask participants
to share from their ministry experience. Hopefully, we will glean best
practices on each topic. This is going to be a great time to
cross-polinate in student ministry and develop networking relationships among
leaders. There will be a lot to take home from this time together.
The best practices gleaned from this time will be posted on
the resource page of the student ministry website, so that student
leaders around the state can use the ideas and practice in their local
ministry. Here are the topic tables and
leaders for this conference: - Leadership Development
- Jerry Roames, Village View Comm. Church, Summerfield - Student Ministry
Resources
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Mickey Taylor, Highpoint Church, Lake Wales - Discipleship: Small groups and one-on-one
mentoring - Deanon Grable, First Church, Venice - Getting Middle Schoolers
Talking
- Ryan Chaisson, Bayside, Tampa - A Student Ministry Communication
plan
- Patrick Nichman, Communications Dept., Warner University - Networking clusters and Leadership
Training
- Bill Ferguson, Florida Church of God Ministries See you at 2009 SYC!!!! |
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How To Select Your Board Members Conference Call with Greg Wiens, Ken Love and Al Ells December 9, 2009 @ 2:00 pm est - WebEx Video/Phone This one hour conference call will focus on practical steps in
selecting your church's Board members. Amongst many interesting and important
components to take in consideration, you will learn: á
What kinds of things should you look for in an Elder á How to assess each candidate
for the best traits The cost
of the call is $10, however, this call is free to Florida Church of God
Ministries' covenant churches. We would
like to integrate your questions for the call. In order to do that,
please email your questions here. To
register for the call and/or if you have additional questions, click here.
Please
send checks to: Florida Church of God Ministries, Inc. Attn: Conference Call - Board Member Selection 5826 Hoffner Ave. #1001 Orlando, FL 32822 To pay by
PayPal, please go to www.flcog.org and scroll down. |
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Intercessory
Prayer A group gathers weekly on Mondays @ the FLCOG Ministries
Resource Center for a time of prayer
for our pastors and churches. If you are interested in joining us for this time,
we will begin @ 10:30 AM and go until 11:30 AM. If you have specific prayer requests
for your church or pastor, please email those to prayer@flcog.org. Join us this week wherever you are as we pray for the
following "churches of the week": á Meadowland Worship Center, Sarasota á First Church of the Galilean, Sebring á South Bay COG, South Bay |
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Send Us Your News Do you have news or information you'd like to share? Send
your article and pictures (jpg format please) to office@flcog.org. Articles may
be subject to editing. |
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Inc. 5826 Hoffner Avenue, Suite 1001 Orlando, FL 32822 Phone: 407-737-7633 Fax: 407-737-0123 www.chog.org www.flcog.org en espanol
www.floridayouth.net |
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