Busy End of Summer and Fall For the Gospel Guy Network

With having to cancel our Outward Apologetics School for this fall, although disappointing, it will allow us to focus a lot of our attention on the further planting of the Gospel Guy Network.  God continues to show His favor on this ministry, and I thought I would just list some of the things we will be accomplishing the rest of this summer and into the fall. 

1. September 1st we are hoping to finally get our office in downtown Salem.  Please be praying for God to use this office mightily.  We still need to raise $ to purchase things like furniture and things so we ask your prayer for that as well.

2. On line Training- We now have our 5 session "Gospel Guy foundations" Training on line and accessible to all our "Torchbearers" in the churches to use to help train the people in their churches.

3. Monthly Exposure Tours- Once a month we will continue to do our Exposure Tours for people in the GGN.  

4. Monthly Training Times- Last Monday of the month we continue to have training times for local churches.

5. Touch Base Meetings- Once a month we meet with the "Torchbearers" of each church individually to help encourage them and help them to see how GGN can work for their churches

6. Gospel Guy Network Promotional Video- By October we will have a great short promo video for the GGN to show to pastors in our city to try and encourage them to become involved.

7. October "Pitch" Gathering- In October, we will be inviting as many pastors in our city as we can who would like to pray about seeing the Gospel Guy become a ministry of their church.  Please  be praying for this time.  We would love to see more and more churches become involved!

8. September GGN outreach/BBQ- In September we will be having all the people involved with the GGN to take part in a joint day of outreach followed by a BBQ.  This is just another way to try and bring all the people from various churches together and show our appreciation for them partnering with us and have some BBQ at the same time!

Outward Apologetics School Cancellation

As you know, last year I pioneered the Outward Apologetics School here at YWAM Salem.  This September, we planned to run the second one, but unfortunately, we have had to cancel the school do insufficient student numbers. I am pretty disappointed at this, but realize that pioneering something often has its set backs for sure.  We plan to run it next fall, and will have quite a bit of time to do more promo about the school to get the word out.  Please be praying for the future of the OAS.  I truly believe this school will one day take off in YWAM and we will see it be planted in other base locations.  One thing that is truly encouraging has been the attitude of all the speakers whom we had to cancel on.  Every one of them was so understanding and all of them asked to be able to speak next fall.