Exponential Conference Takeaways

Here are a few thoughts from Karen Rhone about her experience at the Exponential Conference:

I don't know where to begin. There was so much information to process. It was good. Chris Hodges shared about 5 kings that you face when you plant -demonic, rejection, loneliness, temptation and discouragement. He talked about ways to combat these. It was good to hear his genuine, open story of the struggles that he had encountered while planting. Francis Chan's ending speech also stuck out. It was a reminder to not be so concerned about building a church but in ministering and loving the community. My pre-conference had a lot of good content from how to say "no" to people that want to start all kinds of programs - stick to the vision - be "mean" about the vision. We took lots of notes! Thank you again for sending us! We learned a lot.

Stay tuned for more conference takeaways from the WPA Team members.

Update from "The Well"

The Innovators were commissioned by Pastor Bob Croft as the Hyde Wesleyan Church celebrated planting The Well in Philipsburg. The Well has been doing activities in the Philipsburg area since January, and are currently hosting a Loss Support Group that meets on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 p.m., and a Bible Study that meets Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.. Both meetings are at 1 North Front Street Cafe-Books-Events.

For more information please contact us.

Update from "The Bridge"

Sunday we had our first meeting with individuals interested in being involved with The Bridge. Twenty-three people gathered at our house for a time of worship, followed by a potluck, and then we spent the afternoon casting vision and planning for summer ministry. A young couple who lives a mile from us heard through one of the couples coming that we were planning a worship service and asked if they could come. Of course they can come! During our worship time we shared our journey of how God led us into church planting. Then different ones shared their journey of how God has led them to get involved with The Bridge. During the time of sharing both the man and woman opened up and shared how they have gotten away from their faith and knew they needed to get back to God. The woman wept as she shared. This is why we're here. We thought we were having some worship with our planning meeting but God had other things in mind. Great things are happening in this couples heart. Will you please help us pray for them. Also help us pray that God will lead us to others who are hungry for God. We believe that God is on the move and we are following.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

The Bridge

Rick, Eunice, & Trevor

WPA Leaders at Exponential

Here's a photo of all the Western PA leaders at the 2010 Exponential Conference.

We will seek to post lessons learned and takeaways here over the next week or so.

It is rumored that there were as many people from WPA at the conference this year as were represented by the denomination a couple years ago.

Very cool and exciting.

They did. We will.

Exponential Conference

This coming week 8 members of the WPA District M3 will travel to Orlando, FL to participate in the 2010 Exponential Conference next week.

Exponential is the largest gathering of Church Planter on the planet, and will be an incredible opportunity for each of out brothers and sisters to interact and learn from some of the most effective missional leaders today.

The team consists of the following people:

Rick & Eunice Cox

Jeremiah Gomez

Doug & Karen Rhone

Stevan Sheets

Tim & Beth Stradling

Please pray that God will use this time to equip them for greater effectiveness and impact in the Missional Multiplication Movement in Western PA.

They did. We will!