CONFERENCES done by a LOCAL CHURCH = LEVEL's UP EVERYBODY

All were excited!

All experienced a STRETCHING!

All is on the same PAGE!

This happens when a LOCAL CHURCH or LOCAL GROUP does their own CONFERENCE.

One of the best things that happened to us at HIS LIFE was the GGMD2016.

Celebration-Connection-Calibration-Commission WE ALL DID!

SECRET to MAKING DISCIPLES: A RADICAL RECRUITMENT TOOL

I am sharing to you a RADICAL TOOL in recruiting leadership at His Life YX core group.  This letter is from Trixie (my wife) since she is the one who pastors this team of radicals [this was written years ago, but still in effect today as she would recruit a new one after a new one throughout the years].

Here it goes ... 
  
Greetings in the name of Jesus our Lord!

After more than 3 months, I will be going back to youth ministry officially this April 1. 
I praise the Lord for all the great and good things He has done in me and my family as well as among you in YX. I thank Him too for laying down things in my heart while I was away.
We all have sensed in our spirits that something big is coming in God's Kingdom, in the church, in our nation, in our personal lives and only those who are ready or more correctly stated have made themselves ready can perceive, receive and participate in it.
It is in this light that I am writing this letter to you because the very first thing that I need to settle is the leadership condition. There is a need for us to reconsider the decision we have made when we took the leadership challenge ... we all need to know that this is no light matter anymore considering what is required of us in the coming move of God...because when we do not count the cost well and see if we can pay the price, we can end up as casualties. 

This will not only affect us but others, too.

I need you to evaluate yourself if you are able to do the following:

1. Be honest about who you really are before me and others (no pretensions of who you are not and no walls and masks).
2.  Have a discipline of quiet time daily - reading the Bible and meditating on God's Word and praying (and not cute prayers but warfare and intercessory prayers).
3. Fast regularly once a week or at least 2x a month.
4. Pay your tithe.
5. Attend our life group meetings faithfully.
6. Lead your life group in the vision of discipleship - meet them regularly, bring them up toward the ladder of success; by now you should have produced life group leaders who are leading their own life groups...(if this is not happening I would be questioning your own commitment to the vision)
7. Be submissive to and supportive of our church leaders.
8. Be holy and not worldly - to share my convictions with regard to sexual issues and relationships, drinking and other vices (these are two of the most important matters in the youth), etc.
9. Be disciplined in your lifestyle, ministry, family, work or school (laziness cannot be tolerated)
10. In case something is missed, here is the ender that will cover everything - I need you to be a man/woman after God's own heart (and this is not easy).

If there is any doubt after you have read this letter, please do resign from the leadership...this is for your own good and for the good of others. If you only have a "I hope to be"or "I promise to be" attitude, please take back your commitment, too...this will save us all the other problems that will arise later. I am trying my best to really discourage you from making a step that will cost something you cannot pay. Do not let your concern of losing a good reputation keep you from backing out because really, it takes more courage to admit that it is not yet time for you than to continue with a pretentious heart. What will happen to those who will back out? You will still be a leader under the 12 and will continue to be trained until you are ripe and ready.

For those of you who think you are and who can, I still encourage you to rethink and rethink more deeply.
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NOTE # 1  
This was a letter wrote years back for the YX CORE by Trixie and is still in effect.  In it are the 10 standard requirements for being in their CORE GROUP.  They are also required to review the passages - 1 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9;  1 Peter 5:1-4.

NOTE # 2. 
If you say yes to YX core, you will be part of his 12 also (only the men leaders).

As I recruit leadership for the KINGSMEN network, I have also a version of my own.  

Click here to see MY 12 RECRUITMENT LETTER for MEN2016-17.

CONFERENCES enhances LEADERS

I just came from a Conference in Manila.

It was called GDC2016ASIA [january 27-30 at CCF].

I came together with our team of 32 people!

It was amazing.

The best part was i was with my entire family in Manila (Josh, Trina, Trixie).

Here are the responses of the people who came with an open heart, wanting to receive that they may be CHANGED and be a CHANGER of the world around them as they pass on things lived out and understood.

Believe it or not, a 3 to 4 Day Conference attended to in focus and determination can change the course and direction of people.  It can change you dramatically!

I for 1 was challenged, stretched and called again to commit again and again to the very things and agenda of God [Family is 1st Discipleship Ministry; Leadership is Sacrifice (bleedership); Organizational Culture may be Altered; and that the most important of all is Christ-likness as time spent with Him in Word and Prayer].

HERE'S what some of them said after an attendance at a CONFERENCE [the GDC2016ASIA]:

• Allen Manzanares
• I will dig deeper in the word of God as I grow in my intimacy with Him.
• I will lead with the mindset of leaving (your ministry is successful if you have successor).
• Learning is progressive.
• Glenn Arellano
• Identify and change personal and church culture that is unhelpful to the growth of the church.
• Equip leaders and active believers to be effective in the ministry.
• Trixie Ramos
• Intimacy through consistent quiet times.
• Finishing evangelistic, discipleship and training modules.
• Regular check up of WBTS process nationwide in YX and WOD.
• Faith Camponion
• 3 things I will pursue organizationally and personally: 
• 1. excellence 2. commitment 3. connection
• Ian Cabalatungan
• Train and equip more leaders.
• Build up myself in relating more to other people.
• Build up a good organizational culture.
• Ranty Camponion
• We need to create a team of pastors per corner to reach more and establish a satellite.
• Increase the leaders. 
• Bring them to the top.
• CJ Mahilum
• Lego Principle.
• Leadership Pain: The classroom for growth.
• How to Finish Well.
• Kevin Gever
• The One thing that determines Everything - To be excellent in loving God by growing deep in His word, in prayer and communion, imitating His very character - becoming more like Him.
• Discipleship is Relationship - To be excellent in loving people. With the intentionality of Making Disciples like Jesus and by creating an atmosphere of excellence in generational leadership.
• Finishing Strong - By living excellently and worthy the call God has for me.
• Daniel Bagayo
• We all pass on something, its not a matter of "if" but a question of "what".
• Pain is necessary. It has four levels. Declaration. Distress. Development. Demonstration. Growth = Pain
• Excellence = repeated reality.  Its not about innovation but consistency. We don't need a new strategy but mastery.

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THANKS to the MISSIONS DEPARTMENT of HIS LIFE; PCM; VISION PARTNERS; HIS LIFE CORNERS and SITES for investing in us.

THANKS too to our HOSTS  who blessed us with so much hospitality!  

THANKS to church members who allowed us to GO and continue TO MAKE DISCIPLES intentionally via Equippings like these.

THANKS too to the ORGANIZING TEAM:  Allen Manzanares; Arjay Gever; Ian Cabalatungan for making things easier for all of us while in Manila.

THANKS too to ARJAY for getting the responses stated above from our TEAM PARTICIPANTS.

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WHAT'S NEXT:
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PREACHING and PRAYING

Here's an article i read and would like to see in action during our SWE (Sunday Worship Experiences) and even all throughout the week of our congregation's life ...
READ ON ...
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 C.H. Spurgeon - Prayer Makes History

The memory of Charles Haddon Spurgeon has been cherished among evangelical Christians for over the past 100 years. Many Christian leaders consider him to be the greatest preacher England ever produced. He is commonly hailed as the "Prince of Preachers".
Over 63 volumes of published sermons still bear witness to the richness and success of C. H. Spurgeon's ministry. Though known as a great preacher, it was not preaching that made Spurgeon great. Mr. Spurgeon repeatedly acknowledged his success as the direct result of his congregation's faithful prayers. "It has often been remarked that the whole church helped produce Spurgeon." When visitors would come to Spurgeon's church he would take them to the basement prayer-room where people were always on their knees interceding. Then Spurgeon would declare, "Here is the powerhouse of this church."

Spurgeon in his autobiography described his gratefulness for being blessed with such a praying church. "I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people.
We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession." Spurgeon regarded the prayer-meeting as the spiritual thermometer of a church. His church's Monday night prayer meeting had a worldwide testimony for many years. Every Monday night a large portion of Spurgeon's sanctuary was filled with earnest and fervent intercessors.

"In Spurgeon's eyes the prayer-meeting was the most important meeting of the week." It is here many of us find ourselves in conflict with dear Mr. Spurgeon. We love our meetings for preaching and praising and yet sadly neglect those set aside for praying. One of Spurgeon's greatest concerns was that his people learn to truly pray. "He taught his people to pray, doing so far more by his example than by any preaching. People heard him pray with such reality that they became ashamed of their own mere repetition of words." Throughout his entire ministry many hearers remarked that they were moved by his preaching, but yet still more affected by his praying. D. L. Moody after his first visit to England, being asked upon his return to America, "Did you hear Spurgeon preach?" He replied, "Yes, but better still I heard him pray." A close friend of Spurgeon's, commented on his prayer life, "His public prayers were an inspiration, but his prayers with the family were to me more wonderful still. Mr. Spurgeon, when bowed before God in family prayer, appeared a grander man even than when holding thousands spellbound by his oratory."

Spurgeon fully recognized that the Church's greatest need was not to have another, "Prince of Preachers", but to have more princes of prayer. One of his many published sermons expressed his feelings on this. He wrote, "Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer . . . "

There has been much talk lately about pockets of revival springing up in our nation. Many are saying they desire such revivals in our own local churches, and cities. Yet, is it not the prayer-meeting which is still most neglected? If Christ Jesus were to visit us today with real revival power, how could such a blessing be sustained where there is no ground work laid in prayer? To merely exercise our words about revival and not our knees is hypocrisy! It is time to make the prayer-meeting as crowded as our favorite preaching and praise meetings. It is then and ONLY then, that a true revival will come with lasting power!  Like Mr. Spurgeon, let us regard the prayer-meeting as our most important meeting!
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BATON PASS POWER HOUSE PRAYER MOVE
8 to 12 people commit to pray DURING a SWE weekend SIMULTANEOUSLY covering the ACTUAL Worship Service Flow within a Designated area where the SWE is happening.  AFTER the 1st person prays for 10 minutes, he or she passes on the PRAYER GUIDE to the next and then to the next until the SWE is over. The purpose of which is to see the manifested will of God's presence from the Opening Call to Worship to the Welcome Time to the Preaching Segment to the Altar Call and until the Benediction.