Status of PCG Headquarters Staff

The following staff were directly affected by the Tornado:

Don C/Naomi Burke (Indian missions)- home lost, but safe
Gabriel Espinoza (business manager)-home lost, but safe
Larry Younger (accounting)-home damaged, but safe


All of the following report that their homes are okay and they are safe:

Boyd Crook (ministry resources)
Nelda Burke (Indian missions)
Charles/Janice Scott (general bishop)
Joe/Teena Skiles (youth)
Wayman/Kimberly Ming (general secretary)
Andy Hunt (national missions)- now has disaster relief teams on the ground
Sarah Smith (national missions)
Loyd/Trisha Naten (world missions)
Rebecca Bogle (women's ministry)
Judy Glisson and Catlin (shipping)
Joann Hustell (ministry resources)
Dana Wood (ministry resources)
Randy Lawrence (youth)
Elisa Johnson (youth)
Stacie Yearton (secretary office)
Lorin/Donna Chester (world missions)
Rene Shute (world missions)
Jason Owen (accounting)
Crystal Stockton (accounting)
Brian Ramos (mph)
John Mallinak (mph)
Don/Peggy Allen (IT)
Cindy Oakes (IT)
Tammy Hackworth (receptionist)


Note: Some of the homes above have had minor damage but for the most part they are okay. Many extended families of those on this list have been hard hit by this event.

Status of the Four PCG Churches in Joplin

The PCG Headquarters and Messenger College buildings have no damage.

Joplin Family Worship Center
The church is okay, but some families lost their homes.

Oasis
The church is okay, but some families lost their homes.

Christ Point
The church is severely damaged, and families lost their homes, but everyone is safe.

New Life (Neosho)
The church is okay, and everyone is safe.

After the Tornado - Day One

The PCG Headquarters and college buildings were spared physical damage, but electrical power is intermittent, and internet and email are inaccessible from anything but a cell phone.

The headquarters will remain closed until further notice, both due to the power and connectivity issues and also because of staff members who lost everything.

PCG staff are mostly communicating with cell phones.

Please bear with us – we are trying to relay as much accurate information as we can, in spite of limited internet accessibility.

For the latest PCG news, please monitor the following:

• PCGNow.org (a partial backup of pcg.org)
• The PCG Messenger facebook account
• The PCG Messenger twitter account
• PCGEye2eye.net

We will be posting videos and photos as we can.

Disaster Relief
National Missions Director Andy Hunt is mobilizing a total of six emergency response crews from around the nation. The first setup group was on scene at 3pm CDT, and the 2nd wave was expected to arrive by 6pm CDT.

We urge everyone who would like to be a part to call 417-388-2370. Please do NOT just come. We have logistics to work through in organizing the teams. This will be a long process of recovery, and we need to work in waves.

Donations
The PCG Headquarters have been receiving donations and will gladly accept any and all items. Some items needed are:

• Tarps
• Blankets
• Gloves
• Batteries
• Toiletries
• Water

Our PCG Family
Thank you for the huge response from all over the world. Our PCG family is really rallying together during this tragic event.

This will be a long road ahead of us, but we at the PCG headquarters know that our PCG family is out there praying.

Again, we are trying to keep information flowing. Visit pcgnow.org for all news. Your prayers are coveted.

Photos From the Bishop's Conference

Attendees at the Hotel

Another Photo of the Attendees at the Hotel

Attendees Outside of New Life Church

Bishop Ron Carpenter and Bishop Scott

Riding the Bus to Site Visits

Fellowship at Dinner

On October 3, Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and Help Feed Israel's Poor

The Goal: To feed 1,000 families over the High Holy Days. Join us as we help feed the needy in Israel. Through this initiative, all citizens of Israel who are suffering in poverty can receive assistance and food. The People Being Served • Over 1,651,300 Israeli citizens live in poverty. • Many are children who lack even 1 hot meal a day. • Many are elderly Holocaust survivors who can't afford basic groceries, or are too ill to care for themselves. • Some are new immigrants with almost no money; some escaping extreme persecution and poverty with only the clothes on their backs. Make an online donation today! Be the answer to your prayers, one meal at a time. Visit us online at www.daytopray.com/feedisrael.aspx Make an online donation today!

Are we only anointed when we preach, sing or prophecy?

By Russell Hylton
Have you ever thought about what the word “anointing” means? In Full Gospel circles we tend to view this word as a “trance-like state” of spiritual power. It is believed by some that to really be “anointed” you'll become more spiritual and empowered beyond your natural abilities.

After hearing someone preach or sing, we're infamous in saying things like, “now, that was anointed” — many times based upon the fact we received a goose bump during their performance or are drawn to their particular “flavor” of ministry performance.

But is that really the anointing?

Are we only anointed when we preach, sing or prophecy? Can we not also be anointed when performing an administrative or operational function? How about when serving another leader? What about cleaning the church?

Are we any “less” anointed in a service role? When I was serving as a youth pastor, a minister whose name I will not mention said to me, “one day I'd have my own church.” He made reference that when I stepped “up” into a Sr. Pastor's role I'd experience a real anointing.

Honestly, that type of thinking in the body of Christ has put a bad taste in my mouth. As if...serving in a youth pastor's role was not fully anointed or cleaning the church or ushering was only a temporary place to serve on my way to something “REAL” in God's Kingdom.

Friend, I was fully anointed to serve in every role God assigned me to, regardless of what others thought. To this day, I have a toilet brush anointing. I can clean with the best of 'em and I'm not ashamed to play second chair, carry water, clan a toilet, stack chairs or turn out the lights and lock the door.

Wherever you are presently serving, be assured the anointing of God is upon you in full measure regardless of other people's opinions.

Here's what I believe&...we are anointed by God to perform the task He assigns us to do! Whenever God calls you to do something, He'll also empower you to perform that assignment. It doesn't take long to recognize the anointing in someone else. However, can you recognize the anointing in your own life?

1. The anointing will give you understanding of what needs to be done.
2. The anointing will direct you to the practical.
3. The anointing will cause you to do the unexpected.
4. The anointing will help you speak words to edify.
5. The anointing will feed you.
6. The anointing will make you aware of needs.
7. The anointing will give you endurance.

Rest assured, if God has called you...He will give you what you need to accomplish His work!

Reprinted from russellhylton.blogspot.com.

E2E Article: What Does It Cost to Die?

By Bishop Charles Scott
A recent article in Business Week, Lessons of a $618,616 Death, told the tragic account of a family’s struggle with a terminal disease and the associated costly treatments extending the life of the husband. Terence Foley was diagnosed in 2000 with kidney cancer at 61 years of age. A Chinese historian who earned his PhD in his 60s (my kind of guy), Terence played 15 different instruments, spoke 6 languages fluently, was a father of 2 teenagers and a noted expert on dairy cattle. He died on Friday, December 14, 2007.

The total amount billed for the medical care over seven years to keep Terence alive was $618,616, two-thirds of which were spent in the last 24 months. There were approximately 4,750 pages of medical records from six hospitals, four insurance companies, three oncologists and one surgeon. The New England Journal of Medicine reports (cited in the article) that 31 percent of health care costs are spent on paperwork and administration meaning that approximately $191,771 had little to do with actually extending Terence’s life.

Once the cancer reaches the final stage an average patient diagnosed with kidney cancer (this type and stage) without any treatment lives three months. The average patient receiving the same treatment of Terence is 14 months. Terence was blessed with 17 months of life. In those 17 months Terence visited Spain, moved his son into his college dorm, celebrated his anniversary with his wife by a carriage ride through Philadelphia and spent Thanksgiving Day with his family.

If an economist were to evaluate this scenario, he would say that it cost $242 a day for Terence to die. If a loved one evaluated the same set of numbers, he or she would say it only took $242 a day for Terence to live.

What does it cost for a church to die?

What does it cost for a church to live—really live—not exist on life support?

How much Kingdom resource is expended that actually has nothing to do with the Great Commission?

What does it cost for each Christ-follower to participate in:

• Daily prayer,
• Periods of fasting,
• Consistent Bible study,
• Weekly worship,
• Community service,
• Godly relationships,
• Biblical stewardship, including faithful tithing?

What does it cost when church members are apathetic to basic discipleship and content to sit idle with a profession of faith that never impacts the harvest, never intercedes in prayer, never develops leaders and never builds strong relationships? What does it cost when churches never engage their community to lead the lost to Jesus, never feed the hungry, minister to the homeless and never reach outside their own walls? What does it cost when pastors compromise the power of the Holy Spirit for the methods of seeker sensitivity? What does it cost to keep denying the evidence of death and practice the rituals of religion?

What does it cost to stay alive? It will cost your time to devote yourself to a disciplined lifestyle of prayer, fasting and Bible study. It will cost your money (it is really not yours anyway according to 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, “What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s”) to tithe faithfully, support missions and give generously to those in need. It will cost your affections to surrender habits to holiness. It will cost your pleasures to develop mentoring relationships. It will cost your friendships to reach those who are unreached. It will cost your comfort to work when you are weary.

It will cost more to die than to live.

In the words of Terence’s wife, “He had a passionate willingness to endure discomfort for a chance to see his daughter and his son graduate from high school.” A man was willing to endure ceaseless pain for the love of his children. True biblical discipleship offers nothing less—a pure willingness to endure undefined costs for the fulfillment of seeing our next generations mature in their faith and reach their destiny. We must see that eye to eye.