Ray Van Gilst is the Director of Church Planting for the Central Pacific District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. His wife, Donice is also his partner in ministry, along with their children, Nathaniel, Abigail, and Jonathon. Ray is also a Certified Coach with Creative Results Management and has logged over 200 coaching hours with pastors and church planters. Their dream, and that of the CPD is to build a network of reproducing churches by developing the right leaders in the right ways in order to make maximum Kingdom impact.
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Do you remember when you were a child and no dream seemed too big? Some of us thought we would walk on the moon; some dreamed of being a cowboy or a fireman; others imagined stepping to the plate in a big-league game. Every one of us, when we were young, had a common trait - we were dreamers. The world hadn't gotten to us yet to show us that we couldn't possibly achieve what our hearts longed for. Eventually we started to let our dreams die. People began to tell us that we couldn't do the things we wanted. It was impossible! “Responsible people don't pursue their dreams. Settle down, get a job, be dependable. Take care of business, live the mundane, be content.” Nonsense! It’s time to dream again! The Church, and the world, need people like you to dream of something great and then to pursue it with all your heart! In A.B. Simpson's day, he had what he called his "irregulars." People that wanted to serve God in creative ways. We say the day of the irregulars has returned! This is a place where you WILL have an impact - the fields are simply too big not to!
"I challenge you to have the vision and the audacity to join our team!"
As A.W. Tozer once said,
"We have been born of God and our Christian hope is a valid hope! No emptiness, no futility, no dreams that cannot come true. Your expectation should rise and you should challenge God and begin to dream high dreams of faith and spiritual attainment and expect God to meet them. You cannot out-hope God and you cannot out-expect God. Remember that all your hopes are finite, but all of God's ability is infinite!"
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