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    • EPNews to be published as a blog in the near future

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    • Online Giving now available

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  • FREE ONLINE COURSE IN YOURTH MINISTRY JAN-MAR 2012

There’s still time! Join our FREE online course in Youth Ministry from Jan-Mar ‘12.
Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 248.345.2913.
Student Ministries is excited to offer its first online course in Youth Ministry from January 16 to March 2012.
Youth Ministry is taught by Covenant Seminary professor, Mark Davis, through their worldwide class room. Mark Steimer, Student Ministries Committee member and youth pastor at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church, TN will facilitate the class.
Youth workers will benefit from quality training without leaving home; yet, …
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  • CONFERENCE FOR LEADERS OF SMALL CHURCHES

A networking conference for leaders of small churches will be held at GracePoint in Dubuque, Iowa March 28-30. The conference is designed to be highly interactive. If the conference achieves its goal, you will go away with some concrete next steps for ministry and a group of people standing with you in prayer and encouragement. Ed McCallum, the General Assembly's Assistant Stated Clerk, will be the main presenter. Prior to his ministry at the General Assembly, Ed served as the pastor of a small congregation and did his Doctor of Ministry work on missional small churches. More details will be coming in the very near future. Contact Ed at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you want to be included in informational mailings about the conference.

  • Interested in becoming a Missionary with EPC World Outreach or know someone who is interested?

The EPC World Outreach department will host “Encounter WO 2012” at the EPC headquarters in Livonia, Michigan on Friday and Saturday, March 16-17. Those people sensing God’s call to cross cultural missions ministry, to be part of a church planting team “where the church isn’t” should contact us immediately for the registration materials to attend this life-challenging event.
Participants will meet and get to know the nine denominational World Outreach Committee members from across the U.S.A., the World Outreach home staff and field staff, as well as several World Outreach missionary couples direct from the field and some preparing to go to the field, who will be sharing their stories of how God led them to their ministries.
Rev. Dr. Greg Livingstone will lead a session on Engage 2025, Rev. Phil Thrash will speak about the new World Outreach Missionary Prayer Network (MPN), Rev. Dr. Jim Murphy will speak on the new World Outreach Member Care Department and Rev. Bruce A. will speak about the new World Outreach International Theological Network (ITEN).
Registrants will also hear the EPC World Outreach vision to recruit youth throughout the EPC denomination to full time missionary ministry to go to the remaining hard places on earth where the church does not exist (yet).
Those interested in being challenged at “Encounter WO 2012” should contact Patti Moore at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (734) 838-6945.

  • looking back, looking ahead – by Jeff jeremiah

Late December-early January has always been a great time for me to reflect back with gratitude for all the blessings God has graciously given me in the previous year. As I think about the EPC in 2011, I’m amazed at the way He used us to make a difference for the Gospel and the Kingdom.
On May 8, GA Moderator Rob Liddon led an EPC delegation that included World Outreach Director George Carey and former Directors Dick Ostreicher and Jeff Chadwick that celebrated the formation of the Association of Reformed Churches of Kazakhstan.
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    • EPC Women In Ministry Against Human Trafficking

So how are you beginning the new year?
Kathy Burr (Cherry Hills Community Church, Highlands Ranch, CO) and Sherry Irvin (Christ EPC, Houston, TX) are beginning 2012 by joining 46 international women to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa as participants in The Freedom Climb sponsored by Operation Mobilization. Funds generated by the climb will affect the lives of 10,000 women and children who have been victims of trafficking by supporting projects that break the cycles of poverty, shame, slavery and despair.
The climb is now underway as the climbers …
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