June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

REPORT TO THE
WORLD MISSIONS MINISTRIES [WMM] DIVISION COUNCIL
INTERNATIONAL PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH, INC.
BISHOP J. TALMADGE GARDNER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORLD MISSIONS MINISTRIES DIVISION
& CORPORATE SECRETARY/IPHC
MARCH-JUNE, 2013
Dear World Missions Ministries Division Council Members, I consider it an honor to have served
our International Pentecostal Holiness Church family and you for this short tenure. World Missions
Ministries has a tremendous ministry legacy in the IPHC. As a family of Jesus followers, the Great
Commission has always captivated our desire to do God’s will. It has been a humbling experience to
travel to Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Ukraine, India, South Africa, and Turkey and witness first-hand the
ministry imprint that this tiny group of Pentecostal believers has set in motion literally world-wide.
You should be proud.
This Council session concludes our service together as Council Members to this Division of Ministry.
Doug and I both thank you for lending your service and ministry influence to this Division. I trust
that you leave with a sense of accomplishment. Please express my appreciation to your family. You
have sacrificially devoted your time – time that they may have needed and benefited from.
My prayer for you is that every gift and benefit that comes from God be supernaturally graced on
you and that God’s favor and protection encircle your families.
Again, I thank you for the privilege of serving you and with you.
Listed below you will find a summary of some of my activities for the time period referenced
above:
THE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL IN
GRAND STYLE!
On March 2, more than six-thousand [6,000+] attendees gathered at the PHC Spooner Memorial
Salema Section at Phokeng, District of Rustenburg, North West Province, South Africa to celebrate
the Centennial of the PHC in South Africa.
The celebration started at 8:00 a.m. with guests participating in a celebratory march on a road
leading past the front of the Spooner House. The march stopped at the Spooner House for an
unveiling and reading of an inscription on the new monument marking the historical significance of
this house by IPHC General Superintendent, Presiding Bishop A.D. Beacham, Jr., followed by the
symbolic lighting of a torch which I, as Executive Director of WMM, had the privilege of doing. The
celebration then proceeded into a giant tent that was set-up to seat five-thousand attendees.
Program Director and Master of Ceremonies Bishop Joel Dibetsoe, Deputy National Overseer did a
marvelous job of directing the Centennial Service. Highlights of the extended celebration were the
music [I will forever remember the sound of five-thousand plus voices singing the song – “If you
believe and I believe and we together pray the Holy Spirit will come down and Africa will be saved”,
a historical overview by Mrs. Geraleen Talmage, a speech by ANC deputy president Cyril
Ramaphosa who stated that Christians needed to "become the moral conscience of our country"
and that "this country cares for the Lord" and recognized God's importance and hegemony” and
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