Michigan Camp Meeting 2016: The Harvest is Great

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Soul-Winning

Jim Howard

Personal Ministries & Team Evangelism - Part 1

Father in Heaven, we're so grateful for camp meeting.

We are promised that when we gather here together as a body of believers, that Jesus will meet with us here.

And we have already seen Him and heard His voice.

And today, Lord, we're praying that His Spirit would pervade this campground and especially now this seminar as we look at the greatest work that we have to do, the work of soul winning.

So please, Father, we ask Your blessing now on our time together, and may each 1 receive a blessing as my prayer in Jesus' name, Amen.

I was about to chastise her for being late, and I saw it was my mother.

But I want you to know that what I'm going to be talking to you about is still what I would call a living document.

It's changed from the moment that it started and that sort of thing.

This is really, in case you don't know what seminar you're in, you always give that opportunity.

I'm Jim Howard and I'm the evangelism coordinator and the personal ministries director for the conference.

And this is a personal ministries and evangelism seminar for 2 days.

I'll talk to you about some other seminars that are going to be happening that are similar or in a similar vein anyway.

But this particular 1 is 2 days and I'm going to spend some time talking to the leaders in terms of evangelism in your churches.

I'm assuming that that's who I have here.

If you're not, if you're just somebody who's interested, then I'm happy to have you too.

But I really wanted some time with those who are really at the forefront of needing to understand how things are working so that you know what to do at the local church level, and what's coming.

I'll give you a fair warning, you're going to know more than the pastors, okay?

So don't go to your pastor and say, why are we not doing this?

The truth is, let me just give you a little bit of history here.

We had Unlocked Revelation going on at the end of March and into April, and while everybody was full throttle on Unlocked Revelation, my brain was looking ahead, okay?

Yeah, because you always have to stay ahead.

And as Personal Ministry's leaders, I mean, I almost did a Leadership 101 seminar here, but I did it in November when...

I did it when we were at Camp Asobel with a lot of the coordinators there and I thought I have a lot of the same people here so I thought I won't do that again but 1 of the keys of leadership is looking ahead and being ahead of the people okay Because if we just did a big unlocked revelation celebration here and we made that what camp meeting was all about and, you know, we had testimony after testimony and then it was all over and everybody went back home, it'd kind of be like, okay, what do we do now?

You know, and I wanted to be sure that we had some, some direction, even though we might not have all the details lined out, all the T's crossed, I's dotted, that sort of thing.

So I started going down that path in my own mind for some time, for several months.

And then I asked for a meeting with the administration, basically.

And we sat down and I shared with them what I was considering, and then we tweaked it a bit but they were very excited and supportive and said we'd like you to share this with the executive committee.

So the executive committee of the conference we sat down I shared some of the things that I'm going to be sharing with you with probably a little less detail than what I'll share with you.

And then with the district superintendents, because you know in the Michigan Conference, all of our pastoral workforce is organized in different regions.

So I used to be a district superintendent in Detroit, which meant that I would call together the pastors for a monthly meeting that were in that area, and I would kind of be an in-between between the conference and and the local pastoral force.

So we met with the district superintendents, we shared it with them, they were excited, and really hadn't shared it with the pastors, and I knew that we were going to be sharing it at camp meeting, so what we did was we we went ahead and during camp pitch I had a devotional and I shared an overview, like a 15-minute overview.

Okay, so that's what your pastors have, is whatever their district superintendent shared with them, plus the 15-minute overview that I gave with them, so that they at least wouldn't be totally blindsided.

So now I'm meeting with the personal ministries leaders and evangelism leaders and evangelism interested people.

And we're going to give opportunity for you to see what we're looking at, to ask questions, to try to understand a little bit better, and we're really on the front end of this so don't be worried, it's not like we have to be in a hurry.

I'll give you a timeline as to what we're looking at doing and this be an opportunity for you to be ahead of the game because I have a heart for the personal ministries people you are my people I've been waiting for this seminar so I could feel like you know every once in a while I feel like I need to shut the door, but anyway, I'll leave it open.

You know, Elder Gallimore, he'll sit in executive committee and I'll see him just get all relaxed, you know, and he kinda, I can tell he's among his people there, you know, it's his committee.

Well, you know, that's what my personal ministries minded people are.

Before I was, and I think I told you this last year if you came to seminar, but before I ever pastored, I was a personal ministries leader in the local church for many years.

So I know what it's like to call people to training and have 3 people show up.

I know what it's like to call people to training and have 3 people show up.

I know what it's like to try to figure out what to do.

They want to know about all that, but they don't want to hear about whatever.

I know all of those trials and tribulations, so I have great sympathy for my people.

I have a great sympathy for prayer meeting people too.

You know, the people who come to prayer meeting.

When I pastored, I would give, you know, real juicy information at prayer meeting.

You know, I wanted them to be the first to know they deserve it for their dedication, and so I feel the same about you and you're getting the juicy information at camp meeting, all right?

So anyway, with all that in mind, I'm going to share with you a couple of things.

This is something that I'm going to pass out to everyone on Sabbath morning.

So let me tell you something else, and this might be the downside of being part of my people, and That is that you hear the same thing over and over again.

So what's going to happen is you're going to get it in detail here.

And then when I presented this plan to district superintendents and to the executive committee, it took me about an hour in each case.

Okay, well at camp meeting they give me like 7 minute slots in the evening, you know, And then they give me a slot on Sabbath morning.

I said, instead of the seven-minute slot on Sabbath morning, can I have a 12- to 15-minute slot on Sabbath morning?

And so I have about 12 minutes on Sabbath morning, and I have seven-minute slots in the evening.

I don't want to neglect the testimonies of Unlock Revelation, so we've been doing that.

But once we get to Tuesday evening, I'm going to start talking about this with little 7 minute slots.

And then on Sabbath morning, I'm going to have this handed out so that people can look at it, and I'm going to give an overview.

So you're going to hear all these things again, but you're going to hear them in overview form, whereas in here you're going to hear it in detail.

So I'm going to have this passed out, and maybe, let's see.

Welcome, Kenny, we're glad you're here, is what I meant to say.

All right, if we could just take 1 and pass them back there.

Okay, For being late, I've got an assignment for you later.

Now this at the front, you can see it says Mission Conference of the US Master Plan Evangelism.

What I'd like you to do is turn to the middle where the staples are, and the first thing...

No, that's not the first thing I want to do.

The first thing I want to do is the first page.

And I just want to share with you a little bit about the philosophy, first, of this plan.

First of all, we are part of a world church, and so we don't want to ignore the world church's plan.

And we fit just perfectly, our plans fit perfectly into the World Church's plan.

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