Partners 289: Be on the 700 Club! , Audio on Islam, Free Helicopter Rides

• Islam’s Challenge to the West:

A free 2.5 hour audio seminar presented by Sam Solomon, a former Middle Eastern Muslim scholar who is now one of the leading Christian apologists addressing issues concerning Islam. Subjects covered: Takeya (permitted lying), Abrogation (one text negates another in the Quran), The Qur'an, Democracy in Islam.

Click here http://onewaydeadend.com/islam-lecture.html to listen to it. We all need to understand Islam’s challenge better. Remember, God is only allowing this challenge to bring more glory to Him and His Church! Romans 8:28 is still true in all this!

700 Club Wants Your Help:

"Are you living from paycheck to paycheck? Are you in debt? Here's the chance for you and your spouse to receive in-depth teaching from Pat Robertson on developing and keeping marital and financial harmony. We're looking for couples who need an action plan to eliminate debt and are ready to try Pat's financial principles. He'll show you how to set realistic budgets and financial goals, give you tips to get out of credit card debt, advice on where to invest and the most important, teach you the true meaning of reciprocity. If you would like to be a part of our upcoming 700 Club segments, Pat's Financial Boot Camp, and are willing to appear on the show and let our producers follow your "debt diet", please send us your story to marti.paradee-wheeler@cbn.org .

Free Helicopter Ride with Flying Missionaries!

Take an exciting and educational ride in a missionary's helicopter or airplane; observe computer and translation demonstrations; watch exciting videos and films; thrill to demonstrations of special flying techniques; meet and talk with jungle aviators and translators, and more. Sponsored by JAARS, one of the world’s great missionary flying agencies, serving Wycliffe Bible Translators all over the world, from their base in Waxhaw, N.C. The event is free, but you are encouraged to help the organization through a donation. For more information, call (757) 428-1881. JAARS website: http://www.jaars.org Please help them out. This is one organization that keeps missionaries alive in remote areas of the world and gets them to places that no other vehicle can easily get to!
Saturday, April 22, 2006, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 23, 2006, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Free at Chesapeake Regional Airport, 1777 West Road, Chesapeake, VA 23322.

Click here for directions from all points:

From Virginia Beach, VA

• Get on Interstate 264-W
• Take the I-64 E exit on the left towards CHESAPEAKE/SUFFOLK
• Take the exit on the left
• Merge onto I-64 E
• At I-64 Exit 291 B and stay in the right lanes onto Great Bridge Blvd.
• Next light make a right on to Dominion Blvd/RT 17 South. Dominion Blvd.
• Go approximately 4 miles and make a left on West Road.
• There should be signs along the route saying Chesapeake Municipal or Regional Airport. The airport is approximately 2 1/2 miles on the left.

My kids and I went to one of these fly-ins a few years ago and we still talk about it to this day. We took a helicopter and an airplane ride that day. And meeting these people, learning about the different languages, cultures, etc. was very educational.- Michael Grice

HILLSONG UNITED Concert: Wednesday, April 5th 7.30pm!

---is coming to the Virginia Beach!!!!

FREE & OPEN to the public

(No Tickets Required) Doors will open at 6.45pm.

Wave Church: 1000 North Great Neck Road, Virginia Beach, PH: 757-481-5005

www.wavechurch.com

Medical Coordinator Wanted in Darfur, Sudan:
Christian international aide organization wants to hire a person to oversee their medical work there. Does not need medical degree. Mostly paid position with some fund raising for support. Click here for complete job description linked on left side of the page.

Free Picture Editors:
This piece of free software gets very good reviews fom CNet. I have not tried it. For the more experienced user,but not as heavy duty as Photoshop. Click here
GIMP is another image editor that is amazing---almost as good as the $500 Adobe Photoshop. It is free online and works on PC, MAC or Linux. Click here to get it.

Computer Tip: ( from Kathy Walters)
It's very useful when trying to read small print.
If you hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and then turn the wheel
in the middle of your mouse away from you or towards you, the print size
will change - it will either get larger or smaller - depending on which way
you turn the wheel. Try it.

Thank Your for Praying for that Pastor's Wife in Chesapeake! She went home to Jesus last Wednesday despite the fervent prayers of many. We all have a lot to learn about how to pray for the sick in situaitons like this--but we are going to continue to pray!!

Partners 288: Pastor's Wife in Chesapeake Is About to Have a Miracle!

Agree with Us for a Miracle: Becky Richardson is the 55-year-old wife of Oscar Richardson, pastor at the Chesapeake Vineyard in the Deep Creek section of Chesapeake.

These are two of my oldest and dearest friends. They helped start that church with me years ago. She had a cerebral aneurism at home last Wednesday. Dozens of people from many local churches have come to the hospital to pray and support this much-loved family day and night for days. Just tonight, March 27, the doctors at Chesapeake General in Chesapeake, VA. declared her clinically dead due to no brain wave activity.

But this is not the end of the story.

It seems that everyone who has come to the hospital to pray over the last six days senses that God is not ready to take Becky home to heaven. Given the lack of brain waves, most Christians would release the person the Lord and stop praying for healing. I have done that in the past. It makes sense. But God, as we know, is not limited by what makes sense to us!

I am asking you all to agree with dozens of us who have known Oscar and Becky for many years that God would glorify Himself greatly in this situation. If He is not ready to take her home, then He intends to do something pretty spectacular to show others Who He is and what He can do. Nothing motivates God more than that. I could be wrong but I fully believe that something amazing is going to happen here that will astound the medical, Christian and non-Christian community. I am not a “name-it-and-claim-it person—nor are the others who agree that God is not done here. God is God. While He generally wants to heal people when asked, if God wants Becky in heaven, that is fine with us. She belongs to Him more than to us. We just don’t believe that her time here is finished.

I know some of you may have never prayed like this, but please pray now that God would raise Becky up miraculously. It's easier not to pray that way, but I believe we will miss the great thing that God wants to do to glorify Himself if we don't. Many souls could come to Jesus as a result of a miracle like this!

You can stay tuned to what is happening to Becky by checking her online Blog at http://becky2007.blogspot.com/ New reports will be put there regularly.

Partners 287: Video for Muslims, Pastors & Politics, Booklet for Masons, Tech Tip

Incredible Video to Reach Muslims

Here is a link to watch one of the most powerful video's a Muslim could see. It shows the true story of how one radical muslim became a follower of Jesus after he had a vision of Jesus and after working for months to discredit the Bible.

It is part of the More than Dreams series that is being released worldwide to show Muslims the love, power and reality of Jesus Christ. I predict that this series will shake the Muslim world as no other video sreies ever has! In the last 15 years, thousands of Muslims have become followers of Jesus after having supernatural encounters with Him in dreams and visions! Now thsoe stories are finally being told with great video artistry. Here's the link:

http://www.4truth.net/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=hiKXLbPNLrF&b=784495&ct=1557999

Rules of Engagement for Pastors and the US Election Process

It can seem very adversarial for churches to get invloved in the eleciton process at any level--local, state or federal. Here are some handy guidelines from an expert, Alice Patterson, President of Justice at the Gate (http://www.justiceatthegate.org)

"How can pastors educate and mobilize their congregations and still protect their tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)?
To read the entire article with guidelines on Political and Lobbying Activities allowed for churches and nonprofit organizations, go to: http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html
Also visit our website and download a copy of CIVIC GUIDELINES FOR PASTORS AND CHURCHES AT http://justiceatthegate.org/civic02d.asp
It's also available in Spanish by requesting it by email or phone at 210-677-8214.

Here are some things churches may do:

• Educate about issues and elections
• Distribute nonpartisan Voter Guides
• Get Out The Vote in a nonpartisan way
• Register voters
• Invite candidates to speak as a candidate if all candidates have an equal invitation
• Hold candidate forums if a broad range of questions are asked
• Educate on specific legislation and encourage their constituents to call or write about specific legislation if the activities do not constitute a substantial amount of time or resources of the organization
• Candidates for office may be given the pulpit to share their testimony, teach or speak about an issue and not as a candidate. In that case you don't have to invite other candidates. However, in that instance, there must be no mention of the candidancy and no campaign activity may take place.
• You may invite all candidates for political office to come to your church to be introduced and prayed over. If only one shows up, he can speak, just as you would have allowed the others to speak. You can't control who comes. You can only control who is invited. Invite all, and you're safe.
• Pastors may preach about elections and about issues and values. Pastors have always been a plumbline for what is right and what is wrong in a society.

Can pastors endorse candidates? Yes.

• Pastors may endorse candidates as an individual citizen, but not as an official representative of the church or nonprofit organization. You may have seen "titles for identificational purposes only" after the name of a pastor or leader endorsing a political candidate. That phrase clarifies the fact that the person is a pastor but is not speaking on behalf of his congregation pastor but as a private citizen.
• Pastors may volunteer for candidates.
• Pastors may donate to candidates from their personal resources.

Give This to Your Masonic Friends:
Great new booklet online that many Masons will find helpful, called Dear Mr. Mason. See http://www.mr-mason.com/

Send Up to I GB File to Someone Free Over the Internet:
Try http://www.yousendit.com/
Very easy to use. Great for sending large pictues and video files that can clog their email. They get a message you sent the file and they download it off the web within 7 days.

Partners 286: Feb 26, 2006

• Over 500 Scientists Proclaim Their Doubts About Darwin's Theory
  Discovery Institute
  February 20, 2006
  The Scientific Dissent From Darwinism list is now located at a new webpage,
  www.dissentfromdarwin.org.
  
  SEATTLE - Over 500 doctoral scientists have now signed a statement publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution.
  
  
  
  The statement, says the report -- which includes endorsements by members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences -- was first published by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute in 2001 to challenge statements made in PBS's "Evolution" series which claimed "virtually every scientist in the world believes the theory [evolution] to be true."
  
  "Darwinists continue to claim that no serious scientists doubt the theory and yet here are 500 scientists who are willing to make public their skepticism about the theory," said John G. West, associate director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (DICSS).
  
  "Darwin's theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought," said David Berlinski, a signatory and mathematician and philosopher of science with DICSS. "It is large, almost completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe."
  
  Other prominent signatories, according to the report, include U.S. National Academy of Sciences member Philip Skell, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Lyle Jensen, evolutionary biologist and textbook author Stanley Salthe; Smithsonian Institution evolutionary biologist and researcher at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Biotechnology Information Richard von Sternberg, editor of Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum - the oldest still published biology journal in the world - Giuseppe Sermonti and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences embryologist Lev Beloussov.
  Over 500 Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Evolution
  WND Staff/Teresa Neumann Reporting (Feb 21, 2006)
  
  WorldNetDaily reports that 514 scientists with doctoral degrees have signed a statement expressing skepticism about Darwin's theory of evolution. The list include 154 biologists, 76 chemists and 63 physicists who hold doctorates in biological sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, computer science and related disciplines.
  
  More...This is worth reading!<> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48911

(Thank you, Rick Homesley (Email:1origin@cox.net) for this info. Rick heads up the local Origin Science Association. They have a tremendous lending lirary of books and video and have monthly meetings on both sides of Hampton Roads river tunnel. Debunking evolution is a major need for a Christian society. Without a creator belief, humanity easily loses its way and devolves into increasing chaos. What a breakthorugh this signing is!--Editor)

• Cell Phone Text Messaging Gives Instant Answers!
  You have to see it to believe it: you can send a question to Google ( 46645 send code) as a text message from your cell phone and get almost instant answers for driving directions, stock quotes, movie locations and times, weather ,dictionary, translation form another language, prices for goods, zip and area codes, math conversions, address for a phone number, etc. Here is a list of some questions you can ask right from your phone ( without web access!). See
  http://www.google.com/sms/demo.html for a demo of these amazing Google features.
  I suggest you bookmark that page to get quick answers right from that page, also when you are on the internet. It's faster than the web for many specific questions.
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• Theophostic Basic Healing Prayer Video Training

Date: March 17-18, Friday and Saturday

Time: Friday: 8:30 AM- 9:00 PM

Saturday: 8:30 AM- 5:00 PM

Facilitator: Frank Meadows LCSW (for more info. call or e-mail)

Frankmeadows@aol.com

757-312-8002

Location: Church of the Messiah

816 Kempsville Rd.

Chesapeake, VA 23320

Cost: $100.00 Registration Form: Click here

Training; Consists of 8 hours of video training by Dr. Ed Smith, facilitated by Frank Meadows, clinical social worker and Christian Counselor with 27 years experience and over 10,000 hours of Theophostic Healing Prayer experience. Also see videos of Frank Meadows healing sessions and also an afternoon of "Live Demonstrations," of Theophostic Healing Prayer, a video guide and 350 page training manual.

• Frank is also requesting prayer for missions trip to Ankara, Turkey in which we have been asked to train and minister to key evangelical pastors, healing prayer ministers and Christian Counselors in Theophostic Healing Prayer. March 31-March 12.

Pastor Ihsan Ozbek the former president of the Evangelical Alliance of Protestant Churches in Turkey will host the conference. Missionaries who have connected us with Pastor Ozbek said that he is an influential leader in what happens in the church in Turkey and what happens in Turkey has influence in the evangelical church through out the Middle East.

Please pray for success, personal healing of the leaders and safety for Frank and the team from Pittsburgh on this trip. Healed leaders will win, train and send more workers for the harvest!! Let’s pray that God uses Frank to set the leaders free so they can set others free in all that Jesus has for them! Click here for his complete list of prayer requests for this mission’s trip to Christian leaders in Turkey.

• Local Restaurant Dedicated to Needy Philippine Kids! The Sunrise Breakfast Shoppe is not only a "Best of Hampton Roads" breakfast place, it is also a marketplace ministry openly dedicated to international mission!
• Joe & Vergie McGourn own and operate this delightful restaurant ( open 6 AM-2 PM) in the strip mall on Battlefield Blvd on the right just before you cross the bridge at Great Bridge heading South. From the wall covered with pictures of the kids they support to the server’s shirts that say "Jesus loves you" in Tagalog (a Filipino language), you can quickly tell that money is not the main reason this business is in business.
• They started 7 Christian schools ( 510 kids), they are opening a medical/dental center and they support a home for abandoned, abused and exploited kids, ages 2-17 in Quezon City, a suburb of Manila.
• The last Friday night of each month ( March 31 is next), they host a $10/plate meal at the restaurant from 5-9 PM. All the proceeds goes to their work with the kids in Quezon city!

So--take the kids and enjoy a great breakfast (including a Filipino one) or the Friday dinner--knowing that you are supporting needy kids on the other side of the world from here! Call 757-436-9534 for more info.

Partners 285, Feb 25, 2006

Coach Joe Gibbs has agreed to speak at the Gathering of Men Breakfast on Thursday, March 30th at Liberty Baptist Church, located at 1021 Big Bethel Road in Hampton. $15 per man. Breakfast is 6:00-6:48AM, program at 7:00-8:15 AM. Only men 18 years old and up will be admitted. In addition to hearing Joe Gibbs, five $100 Gift Certificates to local sporting goods stores will be given away at the end of the breakfast.

Click here for the ticket order form. Please fill it out and mail it to the address at the bottom of the form and we will get your tickets out the same day we receive your order. For more information about the Gathering of Men, please go to our website at www.gatheringofmen.com. Thank you.

Ike Newingham
Gathering of Men
Executive Director
757-599-4008

2. Youth Challenge Needs Two Full-time, Residential Women Workers

to disciple women in its Newport News, VA facility for women with substance abuse issues.

Youth Challenge has done extraordinary work in helping adults overcome alcohol and drug abuse in Hampton Roads for over 25 years.

Judges regualrly send folks there because they know how effective the highly Christian program is. It is like a mini-Bible School for residents who live there for about a year. As a pastor, I sent two people there with great results! Please contact them at 757-244-1234 if interested. Rev. Troy Collier is the founder abd director of both the men's and the women's programs there.

Partners 284

• Scottish Coal Miner Dies: William Cook--he was my uncle--and I loved him. Other US coal miners have recently and tragically died, but I have to commemorate the man who held me as a baby after being born to his sister in his parent's home on cold, snowy day in Scotland in 1947. His lungs finally sucumbed to the decades of coal dust in them. He was 79. The eulogy I wrote for him can be found here.
  
  
• Signs and Wonders Conference at Founders Inn in Virginia Beach, VA February 16-18, 2006. Each year, John and Carol Arnott come here with their team from Toronto Canada to bless the people of the Hampton Roads area. They pastor a church there that has had over three million people visit it in meetings that have been held six nights a week for over 11 years!

What God does there is often called The Toronto Blessing. I visited their church in March 1994 as a weary local pastor. I came back a different person. I returned to my First Love--God the Father. My zeal for God and ministry was restored, my spiritual gifts grew stronger and God gave me a new understanding that He sees one one Church in Tidewater--composed of all the Christians there. He has a mission and a revival for that one Church that it can accomplish only by working together. The Toronto Blessing changed my life for the better in so many ways.

This year Gordon Robertson of CBN will be one of the main speakers. Gordon has a deep commitment to seeing believers serve others in the power of the Spirit's gifts. He usually pours himself into these meetings, staying late to pray with and for people. His own life has been radically changed by the signs and wonders Jesus gave to His Church to spread the Gospel. His stories and his teachings will inspire, refresh and train you to do the works of Jesus more often and more confidently. Click here for more details: Evening sessions are free to the public. Seating is limited.

• Elijah Company Missionary Training Camp - February 23-26, 2006 at Living Waters Farm, Virginia. The four days are a concentrated time imparting vision and tools for those sending or preparing to go. Realities, practicalities, awareness and spiritual arming are all areas covered. In the last five years, 165 have been trained in the camps with over 51 now serving in different capacities around the world.

Many have said it was the place where God met them and jump started their call. Pastors and missions leaders have also come to see how to better prepare their people for missions. For information or applications write to elijah@elijahcompany.org or call (757) 226-3507. See our web site at http://www.elijahcompany.org/ for more information. Enrollment is limited to thirty and applications must be received at least two weeks before the training.

The founder and director of Elijah Company, Norman J.P. shares with churches and fellowship groups about missions. He covers topics relating to the importance of missions for the local church and growth and how to be increasingly involved in praying and sending to the nations. For many he has open doors into the world of missionary service. If you would like him to do a teaching on missions for your church or fellowship group write to him at normp@elijahcompany.org or call (757) 226-3507.

• Bishop Wellington Boone Preaching at Regent University Jan 30th to Jan 3rd at noon. Local pastors and leaders only invited to join the Regent/CBN community. Not open to the general public due to space. This is a Regent/CBN internal chapel series. But, with a fast internet conneciton, you can watch the whole series online at http://www.regent.edu/admin/stusrv/chapel/streaming/

Tuesday night Wellington will speak at the Moot Court at Regent--also restricted. Wednesday night he is at Rock Church, Virginia Beach, and that is open to the public.