IPHC The Bishop's Office

James D. Leggett,
General Superintendent & Presiding Bishop

PRESIDING BISHOP MET WITH POPE
Presiding Bishop James D. Leggett met with Pope Benedict XVI during a special ecumenical prayer service, Friday evening, 4/18 at 6 pm ET.

As president of the Evangelical/ Pentecostal Family of Christian Churches Together, he is one of several religious leaders who took part in the ecumenical prayer service at St. Joseph's Church in Manhattan.

For more information, read the entire story here.

Read the Pope's sermon on the Vatican's web site.

Watch the Prayer Service online here.

Apostolic Task Force Report
The Apostolic Task Force, mandated by the delegates at the General Conference is now available for review and download.

The 21 page document was presented to the General Board of Administration and approved with minor editorial changes on October 30, 2007. Click here to read the Summary Report and to get your own copy of the complete document.

Declaracion Biblica Apostolica.

Surabaya, Indonesia, Hosts Pentecostal World Fellowship Conference; Delegates From 34 Nations Attend
Gathering under the theme, “Pentecost Today: Impartation to Impact the World,” delegates from 34 nations and area churches convened in the 20,000-seat auditorium of Bethany Church in Surabaya, Indonesia, July 17-20, 2007, for the 21st triennial conference of the Pentecostal World Fellowship. The Pentecostal World Fellowship (PWF) is a cooperative body of Pentecostal churches and groups worldwide committed to the furtherance of the Gospel to the ends of the world. Read more...

Education Grants Available for Theological Education
ATLANTA, July 2007 – To help congregations identify and nurture the next generation of leaders for the church, The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) is offering competitive grants ranging from $5,000 to $12,000 for grassroots programs that cultivate a sense of Christian vocation and the call to ministry among youth. Read more here.

Continuing Education Reading List Updated
Get your copy of the newly updated CEU Reading List for your continuing education credits. Use the Print This Page link at the top of the CEU list to get a printer-friendly copy. Stay Updated!

New Affiliation Established
IPHC Ministries is a Charter Member of the newly formed Christian Churches Together in the USA. Thirty-four churches and national Christian organizations, representing over 100 million Americans, have formed the broadest, most inclusive fellowship of Christian churches and traditions in the USA in a gathering at Simpsonwood Conference and Retreat Center near Atlanta, Georgia, March 28 – 31, 2006. National leaders from five Christian families — Evangelical/Pentecostal, Historic Protestant, Historic Racial/Ethnic, Orthodox and Catholic — made the historic decision to organize officially as Christian Churches Together in the USA. Its mission is “to enable churches and Christian organizations to grow closer together in Christ in order to strengthen our Christian witness in the world.”

Christian Churches Together provides a context — marked by prayer, theological dialogue and fellowship — in which churches can develop relationships with other churches with whom they presently have little contact. This is one response to our Lord’s Prayer that all who believe in Him might be one with God and with one another so that the world would believe in Him as God and Savior. CCT, out of its commitment to grow closer together in Christ, can offer a significant and credible voice in speaking to contemporary culture on issues of life, social justice and peace. View the CCT eNewsletter here.

For more information, visit their site here.

Ministers' Wives Fellowship
A new site for the Ministers' Wives Fellowship is now active. Its designed to help provide support for all women in ministry and particularly wives of pastors and other ministers.

A new book, Embracing Our Place, is now available. This book, edited by our First Lady, Faye Leggett, was written by more than a dozen ministers' wives from across the church. Get your copy here.

Holiness Manifesto Published
On February 8, 2006 the third and final meeting of the Wesleyan Holiness Study Project (WHSP) concluded with a gathering of pastors in Pomona, California. The IPHC was one of ten holiness denominations who participated in the study project. The three year project began with the goals of:

articulating a contemporary statement of holiness for the future mission of the Church,
linking denominations with a holiness heritage in re-emphasizing the message,
developing a HOLINESS MANIFESTO, and
a published book authored by writers from the participating denominations.

Over two dozen major papers were produced by participants in contributing to the unifying effort. A major outcome was the writing of the HOLINESS MANIFESTO that serves as both a call and statement for unity around this biblical vision for the Church.

KESLER @ Vanderbilt Divinity Library
70 years ago a man with a vision, John Louis Kesler, opened up the doors of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library to clergy members by allowing them access through the mail to the library’s collections. Today, this door is still open through the Kesler service.

KESLER @ Vanderbilt Divinity Library offers persons engaged in or retired from ministry the privilege to borrow items from the Vanderbilt Divinity Library via postal mail. The service is absolutely free to patrons, as they are only responsible to pay return postage on items borrowed. Read more here...

Join the fight against pornography
For the last two years, the Executive Committee of the Religious Alliance Against Pornography (RAAP) has engaged in discussions regarding the troublesome decision of corporate giants like AT&T and others to distribute pornography. Click here for information on how you can make a difference!

Training Manuals

VisionCare
Mobilized for Ministry
Reach3 Plant3
Multiply! Churches & Believers

General Superintendent's Portfolio

Archives and Research Center, Harold Hunter, Director
Communications & Network Services (CommNet), Joe Iaquinta, Dir
Human Resources and Operations Mgmt., David Roberts, Director
Men's Ministries, Bill Terry, Executive Director
Women's Ministries, Jewelle E. Stewart, Exec. Director
World Intercessor's Network (WIN), Terry Fowler, Director

Office Personnel