June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

night following the Rustenburg Centennial Celebration, Rev. Turner hosted a braaivleis [cookout] at
the Africa Development Center in Krugersdorp so that we could fellowship with our Missionaries,
National Leaders and South Africa General Board of Administration Members. Wish you could
have been present. Greg McClerkin, WMM SOWER to Southern Sudan served as the master
chef/caterer and did an incredible job of coordinating the braai.
What a testimony to God’s faithfulness that the vision for Africa that He planted and set in motion in
the hearts and minds of humble servants like Rev. and Mrs. J. O. Lehman in 1913, and the four
pillars of the PHC in Africa – Reverends Rhodes, Freeman, Brooks and Spooner as well as their
faithful companions/wives, today encompasses almost one million members.
Through God’s grace, South Africa has grown from one [1] Conference in 1922 to eleven [11]
Conferences in 2013. The work of the Lord has spread across the Continent of Africa into twentynine
[29] Countries with close to five thousand churches and one-million members.
The impact that God called men and women of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church have
played in their quest for souls in Africa will only be revealed in eternity. No IPHC continent in the
world has experienced more growth than Africa. The Bible records that “to whom much is given -
much is required.”
The charge to those in South Africa and Africa is best stated by the last words that Rev. Mr. K. E. M.
Spooner spoke on his death bed to his dear wife Geraldine, “DO NOT LET GOD’S WORK DIE!”
As we sang so powerfully in every Centennial Celebration Service – “If you believe and I believe and
we together pray the Holy Spirit will come down and Africa will be saved”.
May all Africa indeed be saved for the Kingdom’s sake!
OUTSOURCING THE MANAGEMENT OF LIFESPRINGS TO TY COBB HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
[TCHS]:
I would like to express my personal gratitude to my colleague and brother, Bishop McGhee for the
masterful job that he as IPHC’s “facilitator”, along with Mrs. Phillips and Bishop Gray have done in
representing IPHC’s interests on the committee charged with evaluating “the potential benefits of
outsourcing the management of all or portions of the Georgia operations of LifeSprings to TCHS.”
This has been an tedious assignment complicated by many uncertainties. Thank you for your
service and counsel.
VISIT THE VISION: SEVEN CHURCHES OF REVELATION TOUR:
On April 17-27, I was privileged to travel to the country of Turkey with 13 key IPHC leaders for
what our host, WMM Continental Director for Europe and the Middle East, Bob Cave, called a ‘Visit
the Vision: Seven Churches of Revelation Tour.’
It was certainly a ‘bucket list’ experience! Turkey is a unique biblical site, known in the Bible as Asia
Minor. Eighteen cities in Asia Minor are important to the New Testament account and figure
prominently in the Apostle Paul’s missionary journeys, several receiving epistles. Among the list are
the “Seven Cities” of the Revelation (bolded): Alexandria Troas, Assos, Ephesus, Miletus,
Patara, Smyrna, Pergamum, Sardis, Thyatira, Philadelphia, Laodicea, Colossae, Attalia, Antioch,
Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, and Tarsus.
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