Update on Heritage Ministries Track for 2009 LDI

Leadership Development Institute
Heritage Ministries Track
April 21-24, 2008

Session 1 – Tuesday Afternoon, April 21
Instructor: Dr. David Roebuck
“From Camp Creek. . .”
Dr. Roebuck will do an overview of our early church history up to 1923 and its relevance for today

Dr. Roebuck is the Director of the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center

Session 2 – Tuesday Afternoon, April 21
Dr. Roebuck continues

Session 3 – Wednesday Morning, April 22
Instructor: Dr. E.C. McKinley
“. . .to a Worldwide Movement”
Dr. McKinley will do an overview of our history from 1923 to the present and its relevance today

Dr. McKinley is the Presiding Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in Tennessee

Session 4 – Wednesday Morning, April 22
Dr. McKinley continues

Session 5 - Wednesday Afternoon, April 22
Instructor: Bishop Tim Coalter
"Our Heritage is Positively Pentecostal"

Bishop Coalter is the Presiding Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in South Carolina

Session 6 - Wednesday Afternoon, April 22
Bishop Coalter continues

Session 7 - Thursday Morning, April 23
Testimonies of our Heritage
Ministers who were a part of our heritage share their stories

Session 8 - Thursday Morning, April 23
Instructor: Bishop David Bryan
"The Church Today - Touching the Globe"

Bishop Bryan is the Global Outreach Director for the Church of God of Prophecy

Session 9 – Thursday Afternoon, April 23
Instructor: Bishop Randy Howard
“Balancing our Heritage and our Core Values”

Bishop Howard is the General Overseer for the Church of God of Prophecy

Session 10 – Thursday Afternoon, April 23
Instructor: Paul Holt
“Heritage Ministries & Its Relevance Today”

Bishop Holt is the Heritage Ministries Director for the Church of God of Prophecy

All Friday Day Sessions - April 24
Field trip to Barney Creek, First Assembly House, Shearer Schoolhouse site, and Fields of the Wood. Lunch at Fields of the Wood.

For more information about the 2009 Leadership Development Institute, visit
http://cogop.org/362679.ihtml.

Christmas Lights at Fields of the Wood

The Christmas Season officially opens at Fields of the Wood on Saturday, November 29 with a special lighting ceremony.

The activities will start at 5:00 PM and will last an hour or so with a number of singers and a devotion by Bishop Wayne Allen.

There will be Hot Chocolate, Hot Apple Cider and snacks. The Gift Shop will be open after the service.

Wood Christmas Stockings are still available and will be throughout December. To date, 155 have been ordered.

Special thanks to. . . one husband and wife ordered individual stocking and each gave $50.00. The Tullahoma TN Church of God of Prophecy ordered 48 stockings. Thank you!

A BIG THANK you to Don & Sandra Johnston for working on these stockings and to our entire staff for all their work in preparing for the Christmas Season!

Classes Coming Soon

In just a few months, you will have an opportunity to participate in classes offered by the Heritage Ministries Ministries Department that will take us from Camp Creek to a worldwide movement.

Here is just a glimpse. . .

• Dr. David Roebuck teaching about our heritage prior to 1923 and its relevance to us today. Dr. Roebuck serves as Director of the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center.
• Dr. E.C. McKinley teaching about our heritage from 1923 to the present and its relevance to us today. Dr. McKinley is the Presiding Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in Tennessee.
• Bishop Randy Howard teaching about balancing our heritage with our core values. Bishop Howard is the General Overseer of the Church of God of Prophecy.
• A look at Heritage Ministries at why it is needed today.
• A trip to Barney Creek, First Assembly House, Shearer Schoolhouse site, and the Fields of the Wood
• and more!

http://cogop.org/362679.ihtml

Be sure to check the White Wing Messenger and this blog for further details.

1st Assembly Commemoration Service

The service will be held this year on January 26, 2009 at the First Assembly House near Fields of the Wood.

Fields of the Wood Pictures NEEDED

We are working on preparing new materials (brochures, etc) for Fields of the Wood. We have found that we have very few good photos in a digital format.

If you have any good photos of Fields of the Wood or any of the markers, please email them to me at pholt@cogop.org.

Thanks so much.

Heritage Ministries Association 2009 Membership

On Tuesday, November 18, I was privileged to accompany the International Pentecasotal Press Association (IPPA) Board on a tour of historic pentecostal sites in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.

We visited the Barney Creek site where Christian Union was organized; the Fields of the Wood; the Shearer Schoolhouse site; the Holy Ghost Marker; and the First Assembly House. The Board enjoyed lunch at the Fields of the Wood Cafe.

We were also joined by Dr. James Beaty, retired missionary, historian, and professor at Lee University and the Church of God Theological Seminary. Dr. Beaty is 82 years old and full of historical information. Fields of the Wood Property Caretaker Wayne Allen also joined us as tour guide for a part of the tour. Like Dr. Beaty, Bishop Allen is a storehouse of information.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the IPPA Board. It was a great day of learning and fellowship.

The IPPA Board is pictured above inside the J. C. Murphy home where the first assembly was held in January 1906. From left to right: Clyde Hughes, International Pentecostal Church of Christ (London, Ohio); Ken Horn, Assemblies of God (Springfield, MO), Shirley Spencer, International Pentecostal Holiness Church (Oklahoma City, OK), Virginia Chatham, Church of God of Prophecy (Cleveland, TN); James E. Cossey, Church of God (Cleveland, TN

Christmas Stockings at Fields of the Wood

I am posting this for Pastor Don Johnston. It is taken from a post that he made on another forum.

The Fields of the Wood is doing a little fund raiser that will go to benefit our Christmas Light Display. The money raised will be designated specifically for that purpose and will not be used for any other purposes. The funds will help us to purchase new decorations and repair some that we all ready have. The more we raise the better and better our Light Display will be each year.

Here is what we are doing. We are doing Christmas stockings made out of plywood and painted like a stocking. We are asking for a donation of $5.00 dollars per stocking. What we are going to do with them is put your name or what ever name you request and it will also have the abbreviation of the State you are from. It will also be numbered so in the case of more that one person with the same name from the same State your personal stocking can be found. We are then going to put them on stakes and line the driveway and roadways with them. We have several that have requested that we do one in memory of a loved one and we have set aside the side walk that goes up to the tomb to give the In Memory stocking a "special" place. We have one local church that requested a copy of the order form and they purchased 38 of them.

If you would like to do that with your local church we will also make an "extra" stocking that will have the name of your local church and then all of the orders that you send in with it will be grouped together following the church stocking.

You can make your donation one of two ways. If you are interested, please contact me at curity2@hughes.net.

Fields of the Wood Hours

Fields of the Wood Park
Open Daily from sunrise to sunset

Gift Shop
Monday - Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Cafe
March 1 to November 30
Monday - Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

December 1 to February 29
Monday - Friday from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

2008 Holiday Schedule
The Gift Shop and Cafe will be closed:

November 27-28
December 8
December 24 - January 2

Fields of the Wood

There have been some questions about the status of Fields of the Wood. The Church of God of Prophecy still owns and operates the Fields of the Wood.

The staff at the park are working diligently to make it the very best that it can be. As funds are available, renovations and repairs are being made.

The Church of God of Prophecy in Tennessee is raising funds to refurbish the Pavilion. Our goal is to see this project complete by Easter.

If you would like to give towards this project, another project or if you would like to join the Heritage Ministries Association for $10.00, please contact me.

Thank you.

PH

Thank you to a few Churches

Since being appointed as Heritage Ministries Director, I have been privileged to visit a few Churches.

I would like to thank Pastor Roy Bennett and the congregation in Michie, TN; Pastor Ken Dyer at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Knoxville, TN; and Pastor Milton Gordon and the folks in Huntingdon, TN.

Thank you for allowing us to come!

Welcome

Welcome to the new blog for Heritage Ministries. Heritage Ministries is a ministry of the Church of God of Prophecy International Offices.

Through this blog, we hope to share news and information regarding our heritage, Fields of the Wood, our travels and etc.