Church Plant News - Virginia Beach FMC – Virginia

Virginia Beach FMC – Virginia
Pastor Virgil Fowler has gathered a visionary group of young adults who are re-settled in Virginia Beach, VA and building relationships with non-believers. This is a very non-traditional model f or a new church in a community that is teeming with people. If God is particularly drawing your heart to support this work in prayer, contact Pastor Virgil at Vuv3@live.com

Chuches in the News

Some of our churches were on the paper on the month of November.
Mountainview Community FMC and Abington FMC made the news on the article written by Amanda Christman for the Standard Speaker Newspaper. The article was about Youth Movement and the reaching of young people for the Kingdom of God. The meeting gathered many churches and denominations of the Hazleton area. There is a free piece of the article on the Standard Speaker Website. To access it, click here

The Myrtle Beach Brazilian FMC, also, had a great display on the weekly paper called Surge. On the article about the Brazilian Community in Myrtle Beach, one full page of the paper was dedicated to an interview of the pastors Arimateia and Ismenia Pereira. In the interview, pastor Pereira talked about the church and his ministry. The Surge has the whole article on their website. To read it, click here

Church Plant News - Hope Center, Hazleton, PA

Still in a “pre-launch” phase, the Hope Center, under Pastor Dave Latham’s leadership has gathered a group of over 20 people with a vision for launching a robust, community-focused church in downtown Hazleton. Pastor Dave is developing a team of supporters who will pray for this effort. He is also asking God to provide 23 financials supporters who will donate $25 a week for the next year to this fledging work. Do you want to join this team? Contact Pastor Dave - DJLatham@verizon.net

Front-lines at Ft. Hood – See “Light and Life Magazine”

Jim Souza, one of the pastoral members of our Mid-Atlantic Region team is an Army chaplain. Captain Souza was on the scene of the tragedy at Ft. Hood several weeks ago. Read the January/February issue of “Light and Life Magazine” for an account of Captain Souza’s involvement. This issue is not yet published, but we’ll let you know when it comes out. Also, check out Captain Souza’s blog for an account of his leading a young soldier to a personal faith in Jesus. Find his blog at http://pjimmy.blogspot.com/

And speaking of “Light and Life Magazine”, this fine print publication going on-line. Check out the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of this award winning magazine at http://www.freemethodistchurch.org/Magazine/
Each Free Methodist Church in the US will still have an allotted number of free print magazines for your members. Each church is encouraged to keep your mailing list updated at www.fmdata.org

Free Methodists are Swarming to the “Overflow Conference”

As the early registration deadline for the April 22-24, 2009 “Overflow Conference in Orlando has just passed, we have exciting numbers to report. More than 650 people are already registered for this event. This promises to be a powerful, culture-changing experience for the Free Methodist Church in the East Region of the United States. Registration is still open, with just a modest increase in cost during this standard registration period. Anyone can come to this resourcing event during which God’s Spirit will breathe on us with power from on high. Click here for more information and to register.

Multiplication Training Event – Save the date!

On May 13, 2010 the Mid-Atlantic FMC will host a training event featuring Brandon Hatmaker.

Hatmaker is the pastor of Austin New Church and a church planter. God had called him to expand the kingdom and his ministry has experienced great multiplication.

You can’t miss this day. Surely, God will give you great insights and tools for your ministry.

Church Plant Projects - Dundalk Spanish Church

Great News for the Baltimore Area!

Pastor Fernando Gonzalez will start a church plant project in the Baltimore area. He and his family will be moving to the area on the first week of December. The project initially will be concentrated in Dundalk MD, but the plan is to have Spanish speaking churches planted all over Maryland, Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and even Delaware.

Pastor Fernando is a FMC church planter originally from Dominican Republic. He has planted many churches and raised many leaders in the Allentown PA area.

Pray for Pastor Fernando and his new task to expand the Kingdom of God.

Overflow Conference Super Early Bird deadline postponed

Due to the high volume of registrations in the last 48 hours, some people were not able get into the system. Because of this the deadline was extended the super early bird registration through Nov 22.

If you did not register for the conference, please register as soon as possible to get the discount.

To access the website for registration click here

Birthday Celebration for Pastor Beahm

The Family of Charles Earnest Beahm
Would like to Invite You to Help Celebrate his 80th Birthday
Date: Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon until 4:00pm
Place: Madison Fire Department Hall, Madison, Virginia

This will be a causal event, meant to give you the time to talk to Charles and have light refreshments. Time of note, we will be having a formal cake cutting at 1:00pm, but you can attend whenever you can. We realize that this is a busy season and hope that you are available to make this celebration.

This is open to all that know Charles and that would like to attend, so if we have missed anyone that you are aware of, please make sure that you make them aware of this event.



Thank you,

David Beahm



Birthday Cards can be sent to:

5672 S. Seminole Trail
Rochelle, VA 22738-9715

Symposium on "The Next Generation"

Many young Americans share an impression that Christians are “hypocritical,” “insensitive” and “judgmental.” This does not provide a good basis for Christians to share the good news of Jesus with this generation.

David Kinnaman wrote a thought-provoking book on groundbreaking research into the perceptions of sixteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds toward Christians. See http://www.unchristian.com/book.asp .

Kinnaman is one of the keynote speakers at a one-day symposium at Messiah College entitled “Next Generation: Understanding its faith practices and impact upon faith communities”.

This event is on January 28, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. For only $15 you get to interact with David Kinnaman and other speakers. Register by January 15th in order to get the $15 rate. Check this out on-line at http://www.messiah.edu/church_relations/symposium_for_leaders/keynote.html .

The price is good. It looks like the speakers will be thought-provoking (and sometimes irritating). And lunch is included. Could be a good day.

Good News Church, pastored by Al Sones is close to Messiah College. Contact him if you have questions: alsones@aol.com .

J-Term 2010

You can register now for the 2010 J-Term. The J-Term offers credit courses required for ordination in the Free Methodist Church.

Term One goes from 01/04/10 to 01/09/10 and the courses taught are:
--FM History and Polity (Rev. Gerald Coates)
--Romans (Rev. Brian Buterbaugh)
--Leadership (Dr. Matt whitehead, Rev. Eric Spangler)
--Introduction to Christian Doctrine (Dr. David Nicholson)

Term 2 starts 01/11/10 an ends on 01/16/10 and the courses taught are:
--Wesleyan Theology (Dr. C. Wesley King)
--Homiletics (Dr. Donald Demaray)
--Gospel of John (Rev. Jerome Van Kuiken)
--Spiritual Formation (Rev. Martha Kirkpatrick)

Tuition cost is $50.00 per credit if registered by December 1st, 2009. After that date tuition will be $65.00 per credit hour. Full tuition and housing must be paid in advance.

If you don't have a copy of the registration form please click here.
The form should be mailed to Ministerial Credentialing PO Box 535002 Indianapolis, IN 46253-5002

For more info, you can call 1-800-342-5531 ext. 308