A Beautiful Feet Celebration
Starting Sunday, July 16 going through Wednesday, July 19 at 7:00 p.m. each evening, there will be various musical groups and guest speakers at Wayne Trace High School gymnasium, US 127, Haviland, OH.
THE BONES:
Sunday – Music by chorus from combined local church members and the Beautiful Feet worship team. Guest speaker Pastor Todd Helmkamp. Featured speaker Chet Swearingen
Monday - Music by The Tacketts and the Beautiful Feet worship team. Featured speaker Chet Swearingen.
Tuesday – Music by the Beautiful Feet worship team. Guest speaker Pastor Mark Yurich. Featured speaker Chet Swearingen
Wednesday – Music by the Beautiful Feet worship team. Guest speaker Andy Foster. Featured speaker Chet Swearingen.
THE BEEF:
Sunday’s program will be preceded by a pizza blast, free to youth grades six and up, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Pizza and ice cream will be served. The event will also include student testimonies and contemporary Christian music. It will last until 7 p.m. Parents and drivers of the students are welcome to stay and participate.
Chet Swearingen – a multi-generational minister specializing in revival; his first revival was onboard his first ship while serving with the US Navy. His career has included a variety of ministry roles including time in a restricted access nation where he and his wife, Phyllis, worked alongside local believers in planting over 70 churches. While remaining active with their unreached people group overseas, they returned to the US in 2015 to unite churches of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan for revival. This revival focus resulted in the creation of Beautiful Feet and the Tri-State Revival Prayer Network. Their work covers more than 35 counties in the tri-state area and includes many denominations and independent churches. Chet obtained his Ph.D. from International Seminary and was associate pastor at New Hope Christian Center in Waterloo, Ind. He and his wife married in 1984 and have two grown children.
Pastor Todd Helmkamp – is the youth pastor at New Hope Christian Center in Waterloo, Ind., where he enjoys teaching teens about the truth of God’s love and how much they mean to him. Born and raised in northeast Indiana, he “made a lot of bad choices in his college and young adult years, eventually leading him to a failed relationship, struggles with alcohol, and the brink of total breakdown. A co-worker helped him reach out to Jesus, and everything changed for him. He is now blessed with a loving wife, three children, and his calling to New Hope.
The Tacketts – Jeff and Sarah Tackett of Defiance, along with their band, Powell Creek Junction, carry on a long tradition of tight harmonies in music ministry. Jeff has been singing and touring since he was 8 years old with his family’s gospel group, The Tackett Family, until 1994 when he went solo. His rich country vocals are the perfect blend with Sarah’s tender voice. She is a former Miss Ohio and talent award winner in the Miss America Pageant. A BGSU graduate, her background is in musical theater, TV and radio commercials and voice-overs. She has been a featured speaker and emcee for special events and women’s conferences. Their seventh project, “Stand My Ground,” was released last year, earning a number one hit with their song “Mirror, Mirror.” They were a top-five nominee for Christian Country Group of the Year for the 2016 Christian Country Diamond Awards.
Pastor Mark Yurich – has been sharing the Gospel and ministering to others needing grace and hope for over 34 years. Completing 13 years in the US Army has a drill sergeant and recruiter, Mark felt the call to full-time ministry. He found himself stepping into ministry roles as children and youth pastor, lead pastor and church planter. Out of his experience, he has developed a passion for helping pastors “navigate through the landmines” of ministry and family life. Now an associate pastor at his home church, he is also ordained under ELIM Fellowship serving as a regional director, encouraging pastors and strengthening churches. Mark, an associate pastor at Lighthouse International Church in Livonia, Mich., loves spending time with his wife, Jill; gardening, camping with his two grown children and seven grandchildren; Tiger baseball, Michigan football and daily workouts at the gym.
Andy Foster – is the founder and director of Inspiration Ministries and the Cupbearer Café, both in Auburn, Ind. The Lord has called him to minister to the least, last, and the lost around the country. During a prison term, Jesus Christ transformed his life and set him on a path to share the Good News of salvation to those who are often excluded, so others may know hope that is in Jesus Christ.
This event is supported by over 30 Paulding County churches as well as churches from Van Wert and Putnam counties in Ohio and in Allen County, Ind. It has been years in the making. Small groups of people around the county had been praying for revival when a move was made in 2015 to unify these groups and their churches around the call for change. That unified prayer eventually saw the birth of IGNITE, a prayer movement of over 25 churches. Their first event was a county-wide prayer gathering, with the same name, in October 2016. About 200 people participated, which is significant in a county whose population is 19,000. Follow-up to this event was a second prayer gathering, called IGNITE II, conducted in January 2017.
Local preparations for this July’s evangelical campaign have included monthly prayer gatherings; recent orientation of point people for each of the participating churches; training for people who want to learn how to share their faith with others (which will include coaches who will assist during the “Is This the Time?” event); scheduled daily prayer during June and July; and an upcoming 3-day fast in May.
Chet Swearingen, of the revival ministry Beautiful Feet, is guiding us in this undertaking.
His contact information: 260-920-8248; romans1015@outlook.com; or www.romans1015.com —Submitted by Denise Gebers
