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Elders Service Team Year End Report
2011 has been a busy and productive year for our team. Larry Craig and Frank Kim added diverse experience and links to large portions of our worldwide fellowship through their home churches and mission work fields. This year an elder from the Hong Kong church will be invited to join our group and increase our international participation as more elders and elderships are beginning to be trained and appointed worldwide. Training is currently being pursued by churches in Europe, Mexico, Asia and the Ukraine in hopes of appointments within the next year. We solicit reports of new elder appointments and eldership establishment so we can be aware of how the Spirit is working!Evangelists Service Team Report, Nov. 2011
The Evangelists Committee is encouraged by the continued progress that God is producing in our worldwide fellowship of churches. More souls are being saved and our geographic regions are getting stronger, healthier, and more functionally dynamic. The American churches just completed their first American Leadership Conference hosted by the Boston Church. The ALC was a tremendous success, addressing the growth needs of our churches through workshops broken down by size. Douglas Arthur and the entire Boston leadership are to be commended for this inspirational conference.Communication and Administration Report, Nov. 2011
US Administration Subcommittee – Keith Rose, Chairman
• Administrator Workshops at:
o 2010 ILC
o 2011 American Leadership Conference
o 2012 World Discipleship Summit
Campus Service Team Report
International Campus Ministry ConferenceThe working of God through the labor and cooperation of the campus ministry service team over the last 7 years has been encouraging. In 2005, the San Antonio church hosted the first of the International Campus Ministry Conferences and had some 200 people focused on campus ministry who attended. Over the following 6 years different churches within the US have hosted this conference: LA, Boston, Baton Rouge, Virginia & LA, Chicago, and Athens & Denver.
Teachers Service Team Report Oct. 2011
Teachers Service Team Addresses NeedsThe ICOC Cooperation Service Teams report on their activities so that everyone can know what God is doing through these efforts and pray for them. This is the latest report from the Teachers Service Team.
Teachers Service Team Report
Editors Note: The International Churches of Christ cooperate in their mission to know God and make God known around the world. Ten Service Teams serve to focus on different needs among us to accomplish this mission. The Evangelists, Elders and Teachers Service Teams recently met in Los Angeles and then met together for prayer and consideration of these vital needs. The Teachers Service Team encouraging report appears below. Disciples Today will publsh the Evangelists and Elders reports in the coming weeks.To see all of the service teams, the Delegates and past reports, go to www.icocco-op.org
ICOC Evangelists Service Team Continues
Leadership Development Subcommittee has focused in two areas.
- Helping to promote the training of young people through the development of Mission Training Centers. The New England School of Ministry has been established and is currently training 20 young men and women who are in their 20's and working full time as ministry interns around New England. With the help of the Beam Mission Foundation BMF plans are being laid to establish or bolster similar programs around the world.
- Development of a unified Curriculum for the training of ministers in the ICOC. In collaboration with the Teachers group, plans are underway to develop a minimum series of courses that we be utilized across our brotherhood. Meeting with Gordon Ferguson, Douglas Jacoby, Steve Staten, and Valdur Koha as well as meeting with several in our subcommittee have laid a foundation which will allow us to map out a path over the next 18 months to establish this curriculum.
Elders Service Team Addresses Crucial Shepherding Issues
Our Committee enjoyed our final 2010 face to face meeting in conjunction with the International Leadership Conference in Miami in September. We were sobered by the news that our brother Jeff Balsom of Chicago was unable to attend because of his diagnosis of cancer. Fervent prayers continue on behalf of Jeff and his family for a complete recovery in keeping with God's will. Our prayers continue as a brotherhood for the Balsom family.
Youth & Family Service Team Report
The Youth and Family Service Team has served to advance healthy teen and familybased ministries in our churches. At its inception in 2006, the committee planned the first Youth and Family Conference in Boston in 2007. John Porter, evangelist in the South Florida Church of Christ, chaired the service team. He and its twelve members coordinated the Boston conference and the 2009 ICYFM (International Conference of Youth and Family Ministry) in Chicago, began a resource website at www.liveit2giveit.org, and worked with leaders from other service teams to facilitate healthy communication.
HOPE worldwide & Benevolence Report
The HOPE worldwide and Benevolence Committee, Jan. 2010 Report (covering late 2009, early 2010)
By Mark Templer (Chairman) and John Causey (Vice-Chairman)
“’Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?’ The expert in the law replied, ‘The one who had mercy on him.’ Jesus told him, ‘Go and do likewise.’” –Luke 10:36-37.