Try, Try, Try Again... what do you have to waste: Gerry Stoltzfoos

Gerry, Amazing man that have a heart for people that are unchurched, but people that were burnt out from Church. Freedom Valley Worship Center a place that try try try and still growing. Yeah they went through alot, but they have Great Ideas, Creative ones, but it is not all the Glist and Glamour of the idea, it is the passion for the unsaved people that are going to hell.

Gerry and his wife started to look for a church in Philadelphia, but Could not Find any... The Director from the AG in The Gettsuburg area called Gerry up, and asked if he would try this church, Didn't want to go there, but went. It was amazing because while going to visit Gettsberg, His Wife this is amazing... She said  "God said that is OUR HOUSE" In the town and that house is were they live now still to this day. Crazy you think. They are know a pastor in that town and this is the little story about Pastor Gerry and the church that keep trying..

There once was a Homegrown Amish Man turned Pastor named Gerry, He was a pastor of great trying. After being downed by everyone in the new area, So after the church was going, he wanted to reach many more people, so he try this and he try a ton of new ways to reach people. Cowboy, Horse, concert, tattoos, cafe, ballroom, skater park, and more he tried everything and a lot of things worked and a lot of this didn't work. In the end he reached people that know no one would have be reached and helped before. He help the burnt out Christians and the ones that got hurt from the church

Gerry feel that he tried everything God would not be redundant with church... so he never wanted to have a same church. That is one thing that stuck out for me... I just wanted to ask him so many things but we run out of time for it... but I thought that he had a great mission and he was making it real.  

 Check it out.... It is what is said.. and Gerry stood up and did something that no one wanted to do to get the gospel out there.    Don’t lost the guts, for that( hell)- Gerry 

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 WOW HARLEY ..... Give One get ONe Back... Say one thing get it later... Thanks God for Blessing him so much after everything that he went through and everything that people said... Thank you God that you encouage him when no one else was. Thanks you God... for blessing him and BLESS HIM MORE With Everything in his church and his life.....

Friend Day… smallest thing to do .. 

To end this story the pastor that was told STOP TRY....

He kept Try Try Try and will never stop till e raise every again

Passion with a Seven: Jason Lamer

Jason Lamer. Passion with a Seven 

Jason Lamer a passionate guy that you can tell that he wants to tell everyone about Christ. What is a Major to him. Ministry Major that became a missionary, evangelic, and youth pastor. He dived into each ministry with God leading, but also having strong heart for YOUTH. 

Jason Lamer grow up in a christian home at the age of two and father became a pastor( woot woot) PK all the way. I knew what he mean when he said Church was your life apart, intertwind in your life. It is like "Mom why are they not at church" kind of thing. I thought it was funny when he told the story of BK with seeing people in jeans after a sunday morning service. 

Because of his faith in Christ Jason became a christian at the age of seven during a Evangelical sermon at church. Always walked with the Lord, there was some dry time he said, but he just had to waited at times. He seeked God in those dry times and Waiting for God

Age 17, encounter with God, he really COME to BELIEVE in the Belief that he grow up

went to North Central at the same time that my President at my school was there. Dr. Don called him after meeting him at a FA in St.Louis. and that when he desiced to go to NCU, because he said that he wanted to go to a place were man like that are. 

He went as Pastoral Major, but became a youth pastor.. so it is possible to graduate with a different major and still do what God wants you to be. But in the end He wanted to work in the local church 

One thing that i felt that he really did after school was TRUSTING GOD.... Interviewed four different places. Grad in May and didn't have a place till july TEMP. Speaking in christ till then TRUST IN GOD .. then he landed a job in Union town, one of poorest coun. in Pa. Leading with teen pregnancy, and very depressed town. Don Emaled called him gave him a job as a youth pastor. He had a great saying FIND A NEED AND MEET IT. How do you get into the community. 

UnionTown Need was welfare. Test plot in the USA. Most money make Baby makers. 

One thing 

Feed the Need

( Convey of Hope) Annual Event. Raise money with local places, get food for guys with tucks load them, heath care, hair cuts, child min. and music. 150 at a time. 1000 people come out. 

Ministry tent... giving it free same as Christ.. one or two families a year, but getting connected with people around

Pride. State.. Youth Min. End of it... youth group is going to show this highlight video. Basketball team. Jump on board with the community. 

REPETITION 

Planted Seeds.. in peoples lives... 

he style was interesting..., he wanted to be relevance, but relational. RELATIONSHIP.... Bigger it was hard. Three Degree. Small group. Discipleship.. Youth Alive

Didn't want to feel a roll or a prepose. After a death of a girl in the town. Made the phone call to the school. and then other kid died. Relief counseling. Young man Suicide. Sat and listen to them about God, death, and why God. One more kid died, was about to connect, but also speak there.  Made assemble in the school. Last year Seven Project. School assemble.

Seven Project. - go into the school, motivation speaking 

Right choices - NO PREACHING in the Assemble. Faith Based. No christian music. Not on a christian label. 

Seth travels with the seven project telling his story and do something with a basketball Zack is a Skater does some tricks and have fun. NAILED a teaching in the nose ones. All movie that they show are only Five mins long. So it is a nice pace assemble

Athletics, Skaters, and game, and pastor can do... everything is possible. 

School system picked six different subject that the school needs 

The Seven at Night is 

Evening event. tell them right off the bat in the morning.. Seven at Night. 

It is a fun time. free food. 

Prayer Zone Partners- Praying people

Campus Missionaries- students

Campus Clubs - helping start clubs 

Youth Alive 

He was so passionate about this, and it made me want to do the seven project in my town of Oneonta, and New York. 

Brian Bolt

Jail or Military or Death 

My first impression of our speaker in our class that night was that he was from the Italian Mof. He was wearing a black jacket and a big silver chain. To me he was a very laid back looking guy. Once he started to talk you could see that God was so Soaked into ever part of his life....

Brian Bolt was a man that went through some many things in the beginning of his journey that you would not help but say "IT IS GOD". At a young age he started to go major drugs and started to deal them. He got caught and the government gave him a choice one was go to Jail or the Military. So he chose the Military, when to Boot Camp didn't do that much drugs, but then after started to get back into drugs, and then run away from the Navy and went to Mexico where the Military had a warrant for his arrest. Mean time while hiding from the Military, he started to sell drugs again and a man got mad at him after a bad deal and shot him in the face....WHAT a Bullet to the FACE... when i heard this I was Like HOW CAN THIS MAN STILL BE ALIVE. He told us that when he was going to the hospital the EMT, The EMT said that Dude you are going to dye, so there he gave his life to Christ. Being in the hospital bed for 46 days around there not being able to talk, walk, or even think because of all the drug that he was on, Drug abducted man on drug by force:) His face was mostly remade with metal and other thing in which the Navy paid for everything which millions of dollar. Million dollar Face :) o shiny. So you would think after everything that he went through to take point he would change his ways.. but he didn't he started to do the drug sense again... One Day a person talked to him on the street and TOLD Him ( this is amazing) You are going to do something good for God... he was prophetic  by a person on the street that was talking to him even thou he was not even a Christian. The people that talked to him was the Victory Outreach home, they took him in, showed him how to get his life back into track, taught how to pray, and also helped him work everything out with the military. THE home rebuild is life but it was God.... the hosptal rebuild his face, but God was and is still rebuilding his life. He start to go into Master Commission got kick out..... two months got kicked out because he dated. well not really.. he thought that there was no dating so he got married. After MC worked everything out with him, he wanted to work in the city but they sent him to a small town in the country... He learn a lot out there specially  church planning, went through everything and wanted to start a church in the city, go rejected to start it, was told learn more about church planing... He started to from a lot of relationships with people around him.. Jeff Leek one man that came into his life that helped him with his vision in Alison Park, he worked there and learned more. Then he started a Church right in Pit PA where he started a Half Way House, and first month there was 150 people. But the half way house was something that was made to help and God is so soaked in that many guys were cleaned from drug but also HIV. Even a man on his death bed was saved from the HIV and started his life all over again. and was sent. This church is growing... WOW read the beginning of this blog... yeah wow.... life changing testimony that was so soaked in God that he said that everything that he did in this growth in the ministry it is all GOD.... 

I learned that from Brain that you need to set up boundary in ministry ... so that you dont get burnt out.. 

His Ministry is called Pittsburgh Outreaches which is the half way house, but they have other outreaches in the Summer.

Ministry from a man that went from drug head to a God smart man was Amazing to listen to but help me to see that my life and ministry can also be so soaked inim that i might be able to stand in front of this class when i am Older and Stay it was ALL GOD... that is my life goal now 

Thanks So Much Brian