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After the Lord called Lurone “Coach” Jennings to bi-vocational ministry, The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® helped him study God’s Word effectively, and focus on shepherding His people.

Coach Jennings serves Chattanooga, TN, as administrator of the city’s Department of Youth and Family Development.  He’s also a minister of the Gospel, preaching, evangelizing, and discipling young people in the community.

After he trusted the Lord in May of 1983, Coach Jennings became actively involved in ministry, and God began to use him in a powerful way.

“I was teaching and coaching in public city schools at the time, and it was a great experience where God began to use me,” Coach Jennings says. “It was very exciting to share my faith with students through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Bible in the Schools, and other programs that were already in the schools.”

“The greatest joy of ministry to me is seeing people come to Jesus.”

During the course of his 20-year career as a teacher, athletic coach, and administrator in Chattanooga-area public schools, Coach Jennings became actively involved in community evangelism and local revivals, and served in his local church teaching Sunday school and preaching.

One of the biggest challenges Jennings faced is balancing the demands of ministry with the time he needs to prepare thoughtful lessons and sermons. The synthesis of many different commentaries found in The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®, along with its easy-to-follow outline format, provided Coach Jennings with the tools he needed to balance his work and his desire to thoughtfully prepare to teach the Word of God.

“About 12 years ago I was exposed to The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®, and it was an eye-opener,” says Coach Jennings.  “It was so encouraging, and so organized.  It made my study – and my interest in study – even more exciting. I had more of a desire to prepare.”

Coach Jennings has found The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® a powerful tool, not just for his own study, but also as a resource for mentoring the next generation of pastors and leaders around him.

“I began to buy sets of the material and give them away as gifts to young ministers who were coming up,” he says. “They wouldn’t have to go through what I went through trying to find good resources and commentaries.”

We’re thankful for the work God s doing through leaders like Coach Jennings – men and women who are faithfully preaching the Gospel and helping the next generation of ministers discover God’s calling on their lives.

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Many leaders who receive this training are so encouraged that they want to learn how to train others! We believe this is the best way to impact the world and spread the hope of the Gospel: by building a network of local pastors who can train other pastors in their communities.   

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Leadership Ministries Worldwide recently joined with The Chattanooga Fellows program to provide opportunities for young leaders to gain work experience and discover how their faith informs their vocations.

The Chattanooga Fellows program is one of 19 such programs operating as part of The Fellows Initiative around the United States.  It’s an intensive nine-month program designed to prepare recent college graduates for a lifetime of faithful service as agents of Christ’s redemptive work.  Fellows participate in workplace internships at local businesses and ministries and receive seminary-level theological training while living with a host family in the community.

“We’re given a cultural mandate to work and be stewards and that can be worked out in any vocation, not just missions and evangelism.”          Matt King, Intern

This year, out intern is Matt King.  Matt grew up on the mission field of Papua New Guinea, where his parents supported Bible translation work through mission aviation for more then 16 years.

After graduating from Covenant College in Chattanooga, TN in 2013, Matt worked in the marketplace for a year before joining the fellows program, and has experienced a transformation in his attitude toward work since he began.

“Before I joined the fellows program, I thought you had to be a missionary or a pastor to truly glorify God through work,” says Matt. “The program has really provided me with a much deeper understanding of how to integrate my faith and my vocation.”

Since Matt joined Leadership Ministries Worldwide last August, he has undertaken a variety of projects, including refreshing our website and online store, developing curriculum and materials for the global training network, photographing products, and setting up a shared filing system for our staff.  We’re grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Chattanooga Fellows Program, and we are thankful for Matt and the work he has done!

To learn more about The Fellows Initiative and find a fellows program in your area, visit www.thefellowsinitiative.com. 

An important part of our mission at Leadership Ministries Worldwide is to encourage and equip pastors and leaders around the world by regularly, intentionally lifting them up in prayer.  We are calling for prayer partners around the world who will pray for the direction & protection of thousands or pastors, teachers, and leaders around the world.  We wait to invite you to join us!

The internet has provided a powerful way for believers around the globe to gather in prayer despite tremendous distances.  Imagine a network of believers lifting one another up in prayer: a pastor in Nebraska praying for a fellow minister in Nigeria, or a missionary in the Philippines praying for a Sunday school teacher in Philadelphia.

We need prayer champions to join this network! How can you get started?

• First, visit www.outlinebible.org/pray and join our prayer network!  You’ll receive email notifications when new requests are posted.
• Pray for requests that you find on the Prayer Network, and encourage those that you’re praying for by clicking the I Prayed for This button.
• Post prayer requests for yourself and others.  Do you know pastors, leaders, or missionaries who are working to spread the Gospel in the U.S. or overseas?  Do you need prayer for the work God has called you to do?  Click Share Your Prayer Request to submit your own requests to our moderators.  You may choose to share requests anonymously.
• Regularly check back as we post new prayer requests.