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Newsletter 90 -  ISSN# 1559-6540

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays to you! I pray our little news note finds you enjoying God's presence during the Holidays and your family as well.

Special Update: Thank you for your support and interest over the years. We proudly announce our newest ministry project, the Helps Ministry magazine, releasing in 2012. It will be on a every two month production schedule. As always, we covet your prayers, participation and support in helping us minister to the Body of Christ. With a tinge of sadness, we also announce this is the last issue for the Armorbearer Coach. Our little ezine is retiring after 90 issues. We will still periodically release a blog or a Special Update from Armorbearers International. Details

We offer a Thank You to the leaders, pastors and armorbearers that referred us all year to your church and other ministries. Because of YOU our Helps Ministry community continues to grow. Remember us during the holidays and go by the featured Shout Out testimony page and use the little form: http://www.armorbearers.net/tell-a-friend.html to tell your friends and ministry associates about us. We, sincerely appreciate it.

Also, our new community site called Ministry of Helps Network continues to grow. Yet, it's still missing something, YOU and your team. Go there now and check us out at the Ministry of Helps Network: Greet, Chat, Pray and Grow with other Christians, Local Church Pastors, Leaders and Helpers. Browse around, create a group for your specific church or ministry team, ask a question, post your church or ministry group's pictures, promote your church or ministry for your area and more.

Our A Devotion to Serve column this month features a devotional from the book A Devotion to Serve by Rev. Varn Brown & Minister Earma Brown. We invite your comments and feedback. Enjoy and forward it to a friend that needs to read this message. Additionally, we feature one of the most read messages from the Readers Favorite Archives, "7 Ways to Fan Into Flame the Gift of God Inside You."

Thank you for reading. Have a blessed Christmas and a prosperous new year in 2012!

Helping leaders and supporters build
strong teams in the local church,
Rev. Varn Brown and Minister Earma Brown

A DEVOTION TO SERVE

Serve with a Gracious Spirit

Do you realize you are an ambassador for Christ and your leader? Graciousness simply means to be kind, courteous, and compassionate. We should seek to serve our pastors, leaders and each with the attitude of love. I know it sounds like a girly term. But it's not. Remember gentleness doesn't sound that manly either. But gentleness means strength under control.

The opposite of graciousness is being militant. One of the definitions of militancy is being ready to fight. In the case of God's people, we are too ready to fight. I brought that up; because we've been noticing a disturbing trend across America-quite a few Armorbearer teams have setup with an out of balance militancy.

What I mean by that is as an Armorbearer, we naturally feel protective of our leaders and that's where some of the militancy flows from. And we should be protective in faith and prayer of our leaders, because we all know-the minute someone stands up to lead in Christ-they become a serious target of the enemy.

As the local church we have to adjust our thinking to dangerous times we live in. Many churches are requiring their armorbearers to go through at least a basic session with the security team on how to disarm and block a threat. Also, I know lots of churches have security team members that serve in dual roles or their armorbearer teams have developed out of a security team group...Read Full Article

Shout Out! God's timing is always perfect. I needed this right now, for where I am in the "process" right now. I felt no one understood. But I trully thank God for this blessed article. Thank you and God Bless You. —Elder Dee.

Varn, thank you for your new book (Healing the Wounds of a Fatherless Generation) and for your kind words. I believe your revelation in the area of "Spiritual Fathers" will help many people. Love, Pastor Happy Caldwell, Agape Church, Little Rock, AR Read Other Testimonies | Add Your Testimony

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Greet, Chat, Pray and Grow with other Christians, Local Church Pastors, Leaders and Helpers. Create a group for your specific church or ministry team, ask a question, post your church or ministry group's pictures, promote your church or ministry for your area and a whole lot more we are waiting for you to create in the community...Visit MOHN Community today!

READERS FAVORITE ARTICLE
7 Ways to Fan Into Flame the Gift of God Within You

…I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you…2 Timothy 1:6b

Carman, a Christian recording artist, while visiting his sister as an east coast Italian kid, black Afro, silk shirt with black slacks, was radically saved (born-again) at an Andrae Crouch concert. His beginning in Christ is where songs like Serve the Lord and No Way Not Ashamed came from. He admits, “I know what it’s like to serve. I served in my local church for about six years before going full time in the music ministry.

Those were hard years sometimes. However, I would not trade them because it taught me ministry. It taught me how to identify the Spirit of God. It taught me where and when the anointing was present. I learned when and when not to minister.

Through serving, I learned how to accomplish great things in the Kingdom of God. Any person who has ever done anything great for the Lord has dedicated years to the Lord. If you can handle the details, the mundane things of ministry, you can accomplish great things for God.”

God’s gifts and callings are with out repentance, but the anointing may decrease and fade.6 I compare the anointing with the talents Jesus spoke of in His parable of the talents.7 The master gave one man a level one measure of anointing. Another received a level two anointing. Yet, another was given a level five anointing, each according to his ability...Read Full Article

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