Christmas is just around the corner and just in today is Our New Christmas flier! We want this to be the biggest Christmas yet for our ministry to Rwanda, so we've set a few BIG goals:

• Provide an annual rural Living Wage for 300 coffee farmers in Rwanda
• Launch our new coffee ministries in the SopraCaf region of Rwanda and Haiti

To do this we need to sell 40,000 12-oz bags of coffee in 2 months! Or the equivalent of 80 bags to members and staff at each of our 500 partner churches and businesses.

Click here to view the flier full screen. Ministry partners can use this handy order form: just fill it out and e-mail to your Rwandan coffee relationship partner.

I hope and trust this finds you well.  Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ!

We're very excited about our Fall Network Retreat beginning next week.  There are so many last minute details we are working through... including registrations, rooming assignments, etc.

The atmosphere of the retreat will be casual, but we desire to see very encouraging and helpful time.

I would ask that you communicate to your churches how we would greatly covet their prayers for us during this week.

We will have a drawing Thursday morning for everyone who has registered, stays at Rockbridge, and payed the registration fee.  First place winner gets an iPad (still in the unopened box) and second place winner gets a free Winter Conference Registration.

Look forward to seeing you at Rockbridge next week.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call me 336.404.2387

In Christ,

Alan

Dear Friends,

I hope and trust this message finds you well.  I am in Little Rock, AR for a Network Leaders meeting.  We're really having a great time working through our next chapter as the Anglican Mission in America and this network.

Next week I hope to finalize our details for the network retreat.  If you haven't registered yet, please register online here at our website or Click Here by Sunday at 5pm.

We're really looking forward to the time together.

Many many blessings in Christ,
Alan

You can now register and pay securly online for the Apostles Mission Network Fall Retreat. 

Join together with other churches in the Apostles Mission Network for several days of community, encouragement, rest and play.  We are gathering October 25-28th at Young Life’s Rockbridge Alum Springs, a beautiful retreat center nestled in Virginia’s Shenandoah mountains.  Located only a short distance north from Roanoke, VA, Rockbridge offers spacious cabin-style accomodations, comfortable meeting spaces and tremendous food along with a vast array of recreational activities: miles of hiking trails, outdoor basketball court, indoor gym, frisbee golf, large playing fields, ropes course, climbing tower, zip line, outdoor hot tub and more!  Your retreat begins Monday, October 25th with a day of recreation and fellowship for those interested (This is optional).  The retreat officially begins Tuesday, October 26th with registration at 4 pm.

AMN Fall Retreat brochure (pdf)

Click here to register Apostles Mission Network Fall Retreat.

"Serving Your Congregation Through Worship" by Andy Piercy

A two day worship training event for pastors, worship leaders and all praise team members

Register - Serving Your Congregation Through Worship

Location: Reformed Theological Seminary (Chapel); 2101 Carmel Road, Charlotte, NC 28226

Andy Piercy is an internationally recognized leader in contemporary worship. He was part of the worship leading team at Holy Trinity Brompton in London from 1993 to 2006. During that time he accompanied Bishop Sandy Millar and Rev. Nicky Gumbel to many Alpha conferences around the world and across the USA. As well as writing and recording many of the songs used on Alpha and at HTB, he has also produced records for Delirious?, Matt Redman, Rita Springer, Soul Survivor, and Graham Kendrick. Andy is known for his down-to-earth style and his practical approach to leading effective worship. You can read more about Andy and his compositions at andypiercy.com.

To register for this event, please contact:
Tami Allee
Administrative Assistant
704-641-4616 (cell)

or you can register online.

Friday, October 1

6.30 Registration (get acquainted with coffee and snacks)
7.00 Introduction and Worship
7.30 - 9.00:  Session 1 "Worship - what's with all the singing?"

Saturday, October 2

8.30 Coffee and light breakfast
9.00 Worship
9.15 -10.30:  Session 2 "Building Trust"
Coffee Break
10.45 -12.00:  Session 3 "Entrances and Exits"

Lunch

12.45 - 1.45: Session 4 "Making the most of your musical resources"

Coffee Break

2.00 - 3.00:  Session 5 "Where do we go from here"

This teaching event is designed to refresh, inspire and equip worship leaders, pastors and praise teams who are seeking to help their congregations move ahead together in worship. Emphasis is placed on the 'values' and 'principals' of modern worship, while examining practical details that can be easily applied in any setting.

The objective is to provide every guest with at least one or two pieces of helpful advice that can be applied immediately, alongside other practical information that can be gradually included, with further foundational aspects that will prove useful over a period of time.

The sessions are designed to be entertaining and easy to listen to, and adaptable to the skill level of the team member.

It is recommended that pastors and ministers attend along with their team in order to have the maximum benefit from the event.

Synopsis/Outline of the Talks

Session 1 "What's with all the singing?"
Is worship a gift or a task, and if we were created to worship what exactly does that mean? Why can't it just be the way it used to be?

Session 2 "Building Trust"

One of the most important components necessary in order to allow a church to move ahead together in worship is the relationship between those leading the worship and the congregation. Vital to taking a church forward in worship is being able to build trust between the worship team, the leadership and the congregation. This talk concentrates on the importance of loving your congregation in the equation.

Session 3 "Entrances and Exits"
How can we help congregations more? What might we be doing to hinder their ability to worship? Why does it sometimes seem such hard work? Practical tips that can be easily applied

Session 4 "Making the most of your musical resources"
Simple and easily applicable advice on helping your team work together and sound better.

How to advertise and promote this within your church community

• Extend invitations to all worship leaders and praise team members within your own church
• Explain the vision for the event and encourage your pastors to recommend it to their worship teams.

Register Here - Serving Your Congregation Through Worship

All Saints is excited to announce this conference on the Missional Church, which will be held on Friday, October 29, from 7-9 pm and again on Saturday, October 30, from 9 am-12 noon. The speaker, Reggie McNeal, enjoys helping people, leaders, and Christian organizations pursue more intentional lives. He currently serves as the Missional Leadership Specialist for Leadership Network of Dallas, Texas. Reggie's past experience involves over a decade as a denominational executive and leadership development coach. He also served in local congregational leadership for over twenty years, including being the founding pastor of a new church.

Reggie has lectured or taught as adjunct faculty for multiple seminaries, including Fuller Theological (Pasadena, CA), Southwestern Baptist (Ft. Worth, TX), Golden Gate Baptist (San Francisco, CA), Trinity Divinity School (Deerfield, IL), and Columbia International (Columbia, SC). Reggie has contributed to numerous denominational publications and church leadership journals.

His books include Revolution in Leadership; A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders; The Present Future; Practicing Greatness; and Get a Life! His latest book, Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church details the three shifts that church leaders must make to engage the missional movement and offers suggestions for a different scorecard to reflect missional ministry.

Reggie's education includes a B.A. from the University of South Carolina and the M. Div. and Ph.D. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

To register, please call 843.237.4223, ext. 205, or online at www.allsaintspawleys.org. There is no fee, but we need to know if you will be attending. Childcare available for infant through 5th grade, but you must register children (843.237.4223, ext. 218) no later than Friday, October 22.

Dear friends,

I trust and hope you are well and that you are settling back into the fall calendar with encouragement and grace. I am ready for fall weather... (Not New England weather...)

Briefly, I have a few bits of information for your review:

1. Let me introduce and re-introduce to you Rev. Spencer Clifford (Deacon Church of the Redeemer Greensboro), who will be serving as the Network Clergy Formation Advisor for Apostles Mission Network. Spencer's goal and desire is to help and serve with all those folks who are in the process of ordination and reception in the Anglican Mission in America. Spencer can be reached:

via telephone: 336-509-0885
via email: TeamClifford@triad.rr.com

We're trying to get a true list of folks in the process. Spencer is starting to follow everyone up.

2. Our Network Website is up and running (and in process). The address is: www.apostlesmission.org. We're working to get more and more information on there over the next few weeks. One really great feature that is being built is an online Clergy Formation Database tracker (thanks to Spencer's work). Anyone in the process can enter their name, password, etc. and view their current check list. This I think will make our process so much easier to understand and follow, especially for those who want to know "where they stand."

3. We will begin sending a weekly email new blast. This will feature stories and events taking place in the network.

4. I'll have all the final details for our network retreat later this week as well.

5. Bp. Terrell will be on vacation later this week. Please pray for him and Teresa. They're looking forward to some time away in California. Please pray that the Lord will protect this time for them.

6. I would ask your continued and faithful prayers for the election of a new ArchBishop in Rwanda (Sept. 17th).

7. I would also ask your continued prayers for David and Langley Cumbie (Church of the Cross - Boston). The Cumbie's gave birth to David, Jr. and Mary Camden after 26 weeks of pregnancy a few weeks ago and still need your prayers.. You can read more at http://www.facebook.com/l/7a1fc;thecumbies.wordpress.com/"

8. Our congratulations and prayers for the folk in Harrisonburg, VA. Mr. Aubrey Spears, who comes to us via the Miletus AMiA Network, has accepted the call to come to Harrisonburg with his family (Janielle and the five kids) and plant a new AMiA work. Rev. Dan Claire (Church of the Rez DC) will be serving as Regional Leader over this new work. Welcome Aboard Aubrey.

9. Welcome aboard, as well, to Drew Hill. Drew will be helping and serving our Youth Ministry leaders across the mission. The goal of his ministry with the network will be to walk alongside those working with teens and help them in their ministries and service to their respective churches. Drew graduated from Denver Theological Seminary and has attended International Anglican Church in Colorado Springs. He's in process of contacting those in your congregation serving teen ministries.

10. Blessing to Rev. Greg Hampton (Deacon) and Christ Church in Yorktown, Va. Greg has just moved and settled and they are beginning their work now. Our prayers are with you all Greg.

Peace to you,
Alan