Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Director's Forum
The annual AMN Director's Forum was held this last Tuesday. It was a great time of prayer, reporting on the exciting things God has done this last year, collaboration, and vision casting for the future. The Alaska Ministry Network is blessed with a team of spiritual leaders full of vision, love for people, and passion for their ministry. The future is bright!
AG Next Generation Grant
Attention alumni of AG Higher educational institutions who graduated between 2007-Spring 2011! If you need assistance with school debt to enter ministry more quickly or are currently in a full-time ministry position, you can apply for an AG Next Generation Grant. The application for this grant can be found at www.agtrust.org. The deadline is September 15, 2012.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
New Samoan Church Plant in Anchorage
A new Samoan AG church has been planted in Anchorage! The name of the church is "Wings of Love Ministry Assembly of God." Pastor So'o Malamalama and his wife are transfering their credentials to Alaska from Hawaii and already have a congregation of about 65 people. They are wonderful people of great faith, and have reported many salvations already. The church is meeting in the Fairview Recreation Center. This past Sunday evening, the Samoan Fellowship held a blessing service for the new church. It was a powerful service, and Anchorage Samoan AG was packed out for the occasion.
Pastor Vanilau, President of the Samoan Fellowship, led the service.
Assistant Superintendent Gary Morton preached an excellent message on "The faith of the leap."
The Fellowship praying over the new Pastors.
Pastor Gary and Pastor Vanilau blessing them.
Pastor Malamalama So'o
Pastor Vanilau blessing Pastor Malamalama and his wife, Ipuauro.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
General Presbytery
General Presbytery meetings just concluded today, here in Louisville, Kentucky. This was my (Brad) first experience at GP, so I thought I would give you a few of my impressions and thoughts. First, I was very encouraged by the spiritual hunger that is apparent in our leaders. We had a time of seeking God and prayer. The Holy Spirit moved, we had tongues & interpretation and prophetic words. More than one GP was literally weeping, asking God for another move of the Spirit. 2 Chronicles 7:14 was a theme. I suspect we will be hearing more about that soon.
Secondly, one of Dr. Wood's core values is to skillfully resource the fellowship. I am very excited to see that they are serious about this. The National Leadership & Resource Center (AG Headquarters) is working very hard on resource development that will benefit the local church. Examples include digital media, better curriculum, coaching ministries, healthy church development, church planting, and trips to the Holy Land. In future blog posts, I will highlight some of these initiatives.
Finally, I was impressed again with our leadership. I appreciate the vision of Dr. Wood and the Executive Leadership Team. They love God and they love the church. I also appreciate our Alaska Ministry Network Executive Presbytery. One of the things we elect them to do is represent us at the national level. Having been here, and seeing them interact with the other General Presbyters, I can tell you that they represent us very well. Pastor Fay and I appreciated the opportunity to serve with them this year at General Presbytery, as the ordained female and ordained minister under 40. Thanks for giving us this opportunity. Here are a few pictures.
Pastor Gary plays the piano during worship at each session.
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