Stealth Evangelism
Launched in USA!
We conducted our first Stealth Evangelism Seminar on April 25-27 at Life of Worship in Amarillo, Texas. Hosting were Pastors John and Sandi Craig. We had 6 Students including John and Sandi complete the training.
Well, we learned a lot during those 3 days that will help with future Seminars here in the US. The students responded to the training just as enthusiastically as our students in the Philippines. Without question we had to make adjustments in the training procedures because of the difference in the culture and the population density. But all in all we could see that it will work just as efficiently here in the US as it does in the Philippines. Is that and Amen? Yahoooooo! We learned that even though the percentage of souls won are not as enormous as they are in a densely populated nation like the Philippines they are still significant and there can even be a much higher number of converts retained in the churches involved with the monthly evangelism program they establish with the Stealth Evangelism. In the US new believers are more likely to attend the church responsible for their salvation because there is no transportation problem and many are not affiliated with another church. In the Philippines most new converts don’t have transportation and will not stray far because of the cost of getting to and from. This also creates problems in follow-up that are not seen here in the states.
We are excited to be able to witness the debut of a mighty wave of evangelism we believe will cover the US in the coming years. You can help by getting the word out to pastors and leaders about us. Refer them to our web-site at www.dunamisinternational.org or call us at 806-416-2313 or our cell number while we are here in the US 806-477-0188.
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Pastors John & Sandi Craig of Life of Worship in Amarillo,
during workshop portion of training.
“The Lord answered my prayer!”
“I had been praying for a simple transferable and trainable method to implement personally and in my church. I asked the Lord to send someone that would do this very thing for us at Life of Worship. The Lord answered my prayer and sent Tony & Calli Poole with Stealth Evangelism and the 357 Magnum tool. I was surprised at the simplicity of the method and how anyone can be trained to be soul winners. For me, it gave me confidence on breaking the ice in a conversation to show anyone what Jesus said about being Born Again. The practice and exercises help me make the presentation a part of me without a lot of memorization, steps, or fear of messing up. Messing up to me always brings grave consequences – like damaging a relationship and causing someone to reject the gift of salvation. I feel confident I can approach anyone with the Gospel with whom I strike up a conversation with. I’m excited about raising others to do the same.”
Pastor John Craig, Senior Pastor
Life of Worship, Amarillo, TX
“Witness without fear!”
“This conference has made evangelism so easy. We have learned a tool that we can pass on to every member of our church – from the young to the oldest. Each will be able to go out and witness in their everyday life without fear because they will know what to say. Because of Stealth Evangelism we will see our city and beyond, taken back for Jesus. As every church, pastor, and leader get a hold of this, we will see the “great harvest” of 6 billion lost come into the Kingdom of God.”
Pastor Sandi Craig
Life of Worship, Amarillo, TX
Dr Andrew & Laura Stenhouse from More Church in Amarillo
During workshop at Stealth Evangelism Seminar
“More than I prayed for!”
“This has been even more than I prayed for. God is especially arranging my schedule and the direction of my life out of the medical and into the spiritual healing ministry. I am graduating into this, this week. I have prayed that you would come to the US (in Amarillo) to present this teaching. It is more than I ever imagined, and for the first time in my 77 years I feel equipped to actually lead anyone (who will receive) to Jesus (and it even somehow makes me love my Jesus more) The development and potential (of Stealth Evangelism) in the USA is critical in the season we are in – for most Americans will be in great fear and will desire the assurance of being born again. As we are able we will continue to sow and pray for Dunamis. Blessings abound to y’all. Love, Andrew”
Dr Andrew Stenhouse
More Church, Amarillo, TX
“Dunamis has completely
changed my life!”
“Dunamis has completely changed my life … Very, very, very pumped up to harvest souls… more comfortable- about speaking to people about our great God! So blessed to have met you guys and participated in this program. Thank you!”
Laura Stenhouse
More Church, Amarillo, TX
“Invitation to Davao City!!!”
Awesome news! We have just been invited to send a team of three to Davao City in Mindanao to train 60 area pastors and leaders May 31 thru June 2. Our contact there said there will be a season festival of churches. Pastors from three districts of Davao are attending. So she gathered 20 pastors and leaders from each district to be trained by Dunamis. It happens once in five years so she took advantage of it! The arrangement is that Dunamis will shoulder one way fare of the staff and they will shoulder the other way plus food and accommodations while in Davao City. We stepped out in faith and told her,“Yes we will be there!” We are sending Pastor Steve Hill and two others to get this done. All we need is about P14,000.00 total. This will take care of their airfare one way and a small amount for transporting the materials, which we will be donating. Please agree with us in prayer for the provision for this awesome opportunity to light a fire of evangelism in southern Philippines. If you would like to help with this special need please designate on your gift “Davao training.”
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Pastor Tony Poole
Consumed by God!
This last Sunday I preached at Life of Worship Church in Amarillo. Wow! It has been years since I shared my testimony and preached a message on being “Consumed by God”! I loved it. During the worship time, which was absolutely wonderful, a powerful anointing just fell on me as I stood with others in the front of the Church worshipping our awesome God. When it hit me, it came like a flood of flashbacks of life experiences that began as the Lord had started His process of consuming me in 1997.
I remembered so many wonderful moments that God touched the depths of my soul with His all consuming love. The Lord spoke to Calli at Trinity Fellowship that year and told her that we would look back at the end of ’97 and wouldn’t recognize our life. Well, that was an understatement! I was hammered by the Holy Spirit from the beginning of the year, and on February 8th, the Holy Spirit fell upon me and the fire of God just cooked me for 11 ½ hours that night. The next morning when I came out of it, “I would never be the same again.”
I went from being consumed by everything but God, that is consumed by my work, consumed by my family, consumed by my ministry in the church….! Then all of sudden I woke up absolutely addicted to God. After that, about every 3 to 4 days the Holy Spirit would fall upon me again as though I were having withdrawals from my new addiction, because I would shake and go into cold sweats and just be out of it for 2 to 4 hours at a time. During those episodes with the Holy Spirit I would see all kinds of things in the spirit. The Lord was ministering His love and at the same time taking over areas in my life that I’d always had control of. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom or liberty (2 Cor. 3:17). During all this I became more and more free of my inhibitions to speak to crowds, worship freely, dance to the Lord, and so on!
I also began to loose my zest for my work as a real estate man. At the time I had garnered about 60% market share at Lake Tanglewood. We had a beautiful house on the water and 3 boats. I sold property out of my boat and fished daily.
I loved my life at Tanglewood! I told Calli one time, “bury me on the hill behind the house.” I never wanted to leave there. But when the Holy Spirit revealed the face of the Lord to me in these fiery episodes with God, my lust for things of this world began to die, they became strangely dim in the light of His Glory and Grace. On April 24th after two months of being touched over and over by the Lord which I became addicted to His presence, He revealed the call to me. One month to the day later during another encounter or episode He told me to get everything out of my hands and He was going to put His things in my hands. He said to sell the house and business, then give everything else away. Later that year we traveled to the Philippines to preach at Pastor Conferences in Surigao and Palawan. When we returned I told Calli, “I shall not return” because of the difficulty of the trip, but God had another plan. We returned after just one year and began coming back on short term mission trips every 6 to 12 months. Calli and I both knew that God was calling us to the Philippines after the second trip. It took nearly 4 years to get ready for what He ultimately wanted us to do.
In 2002 we started itinerating in churches raising support to go. Then in March of 2003 we stepped out of the boat, and moved to the Philippines into a whole new life. I cannot tell you how much it has meant to Calli, Felicity, and I to have been chosen of God to go and do His awesome work there. We are committed to a life time of serving God on the mission field. There have been millions of people saved because of the work that God has put our hand to. Friends God chose us because He knew our hearts better than we did. I told my son in law two years before the Lord called me, “God would never call me, I’m just a lay minister!” I was 51 when the Lord uprooted me out of my nest and put me on the highway to Glory. What else could it be? Instead of laying up treasures on earth we have been given the opportunity in this season of our life to lay up treasures in Heaven! The only treasure that we can take with us when we die is the souls of men. Amen?
If God can use people like us, He can use anyone, including YOU! Is that an Amen? It’s not our ability that God is interested in, it’s our availability that He cares about! Avail yourself to Him and watch Him do mighty things through you!
We love you all, Tony & Calli Poole
PS from Calli
Just to share some great news we have;
Our middle daughter, Krystel, is moving to Manila with us when we go back in July. Praise the Lord I know He has instilled in her great talents we need there. Her bookkeeping and organizational skills have been greatly needed! Thank you Lord for sending us more help! And of course as “mom” I’m tickled to have another daughter so close to us!
Also Felicity just found out a new baby coming in September is a GIRL! Her name is Brianna Cassidy. We are sooo excited! Miles will be an awesome big brother!