Michigan Camp Meeting 2017

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Personal Ministries Leadership Training

Jim Howard

Personal Ministries Leadership Training- Part 1

Personal Ministries Leadership Training- Part 2

Father in Heaven, thank You for this day You've blessed us with.

Thank You for the Spirit that has been leading and for this opportunity we have to talk about personal ministries, how to mobilize our churches, how, Lord, we can see a revival and a reformation that happens when we get active in Your work.

So please, Lord, I pray that You would give each 1 of us understanding and wisdom today and speak to our hearts.

Alright, so what we did yesterday was we started kind of going through this plan or set of responsibilities for a personal ministries department in a church.

And we talked quite a bit about literature and other witnessing resources yesterday.

And look what I remembered just barely but this is not well I'll go and pass it out and I'll talk about it you just pass them around.

Oh man, I'm just gonna turn it toward me, if you don't mind.

It feels really good okay anybody not get 1 of these okay you wanna pass that back he didn't get 1 back there.

You need a little spunk to be a personal ministry leader.

That's right, for good reason, because it would be a little old.

But most of it is still available and it's not that far off.

I don't know if they're true or not, but they're not that far off.

Just to give you an idea, the first section there says miscellaneous books and magazines.

There's a little booklet called Your Friends of Seventh-day Adventists.

That's probably the best overview type of booklet that I've found, So I put that on there a lot.

When God Said Remember, I mentioned yesterday as a good Sabbath book.

Amazing Prophecies is a magazine that goes through all of Daniel and Revelation in a magazine, and it's pretty good.

Hidden Truth magazine anybody familiar with that from Amazing Facts?

It's got several doctrines in it and it's good.

So then ASI books these are the ones I was telling you about which was the conflict series and at this time those prices are under 2 dollars I'm not sure if that's still the case, but I will say that in order to get their price you need to get case quantities.

We get a lot of people who think that they order through our department all kinds of things.

Even like BibleStudyOffer.com, You don't order that through our department.

That goes through the website and the ABC fulfills it.

Ever since I've been in the office, I have tried to get away from us serving as a store because we have an ABC.

So pretty much everything will go through the ABC, even if we're promoting it.

And we try to like, I mean, We have great arrangements with the ABC.

I'll tell you basically how I said it to Tim, our ABC manager.

I said, I really would like to put a lot of this stuff through you, but if I'm required to mark it up for the churches so that you can have 40% or something, then I'm just not going to do it.

We're going to sell it through our department.

Because the churches need it at a better price.

So they get a markup, but it's not a big markup.

It covers their cost and maybe just a little over that.

I wish I could give more of a markup, but I know the churches struggle too.

For instance, BibleStudyOffer.com, if you look at the stuff that we're selling and how much we're selling it for, we're just covering ourself.

And that means that we're losing money, because when it's all said and done, there will be stuff that gets thrown out, inventory, shrinkage, all that kind of stuff.

We're probably not losing because I build in a few percent on everything so that hopefully we get something.

We will, Anytime you do something like that, I'll give you a little visioning here, you're not going to have the same exact stuff year after year after year.

The glow track will have to be freshened, the studies that you offer, you might need to add something or change it or whatever.

So, whenever you come to the point where you freshen something, then other inventory becomes nobody wants it anymore.

So, we will do our best to manage that and bring it down and have a schedule in place to do that.

Anyway, I don't need to get into all that with you, but that's what I meant.

Not that we're going to stop Bible Study Offer.

At the ABC, who's taken Diane Dowell's place?

And now, because of Bio Study Offer, they were really hammered there.

And Tim's managing not just that ABC, but Indiana and all over the Union.

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Personal Ministries Leadership Training

Personal Ministries Leadership Training- Part 2

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