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PROMISE KEEPERS HOLDS RALLIES
[Distributed by Way of Life Literatureâs Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Copyright 2000. These articles cannot be stored on BBS or Internet sites and cannot be sold or placed by themselves or with other material in any electronic format for sale, but may be distributed for free by e-mail or by print. They must be left intact and nothing removed or changed, including these informational headers. This is a listing for Fundamental Baptists and other fundamentalist, Bible-believing Christians. Our goal is not devotional but is TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO ASSIST PREACHERS IN THE PROTECTION OF THE CHURCHES IN THIS APOSTATE HOUR. If you desire to receive this type of material on a regular basis, e-mail us, give us your name, address, and the name of the church you are a member of, and request to be placed on the list. Please note that this is not a free service. We take up a quarterly offering to fund this ministry, and each subscriber is expected to participate. To unsubscribe or to submit a change of address, send your name and the request to fbns@wayoflife.org. This is not an automated list. Changes in the database often require two to four days to activate. Some of these articles are from O Timothy magazine. David W. Cloud, Editor. O Timothy is a monthly magazine in its 17th year of publication. Subscription is $20/yr. Way of Life publishes many helpful books. The catalog is located at the web site -- http://www.wayoflife.org/.] September 26, 2000 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The Promise Keepers organization, founded in 1990, is much smaller than it was a couple of years ago, but it is still holding rallies and promoting ecumenical philosophy among churches. Whereas roughly 1 million men attended Promise Keepers events in 1996, 325,000 attended the events in 1999. Staff members have been cut from about 400 to about 90. The annual budget has been reduced from $100 million in 1996 to about $30 million today. There are 16 rallies scheduled for this year. One was held in June at Jerry Falwellâs Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. About 13,000 attended the conference in Pittsburgh that same month. There are also several Promise Keepers conferences in Canada this year. The first one was in May in Edmonton, Alberta, and drew 8,000 participants in two separate rallies. A conference was also held in Ottawa in May. Other Canada rallies are planned for London, Ontario, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Area pastors are pressured into participating. Pastor Wilbert Unger of Bethel Baptist Church, London, Ontario, told me that Promise Keepers mailed him several announcements about the September 30 meeting, and when he did not respond, a representative actually visited him and asked why he was not participating. There is much information about the unscriptural ecumenical nature of Promise Keepers at the Way of Life web site -- http://www.wayoflife.org/. See also the Fundamental Baptist CD-ROM Library which is now available from Way of Life. |
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