June 2013 Council Agenda - International Pentecostal Holiness ...

DCPI’s first course on Church Planting “Essentials" was introduced into the School’s curriculum and it is
hoped all our students will have completed the course this year.
Local London Church; Fountain of Life; this has been our mother Church of London for several years and
Harold Presley has taken over as lead pastor for a time as they look for a new lead pastor. Peggy Eby,
who doesn’t travel all the time with her husband Jim, is assisting in the Church until this fall.
Center for Interns: Our mission house at 77 Havant Road London has been vacated by the Criggers as
they have moved to Bristol. Havant Road will now be our Center for Interns and as Harold Dalton was
recently there he “officiated” in a prayer of dedication. It is our purpose to attract, train and recruit
current short-term workers and formative missionaries from the USA and Europe. The Criggers
meanwhile are helping revitalize our long running Bristol Church and then will be soon working with
Pastor Craig Walker of Upward Church to plant a Bristol UK Campus.
New Church Plants: 2 new Church plants have started up this year. One, north of Birmingham and one
in Norwich. We are hopeful that as we train more Planters this will develop into a true Church Planting
movement.
This and that: Johnson Paul formerly of Pakistan, our UK Asian leader was recently in Pakistan to
connect with our Pakistani leaders. Although we had ministered together and conducted formal
interviews to prep his membership, it was during our Day of Prayer in which he had no public part, and
in which we barely spoke (because of the schedule), that his commitment to IPHC became clear in his
own heart. Later Johnson Paul explained to me that it was then that the Holy Spirit revealed to him “I’m
already a part of the IPHC…what you are doing and what
you stand for is who I am”.
We ordained Johnson Paul in IPHC-UK on the 9 th of March,
and his 23 year-old daughter, Raisa) took part in the
service. Raisa is also a preacher who preaches weekly on a
local internet channel and also is now awaiting her barexam
in law. She will be our newest ministerial candidate.
He is now back from Pakistan after meeting with the IPHC
Pakistani leader, Asher Mansha, as well as public
campaigns in Faisalabad, two TV recordings in LaHore, teaching in a pastoral conference in Rawalpindi, a
youth seminar in Sahiwal and a 2-day marriage seminar in Multan. Upon his return to the UK our plan is
to send him both to Paris and Malmo, Sweden where he has been making disciples for the past 18
months. The plan is to help Johnson Paul establish a network of Asian IPHC house-churches and
community-churches in strategic locations throughout Europe where he has worked as evangelist.
Currently his base and citizenship is England where he lives with his wife and 5 daughters in Nottingham.
There are many advantages to having this man join with us, but the primary reason is multiplying people
into the Kingdom and reaching a people group that are not as easy for us Westerners to mentor and
guide.
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