Promotional Meetings

Promotional meetings are part of the PCNAK calendar. It allows the executives to travel to different cities that are major pockets of Keralite believers, meet with key members and Pastors, encourage them to come for the conference etc. It culminates with a promotional meeting somewhere.

In recent years, attendance to such meetings have been extremely poor. A successful meeting usually has only 15 to 20 people. Some cities have only 5 to 10 people on a given day.

So the real value of the weekend is not really the promotional meeting. It is the opportunity to meet with people and pastors and visiting churches.

Just like in any other year, this year we have seen the same trend. In each of the cities we are doing the promotional meeting, the same thing is happening. We have had the opportunity to meet with many families and many Pastors. We have visited and ministered in many churches.

Last week we were in Philadelphia where we accomplished the same. I personally visited four churches and had the opportunity to personally invite believers to the conference. I missed out on a fifth church where I had made appointment.

We had contacted many of the other churches that we could not visit and they also have extended their right hand of fellowship for the conference.

This pattern will continue until the conference.

Guest Speakers For the Conference

As I woke up early on February 1, my heart had shifted gears knowing that the conference is almost here. Just five months left! Five months of extra hard work, extra hours of prayer and extra thousands of miles on executives' car. But I prayerfully believe that it will culminate in a wonderful conference, come July 4th. Once again, let me reiterate that the PCNAK Conference is not about us. We are just carrying out the responsibilities handed to us by PCNAK General Body in Hamilton, Canada last July.We are grateful for this opportunity to serve you. We are moving right on schedule. All along our goal was to release the name of the speakers at the beginning of February. So here we go. In addition to the speakers listed below, many ministers from our community also will minister in different sessions. Let me take this opportunity to thank everyone who stood with me and the national committee, encouraged us, joined us on the national prayer line on Sunday nights and strengthened our hands by registering early. May God bless you all! It is my prayer that thousands of others will join your ranks in the coming months. God will answer our earnest prayers. Let His name be glorified! REV. SAM CHELLADURAI CHENNAI Rev. Sam P. Chelladurai is one of the most respected and influential word-preachers in India. He is a Bible teacher with a heart to touch the lives of people by expounding upon the life-transforming power of God's word. His ministry has effectively changed thousands around the world. After spending about 10 years in the United States of America, studying and later pastoring a church in North Carolina, Pastor Sam felt led by God to come back to India and continue his ministry. In 1985, he took over the leadership of Apostolic Fellowship Tabernacle in Chennai, which today is one of the fastest growing churches in India. He is the Principal of 'The Full Gospel Bible College', which trains young men and women for ministry. He is also the Founder of 'Campaign India', which is designed to take the gospel to the unreached in India. His monthly publication, 'VETRIYUM VAZHVUM' (in Tamil) is a magazine that is being read by thousands of people and his books, CDs and DVDs and tapes are distributed around the world.

REV. TOBY MONTGOMERY CALIFORNIA Rev. Tobey Montgomery is an anointed minister of the Gospel. He has been in the ministry for 24 years, the first seven of which he was solely responsible for the youth ministry of the church. In one year, under his ministry, 250 youths accepted Christ. For 17 years he was senior pastor of The Gate Fellowship in Corona, California, where the membership reached 350.His ministry has included 10 international crusades, 6 to India and 5 to the United Kingdom. Pastor Toby has been a key note speaker in IPC General Convention multiple times and has ministered in campaigns in our community in the USA. Pastor Toby who also served as the President of a College will minister to both youth and adults. .  ZAC POONEN BANGALORE Zac Poonen is the Senior Elder of Christian Fellowship Church in Bangalore, India. He is one of the best known Christian leaders from India, highly regarded and respected across the world for in depth Bible.studies. He has responsibility for a number of churches in India and abroad. He has written more than 25 books and numerous articles in English - which have been translated into many Indian and foreign languages. He was born in an Orthodox family. He was attracted to the gospel message as he entered the Naval Academy in 1955. He finally had the assurance of salvation in 1959. He took water baptism in 1961 and had the first encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1963. Since he was associated with the Brethren church, he had trouble accepting the infilling of the Holy Spirit. But after his wife was filled with the Holy Spirit in 1969, he started praying for the same experience and was filled with the Holy Spirit in 1975, which has empowered him to be fruitful in ministry all these years.    (He is introduced without any ecclesiastical titles at this request). REV. MATHEW BARNETT CALIFORNIA Matthew Barnett, author of the New York Times Best Seller, The Cause within You, and pastor of one of America's fastest growing churches, is one of the most dynamic voices God is using in Christianity today. At the age of 38, he is fulfilling the roles of people who have been in the ministry for years. Son of Pastor Tommy Barnett, best-selling author, church growth pioneer, and pastor of what Time Magazine noted as "One of the three largest churches in America," Pastor Matthew has learned powerful principles of ministry, which have gifted him in founding The Dream Center in Los Angeles. The Dream Center began as a typical local church. With the fresh vision and desire to impact the entire city that God birthed in Matthew's heart, the church grew from 39 members at its conception in September of 1994, to reaching more than 50,000 people each week in the Center's multiple services and 273 ministries and outreaches today. The Dream Center houses close to 500 people who are being rehabilitated for the glory of God. Every week people receive food and many other services are offered to meet the spiritual and physical needs of the community. As of April 2002, there have been over 130 Dream Centers launched around the world.    Pastor Mathew will be the main speaker for the youth.   REV. DR. K. C. JOHN KERALA Dr. K. C. John returned from North America in 1972 to the Indian sub-continent after theological education and pioneered the Gospel Centre Church at Nedumpuram in Kerala. This church today has over 1,600 in attendance every Sunday. Pastor John served as the General President of P. Y. P. A., the largest evangelical youth organization in India, leading it for several years. Later he served as the State Secretary of the Indian Pentecostal Church of God (IPC) for Kerala for nine years and now he is the General Secretary of IPC. Pastor John is the founder and chairman of Power Vision TV, India's first indigenous, multilingual, evangelical, Christian television station, with over 50 million in viewership. Dr. K.C. John is one the most well known gospel preachers from India.    REV. R. ABRAHAM DELHI  Rev. R.Abraham along with Rev. V.A. Thampi are the founders of New India Church of God. This movement was started in Kerala in 1976. He went to north India in 1980 in obedience to the call of God. Today NICOG has hundreds of churches across North India as a result of this. As the Ministry was growing, Pastor Abraham felt the need for training young men for the ministry. In 1989 they started the first Bible Institute in the English language in a place called Bahdurgarh in Haryana. In 1996 The Bethesda Bible Institute was started in Bhubaneswar, Orissa in the Oriya language. In 1998 NICOG established a Bible School in Nagpur, Maharashtra in the Hindi language. In 1999 a Bible School was started in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu in the Tamil language. During his extensive travel through the states of India, Pastor Abraham came across poor children starving and neglected. In places like Orissa and Madhya Pradesh some were sold as child laborers. He wanted to do something to help these children. As a result the Bethesda Children's Home was born. In October 2000 the first Bethesda Children's home was established with 29 children in Malanjkhand in Madhya Pradesh. There are now also Children's homes in Orissa and Goa and Nagpur, Maharashtra.   REV. NOBLE P THOMAS KOZHIKODE Rev. Noble P. Thomas is a well- known convention speaker from India. He started his ministry at a young age and gained recognition as an anointed convention speaker very soon. Today he serves as the Senior Pastor of Kings Revival Church in Kozhikode and travels to many nations to minister in gospel campaigns. His messages are underlined by the divine presence of Holy Spirit and a revival fire. His ministry in our conference will be a blessing.

SISTER PADMA MUDALIAR  CHENNAI Sister Padma Mudaliar is the founder of the Oasis Children's Home in Chennai, India. her husband late Rev. Nataraja Mudaliar was a missionary from South Africa to India. Padma began a journey to personally see 1,000,000 people come to know Christ through her testimony. She began preaching anywhere the Lord provided an opportunity. From her passion Oasis Ministries was birthed. She is also training students for ministry in her Bible College and continues her evangelism ministry. Sister Padma is a well known gospel preacher has ministered in many meetings among Keralites both in India and abroad.