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Hi everyone,
Over the holidays, we have been working on a new web site which will unite congregations for evangelism. This web site will also help churches grow.
Please just click here to see what it’s all about! I pray you and your church would join in!
For the furtherance of the Great Commission!
Julian and the ESI team.
I went to visit my aged Mum (88) in Whangarei for Christmas.
On the way there, just south of Wellsford, I rounded a bend and there in front of me was a man coming out from the deep bush which lined the road. As soon as his feet hit the road, his thumb went out. It was 7 am.
After a positive experience picking up a hitch hiker a few days ago, I immediately pulled over for this man too. Let’s call him Mike.
Wow! What an interesting story he had to tell!
He …
The other day I was travelling back from Whangarei, and just out of Wellsford, on the open road, was a hitchhiker.
He was a Maori, mid 30′s, unshaven, rough looking, pony tailed, with a small bag (not like the guy in the picture at left!).
As soon as I saw him I started the classic ‘would I, won’t I’ dialogue in my head. I looked over at my passengers seat and it was covered with bits and pieces. As I drove passed him I decided it was ‘No’.
But driving away from him, …
This was a dream I had today, the 20th December, 2011.
It was about 6:30am. I dreamt I’d just bought some evangelism resources and with them was a small pamphlet.
The pamphlet told me the truth about the state of evangelism in New Zealand.
As I began reading it I became more and more discouraged.
I read that many years ago there were many youth workers who did evangelism but as time went on, there were fewer and fewer.
Eventually only one young person was out there evangelising.
I also read that the churches in my …
Every church wants to be effective in evangelism, yet very few churches actually have a strategy for it.
As the saying goes ‘if we fail to plan, we plan to fail’.
So, to avoid failing with evangelism, we need to formulate a specific strategy.
The dictionary defines the word ‘strategy’ like this:
“a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim”
So, what’s the overall aim of your church in evangelism? What’s your plan to get there?
What does the Bible say we must include? Exclude? Where does one start? What are the …
This is a good question.
Please take a few moments to watch this video.
Bless you guys and keep up the great work of evangelising the world!
http://youtu.be/F31grNuRTV0
Hi, my name is Iain Dickson. I am the minister at Te Puke Presbyterian Church.
I thought I would write to you about the encounter we had yesterday – I’m still buzzing.
I am now starting to train other people in my church how to do evangelism. Paul taught Timothy, so I need to follow that example.
Three of us were out and about sharing the gospel to six households in Te Puke yesterday.
I was teaching two Christian ladies how to give the gospel by using the survey. Both were very apprehensive about knocking on doors and …
From time to time I receive emails from people about their adventures in evangelism. Below is an account from a young lady called Benedicte.
Hi Julian,
I hope you are well. Today, I paid for the evangelism resources I bought from you.
Also, today, I used the red laminated booklet (one of the tools your produced for delivering the gospel) for the first time .
This morning, I went to Botany Shopping Centre (a suburb in Auckland) to have coffee with a friend, then I sat down and read the red laminated booklet and …
Hi everyone,
Just because South Africa didn’t win the rugby world cup does not mean God is not at work in their country. In fact, quite the contrary. God has exported some of their finest church leaders to New Zealand.
Whether they are spies planted here by the South African Rugby Union we don’t really know.
Suspicions were raised when Henry and the coaching staff were approached by SA pastors residing in NZ, offering to pray for the All Blacks in their dressing rooms prior to test matches.
Once in the All Black dressing room, …
Greetings everyone, I am Iain Dickson, Minister at Te Puke Presbyterian Church in New Zealand. My photo is below.
This afternoon I was prompted by the Lord to head to a different street in Te Puke and go door to door doing evangelism. The Holy Spirit inspired me to do this after attending a Church DNA change conference a few months ago. At that point in my ministry, I had become frustrated just discipling existing Christians. I wanted to get out of my office and personally reach the lost with the gospel.
I took my evangelism …
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