PRESS RELEASE The FGBMFI - SVG announce The FGBMFI Conference 2013 Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International announced today that it will hosting the FGBMFI Regional Convention 2013 from October 24 – 26, 2013. The FGBMFI - SVG officials are expecting more than 30 overseas delegates from international and regional countries, in additional to local delegates. FGBMFI- SVG officials expect this convention to be a time of empowerment to all in attendance, bridging the gap between Business and Kingdom Business in addition to learning from a diversify group of men. The conference will be held under the theme “Bring Forth Fruit”. Speakers will include: Justice Lloyd Elcock – Retired Judge TREVOR ‘REX’ BADDALOO- Insurance Executive and MDRT Member Harry Mayers- Former General Manager of CANA, and Editor of The Nation Newspaper Trevor Joseph- Executive Director of Point Lisas and Chaguanas Chambers of Commerce Although delegates will be engaged in activities which include visits to various institutions including both prisons, Liberty lodge Boys home, Police Headquarters and businesses on Thursday- the official opening of the convention will take the form of a Cocktail at Government House at 7:00PM on Thursday evening. The other sessions will be held at the Sunset Shores conference room and all men are invited to come out and participate. Persons seeking more information can call Miss Seals at 456-0000. About FULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MEN’S INTERNATIONAL WHAT WE ARE... We are not a church, but a trans-denominational fellowship. Our members (all men) come from different countries, cultures, denominations, classes and occupation. Our aim is to encourage our friends to know the Lord personally through our everyday experiences and in a manner which is acceptable to modern men, so that all would know that the gospel is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe. Since we are not a church, but a servant for and a bridge between different groups with the church, we would refer the people who have received salvation in our meetings back to their commitment to the Lord and in their ministries at their local Churches. Our Mission... • To reach men in all nations for Jesus Christ • To call men back to God • To help believers be baptized in the Holy Spirit and to grow spiritually • To train and equip men to fulfill the Great Commission • To provide an opportunity for Christian Fellowship • To bring a greater unity among all people in the Body of Christ The Four E’s! At times the above has been stated in an easy to remember format… • EVANGELIZE Reach men in nations for Jesus Christ and to call men back to God. • EMPOWER Help believers to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and to grow spiritually. • EQUIP Train and disciple men to fulfill the Great Commission. • ENLARGE • Provide an opportunity for Christian Fellowship and bring a greater unity among all people in the body of Christ. OUR PURPOSE... • To witness to God’s presence and power in the world today through the message of the total Gospel for the total man, and by this to reach men for Jesus Christ, especially those having the same social, cultural or business interests as the person doing the witnessing. • To provide a basis of Christian fellowship among all men through an organism not directly associated with any specific church but operating with all those of like mind, and to inspire its members to be active in their respective churches. Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International does not start churches. Rather, we desire solely to be a service-arm to existing ones. To bring about a greater measure of unity and spirit of harmony in the body of Christ, where members are united in a common effort for the good of the whole body. OUR VISION... • Our vision for the Fellowship is based upon a series of prophetic messages given over a period of time and confirmed by a literal vision from God. In the vision, we see: Mass Conversions • Untold masses of men from every continent and nation, of all races and diverse culture and costume, once spiritually dead, are now alive. Delivered and set free, they are filled with the power of God’s Holy Spirit faces radiant with glory, hands raised and voices lifting their praises to heaven. Outpouring of the Holy Spirit A vast global movement of laymen comprised of millions of men being used mightily by God to bring this last great harvest through the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit before the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. OUR HISTORY In 1944, world renowned evangelist Dr. Charles Price revealed in a meeting about the coming of age of the laymen’s revival through the manifested gifting of the Holy Spirit. A dairy businessman named Demos Shakarian was present when Bro. Price prophesied about his involvement in it. Demos, heeding to the words, began to organize evangelistic meetings in tents and auditoriums. In 1952, he put up a fellowship for businessmen which he called Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship in a cafeteria. After a year of dismal failure, Demos started to lose hope and thought of quitting. Crying out to God on a Friday night before the final meeting, his spirit was lifted up into the air. There he saw countless number of people around the globe in a state of gloomy desperation. Demos pleaded to the Lord to help them. Just then, he saw the sudden change of countenance on these same faces, their hands were raised, in a gesture of praise to the Lord. His wife Rose uttered, “my son, the very thing you see before you will soon come to pass.” The next morning, two men approached him. One gave $1,000.00, the other offered to publish a magazine for the Fellowship. This dramatic breakthrough spurred the growth of the movement. It was confirmed when Mordecai Ham, who led Billy Graham to Christ, told Demos when they met in Texas, “the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International is God’s instrument to awaken the laymen-the sleeping giant of evangelism.” In the mid 60′s, 400 businessmen and their wives flew to London and spread themselves throughout Europe to give their testimonies. They paid their own fare wherever they went. Trips were made to the then Iron Curtain, to Asia, to war torn Ireland, in which a senator commented that the Fellowship’s effort resulted in building a bridge between warring factions. Once, a contingent from New Zealand ministered in Tonga, paving the way for the prime minister and his wife to become Christians. A chapter in the Fellowship was able to meet in the legislative chamber of the House. In Brazil, executive vice-president Tommy Aschcraft and international director Norman Norwood were invited by a group of 3,000 who gave them a warm welcome. One leader even made it possible for 500 churches to be available for their meetings. Today, through the grace of God, FGBMFI has 182 international directors and 698 field representatives worldwide. There are over 3,000 local chapters in about 160 countries that meet weekly or monthly, with more than a million people exposed to their meetings. Indeed, God means business with the Christian businessmen. In addition, some 1,000 chapters have sprouted in Africa, and giant China has 1-Million affiliate members. In the Philippines, there are about 40 Chapters. . For more information, please visit fgbmfi To learn more about this conference please call
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