2010 Mardi Gras Men's Ministry!

Gentlemen,

We are nearing the time to begin preparations for our 2010 Men's Ministry Trip to Mardi Gras! If you want to be spiritually challenged and have your life changed forever you will make plans to attend this event without delay!

Who can attend:
Men and young men (ages 17 or older)

Ministry Dates:
February 12-16, 2010

Kick-off Meeting Location:
Heritage United Methodist Church
3 Barracuda Dr.
Hattiesburg, MS 39482
Friday, February 12th between 12:00-3:00PM

Registration Donation:
$175.00 if received by February 1st, 2010
$225.00 if received after February 1st, 2010

For more information or for specific questions on the event you may click here to contact our office staff.

** Please note that the earlier you register the better. For your convenience you may register on line at

http:// www.nogreaterlove.org

Courageous Leadership

by Bill Hybels / Zondervan Press

I made a presentation at the July NGL Advisory Board meeting from the outline below. I highly recommend this book as a tool for the development of your life as a Christ-honoring leader in your family, your church, your career and in No Greater Love. - Roger Lipe

Chapter 4 – Building a Kingdom Dream Team
§ Character
§ Competence
§ Chemistry

Chapter 6 – Developing Emerging Leaders
Process -
§ Identify emerging leaders.
§ Invest in the development of emerging leaders.
§ Entrust responsibility to emerging leaders.

Chapter 7 – Discovering and Developing Your Own Leadership Style

§ Visionary Leadership
§ Directional Leadership
§ Strategic Leadership
§ Managing Leadership
§ Motivational Leadership
§ Shepherding Leadership
§ Team-Building Leadership
§ Entrepreneurial Leadership
§ Reengineering Leadership
§ Bridge-Building Leadership

Process –
§ Identify your style.
§ Does it fit?
§ Review your team members’ styles.
§ Commit to development.

Chapter 11 – The Leader’s Pathway

§ The Relational Pathway
§ The Intellectual Pathway
§ The Serving Pathway
§ The Contemplative Pathway
§ The Activist Pathway
§ The Creation Pathway
§ The Worship Pathway
Process -
§ Identify your pathway.
§ Lean into your pathway.
§ Appreciate the other pathways.
§ Help others find their pathways.

Gentlemen, START YOUR ENGINES...... THE TIME IS NEAR!!!!!

CALL FOR MEN OF GOD TO STEP UP FOR THE INDY 500 FROM ISAIAH 6:8

“WHOM SHALL I SEND AND WHO WILL go for Me…” God is calling! “Are there not others who could be doing what you are doing Memorial Day weekend so that you could go forth to serve the Lord!”

My life’s calling with NGL is to put the gospel in the hands of “faithful” men so you men can give it on to others. God has honored this calling through the years. Many of you have been faithful and gone on to start ministries and obey the Great Commission to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. I feel God’s pleasure because of many of you. My goal is to reach faithful men in every denomination we can and just focus on lifting up the Lord and then Jesus promises that He will do the drawing. Someone said that I like people who go with us and don’t like people that don’t go with us. “HELLO?” Is that a trick question? That is simple and obvious to me with Isaiah 6:8 I pray for all the States where people are working with us and am so thankful for each State’s contribution. At each event I give a State roll call at the opening meeting and have those men to stand!

Our administrative team met again yesterday and the next one will be this coming Wednesday when we will line out our two camps and put people in groups. Right now we have 55 registered, but there are States that still have not registered and that makes it tough on the Administrative team. We need to have over 100 men with us for this event. We must have faithful LEADERS in each State, Region and Church to realize that Mathew 6:33 is the plan the Lord has for taking care of our needs as we put Him first in all our ways. My son in law, Craig, is my example of what that Scripture is all about. Craig and his family are going to Italy for their vacation. However he wouldn’t leave until Memorial Day because he was not going to miss serving the Lord at the Indy 500 first, believing the Lord will then take care of the vacation. God has already honored Craig’s priority for this vacation. He checked his frequent flyer miles from his Visa credit card use and he will only have to pay $250.00 for the plane tickets for Craig, Jill and Josie! God is good! All the time!

Please pray for the Lord to raise up men from each area to assume the responsibility of getting the others going in their areas. Years ago, I used Paul’s missionary journey’s as my example for ministry. I would travel to Nebraska, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and Georgia each year to work with the men and enlist them for the ministry. However, now that I am older and many men have been trained, I am counting on them to “man their stations” for the Lord. We sent out promo video’s for the Indy 500 to aid some of you we thought would be willing to lead out for your areas. If you did not get one, let me know in the future that you want to enlist others and we will put you on the “LEADER” list.

Remember that if you think you are a leader and not one is following you, YOU ARE JUST TAKING A WALK!!!!

I am looking forward to seeing many of you with us at the Indy 500. Register ASAP at www.nogreaterlove.org

Love ya’s,

Fred

Exodus 33:14

GOD IS CALLING FORTH MEN OF GOD FROM ALL THE STATES!

Hello Mighty Men of God,

Our nation is in a mess in more ways than one can shake a stick at!!!!! We are losing in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the bombing is getting bad in Iraq. North Korea is close to having nuclear weapons. Many have lost their jobs, homes and families. Companies like Chrysler and GM are going under. We are giving out more bail-out money than our annual production output. Now we have the Swine Flu epidemic and fear is gripping many people around the world. Many countries are ready to close their borders. However, it is a little too late to close the borders as it would be to close the gate after the cows have gotten out of the field. Cases of the flu are now in many states and many nations as well. Egypt has panicked and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of hogs trying to keep their people safe.

I remember an old story that told of a man who did not come out to stand when the enemy came against the Jews BECAUSE he wasn’t Jewish or against the Latinos BECAUSE he wasn’t Latino or the African Americans BECAUSE he wasn’t African American. So I am writing to men of God from many STATES to come forth for SUCH A TIME AS THIS. Maybe all of our training could be for this very time.

The Indy 500 has all the ingredients for a great NGL encounter. We have a night crowd on Friday and Saturday nights, a great parade for the clowns to work on Saturday and a great place to tract and preach to the people as they go to the race on Sunday. We have great worship and great time in our small groups for the Lord to bring about accountability in our lives. All the Indy 500 Outreach would cost you, work wise, is just Friday. From all over the Central US, South Eastern US and North Eastern US, we can all get to the Indy in time just by leaving early Friday morning and we will all be home with our families for Monday, Memorial Day. We have men signed up from Florida, Nebraska, Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

If there was ever a time to call forth for repentance in our nation, it is now. Our Lord is able to hold in check the enemies in all the nations and to rebuke the devourer in the Swine Flu. He just needs laborers to go forth and lift up the Lord for His salvation to be poured out. NOW is the day of SALVATION and NOW is the accepted time.” II Corinthians 6:2

We have a promo video for you to use to help enlist men for this event. Let us know if the video would help. You can view a “fuzzy” promo on line at www.nogreaterlove.org you can get a production quality copy from us here at the office: 618-542-4503

Love Ya,

Fred

Calling ALL Mighty Men of God

It is time to REV UP YOUR ENGINES for the greatest spectacle in racing at the Indy 500 May 22-24. I love it when I hear of the leaders from the different States stepping up and leading out enlisting men from their areas. Tony David from Florida, is on board and ready to lift the Lord on high. TJ Conwell, from Alabama is on board and bringing guys. Nebraska is recruiting and will be with us. Tom McDonald, from Kansas is on board and ready to go. Max Vick, from Tennessee, is on board and ready to go. Howard Madden, the witnessing machine, is always ready to win souls for the Lord.

Look at our Promo Video for the Indy on our website at www.nogreaterlove.org

I remember seeing a sign that had Uncle Sam on it and it read-----“Uncle Sam NEEDS you!” That is where we are today with the Indy 500. We will have a roll call of the States and then see who was willing to have an ear to hear the Lord saying----“Whom shall I send, and who WILL go for me?” Will you join with me and say with Isaiah-----“Here am I, O Lord, SEND ME?” “Many are called, but few prove themselves to be chosen.”

I was reading in I Chronicles about how the Lord gave David victory fighting against his enemies. Then David replied that the victory was not about him, but about Israel. The Lord spoke to my heart that No Greater Love Ministry is not about me, but about all of us who are willing to answer the call to go forth to do battle for our Lord. We make such little use of what the Lord is willing to do in and through us. He said that we can ask Him and He will give us the nations for our inheritance.

Today, Sarge and Sue are in Vietnam, Mark Krupa is in the Czech Republic, Sylvia Reinmiller has her team in Honduras, Marvin and Karen Steinke are leading a group from Christ Church and Trinity UMC in Honduras. Common Ground Ministries is also in Honduras. All of these have faithfully “paid their dues” in the “ranks” and then gone on to follow the Lord heading for the ends of the earth. The Great Commission for all of us! The song lyric that continues to challenge me is “But the question comes to me as I think of Calvary, IS MY MASTER SAITISFIED WITH ME?”

Let’s be like Andrew in the Bible, who was not satisfied to just know Jesus for himself, who went to get his brother. Let’s all who claim the Name of Jesus, bring every man we can to experience the Lord and feel His pleasure as we lift up the Lord together at the Indy 500. Each event we go to, allows us to build on the previous event. I am so thankful for all of you who work with us faithfully realizing that as we love and trust the Lord we get closer to the Lord and to each other.

The Indy 500 is a great place to bring men who might not be able to get off work long enough to go to Mardi Gras. Yet the Indy 500 experience is like a mini-Mardi Gras. We will have the great parade to work on Saturday and the party crowd to march in on Saturday and then the great day of tracting and preaching on race day on Sunday. Let’s go out for our Lord together at the Indy 500!!!!!

Love ya’s,

Fred

Start your engines!!

2009 Indy 500 Ministry Trip
May 22-24, 2009

The roar of an Indy car engine, the howls of drunken partiers and bass licks pulsating from every stereo. Yet, there is another noise beneath the sin, chaos and confusion. It is the still, small voice of God. As you sing, clown and share Jesus, God's voice becomes audible, then familiar. You still hear it when you go home. Come join us for a weekend you won't forget.
(Recommended for all men over 16!)

Event Location: Covenant Baptist Church
Address: 4201 W 30th St, Indianapolis, IN 46222

Registration will be from 3:00-4:00 PM
Opening meeting will begin at 5:00 PM

** Please remember that Indianapolis is on EASTERN time! **

Indy 500 Ministry Donations:
$75.00 per man
$30.00 per dependent child


To Register please CLICK HERE!

Christian Life Center Bus
Contact Dave Munson to register and reserve your seat!
Please call (618) 967-4966 or e-mail: Dave Munson

The bus will leave Christian Life Center at 8:00 AM on Friday, May 22, 2009. Bus donation amount is $25.00 per person.

Departure address:
Christian Life Center
1901 N. Park Ave.
Herrin, IL 62948

Mardi Gras 2009 Testimony

MARDI GRAS 2009

We were on assignment in Jackson square in New Orleans when an old friend, Wayne walked up to me. We embraced and he asked me "where are you staying," we miss you at Veau Carre, no one will get up with me to go prayer walking in the early morning. I told my friend Wayne that he would be welcome to join our small group from Gentilly Church for prayer walk in the morning. Wayne said that he would love to and we coordinated with our small group leader, Steve, to meet the following morning, which we did.

The following morning, Sunday, our group met with the group of three men from Veau Carre Church. We met at Café Dumonde and then prayer walked Jackson Square and then up to Royal and Bourbon streets and then on to canal street. Later in the morning our prayer group from Gentilly was given the assignment of witnessing and passing tracts at a parade downtown. When we got to the parade route our group leader drew a blank as to what area along the parade route we were to work. Another member of our small group spoke up and told us that he had stayed at "The Way" facility last year and maybe that was what we were today. Confusion set in and also Spirit of Offence came into our midst and said something to the effect of "how many leaders do we have and who is actually in charge now", as our group leader could still not remember our assignment and area of operation. We prayed and bound the spirit of confusion and offense but our group leader started calling out "chaos, chaos, chaos, everything is chaos. I then took him aside personally and prayed for him and told him that we had prayed over and bound the spirit of confusion and offence and to be at peace and forget about it and quit saying chaos, which he did. That was my mistake for telling the group leader to forget it as the event should have been discussed at the next group leaders meeting. We wound up working way out of the territory assigned to us. Our group leader later admitted that when we would get out on assignment he would draw a blank as to what our assignment actually was at the time. Later that afternoon our small group to the man asked if we could bow out of the evenings march downtown in order to get some rest for the final push on Monday and Tuesday. We were given permission and stayed in our facility for the evening and prayed for the men out in the field and had a very long small group meeting.

The next morning, Monday, we met with a group of four men from Veau Carre for a total of nine prayer walkers in 2009, I just love it when the Lord does something like that. We met at Canal street and then headed down Bourbon and Royal streets to St Ann street. We reassembled at the corner of Royal and St. Ann street where we prayed and then our brother Fred read some declarations and decrees

I am somewhat slower than the rest of the group of men and as they moved off towards Jackson Square I was still standing at the corner. All of a sudden an awesome outpouring of God fell on me, it kept coming and coming just like that energizer bunny only this outpouring was refreshing and exhilarating all at the same time. This was not one of those short blasts of heat energy that the Lord sometimes does, this was cool and refreshing and rejuvinating and I believe the Spirit of the Lord said, "tell the men, thank you for being faithfull men of God." We then gathered at Jackson Square where I told the men what happened and what I believe the Holy Spirit told me to tell them. I later asked dear Holy Spirit why this had taken place for it seemed like there was just more meaning regarding this event. Then Holy Spirit brought to my rememberance, That morning around 5:00A.M. I was in the common area with my bible and flashlight opening to Proverbs but my bible opened to Psalm 133 which I had already highlighted sometime in the past. It was still dark in the common area and Ps 133 almost seemed to glow in the dark. "How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity. It is like the precious oil poured on the head running down on the beard, running down on Aarons beard, down upon the collar of his robes. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mt. Zion For there the Lord bestows His blessing, even life forevermore." {NIV}. I had been asked why I had come to Mardi Gras and had answered all I know is that Father {Heavenly Father} just calls me down there and I always am so blessed, and I like the T Shirts. However the outpouring on the corner of St. Ann and Royal was this. To bestow His blessing upon us. How awesome is our God.

That afternoon however confusion arose on the streets regarding our praise and worship group and the time and place they were to perform. They actually took up time from a group which made their living performing at the same spot. Spirit of offense manifested. Later that evening this was discussed at length at our Gentilly large group meeting. I was very disturbed as the knowledge was being manifested to me, I believe by Holy Spirit, and that knowledge was that He had warned our prayer team the day before that these spirits, "confusion and offence", were assigned against us by the enemy. I prayed to the Lord "what am I to do, I am just a member of our small group, would I be out of order if I got up in front of our large group , many of these men are highly esteemed pastors whom I greatly respect. I know authority and chain of command having been a squad leader in the Army in Vietnam but the fact remained that dear Holy Spirit had warned us the day before and I had told our small group leader to "drop it, to forget it," I was the one responsible, I had been out of line the day before. Holy Spirit is too precious to me, if you have read my book you would know why.

I decided I would walk toward the front of our large group trusting precious Holy Spirit to either stop me or to make the way and help me to speak not what I thought needed to be spoken but what He wanted spoken and probably just as important how to speak it. As I walked towards the front of our large group I slowed as I started to pass our small group leader and quietly the gift of my prayer language came forth from me and as I reached out to touch his shoulder the power of God flowed thru me thru my left arm and out to him. He looked up to me and kind of smiled and slumped down somewhat as if peace had just engulfed him. I then walked on and approached the front of our large group still not knowing what to say or how to say it.

I looked to Steve McKewon and motioned that I needed to speak. He assented and then I knew to speak "in defense of Holy Spirit, He had made it clear to us the day before, that the enemy was coming against us with the spirits of confusion and offense and that I was the one who was out of line when I told our small group leader to drop it that we had dealt with those spirits. I should have encouraged our small group leader to bring this up with those in authority over him." Whew, the shaking I had been experiencing was finally over. We then went out for the evenings ministry. Our assistant small group leader, Marvin Stanke, by mutual agreement, took authority in our small group. Everything went well that evening and the next day. We got our assignments done with no problems, everyone in our small group was at peace and in total agreement with our new small group leader. Marvin had remarked in our first small group meeting that he didn't know why he was with us at Mardi Gras this year. I felt impressed of Holy Spirit at our last small group meeting to confide to Marvin that his taking over the leadership of our small group was why the Lord called him to Mardi Gras 2009. I asked the Lord "doesn't it get easier, all these awesome Holy Spirit filled men with all of these years of experience." I believe He said,"No, it gets harder, we are to near the end and the enemy is thrashing around like a roaring Lion, he knows his time is short. Thank you Lord for the interssors at Community of Faith and Adat Ariel, Church on the Way, Southern Illinois Interssors, and Prepare the Way Ministries International. Thank you Lord for all the other intercessors represented by all the other men who showed up "in the season when Kings go to war."

Love in Christ, Myron