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[ag-news] AG NEWS #1804: April 19, 2010
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**Church holds nightly revival meetings
The Church Alive (AG), Conway, Arkansas, holds nightly meetings
in March that spark a month-long revival. Attendance reached
more than 500 a night, with reports of more than 500 salvations
and more than 300 water baptisms to date. Prayer services
continue at the church every morning.
**Girls continue to give to missions through Coins for Kids
Assemblies of God girls maintain high level of giving for the
2009-2010 Coins for Kids project -- giving nearly $162,000 for
Project India. Missionaries Clark and Jennifer Jensen say funds
will be used to build Rescue Centers in New Delhi, India. Learn
more about Girls Ministries at http://ngm.ag.org. Visit
http://myglobalfamily.org for more information about Jensen's
ministry.
**This week in AG History -- April 19, 1930
Featured in this week's April 19, 1930, issue of the
"Pentecostal Evangel" are articles by Stanley Frodsham, George
T.B. Davis, James Salter, Charles E. Robinson, Ernest S.
Williams and others!
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**CHURCH HOLDS NIGHTLY REVIVAL MEETINGS
When Pastor Randy Long began the series The Unlimited Realm at The
Church Alive (AG) in Conway, Arkansas, on March 12, he didn't
realize the evening services would spark a month-long series of
revivals in his congregation.
On an average night, the evening gatherings saw attendance of more
than 500 people. "There have been many healings, there has been
deliverance, people have been set free, marriages have been restored
and salvation reports have a wide range from small children to the
elderly," Long says.
According to Long, so far there have been more than 500 salvations
and more than 300 water baptisms. Since the services are also
streaming online, the church has received salvation and healing
reports from viewers in 46 different countries.
"There has been a fire from these meetings that has spread
throughout Arkansas ? like a blaze set out among believers," Long
says. "We¹ve heard from Chi Alpha on the campus of the University of
Central Arkansas, experiencing daily salvations, water baptisms and
baptisms in the Holy Spirit on a daily basis ? also, there was one
church that was not even an AG church that has told us how they have
been affected by revival services, claiming they've had many
salvations and reports of financial gain. I've never seen a coming
together in the community like I have on this."
At this point, The Church Alive will transition from services every
night to revival services on Thursdays at 7 p.m. They will also be
concentrating on prayer throughout the week, with an emphasis on
Wednesday noon revival prayer meetings and communion.
For more information about The Church Alive or to view revival
services, visit http://www.thechurchalive.org.
--Becca Hodge
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**GIRLS CONTINUE TO GIVE TO MISSIONS THROUGH COINS FOR KIDS
In a time of economic recession, the girls of the Assemblies of God
maintained a high level of giving for the 2009-2010 Coins for Kids
project.
³The girls in our churches are catching the vision of missions,²
says Candy Tolbert, national Girls Ministries director. ³We raise
the bar year after year and they keep stepping up to the challenge.
Over the past three years the Coins for Kids offering has averaged
$169,500. For the three years before that the offering averaged
$111,500.²
Girls gave $161,961.20 to Project India ? Rescue, Foster Care,
Education during the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2010.
³We are so thrilled with the Coins for Kids offering!² exclaims
missionary Jennifer Jensen. ³These funds will allow us to build one,
or even two, Rescue Centers in New Delhi. Who knows how many
desperate and abandoned children will receive help through these
centers built by God through the giving of girls in America.²
³A Rescue Center is not an orphanage,² continues missionary Clark
Jensen. ³These centers serve as places of refuge and rebuilding,
serving children and sometimes single moms who have nowhere else to
turn. The care and support they receive during their stay (usually 6
to 12 months) will help them to start over. For abandoned children,
we find caregivers through the local churches who will love them and
raise them as their own.²
Recently, the need for more Rescue Centers was made real through the
story of 12-year-old Sangita. Her father is not known and her mother
is in jail. Sangita must earn enough money each day to take care of
her two younger siblings. They live in a makeshift ³house² made of
cardboard and tin. The three children beg and sell drugs to make
enough money to eat ? one meal a day if they are fortunate.
A Delhi church member learned of the children's situation and
brought them to an existing Rescue Center. Through a careful
process, including background checks through local government
agencies, it was determined that the children had no family to take
care of them. Sangita and her siblings have now been placed with
Christian parents through the local church. They receive love, care
and the attention that all children need. Sangita and her brother
and sister are doing well ? they attend school and participate in
all kinds of activities both at home and at church. They are growing
up with the opportunities that each child deserves.
³It¹s stories like Sangita¹s that inspire us to teach missions to
our girls,² adds Tolbert. ³How many more like these three children
will have their lives redirected because a girl in a small town,
inner city or suburb learned that giving to missions is part of
God¹s plan for everyone?²
For more information about the Jensen¹s ministry in India, visit
their Web site at http://myglobalfamily.org. To learn more about AG
Girls Ministries, visit http://ngm.ag.org.
--Lori Van Veen
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**THIS WEEK IN AG HISTORY -- APRIL 19, 1930
The year was 1930. The Great Depression had just begun and finances
were tight. Stanley Frodsham, editor of the ³Pentecostal Evangel,²
wrote an article about spiritual lessons that come from financial
limitations. According to Frodsham, a person¹s true character is
revealed by his or her approach to money. Read Frodsham¹s article,
³Owe No Man Anything,² in the April 19, 1930, issue of the
³Pentecostal Evangel.²
Also featured in this issue:
* ³A Marvelous Miracle,² by George T. B. Davis
* ³Pioneering for Christ in the Congo,² by James Salter
* ³Is the Holy Spirit Weary?² by Charles E. Robinson
* ³Loving Inquiry and Tender Instruction,² by Ernest S. Williams
And many more! Click here to read this issue now:
http://s2.ag.org/apr191930
"Pentecostal Evangel" archived editions courtesy of Flower
Pentecostal Heritage Center (http://iFPHC.org).
For current editions of the "Evangel," click here:
http//www.pe.ag.org.
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