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Convocation Workshops Schedule
Workshops
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1-2-3 Witness, Discovering Encouragement, the Other Gift in Witnessing
This interactive multimedia workshop explores Christian witnessing as a gift for encouraging ourselves and others. The key is, “Evangelism is a gift for some, but witnessing is the responsibility of all.”
Seminar and book author Rev. Dn. Richard G. Zepernick reveals how Christian witnessing can be an easy, natural and a normal part of our daily relationships; as quick as telling a close friend where to get a great buy on a favorite product.
Registrants will have the opportunity to create a 35-75 word witness, and observe witnessing skills and the principles in training others. Pre-registrants will also receive a FREE copy of Dn. Rick’s latest, “Discovering Encouragement, the Other Gift in Witnessing.” So sign up early!
To get the most out of the workshop, go to www.123witness.com , click on “Convocation Workshop”, get the workbook and take a few quick steps to prepare yourself in advance for a successful workshop.
Bio for Richard Zepernick
Richard Zepernick took ownership of his commitment to Jesus Christ in 1979 and has served in ministry since 1986. Rick was ordained in the CEC in 1995 and is a member of the Cathedral Church of the Intercessor. He is the author of the 1-2-3 Witness Seminar and books, “Why is God Like…” children’s adventure book and family game, and has an award winning background in marketing.
Deacon Rick says, “Christian witnessing is about encouragement and faith; encouraging the faithful to steadfast faith, and encouraging the lost to seek the source of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Rick and his wife, Bari, were married in 1974 and make their home on Long Island, New York. They have two grown sons, Chad and Keil. Rick also enjoys fishing, gardening, and outdoor and creative activities.
 Email: Rick@123witness.com
Visit: www.123witness.com
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“THE CHALLENGE OF ISLAM
……Your Response As A Christian”
Islam has doubled in growth in the United States in the last 10 years. It is the largest group of unreached people in the world. This workshop will explore what you must learn and do as a Christian. Topics covered will include The Spread and Threat of Islam, Basic Islamic History and Beliefs, The Muslim Mindset, and Entry Points for Reaching Muslims.
Bio For Dr. Judy Massey
Dr Judy Massey is a Commissioned Minister of Evangelism and Missions in the CEC. She has a doctorate from Regent University in Leadership for Global Evangelism. Besides writing a Missions Manual for the ICCEC she has written a workbook and leaders guide on “What Christians Need to Know about Islam.” In addition, she has taken prayer teams into all the mosques in greater Atlanta, led evangelistic outreaches for Muslims and been a consultant for churches in reaching Muslims. Over the last 25 years she has ministered in 11 nations and served in leadership positions in several parachurch organizations including being the SE Regional Islamic Coordinator for an international ministry. Canon Paul Massey is her husband.
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“Where Now the Horse and the Rider?” Christ’s Call for Warrior-Protectors
A subplot of The Lord of the Rings, by Catholic author J. R. R. Tolkien, is the restoration of a once-mighty kingdom that has deteriorated and is on the verge of being conquered. In it God gives us a prophetic picture of the Church in our day. The enemy is pillaging almost at will, and the forces for good are small, scattered, and bickering with one another. Aragorn – destined by God to personally lead the restoration of this kingdom – asks, “Where now the horse and the rider?” We will investigate this real-life call of Jesus Christ, and how each of us can answer “Here am I – send me!” at some level of our life.
Bio For Fr. Columcille Jackson
Fr. Columcille Jackson was raised in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and saved at the age of 9. He felt the call to ordination on a college retreat in 1973, but the way never seemed clear. With a solid evangelical foundation the Lord led him and his wife on a spiritual journey through the liturgical and charismatic streams, finally coming home to all three in the Charismatic Episcopal Church when Church of The King (Olathe, KS) was received in 1993. Ordained a deacon in 1994 and a priest in 2003, he and his wife Edye hold fast in their “place to stand to run” as they patiently walk out the call toward intentional community in the ICCEC.
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Breaking the Bondage of Debt
The step-by-step debt elimination/retirement savings plan presented in this workshop is a practical approach to eliminating one of America’s most pervasive problems, the overwhelming consumer debt level. Our current economy is in terrible trouble, and that is generally because tens of millions of Americans have gone deeper and deeper into debt to buy a lifestyle they simply cannot sustain, especially if they ever want to retire.
This is more important than just ensuring a comfortable retirement. As one gets more and more dependent on credit to maintain his lifestyle – he’s really becoming more and more vulnerable should anything happen to interrupt his income. Most Americans would be in serious financial trouble if they missed as few as two paychecks.
Compare that to what happens to people following the roadmap to financial freedom presented at this workshop. They're completely out of debt -- including paying off their house -- in just 7 to 10 years -- using nothing more than the money they already bring home each month. From that point on, ALL their monthly income is available for investing, and most people could quit working and live off the interest in as little as 5 years after their debt-freedom date (think of the number of full-time, self-funded clergy and ministry workers that could produce).
Bio For Deacon Thomas (Tom) Abbott
Deacon Thomas (Tom) Abbott was born in Pittsburgh, PA. April 26, 1949. He earned two degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, a BA in Political Science (East European Studies) and an MA in History (Russian), and a certificate at the Lenin Pedagogical Institute in Moscow, USSR.
Tom entered the US Navy in November, 1974, and served for 20 years as an intelligence officer with the Office of Naval Intelligence, eventually reaching the rank of commander. Much of his time in the Navy was spent overseas with frequent deployments and lengthy tours in the Philippines, England, and Israel.
In November 1994, Tom resigned his US Navy officer's commission and moved to Jacksonville FL, where he helped found the International Development Agency, the “missions” arm of the Charismatic Episcopal Church (CEC). Tom was ordained to the deaconate of the CEC in May 1995, and he serves at the Church of the Messiah in Jacksonville.
Tom’s secular career after leaving the Navy has been in the world of finance. He gained experience as a mortgage loan officer and as a credit counselor, and he is a Certified Budget Counselor with Crown Financial Ministries.
Since February, 1997, Tom has been a legal assistant and the CFO at the Bankruptcy Law Firm of Lansing J. Roy, the largest debtor bankruptcy law firm in North East Florida. At the law firm, Tom created and teaches the “Life After Bankruptcy” workshops, a program designed to assist people to recover from bankruptcy by sharpening their knowledge of financial principles. This program has received national attention.
Tom and his wife, Jennifer, recently founded Zebedee, Inc., a credit counseling agency affiliated with Debt Management Corporation, a non-profit company.
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We are easter children
Easter is not just a day but a season commemorating the forty days the resurrected Jesus walked the earth before ascending back to the Father. During this period our Lord did several things for His closest followers, things important not just to them but to us in our Christian discipleship.
He provided them with proof that He was risen from the dead, demonstrating that faith is not blind faith -- there are solid reasons to believe. He forgave them for their cowardice during Holy Week and restored them to a close relationship with Him. And, He showed them three necessary marks for their on-going relationship with Him via His Church: Scripture, Sacraments, and Holy Spirit power.
This workshop will apply the Bible's account of how the risen Christ ministered to His disciples and how He assists us in our daily life.
Canon Pearson is an internationally known Bible teacher and the author of several popular books. This workshop is a preview of his next book. He notes, "I have three goals in writing and teaching: First, to be faithful to the Biblical text; second, to apply that text to our own walk with Him; and third, to apply the text to our work for Him in His Church."
Bio For Mark Pearson
Mark Pearson brings an impressive array of academic credentials and broad-based experience to his role as President of Institute for Christian Renewal and as a leader of teaching and healing conferences around the world. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate with honors in History of Williams College, Canon Pearson studied theology at Oxford University, receiving a Masters degree with Honours in 1973. He spent the academic year 1973-4 at Virginia Theological Seminary where he was organist for daily chapel services. He was ordained in 1974. In 1980, he co-founded Institute for Christian Renewal as a vehicle to help bring a balanced spiritual renewal to churches and individuals. He received his doctorate from Boston University in May, 1999.
Active in the Church’s healing ministry for many years, he regularly leads healing services, trains healing teams, and spent several years as a Regional Warden for the Order of St. Luke, an interdenominational healing ministry. In August, 1990, Chosen Books published his first book Christian Healing, A Practical, Comprehensive Guide. It has been published in Great Britain and has been translated into Korean. He and his wife, Dr. Mary Grace Pearson, have developed a whole-person healing center called New Creation Healing Center. It combines medicine, Christian counseling, and prayer to minister to people in body, soul, and spirit. In 2002 the World Council of Churches invited Canon Mark to be one of 26 international participants in a Consultation on the Ministry of Healing held in Ghana. He also participated in the second Consultation, held in Chile in late 2003.
In 1986 he was named an Honorary Canon of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, a position still in effect. In June of 1995 he was named a Canon Theologian in the Charismatic Episcopal Church. From 1996 to 2000 he served as Chaplain to the C.E.C.’s House of Bishops. Since 1995 he has been rector of Trinity Charismatic Episcopal Church, Plaistow, New Hampshire and since 1998 Canon Missioner for the Diocese of the Northeast.
He has three children, Stephen, 30; Jennifer, 28; and Michael, 26. He loves Basset Hounds. Interests include movies, the Boston Red Sox, fire departments, gardening, and writing.
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Commissioned to Heal
In Mark’s Gospel, Chapter 16, verses 17 and 18, we find Jesus saying to His disciples, “and wonders will follow those who believe and they will lay their hands on the sick and they will be healed.
Believing is the essential word in receiving healing in the presence of our living Lord Jesus. Come discover how to fulfill your God-given Commission.
Bio For Rev. James Ross and Jane Ross
Father Jim and Jane’s ministry began in “The Camps Farthest Out” over thirty years ago where their leadership abilities were grounded in prayer. Both of them became active in this Spirit-filled “organism” in every aspect of the program. This led to membership in the International Order of St. Luke, the Physician. Membership expanded rapidly to leadership. While Jane was leading Music and worship plus leading Prayer Groups, Fr. Jim became the elected Warden of Region Three (the Southeastern United States and the Bahamas). This in turn led to Father Jim’s election to the North American Board of the Order. He has been serving within this body for eighteen years.
During this time he has fulfilled the following offices, Executive Assistant to the North American Warden, International Liaison, member of the Editorial Board of “Sharing magazine” and Executive Chaplain of the Order of St. Luke. He has been leading Healing Missions throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Jane sometimes joins him to lead workshops and Interactive Groups. As a point of interest, one of Jane’s mentors was Agnes Sanford.
Father Jim has been an ordained priest for twenty-nine years, having left the Syro-Chaldean Church of North America to become an active priestly advocate of the Charismatic Episcopal Church.
Both Father Jim and Jane come hand in hand to glorify God knowing that of themselves they can do nothing.
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Basics of Church Administration
A parish Guide for church administration, reporting and bookkeeping. Church administration is often overlooked in the small parish and not considered a core element of establishment or growth. This equipping ministry is however one of the secrets to being “faithful in little”; laying a solid foundation for healthy church expansion. This brief overview will touch on organizational, legal, financial, building, people and diocesan reporting issues that effect both inward development and the outward perception of parish identity.
An Incarnational approach to business in secular society
How to create a business framework to establish and fund parish and other ministry work. This workshop is for those who are self-employed, gifted in the area of business, entrepreneurial, or those who pastor them. Recognizing your business skills as a ministry, we will be discussing the kingship of Christ in business, effective corporate structures, the ministry of business in consensus government and business development to support church growth.
Bio For Deacon Keith P. Libolt
With over fifteen years experience in development, project management and construction supervision Deacon Libolt’s primary area of expertise is affordable/senior housing although he has vast experience developing light commercial and historic restoration projects. With an excellent understanding of the various populations he serves, Deacon Libolt has a thorough knowledge of what it takes to make a project work. He is able to provide for the needs of the population and do so within varied fiscal environments. His other areas of responsibility include but are not limited to project development and funding, solicitation of new clients, buying out of various phases of projects, and controlling scheduling and budgeting.
Additionally his education and experience enable him to deftly produce sound fiscal and program reporting pertaining to any project in which he is involved at any level as developer, general contractor or property/program manager. He have written and contributed to a number of grant proposals for both private and public sectors. Through these projects, he’s had the opportunity to develop solid working relationships with various government agencies on the county state and federal levels. Some of these agencies include HUD, FHLB, NYS HFA, NYS Dormitory Authority, NYS DHCR, county level community development agencies including use of HOME and CDBG Funds.
The majority of projects he is presently developing revolve around his service in the deaconate. Through the model of service and self-sacrifice for the benefit and care of others he continues to develop frameworks for healthy growth both in the physical and spiritual development of the people served.
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Creating CEC Worship; Ancient-Future Liturgy
This workshop will benefit churches with no musicians seeking a way to develop a music ministry while using contemporary resources for their Sunday worship. This workshop will also benefit churches that have a music minister, with perhaps limited musical experience, to enhance their musical vocabulary and grow technically. Finally, this workshop will benefit churches with excellent music ministries to grow in blended worship with resources from all three streams to build and perfect their vocabulary. Join me on a journey toward excellence.
Bio For Father Peter Donatelli
Over the last twenty-five years I have worked in many churches as a music minister. I am amazed that most churches I have worked for held worship and praise with little consideration for creating mediocrity regardless of resources. I believe in the CEC vision to make visible the Kingdom to all Nations of the world etc., and for this is a call to excellence especially in what we do Sunday morning. No matter what financial situation your church may be in, or staff, or musical abilities, I know every church can have a successful music program. Do you own a computer? Do you have an MP3 player, a microphone, or a boom box? As CEC ministers, we are obliged to do the most with whatever we have, therefore help me, help do liturgy.
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Radical Youth Ministry: Ministry Rooted in Christ
Ever wonder what the secret to a vibrant youth ministry is? The answer may shock you: JESUS CHRIST. This workshop will expand on how the life of Jesus should impact the design of your youth group as well as other topics such as relationship building, typical youth minister trappings, and how to empower volunteers.
Bio For Alan Melanson
Alan Melanson has been the Director of Youth and Children's Ministries at the Cathedral Church of the Intercessor in Malverne, NY for the past 4 years. A native a Jacksonville, Florida, Alan began his ministry to young adults at 18 years of age and has continued to work with this age group for the last 10 years. Alan has been married to his wife Katie for the last 5 years and has two daughters: Jocelyn, 4 and Callie, 1.
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Giving Birth God’s Way
The Birthing Clinic of the Cathedral of the King in Manila, Philippines is a realization of the vision that was in the heart of our Primate, Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines for a long time.
This is our church’s ministry to our childbearing mothers, providing them with pre-natal check-ups, nutritional counseling and prenatal exercises. Most importantly, mothers are given the opportunity to exercise their faith and trust in God that will enable them to give birth without analgesia and anesthesia, freed from fear!
This ministry is a proclamation that being pregnant and giving birth is not a sickness but a joyful family event for the gift of life bestowed on them.
We give thanks to God for His redeeming love experienced by those mothers who had previous caesarian sections and some were advised to also have one yet were able to give birth normally and were spared from unnecessary and incredible expenses. Our book on “Giving Birth God’s Way” has shown testimonies of those mothers who enjoyed God’s blessing through the ministry of the Birthing Clinic.
To God be the glory!
Bio For Rosario P. Flores
This workshop will be conducted by Rosario P. Flores better known as Sis. Chato to many members of the Cathedral of the King. She has been in the church for more than twenty (20) years. She first headed the Counseling Ministry which was then followed by the Ministry to the Elderly.
She is a licensed midwife since 1972 that finally yielded to the call to be the vessel that God will use for the Birthing Clinic.
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12 Step Program for Recovery
This workshop is predicated and is an extrapolation of the original "12 Step Program" founded by Bill Wilson "Bill W." The program has been formatted to include healing from all life threatening illnesses. The 12 Step presentation gives a unique and straightforward overview of the 12 steps and how to apply them to life threatening problems in yours or others lives.
Bio For Fr. Charles Brown, CAP, ICADC
Fr. Charles Brown is Vice President of Programs for Bridges of America Therapeutic Community Substance Abuse Programs. After serving three years at Florida State Prison, Charles became a role model and beacon of hope for those in the Orlando Bridge Work Release Program. As a teacher and an administrator, God has used Fr. Charles to minister to the criminal justice addicted inmates, through the ministry of reconciliation. He has achieved corporate and state recognition as a "Trailblazer" in the field of substance abuse. Fr. Charles is an "International Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (ICADC)," a Florida state "Certified Addiction Professional (CAP)" and a priest in the Charismatic Episcopal Church.
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Pastoral Crisis Intervention (PCI)
PCI is a process of psychological stabilization to prepare a person for spiritual intervention in a traumatic situation. The intention of that process is described by George S. Everly, Jr., Ph.D. as follows:
The pastoral community represents a large and often untapped resource in times of crisis. It possesses a unique aggregation of characteristics that makes it uniquely valuable amidst the turmoil of a psychological crisis. In critical incidents such as terrorism, mass disasters, violence, the loss of loved ones, and any events wherein human actions result in injury, destruction, and/or death, the pastoral community may possess especially powerful restorative attributes. Unfortunately, heretofore, there has existed no generally recognized and accepted manner in which the healing factors inherent in pastoral care have been functionally integrated with the well-formulated principles of crisis intervention. Pastoral Crisis Intervention is intended to facilitate that integration.
As you can see, it is related to Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) but is unique in the spiritual foundation it is built upon. PCI is not intended to be a “religious,” dogmatic or doctrinal intervention per se, but a “spiritual,” pluralistic intervention which goes beyond the temporal characteristics of a person and takes into account the spirituality of that person in whatever form that spirituality may take. PCI is a stabilizing intervention, NOT counseling or treatment.
Bio For The Rev. Canon Edward J. Skiba, Th.M
ICISF Trained Trainer
Father Ed is a retired Navy Diving/Salvage Officer. He and his wife Bonnie were the first missionaries out from the CEC, moving from Jacksonville, Fla. to Uganda, East Africa where they spent three and a half years in parish ministry and economic development. Returning home in 1997, they went to Springfield, Missouri where a small church was established and Father Ed became a Police/Fire chaplain and qualified as a medical first responder and a firefighter. He also worked as a Corrections Officer.
In 1999, they moved to Charleston, SC where he relieved Father Ken Stringer as Vicar of Holy Trinity CEC. Father Ed became part of Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy, providing crisis chaplaincy to 32 emergency response organizations. During this time, Father Ed became qualified in several areas of Critical Incident Stress Management and certified to teach Pastoral Crisis Intervention (PCI) and Trained Crisis Responder (TCR). During his eight years with the CCC Father Ed was chosen Chaplain of the Year for five years. He is also a certified Police Hostage Negotiator and has completed 400 hours of Clinical Pastoral Education.
Father Ed is currently living in Indiantown, Fla. where he is employed by Treasure Coast Hospices, ministering to people in end of life situations. He also serves as the Deputy Southeast Region Chaplain for the US Air Force Auxiliary, CAP holding the rank of Chaplain, LtCol., and is the Canon for the CAP, Diocese of the Armed Forces.
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Worship Equippers Workshop
"Helping You to Make His Praise Glorious"
One of the life-transforming dynamics experienced in convergence worship is the joyful singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs! This workshop (which really cannot be described – but must be experienced!!) is designed to help equip our CEC children, youth, and adults with “easy to play” musical instruments that can be used in a wide variety of worship settings including Sunday services, the Daily Office, parish home groups, Bible studies, hospital visitation, open air processionals, prayer walks, PraiseQuakes, retreats, and much more! Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be refreshed, enlightened, equipped, and transformed!
Bio for Fr. Dean F. Schultz
Father Dean F. Schultz has ministered throughout the body of Christ as a preacher, worship teacher, and psalmist at churches, seminars, retreats, conferences, and schools. He is especially known for his animated teaching style which has helped to make the dynamics and history of Judeo-Christian worship “come alive” for people from many different nations through psalmody accompanied by Davidic and multiethnic musical instruments, multimedia assisted teaching, signs, symbols, pageantry, iconography, and the performing arts.
Father Dean is the founder of Worship Equippers for Christ, an interdenominational mission’s ministry that networks with gifted teachers, musicians, performing artists, and artisans to help equip churches and Christian ministries to experience worship renewal. Prior to founding Worship Equippers he served as a city director on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ International in Washington D.C.; as a church planting pastor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance; and as the Executive Director of Ministries for Reel to Real, whose multimedia presentations have been viewed by millions worldwide.
Father Dean and his wife Glorianne have been married for 35 years. They have three adult children (two married), and three feisty grandsons who all love to praise the Lord. The Schultz’s are members of Church of the Good Shepherd in Ellicott City, Maryland.
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Chaplaincy
The workshop will present the vocational ministry of the military chaplaincy, answer questions about what the requirements are and what the ministry is like. There will also be several military chaplains present to answer questions and share their personal experiences.
Bio for Archbishop Douglas S. Woodall, Ph.D.
The Most Rev. Douglas S. Woodall is Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Armed Forces for the Charismatic Episcopal Church of North America.
His duties includes the endorsement of clergy from the Charismatic Episcopal Church to serve as chaplains in the Armed Forces, Federal Correctional Institutes, and Veterans Administration Hospitals.
Archbishop Woodall earned the Associate of Arts degree in Biblical Studies from Southwestern College in Bethany, OK; the Bachelor of Theology degree from Holmes College of the Bible in Greenville, SC; the Bachelor of Sacred Theology and the Master of Sacred Theology from Luther Rice Seminary in Jacksonville, FL; and the Doctor of Theology from Immanuel Theological Seminary in Sharpsburg, GA.
Archbishop Woodall is married to the former Pamela Ann Stamper from Jeffersontown, KY. They have four children and four grandchildren.
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Dance and Pageantry
Dean & Helena Thomas of Kansas City, Missouri will lead a panel discussion on the implementation of the worship arts in the ICCEC. They will explore the use of the arts to honor God at the parish level and in other venues.
Bio for Dean and Helena Thomas
ZionFire is Dean & Helena Thomas, currently living in Kansas City, Missouri, and congregants at Cathedral Church of the King in Olathe, Kansas. Both are trained musicians and have served the church in musical capacities their entire adult lives. The ZionFire banners have been involved in worship services and conferences across the United States and internationally. Their work with banners, flags, garments, pageantry, and environment is known and respected among the world's worship arts community.
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Government According to God
An overview of God’s plan for every level of government within His Kingdom. Brief discussion of how we as individuals are to relate to God, how we are to govern our families and our church, at all levels.
Bio for Bp. Doug Kessler, Ph.D.
Bp. Kessler was ordained to the priesthood in 1991 and was elevated to the episcopacy in 1996. During his tenure in the CEC, Bp. Kessler has served as the General Secretary for the communion and as Auxiliary to the Patriarch. He also founded St. Michael’s Seminary and currently serves as its Academic Dean, as well as the Supervising Bishop for the International Agency on Education.
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CEC On The Move In Africa: Opportunities and Challenges of the CEC in Africa.
Presenters: Bishop Bernard Njoroge and a Panel of Bishops from Africa
Bishop Bernard Njoroge will introduce the topic by outlining a brief history of the work of the CEC in Africa. A panel of Bishops will be available to answer questions by those present and would like to know more on how they can accompany the African Church in their journey.
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