CANCELLED - Postponed
Diverge
(sponsored by Church Health Ministry)
May 1, 2010
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, the Church of God will descend upon Bay City to serve and love in the name of Christ on behalf of the North Euclid Church of God. It’s called DIVERGE and you want to be there.
So what is DIVERGE? Diverge is the result of Church Health Ministry brainstorming a new way to deliver training to our pastors and lay leaders in the state of Michigan. We wanted to continue to provide quality training for our leaders and at the same time model at the regional level the missional focus we believe our churches must adopt.
DIVERGE means “to move or extend in different directions from a common point”. This captured our thoughts. We want the church to move out into its community and extend herself into different directions from the common focal point of the Great Commission. So DIVERGE will bring us together for a half day of leadership development and provide a missional project for the second half. We will learn by doing and help the North Euclid Church in Bay City as well.
Jeff Perkins, the Senior Pastor of the First Church of God in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, will be our facilitator. In the six years Jeff has pastored this church they have grown from 400-600, added four staff positions, completed a building renovation project, and were recently honored by the Chamber of Commerce as the Public Service Organization of the year. Before serving this congregation, Jeff planted Westside Community Church in Orlando, Florida. In the sixteen years as pastor of this congregation the church grew from 20 to 280, added three staff members, purchased property, erected a building, and was debt free when he left. Jeff earned a B.A. degree in Pastoral Ministry from Warner-Southern College in Lake Wales, Florida, and a Master’s Degree in Ministry from Moody Graduate School in Chicago, Illinois. Jeff is a S.H.A.P.E. cluster coach, and the former Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly of the Church of God in Anderson.
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 - 10:30 p.m. Opening Worship
10:30 - Noon
Conference led by Jeff Perkins
Noon - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (served on site at North Euclid Church of God)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Service projects
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Closing
Registration for this event is $10 per person. Registration deadline is April 24th, 2010. You can register individually or as a church by sending a check to the Church of God in Michigan, 4212 Alpha Street, Lansing, MI 48910 or use the link for PayPal. The best kind of learning is combined with doing. DIVERGE provides for both. See you in Bay City!
Directions to North Euclid Church of God