ALABAMA

UPDATETHE CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY SEPTEMBER 2015

Alexander City: The

church at Alexander City

is pleased to announce the

appointment of our new

pastor, Roy Wooten, of

Hartselle, Al. and wife

Mindy, with daughter

Jayden.

Altoone: W e had a

special Christmas in July

on the 12 of July. th

Everyone received gifts

and a special Christmas

dinner afterwards. We

were happy to have our

State Overseer Brother

Jones with us. Sister

Kathy Taylor did a

wonderful job in organizing everything.

Anniston-Praise & Worship: Our pastor

and wife were given a “welcome back

basket” full of gifts. We prayed over them

for the coming years. There were 54 in

attendance and 1 young man got saved and

another young woman joined the church in

covenant membership. We have a Hispanic

family, Hector and Alicia Chun, that have

moved from the Spanish COGOP in

Guntersville. He is a Lay Ministerand we

are confident that a Spanish Ministry will be

developed here through their ministry. We

glorify God for what He is doing here in the

Anniston church.

Alton: KiDzMaNiA! The year of the Killer

Wave was packed full of Awesome

Puppets! Radically Special Characters!

Killer Science Experiments & Games! The

CoWaBuNgA Prize Patrol! Groovy Music!

And Cool Worship Time! Mr. Freezo, the

giant penguin (Pastor Daniel) and Gidget,

the wayout surfer girl (Pastor Laura) created

a dynamic duo bringing the awesome Word

of God to the children (as well as the

adults). Seeing the children praying,

singing, dancing, worshiping God, and

playing games was absolutely amazing! I

must say that seeing the adults join in was

radically cool dude! Robert Chamblee and

Eleanor Bailey helped collect seashells,

Opal McGowan joined in the penguin

march, Doris Reese walked on eggs, Elease

Johns attempted to knock down a pyramid

of cans by shooting them with a rubber band

(not much luck)...oh and by the way...

Bishop L. V. Jones tried the same thing

knocking them down a few at a time and

closing the deal by shooting the last can at

the very last second! He even won a prize!

Vanessa Brown, Adeline Turner, Charlotte

Wiggins and Laura Stronge were disciples

in a pretend boat doing their best to keep

from falling out as the children circled

around them creating lightning, thunder,

wind, and waves. Finally, they saw Jesus

walking on the water toward them and they

weren’t afraid anymore. And we topped it

off with a hotdog and cookie lunch, a huge

water slide, and other fun water games

Sunday afternoon! Total Kidz=44 and

Total Adult Kidz=59. The Kidz “Collected

SeaShells” with a total offering of $455.89!

A fun time for all! Wow! It was an

absolutely, radically cool, awesome

KiDzMaNiA and we are already preparing

for next year. We thank God for a new

covenant member, Quinette McCurry.

Browntown: We had several events this

month that included; Family Day, Pastor

and wife birthdays celebration, State

Convention and Kids Crusade. The

crusade’s theme was “Blast to the Past” and

a total attendance of 20 children.

Chickasaw: We’ve had

some wonderful services

this month. The Lord is

blessing! Our youth had a

Sunday School party that

was enjoyed by everyone.

C o l l i n s v i l l e - H a r v e s t

Center: The response to

the ministry of the Holy

Spirit is overwhelming.

David Woods has been

pouring into our young

people in particular, but we

are all receiving a fresh

taste of the Spirit. We have

been and continue to be

truly revived. We have

couples returning back and

two families that want to come and visit

after the revival.

Fayette-North Pointe: North Pointe

members and praise team enjoyed attending

the convention. We were blessed by the

classes and messages from all the teachers

and ministers. It was great to connect with

our brothers and sisters across the state.

We were blessed to witness the ordination

of Brother Shane Watkins as a minister and

our Pastor Brent Smalley receiving his

Bishop license. Our children’s leader and

youth are excited about growing and

launching new ministries. We welcomed

the men’s choir from Peaceful Rest Baptist

Church with a time of fellowship

afterwards.

Gadsden-Living Waters: Gadsden closed

a revival with David Woods with 3 getting

saved, 3 sanctified and 3 receiving the Holy

Ghost.

Goodwater-Joyful Praise: There were 5

members received this month: Darlina

W ilson, T erry Thompson, Allison

Thompson, Lillian Thompson and Leanana

Thompson. Praise God!

Greenpond: VBS. “Journey Off The Map”,

was huge success. Sixteen young people

accepted Christ as their Savior. The

teachers were anointed. Each night was

filled with excitement. The singing, classes,

crafts, games and skits were awesome. The

church and class rooms were beautifully

decorated for the journey. The last night,

parents and grandparents came to see the

children in action. The offering received is

helping a young man on the mission trip to

Nepal. Seventy-five were in attendance

with fifty-one being children. Our 4 ofth

July Celebration was great with one

hundred and thirty in attendance. Food, fun

and fellowship were enjoyed but cut short

due to one of the mortar shells exploding

and injuring our youth director, Neal Pate.

Praise God he is making a speedy recovery.

We had a 4 of July service and specialth

thanks was given to all active and retired

military and those who gave their life for

our freedom. The State Convention was

enjoyed by those attending. The classes

were great. We also, had three saved in our

services and one joined the church this

month.

Hackleburg: We have been training to host

a Celebrate Recovery Ministry at HCC and

have been officially accepted. Our launch

date for first official gathering is August

18 and the state representative forth

Alabama CR will be with us for that first

service and support group session. We are

thrilled to have become apart of such an

incredible tool to disciple the hurting and

heal the wounded. To be a true and

approved CR ministry, training and

discipleship of leaders must take place first.

To date we have already been training and

preparing for 6 months to serve as a

Celebrate Recovery venue. This ministry is

designed to help recover from hurts, habits

and hang-ups.

Huntsville-Mastin Lake: The first mission

team from “the church building project” in

the Dominican Republic returned home.

They poured the foundation, raised the first

columns and laid the first blocks. We had

five churches involved and three pastors on

this trip. We were so blessed to help our

brothers and sisters in their effort to build a

church. Since then, we had one in our

church to be saved and we are so thankful

for this new child of God. We also,

welcomed Stacy Tuttle and family as Youth

Pastor. We were overjoyed to see five of

our children move up into Youth Ministries

as they were presented Study Bibles to

personally take their faith deeper.

Leesburg: July was a busy month with our

Youth Explosion and VBS. This year our

Youth Ministries conducted a Youth

Explosion ( VBS for youth). It started on

Sunday night with a visiting missionary

from Ecuador, Rick Waldrup, and continued

through Wednesday night with food, fun,

music and evangelism and with an average

attendance of 50. There were several

salvation experiences. Kids Under

Construction was the theme for our annual

VBS. We enjoyed a full week of songs and

dance, classes, crafts, refreshments and

spiritual growth on the foundation of Jesus

Christ and our Bible as the blueprints. For

closing exercises on Sunday, we reviewed

the happenings of the week, fed everyone

lunch, played on a huge inflatable

waterslide and then everyone walking down

to the river for a baptism of 28 people of all

ages. We ended with an average attendance

of 150, 18 saved, 28 baptized. We

welcome Pastor Tim and Ann Douglas back

as our Pastors!

Parrish: We were all touched as one gave

her heart to God. We had not witnessed

such a sorrowful outcry to God in quite

some time. Thankful.

Short Creek: Praise God for Camp

Boothe! All our children came home

revived and on fire. Thanks to all the Staff.

Wonderful State Convention! We pray

everyone was ‘empowered’ as they left the

convention to continue their work for God.

To God be the glory for our State Staff and

Overseer. Revival is in the air at Short

Creek!

Tarrant: We were blessed to have fifteen

people attend the State Convention. We are

doing fund-raisers for retreats and our

children are encouraged to bring their Bible

and learning how to use them. We had a

great attendance at our Luau for Family

Night. The Holy Spirit has been blessing

our services with His presence!

Trinity: We have been having some

outstanding services with the Holy Spirit

filling the altars with seekers. We are

beginning Month-Of-Sunday’s Revival in

September.

Tips For Abundant Life

Carolyn Guyton

Being intentional. I recently received a

blog post from a fellow coach about how to

be intentional with time and money. My

immediate thought when I read the topic

was how these same steps also apply to our

Spiritual lives. What do we mean by being

intentional? It means not just accepting

what comes along, but rather creating a

deliberate plan with an intended purpose

and then acting on it. Prayerfully seeking

God while taking the following steps will

help you to create and follow this plan.

Use tools. Prayerful reading of the Bible is

the primary tool. We must know the Word

of God in order to create our plan and

ensure that it agrees with the Word. If we

find a discrepancy, we must seek God for

direction to clarify His will. I also

recommend using a clock and possibly the

alarm on your phone. Setting a specific

time every day for communing with God

and studying His Word is a great part of

living intentionally for God.

Find a partner. An accountability partner is

a safeguard to keep us on track. Select a

person you have confidence in, who will be

a real friend and speak truth into your life.

Then share your plan for intentionality and

keep them updated on your progress

regularly. It is easy to let things slide when

we don’t have someone watching out for us.

Put away distractions. Once you have

developed your plan for intentionality,

don’t allow anything to distract you from

taking the action you set out for yourself.

Keep your plan on your mind, and on paper

in places you frequent, to maintain focus.

Refuse to let anything interfere with your

private devotion time or stepping out of

your comfort zone according to your plan.

It isn’t always easy to be intentional, but the

results are more than worth the effort.

Seek every day for the abundant life that

only comes from God.

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Now unto him that is able to do exceeding

abundantly above all that we ask or think,

according to the power that worketh in us.

Eph. 3:20

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Prayer Line with Dr. Wessly

Saturdays 9:00 - 10:00 AM

Dial 712-432-1690

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ATTENTION!!!

Alton COGOP is interviewing for a

Youth Pastor. “We are looking for

someone called by God to the Youth

Ministry”.

Contact: Pastor, Daniel Stronge, Alton

Church, 2305 Old Alton Road,

Birmingham, AL 35210,

2 0 5 - 2 3 3 - 0 0 1 3 ,

blendedminstries@yahoo.com

Carbon Hi l l : Homecoming

September 13 , 10:00am, Barnettth

Family and Brother Stanley Reeves

special singers.

STATE WEB SITES

A l a b a m a U p d a t e B l o g :

W W W . a l a b a m a u p d

ate.blogspot.com

Alabama Web Site: alcogop.org

Youth-Tim Beck Web:

www.experiencehydrate .com

www.hydrateministries.com

AVAILABLE FOR REVIVALS

Joey Dobbs: Member of Sterrett

Church of God of Prophecy.

Telephone (205)746-3017.

Earlean Emerson, P O box 1863,

Hamilton, AL 35570. Telephone

(205) 921-5637.

Christine & Curtis Englebert, 111

Woodland Road, Dora, AL 35062

Telephone (205) 648-2871 or cell #

2 0 5 - 2 7 5 - 1 1 9 9 .

cenglebert2871@charter.net. Fill in

for pastors also.

Brenda Kay Pate, P O Box 156

Woodstock, AL 35188; 205-388-1087

or 388-3129. Fill in for pastors also.

SPEAKING AND SPECIAL

PROGRAMS:

Anita Falkner Parker, 3615 Moody

Pkwy, Moody, AL 35004. Telephone

(205) 640-6207.

Brenda Kay Pate, P O Box 156;

Woodstock, AL, 35188; 205-388-1087

or 388-3129.

MUSICAL MINISTRY

Breaking Chains, Elliot:251-454-

8946,breakingchainsworship@yahoo.

com.

WEDDINGS

BIRTHS

Carbon Hill: Elijah Riggs was born

July 19 to Wendy and T. J. Armstrong.th

BABY DEDICATION

Sterrett: Bryce was dedicated by his

parents Brent and Jacqueline Garrett.

Sterrett: Parents Doyle and Lindsey

Akins presented by baby Zechariah for

dedication.

DEATHS

Anniston-Praise & Worship: Jack

Jenkins went to his resting place July

10 . th

SEPTEMBER PASTORS/WIVES

BIRTHDAYS

Julie Barber

Brenda Chance

Jackie Cleveland

Terry Gann

Judy Lyles

Crissy Lynn

K. T. Martin

Nita Noe

William Noe

Shane Pate

Damon Rose

Linda Simpson

Joan Smith

Judy Wallace

Danny Whitaker

ANNIVERSARIESKenneth and Billie HumphriesGerome and Sarah KeyRobert and July LylesRon and Pam MartinJames and Linda SimpsonDaniel and Laura StrongeBeecher and Chris TannerKenneth and Elaine Wilkins

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Future Events

Hydrate Campus Tour

September25-26 Women’s Conference

October23-24 Men’s Conference

November5-8 Gordon Conwell School

Camp Boothe11-14 Fall Term SOPAS

Camp Boothe

Dec 30-January 2 Winter ConferenceCamp Boothe

January & MarchD Min Schools, Leaders ofLeaders, SchoolsCamp Boothe

March4-8 Gordon-Conwell

Camp Boothe

July Statistics 2015

CHURCH SM TITHES Alexander City 27 2393.00 Aliceville 12 2670.54 Alton 45 7535.43 Altoona 20 1012.22 Anniston Praise Worship 48 4106.67 Bayou La Batre 10 450.00 Bessemer Hopewell Rd 83 6609.00 Woodland Hills 64 8427.19 Boaz --- 943.00 Boldo 35 1092.00 Brown’s Chapel 21 818.02 Browntown 45 2861.41 Calera Harvest Chapel 64 --- Carbon Hill 130 8617.00 Chickasaw 21 1105.00 Citronelle 17 1474.45 Clanton 16 2915.00 Collinsville Harvest Center 45 4889.00 Cordova 62 3888.34 Cottondale 100 --- Cunningham Bridge 8 619.00 Decatur 33 3177.60 Dothan No Report Dry Valley 15 1089.93 East Lake Highlands 45 2267.39 Elba 7 --- Elkmont --- Eoline 22 2724.00 Fayette-North Pointe 102 2664.00 Fort Payne 8 815.43 Gadsden Living Waters 60 5719.82 Goodwater Joyful Praise 15 1155.56 Gordo 38 7205.43 Grant-Sanctuary --- 569.00 Greenpond 83 8893.12 Grove Hill 7 --- Hackleburg 151 24176.05 Haleyville Pathway 54 --- Hamilton New Heights No Report Happy Hill 72 10239.15 Harris Chapel 61 7174.36 Hartselle No Report Hazel Green 47 ---

CHURCH SM TITHES Huntsville Mastin Lake 73 --- Bell Road 13 1206.10 Jasper 30 --- Leesburg 113 9164.00 Lincoln 17 1314.30 Mentone 19 2329.50 Montgomery 13 899.00 Moulton 21 2007.15 Munford Silver Run 18 1190.00 Odenville 62 2266.41 Parrish 8 800.00 Pelham 26 4401.15 Pinson Parkway 26 3241.51 Poarch 7 292.32 Red Bay 21 2358.35 Robertsdale 20 1608.00 Rock Cliff No Report Sheffield Cliff Haven 120 18779.57 Short Creek 40 3072.50 Sterrett 98 4960.40 Summerbrook 40 3412.90 Tannehill Mission 39 --- Tarrant City 41 2334.34 Trinity Worship 56 9152.40 Twilleytown --- 3753.00 West Blocton 17 --- Winfield Family 48 3407.75 World Outreach --- THE ABOVE STATISTICS WERE TAKEN FROM TREASURERS’ REPORTS RECEIVED IN STATE OFFICE AS OF AUGUST 2015

Reports from Previous Months June Boldo --- 784.15 Brown’s Chapel --- 1310.02 Grant --- 1154.20 Hazel Green 56 3045.00 Odenville 62 2500.00 May Grant --- 983.10 Hazel Green 62 5892.00 April Hazel Green 59 3238.00

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