Annual Evangelists Gathering

The annual Evangelists Gathering is scheduled for December 12-14, 2005. The group will be returning to the beautiful Oakwood Retreat Center in Syracuse, Indiana. All Nazarene evangelists are encouraged to attend this special event. The special speaker will be Susie Shellenberger.

After spending four years in the Blackboard Jungle and getting a master's degree in creative writing, Susie accepted the invitation from Focus on the Family to create a magazine for Christian teen girls. "I've been with Focus since 1989," Susie says. "Brio is a monthly publication with approximately 170,000 circulation. It's an exciting venture."

"I use a lot of humor," Susie says. "But by the time we're done, people have to make a decision. A lot of speakers can make people laugh," she says. "Humor is one of the greatest communicative tools we have. But at some point, we have to go much deeper, or we've simply had a good time."

Beside humor, Susie's strong point is evangelism, "we naturally think of non believers," she says. "God has called me to evangelize and minister to those inside the church - the people who already claim to be Christians. God doesn't want to be #1 in our lives," Susie says, "He wants to BE our lives! He wants us to be saturated with Him... to become obsessed with becoming all He calls us to be." And just how does that happen? Well, that's what Susie loves to speak about: lots of humor, lots of meat and lots of focused intensity on Jesus Christ.

For further information on this special event, call the Revivalism offices toll free at 1- 800-821-2154 or log onto their website.