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God has great things in store for you!
"You have not chosen Me but I have chosen and ordained
you that you might go forth and bear much fruit."
It was at the beginning when our beloved founder, Demos
Shakarian and his wife, Rose, working together founded the first chapter of the
Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International. As Demos led the meetings,
Rose helped by playing the piano and other helps.
Since this humble beginning, just like Demos, all of the
men of the Fellowship around the world, whether they be Members, Chapter Officers,
Field Representatives, National Directors, Presidents of their nations, or International
Directors, have discovered that God gave them a wonderful helpmate in their wives.
As God has anointed the man to do the work of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship,
He has anointed his wife to support her husband and to help him fulfill the calling
that God has placed upon their lives.
Therefore, the wonderful ladies of the Fellowship are
recognized for their gifts and callings of encouragement and helps, working in conjunction
with their husbands, and under the submission of the chapter leaders for the purpose
of sharing together with their husband this wonderful ministry of the Full Gospel
Business Men’s Fellowship International.
The meetings that include both men and women are a good
place for wives to share in the ministry of ‘helps’.
The women will receive a card and pin, allowing them to
operate in the ministry of “Helps” under the direction of the Chapter officers.
The offices and the voting rights in Chapter and delegate meetings are retained
by the members as established in the Bylaws of the Fellowship.
As a lady of the Fellowship, you have been chosen for
a special ministry and calling. You have been called by God to be a helpmate for
your husband. That makes you valuable to the success of the Full Gospel Business
Men’s Chapter.
If you are a growing Christian, as we all should be, FGBMFI
provides a perfect place for you and your husband to discover and release the Holy
spirit’s gifts and callings in your lives. Here among loving Christian friends in
your Chapter, you can learn how personal testimonies can change lives. Healings,
prophesy, encouragement and helps are just some of the ministry opportunities open
to you and your husband.
PARTNERS IN MINISTRY
The Bible says that husbands and wives are one! God created
marriage to be a living example of our relationship with Him. It is meant to be
one of the most beautiful experiences we can have on earth. FGBMFl wants to help
strengthen your marriage and make it the beautiful creation that God wants it to
be.
The Bible also says that if one person is worth a thousand,
two are worth ten thousand. As your husband’s wife, you add a dimension to his ministry
that is unattainable to him alone. Just as your life complements his in marriage,
God’s gifts in you complement your husband’s in ministry. FGBMFI can help you both
discover and release that special ministry that God has entrusted to you as a married
couple.
Your Chapter is the perfect place to discover how this
partnership with your husband in ministry works, God can use the story of His influence
in your lives to heal broken marriages and shattered lives of others. Ministering
with your husband, you can both see the sick healed, the tormented delivered and
new lives birthed into the
Kingdom of God
!
God’s purpose for your marriage includes a partnership
in ministry with your husband. Let FGBMFI help release that ministry relationship!
YOUR PRAYER LIFE
Prayer is the most important ministry that you have. Prayer
is the place where this partnership with God blossoms. Your FGBMFI Chapter helps
you to develop your own prayer life. You will learn to recognize the voice of God.
We cap help you fulfill His desires for your life. You may wish to begin a “Networking
Prayer Team”. This is an outgrowth of the television ministry. Around the world..,
around the clock.., the FGBMFI is praying for you.
YOUR FAMILY
God has a special purpose for you, your husband and children.
Your family was not brought together by accident, but rather by the will of God.
FGBMFI helps families discover their purpose in God’s plan. Every son and daughter
can learn with you and your husband how to know and follow God’s will for his and
her life.
YOUR CHAPTER
FGBMFI has grown around the concept of the local chapters.
A Chapter is a group of 10 or more men who have been born again, baptized with the
Holy Spirit, and are seeking to share their faith with others. There are over 3000
Chapters in the world. No two Chapters are the same. The Holy Spirit expresses Himself
uniquely in every Chapter. The common thread running through every Chapter is that
common, ordinary men and women can bring the love of God to all people. The mission
of a FGBMFI Chapter is to help you and your husband share God’s love with others.
FGBMFI CONVENTIONS
Often, several Chapters in a state or region get together
to celebrate a convention. FGBMFI has a world convention once a year. On these occasions,
Chapters and members come together to celebrate what God has done in their lives
over the past year and to receive fresh vision from Him for the year to come. Special
speakers are invited who bring anointed ministry to us. We then are able to bring
this fresh anointing back to our local chapter and bless the lives of our neighbors.
LADIES TEAS AND COFFEES
Ladies teas and coffees, in some nations, have been one
of the greatest methods of reaching high level government and business leaders for
the Lord. The women have a tea or coffee time and they share, encourage, pray, and
minister to one another. Many wives of famous people have found the Lord in this
manner. Then at the next major banquet of the Full Gospel Business Men in the city,
these wives, that have found the Lord and are believing that their husbands will
also find Christ, are given a table of honour in the front. These Teas and Coffees
serve to bring a spirit of unity among the wives with the Fellowship. They already
know that the husband is not complete without the wife, and this gives the women
an opportunity to share, participate, help each other, and be a part of the ministry
they love so much, the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International.
LADIES PIN
The Ladies of the Fellowship have a beautiful Ladies pin
which an artist was commissioned to design. Each pin has a stone, the red for a
one year pin and the bright stone for a Lifetime pin. The Logo at the beginning
of this page is a replica of the one year pin.
The fact is, we must all work together
in harmony for the Chapters to be a success. No one person, man or woman, can do
it alone. We need each other using their gift for the whole body. For more details
about the workings of the Ladies of the Fellowship contact us through the home page
or any chapter nearest to you. You can also visit the book store for "Ladies of
the Fellowship: Helpful Guidelines"
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