Conference President Update - August 27

Great Lakes Conference

Bible Methodist Church

BEHOLD THE HARVEST
Blake E. Jones, Conference President

The Harvest and the Church

1st Quarter -Heralding Heart Holiness

-The Spirit's infilling, core doctrines...

2nd Quarter -Revival in the Church

-Humbling, Healing, Harmony

3rd Quarter -Locking Arms in Membership

-Discipleship, Commitment, Responsibility...

4th Quarter -Looking Beyond the Core

-Reaching to fringe people

Next month begins the new sub-theme, "The Harvest and the Church". The lovely posters for this year were handed out at camp meeting. The year begins with a quarter focused on teaching the doctrine of holiness in the church. Please let me know how you and your church are helping to prepare for and reach the harvest.

FAMILY RETREAT

The fall Family Retreat will be held on the Rock Lake Camp Grounds, the last weekend of September. Rev. and Mrs. Hilling, and Rev. and Mrs. Wetherald are leading this enjoyable activity.

The "Bible Methodist" Subscription Drive

Rev. Sams will be sending me posters for the subscription drive. I will be sending those to you. We will plan for an October push for Bible Methodist subscriptions.

Note: --- Pastoral Leadership Conference

School of the Prophets and Aldersate Forum will be hosting a Pastoral Leadership Conference at GBS. The dates are October 30 - November 1, 2007. H.B. London will be a guest speaker. Other speakers include, Dr. Allan Brown, Rev. P.D. Wolfe, and Rev. Chris Cravens.

Conference Updates

Rev. and Mrs. Hobbs accepted the pastorate of a church in PA. Please pray for their family as they make this adjustment.

Rev. David Ward has accepted the call of the Evart Church to return as their pastor. He will assume his duties in September.

Evart's Daystar Academy begins classes this week.

Rev. Sam Lindahl has resigned the Ironwood Church. Please pray for the dear folks in Frankton as they seek God's will for a new pastor.

Pray for the children that have been ministered to during our church's Vacation Bible Schools.

Conference President's Schedule

Since camp meeting it has been my privilege to visit the Remus and Petersburg camps. Rev. Darrell Stetler spoke the eveing I attended the Wesleyan Holiness Camp. What a great melting and bonding in Christ we enjoyed in that service. I spoke in two of the morning services the first weekend of the Lower Lights Camp. We had great fellowship with our friends there. Bro. Parker and Bro. Tim Cole were the evangelists.

I spoke in a Sunday evening service at Garfield and then our whole family enjoyed Monday and Tuesday together. We held the new babies and rejoiced together. Then Saundy and I went off to Traverse City and hid for three days. This summer has been nigh unto impossible to figure out a family vacation. On our way back we stopped in at Garfield's closing VBS service since Titus and Cherie were the VBS leaders.

A couple of Sundays ago I preached at Evart as a fill-in until the Wards arrive.

Yesterday was Daron and Amber's little baby's dedication. We crammed 128 into the Rock Lake Church. By the way, the Rock Lake Church just voted to build a sanctuary on to the front of the present chapel building. We will be taking 6 month pledges in a couple of weeks and we will look for what God will do for us in the Spring.

GOD BLESS EACH OFYOU!