An update from our DS

A message from District Superintendent, Rev. Randy Swink:

GREAT NEWS! The Missional Multiplication Movement (M3) is continuing to make tremendous progress in our district. Thank you for being a part of the district's missional multiplication movement. Our district goal is to have 100% of our local churches participating in 3 of the 5 "P's" by next year, 2010. Those first 3 "P's" being: PROMOTION, PUBLIC AFFIRMATION, and PRAYER. Another district goal is to have 20 of our local churches participating in all 5 "P's" by 2010 year. The additional "P's" are PROVISION and PERMISSION.

What a personal privilege it is for me to announce that Hyde Wesleyan will be daughtering a church in the Philipsburg area and have selected, Revs. Karen & Doug Rhone to serve as their church planters. PRAISE GOD! Congratulations to Sr. Pastor Bob Croft, the Rhones, the LBA, and the congregation for being obedient to the Holy Spirit's leading and exercising their faith. In the near future, Karen & Doug Rhone may be contacting you about visiting your Church to share their vision and passion for reaching lost people in the Philipsburg area for Jesus. I would encourage you to confirm a date with the Rhones to come and share their need for prayer and financial support with your congregation. This will be an opportunity for you and those you serve to be further informed and involved with the missional multiplication movement of our district.

MORE GREAT NEWS!

This past August, Rev. Rick & Eunice Cox and Rev. Jeremiah & Sarah Gomez attended our denominational Church Planters Assessment Center. After completing their assessment, the Coxes and Gomez’s were acknowledged has having the gifts and graces to be church planters and they were given the "green light" to proceed as church planters. In September, the District Board of Administration unanimously approved Rick and Jeremiah to serve as church planters in our district. PRAISE GOD! Please join the Coxes, the Gomezs, and district leadership in praying that the Holy Spirit will give clear direction for the WPA location that God desires them to plant. Pray that gives our planters a "heart felt passion" for the lost people in the designated harvest field to which God calls them.

If you desire additional information, you may contact our District Director of Evangelism & Church Growth, Rev. Shawn Cossin, who serves as the chairman of the District's Church Multiplication Task Force. Shawn can be reached at: 724.376.2233 or e-mail scossin@slwchurch.org. Also, contact me at the district office if I can be of assistance to you.

Partnering together in this evangelistic ministry of church multiplication will enable us to be obedient to the words of Christ communicated, to us, in the Great Commission and will set in motion our missional multiplication movement tag line, which states because, "THEY DID.....WE WILL!"

Harvesters & Partners Together,

Randy A. Swink

WPA District Superintendent