Engel Scale

The Engel Scale of Evangelism

"Dads, Dogs, and Digs Outreach" By: Ricky Echeona

"Dads, Dogs, and Digs Outreach" By: Ricky Echeona

• Outreach's Target Audience: husbands, fathers, and adult males with influence in their family.
• Purpose: to build relationships between men in the community.
• This will be a pilot outreach, eventually leading to meetings more often.
• What will the outreach look like? Goal of the outreach: 
• Men would meet for a volleyball tournament….but the overall goal is to coach men on building relationship and get to know them.
• How would men hear about it?
• Would like men from the church to reach out to unsaved friends
• Engage the community through community advertisements.
• "Meet, Greet, Repeat"
• Come to event, sign up for a team, greet with male leaders from the church who are team captains, play, and meet again in future.
• Ultimate goal is to involve the men who participate again in the future. Would like to meet for a movie night at the church to see "Courageous" and encourage men to be strong men of God in their families.
• Cost:
• Food (estimating around 30 men in attendance) - $250
• Park rental fee - $400
• Advertisement (flyers and newspaper) - $250
• Volleyball equipment - $100

Beyond the Soiled Curtain Presentation

I did my presentation tonight on Beyond the Soiled Curtain, a book by David and Beth Grant. Here is a copy of my presentation: 

Pastor Jimmie Rivera

Pastor Jimmie Rivera

610-972-8887

pastorjim@rcn.com

301 Ridge Ave.

Allentown, PA

18103

• David Wilkerson saved in North Philly
• Fell into drugs at 9, became addicted
• Used to rob/steal for his next fix
• Was tortuned by drug dealers for 11 hours then got away
• Pastor at City Limits AG in Allentown, PA
• Outreach-oriented church
• How do you keep church outside focused?
• 3 parts:
• Salvation
• Equip
• Deploy
• Every 3 month the church does something to send people out
• Rescue the lost, equip the found, and deploy the troops
• You have to minster to the poor and share love with them
• Help people until they can help themselves regarding welfare
• Hannah/Timothy Houses?
• Timothy House used to be a crackhouse, but is now converted to a halfway house
• Second phase houses
• Take people in who were just out of programs…(like a halfway house)
• Christmas outreach
• 75 Christmas tree for free every year
• 19 years
• Each tree has a tag attached that says "this tree, like Christ, is free; all you have to do is accept it"
• Ask WalMart/local community stores if they have anything that they are going to throw out/want to donate
• Last year gave away 2,500 trees in Allentown, Brooklyn, and Greensboro, NC
• Involve the local community
• "If everyone does a little, then no one has to do a lot."
• Has a gym in his church
• Farmer's Market
• Women gave an acre of land to Pastor Jim for a farmer's market
• Make connections with local food bank and they will give free food
• Evangelism outreach in teams of 4…divide city by wards
• 1000 water bottles with ice in the heat of the day mid-summer for a week at a time, then he baptizes people in street af the end of the week
• 132 water baptisms last year
• mobile tank that he buys
• people want to SEE
• Food bank open every thursday…free food, don't force them to come to church
• Works with police to turn in guns
• Hope In The Valley
• Help
• Our
• People
• Evangelize
• When he got saved he got talking and never stopped
• What about money?
• faith has to kick in when it comes to money
• find people who believe in you and you'll get money
• Coffee House is called "Halle-BREW-ya"
• Gave his new shoes to a man who was in a funeral home, was going to be cremated, and was about to go into the fire without shoes
• He told the mayor of Allentown that he wanted to be the Pastor of Allentown.
• Started an Arabic church
• "Make God big, stop making Him so small."
• He strives to be relational and intentional with people.
• Urban Ministry
• Urban Lift: when you get someone off of the streets, then they move away/leave your church in pursuit of a better life
• If you don't heal from this and take it personally, it can potentially ruin your ministry
• Love everyone, but look for those who will reproduce.
• Suburban churches become feeder units for Urban Churches. If the suburban church do things correctly, they will in return sew into the Urban churches/urban ministries.
• Jihari Window
• 1. Arena Me
• The you that people see
• How you want to be seen
• 2. Never See
• The me I never want you to see
• 3. Blind Spot Me
• When everyone else can see something, but you can't
• You won't see it until you deal with the Never See Me
• 4. Soul Print
• What God intended you to be
• "Relationships are your greatest commodity."
• "If you want to be a minister, you have to love people."

Gerry Stoltzfoos Interview

Gerry Stoltzfoos

717-398-9033

g@freedomvalley.org

• Now a pastor ar a Freedom Valley Church in Gettysburg, PA
• Grew up in Amish lancaster
• Left Amish church for a Pentecostal one who, unlike Amish church, accepted and loved everyone passionately.
• Grew close with the pastor, Omar, who is 10 years older
• Started as youth pastor under his leadership, then a senior pastor after Omar left to be in World Missions
• Omar is now the head of World Missions Eurasia for the AG
• "The Bible teaches us to love people that we don't normally like."
• Was fired and devastated by it…told he was fired because he was too young, but later found out that he was fired because people in the church started a rumor about him to get him fired.
• Lost his best friends and community when he was fired.
• Getting fired from a church is like "sociological rape"
• "Jesus didn't take the cross so we wouldn't have to."
• Left the church after being fired for a while, became depressed…until a passion was birthed in him that made him want to reach those people who were offended and hurt by the church so that they left.
• Went back in the ministry to heal those who were hurt by the ministry
• His church goes after the hurt by church, burnt out by church, people who have weird ideas of church…etc.
• "Planting churches are the best way to make disciples."
• Why? because a new church is desperate and wild eyed
• Felt led to plant a church in Philly, but was called to Gettysburg.
• Asked God for 4 specific things when planting a church:
• Finances
• Prayer meetings monthly
• Will fundraise to take care of family
• Serious about reaching the lost
• Was friends with the owner of Auntie Ann's pretzels…they supported his church plant with about $1,000 per year
• As little as 12% of people go to church monthly.
• A church planting movement is starting today
• To love Jesus means that you have a passion to bring people to Christ.
• Jesus left heaven because He was passionate about people.
• "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
• In The Blood Tattoos on East Carson St. in Pittsburg
• Was filmed by Nightline ABC Gerry Stoltzfoos speaking in tongues…which proved that the speaking of tongues doesn't come from the language part of the brain
• Started a state of the art handicapped facility to minister to severely handicapped by horseback riding
• Shining Stars Therapeutic Ministries
• Starting to minister to mentally handicapped/learning disabled this summer
• They are seeing kids get healed mentally, emotionally, physically
• This ministry brings about 1/3 of the newly baptized people per year.
• Goals for future?
• Buy land for Shining Stars Ministry across the street
• Plant 1000 churches in america, 1000 around the world
• Currently planted 67 churches
• Starting work with unreached people group in Uganda
• Planting a church in Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and possibly Germany
• Northeast is least reached region in America
• Currently recruiting positions on staff for:
• 2 personal interns
• Network developer
• Church planting teams
• Philly Boot Camp…Friday and Saturday