2009 is shaping up to be an incredible year. Our calendar is filling up with exciting upcoming trips including Tahoe, Montana, Kentucky, upstate New York, and New England in the fall. The two trips we are really looking forward to, knowing they will be highly impactful and the most rewarding are the upcoming Mindset Mentoring Conference in Dallas, Texas and our mission trip to work and visit our sponsor children in Guatemala, from both the God's Child Project and World Vision.
We were planning this trip and then found out our President, Tim Darnell and other Advantage Conferences team mates will be going on a Mission trip there as well to work at the God's Child Project building concrete floors and helping out at this truly life saving charity, that many at Advantage Conferences have contributed to regularly for years. We decided to go at the same time and can't wait to work and serve along side our team mates. Anyone who would like to go to help is welcome, you can contact us at our site for information.
If you are looking to give and make a difference in a childs life we highly recommend the God's Child Project, information at God's Child Project.org
We have also sponsored several children over the years from WorldVision.org and recommend them as well.
We appreciate your prayers for these organzations, the children and families they help and lives they literally save, and for our upcoming mission trip and ministries. We are especially thankful that Advantage Conferences makes it possible for us and anyone to create unlimited funds for our sponsorships, mission trips and ministries.
Blessings to you and your new year,
Michael & Lisa Ferrin
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Showing posts with label Marketplace Ministry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marketplace Ministry. Show all posts
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Awesome New Advantage Mentoring Video!
Click link at LifeChangingMentoring to see the truly awesome new Advantage Mentoring Video. We are so glad to be a part of it. Exciting times. The future is very bright at Advantage Conferences. We love it and look forward to a lifetime of sharing it around the world, improving one life at a time.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Marketplace Ministry Revisited
Here is a noteworthy post from OPEN by Mike Melvin.
Jesus made 132 public appearances in the NT, 122 were in the marketplace. Out of the 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. Of the 40 divine interventions recorded in Acts, 39 were in the marketplace. Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace. Jesus called 12 workplace individuals, not clergy, to build His church.
Work is Worship - The Hebrew word "Avodah" is the root word from which we get the words work and worship. Work in its different forms is mentioned more than 800 times in the Bible, more than all the words used to express worship, music, praise, and singing combined.
"I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through believers in the workplace." Dr. Billy Graham
"There is a distinction between church work and the work of the church. Church work is what you do for the organized institution of the church. The work of the church is what is done between Sundays when the church is scattered all over the metropolitan area where it is located - in homes, schools, offices, on construction jobs, in market places." - Dick Halverson
"The spiritual manifests itself in a life which knows no division into sacred and secular." Oswald Chambers
"Spirituality in the workplace is exploding." Laura Nash, Business Ethicist, Harvard University
"God is marshalling his people in the workplace as never before in history. God is up to something. The next spiritual awakening could take place in the marketplace."
-Henry Blackaby
"Workplace ministry will be one of the core future innovations in church ministry." George Barna, Boiling Point, Regal Publishing
"We reviewed 52 movements in the body of Christ. We narrowed it down to 28, then 12, then 4 to invest our resources in the coming years. The workplace is one of those because this is an area where we see God working." Chad Hammond, Director, New Ventures (division of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.)
"Our surveys reveal that 90-97% of Christians have never heard a sermon relating biblical principles to their work life." Doug Sherman, author, Your Work Matters to God.
"Societal transformation is high on God's agenda and the chief catalytic force to bring it about will be Christians ministering in the marketplace." C. Peter Wagner, Chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute
"The church in the workplace is the purest form of the body of Christ today due to its diversity. Workplace believers are less prone to denominational differences because they have a common goal of representing Christ in their workplaces. The movement will break down denominational barriers that have been held in the past." Os Hillman, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries
"The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson. This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace." Ed Silvoso, Anointed for Business, Harvest Evangelism
"Indeed, as with first-century Christianity, it all begins in the marketplace, where the disciples of Jesus daily rub shoulders with the
lost."- Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers, Anointed for Business, Regal Publishing
"In today's global community, the greatest channel of distribution for 'salt and light' is the business community - the marketplace." Bill Pollard, Chairman, Service Master
"Someone recently said that the "First" Reformation took the Word of God to the common man and woman; the "Second" Reformation is taking the work of God to the common man and woman. That time is now. The greatest potential ministry in the world today is the marketplace. Christ's greatest labor force is those men and women already in that environment." Tom Phillips, VP of Training , Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
"The workplace is where a majority of a church congregation, spends a majority of their time, interacting with a majority of the unchurched world. The Church on Monday is evidence that the Church on Sunday is real!" Doug Spada, His Church at Work.org
Jesus made 132 public appearances in the NT, 122 were in the marketplace. Out of the 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. Of the 40 divine interventions recorded in Acts, 39 were in the marketplace. Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace. Jesus called 12 workplace individuals, not clergy, to build His church.
Work is Worship - The Hebrew word "Avodah" is the root word from which we get the words work and worship. Work in its different forms is mentioned more than 800 times in the Bible, more than all the words used to express worship, music, praise, and singing combined.
"I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through believers in the workplace." Dr. Billy Graham
"There is a distinction between church work and the work of the church. Church work is what you do for the organized institution of the church. The work of the church is what is done between Sundays when the church is scattered all over the metropolitan area where it is located - in homes, schools, offices, on construction jobs, in market places." - Dick Halverson
"The spiritual manifests itself in a life which knows no division into sacred and secular." Oswald Chambers
"Spirituality in the workplace is exploding." Laura Nash, Business Ethicist, Harvard University
"God is marshalling his people in the workplace as never before in history. God is up to something. The next spiritual awakening could take place in the marketplace."
-Henry Blackaby
"Workplace ministry will be one of the core future innovations in church ministry." George Barna, Boiling Point, Regal Publishing
"We reviewed 52 movements in the body of Christ. We narrowed it down to 28, then 12, then 4 to invest our resources in the coming years. The workplace is one of those because this is an area where we see God working." Chad Hammond, Director, New Ventures (division of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.)
"Our surveys reveal that 90-97% of Christians have never heard a sermon relating biblical principles to their work life." Doug Sherman, author, Your Work Matters to God.
"Societal transformation is high on God's agenda and the chief catalytic force to bring it about will be Christians ministering in the marketplace." C. Peter Wagner, Chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute
"The church in the workplace is the purest form of the body of Christ today due to its diversity. Workplace believers are less prone to denominational differences because they have a common goal of representing Christ in their workplaces. The movement will break down denominational barriers that have been held in the past." Os Hillman, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries
"The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson. This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace." Ed Silvoso, Anointed for Business, Harvest Evangelism
"Indeed, as with first-century Christianity, it all begins in the marketplace, where the disciples of Jesus daily rub shoulders with the
lost."- Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers, Anointed for Business, Regal Publishing
"In today's global community, the greatest channel of distribution for 'salt and light' is the business community - the marketplace." Bill Pollard, Chairman, Service Master
"Someone recently said that the "First" Reformation took the Word of God to the common man and woman; the "Second" Reformation is taking the work of God to the common man and woman. That time is now. The greatest potential ministry in the world today is the marketplace. Christ's greatest labor force is those men and women already in that environment." Tom Phillips, VP of Training , Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
"The workplace is where a majority of a church congregation, spends a majority of their time, interacting with a majority of the unchurched world. The Church on Monday is evidence that the Church on Sunday is real!" Doug Spada, His Church at Work.org
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Free Footsteps of Faith Messenger
The Footsteps of Faith Messenger is a free weekly spiritually inspiring message that is read by over 9,000 people all around the world. One of the great aspects of it is the "Cover to Cover Campaign" which encourages people to read through the Bible and gives them a month by month reading guide line to accomplish this richly rewarding endeavor in one year. You can receive it by going to http://mentoringdisciples.com/ and clicking the Footsteps of Faith Messenger on the top right of the page. Enjoy.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Welcome to Mentoring Disciples!
Welcome to the Mentoring Disciples blog. We look forward to sharing with you and encouraging one another in this exciting journey of life. We will share interesting information, sites, and blogs we come across to add value to your life. One of the most impactful truths we have come across is the life changing mentoring we have experienced at Advantage Conferences. It has improved our lives so dramatically that we are dedicated to helping others transform their lives into all they can be and make the biggest positive impact on the world around them. We invite you to learn more about us and the powerful mentoring we are blessed to be a part of by visiting: http://www.mentoringdisciples.com/
Michael & Lisa Ferrin
Michael & Lisa Ferrin
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