Yesterday from 9:00am - 12:00pm I attended an evangelism seminar at Fourth Memorial Church put on by the Greater Spokane Association of Evangelicals. There were three pastors from some of the larger churches in the area that presented an hour apiece about how their individual churches approach evangelism. It was a world-class event. There were about 165 pastors or lay leaders there from all over the region.
The first speaker was Bill Putman father of Jim Putman from Real Life Ministries in Post Falls, Idaho. He was great. He talked about the explosion of growth that they have seen at their church (averaging 247% growth in the last 4 years) and what they focus on. This church has close to 100% small group participation which is phenomenal. I have a few pages of notes from this first session that I am going to try to put into some logical order and then I will post it later. I will try to do the same with the other speakers as well.
The next speaker was Joe Wittwer from Life Center Church . Life Center is our mother church and our church exists because of the amazing dedication to evangelism that Life Center has. I have a great deal of respect for Pastor Joe and I really appreciated and was challenged by this session. More notes to come from this one as well.
The final session was by Ken Ortize from Calvary Spokane. This session was great. I will post my notes from this session later as well.
The GSAE did a great job putting this event together. They are hoping to do more events like this. I hope they do.
More on this event later...
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Cool! Nice to see you posting again! I can't wait to see your notes.
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