Tuesday, April 12, 2011

—Pastor Gerry Stoltzfoos, Freedom Valley Worship Center

Pastor in Gettysburg ,Pa. He left his Church of 10 years of staff and left the amish. When he was 16 he started questioned why people did not get saved a church of being amish and he did not agree to rules. He wanted to be at a church that was aggressive for God and wanted people to get saved. So he left and went to passionate church. Pastor Omar was a great mentor and friend to him. They talked ministry about doctrine and you learn more unttentioally he learned more about ministry doing it. So pastor Omar left to the soviet union, and the church he was at told him to go away. He had vision to go to philly and plant a church. He went there 6 months everyday straight. 3 find a growing community and conceive a job to to support his family. He thinks teens are never to young to be leaders. Push kids to leadership. TO develop world changers. The great churches are pastor by the sons. His son felt led to plant a church and he has a core group of people that preaches too. Churches that fight the culture get in trouble. He really respects Joel Osteen. He respects them He understands the unchurched and knows how to reach them. We need to celebrate growing churches. Jesus says it is the fruit that matters. He ends up in Gettysburg Jeff Kettering called that he planned to plant a church. He did not want to go but spoke to them about Gerry to plant a Church in Gettysburg. So Jeff asked him to go see and visit Gettysburg. He walked into a room of 8 business dressed men. He knew they were.at that time he thought the AG was dead and needed to repent of the deadliness. The men said we like Jesus and they wanted to talk so they said you can talk or take a $100 for his troubles. They were very humble and decided to talk. SO after the meeting he drove around the area checking it out. While driving around the area his wife spoke and said she saw their family about the house they live in. So the house went on the market in three days and so he called them and two to three weeks later God gave them money to buy for the down payment. The guy he bought the house and bought a long term sales agreement. The lawyer thought it was stupid. The document became a 17 page agreement. He did everything wrong church planting but God blessed him. Last week they had 1250 in attendance. Wrote a book called 83 sheep. Study done that verify 83% Americans lowest Church attendance. The study was not not done in the north east. ARDA. 83 out of 100 people do not know Jesus. He is a passionate Guy that Loves God and an urgency to win people and plant churches for God. We have to win the CULTURE!!!!! God use me please! I dont wont to regret one moment in this life time for you to build this church your kingdom have your way I MEAN it!I so do Holy Spirit I want more of you I cant stop I am all for you.I love you God! The goofiest idea for ministry raffle a motorcycle and he had to get a gaming license to do it or get arrested. He owned a tattoo parlor. 50 kids were in the parlor and kids got saved. He bought it personally. A lot of kids got saved. thats one more crazy thing they did. Brandy grecgo they are a church about people that have given up on Church. Isn't that interesting people are walking out of CHurch. They needed to reach people who had given up on Church. They ignore people who come from other churches. He has shining stars ministry helping the handicap with riding on horses. He was on night-line for an episode for speaking in tongues. So cool.

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