PK Kicks Off '06 Campaign to 'Unleash' Thousands
The stage is up and the trucks are in for the first of 19 Unleashed conferences this year which are expected to be the best ever in the Promise Keepers' 16 years of ministry.
The curtain is about to rise, announced Promise Keepers, for the 2006 Unleashed conferences kicking off Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The stage is up and the trucks are in for the first of 19 conferences which are expected to be the best ever in their 16 years of ministry.
Heading the 2006 national run is Dr. Bob Reccord, former president of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, who will be speaking to tens of thousands of men across the nation from June 2 to Oct. 21. The kick-off conference will gather 7,000 men, according to Promise Keepers spokesman Steve Chavis.
New features this year are PK7's latest music "Worship Unleashed," which was just released and Saturday morning interactive sessions with Bishop Joseph Garlington, senior pastor of Covenant Church of Pittsburgh. Sessions will help men explore their heart and talents in detail and put them into action.
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"Unleashed - Releasing the Raw Power of Your Heart," this year's theme, is about helping a man discover his God-given potential, optimize his talents and then move out in those with other men.
"We want to see their potential developed," said Chavis.
Last year, Promise Keepers reached more than 176,600 men in 20 U.S. cities and the ministry became global for the first time. The participating men aided with donations directed toward tsunami-hit regions as well as hurricane-hit families and went directly into mission fields like the Bahamas for evangelistic outreach.
Partnering with the North American Mission Board this year, Promise Keepers will encourage men to help with Katrina rebuilding efforts in a newly launched project called Operation NOAH Rebuild.
"We're presenting a challenge to 180,000 evangelical men this summer," said Jim Burton, director of volunteer mobilization for the NAMB, which will be promoting its rebuild project at the men's conferences. "We're simply providing the pathway of service for them."
"We're excited Promise Keepers has chosen to cooperate with us," added Burton. "It shows the spirit of what God's doing in the Church today when this kind of relationship can exist."
For registration information on Promise Keepers conferences, visit www.promisekeepers.org.
