Paul Manwaring
My story. My parents had general stores/post office in England. When I look back when I was 8 years old that's when it all began. I've never been in business and an entrepreneur but never for money. When I was 13, my father got sick. Two years later he died and I came to faith. So, at 13 I was co-running the shop with his mother. This post office also gave him opportunity to pastor to people.
I knelt on my father's dead body and gave my life to Jesus. A couple years later I went through Evangelism Explosion training (dr James Kennedy ministry) and this is when I got the call to ministry. He asked a mentor, what should I do getting ready for ministry. Instead of bible school he said, get a job working with people. He worked for health clinics as a nurse and naturally began organizing patients and staff. He got married at 21 half way through nursing school. First baby expected in 5th year working in intensive care but it didn't pay bills so he moved into working for a brand new prison in psychiatric care. The manager was never there so he ran the wing. He was identified for leadership and they out him in an accelerated leadership program. For 19 years he ran the prison. He loves running prisons. He loves seeing changed lives. Now he loves changed nations!
Many ministry leaders never learn to manage themselves and their family.
Few significant events:
* Working a S. London prison for terrorists in health department. He walked the perimeter and denounced the spirit of suicide. What happens in prisons is well known in parliament. He was recruited to solve the problem of 4 deaths at the Heathrow juvenile prison. He was named the strategic change consultant. Gift of administration is leading change. How do you take a rusty old prison mindset and catalyze change.
* 1973 - 1996 he was part of a Congregational church where he preached once a year and very involved in Alpha and youth group. And everyone remembers his cooking. Toronto outpouring occurred and they attended.
* 1995, Randy Clark visited a nearby church.
* In1996, they moved to another church.
* In 2001, his wife heard Redding is their home so they moved. Came as a student and after first year he traveled with Kris Vallotton and volunteered the second year. He called Chad Dedmond out of the back of the class and told him you are a leader, get to the front. Found out he was in the senior team during a presentation at Bryan's house in Nashville.
* 2004 they left Assemblies of God. In early 2005, he was called into Bill's office to build a network to care for the people connected to Bethel. This evolved into Global Legacy. He was asked to build around these four things:
1. Wine skin - purpose: carry and pour out wine. It's all about the wine.
2. Build the structure and let God fill it. Look and see what God is doing.
3. Government of Honor - how far can we go without rules?
4. Bring Heaven to Earth - bring the order of Heaven to Earth.
Bill said before I met Paul I didn't have a value for administrative leadership, but PW does, so I do now.
Sept 2011 he finally got to go to Toronto. He is the opening night speaker for catch the fire conference. Preached on Glory. Carol Arnedt and Duncan Smith praying for him as he later down talking to God. He had one more message to preach and he had just one other message on administration. He argued then embraced the gift September 2011.
In America you have purses and in UK they have handbags. Why would he carry around his wife's purse when he has a wallet?
We need a reformation.
Supernatural without administration will not reach its potential.
If you don't father an organization you will revert to a older brother legalism. You are either modeling a functional
Is 9:6-7, child is born and government is on his shoulders. Direct relationship between son, father, disciple nations. Apostolic move of God is a relational move of God.
It's always difficult to change what's above you. You can change what you are able to influence. He led strategic change seminars where employees came without their boss and it was a disaster. You can't create change without buy-in from the boss.
Know who the people are above you, besides you and below you. Know who to call when you have a need in different categories. Administrative gifting is not a second class career.
The desire to do a round table leadership structure is because there was an unhealthy (controlling or absent) leader in the hierarchy structure. Organizational structure needs to be built on love and not power. Bill can call him now and he will do anything because a true father has the best interest of others at heart.
Anthony - Paul Manwaring's associate leader.
A. Work with pastors to see how they can partner
B. Organizational aspect of Global Legacy.
Background: grew up in England. Born in South Coast of England and fortunately not many clear days or they could see France. Grew up in non-Christian background. God grabbed hold of him at 14. Then Toronto hit two months in. He spent his first year in faith on his back laughing and weeping in the spirit. Got a job in corporate banking. Volunteered as youth leader and pastor asked him into volunteer leadership at 23. Another pastor invited him into associate pastor. Worked in all aspects of church for three years. Got a prophetic word at a regional pastors meeting by a South African pastor. Went to s Africa. And multiple people their said you need to start a business. He returned to England and started a life coaching business. In the mail he got a catalog from a college that certifies people in life coaching.
God wastes nothing to get you ready. I know now why I had that rotten job or worked for that horrible boss. Jesus was in his destiny when he was an infant, talking to rabbis in temple at 12, working with wood under his father Joseph...
Stewardship: gifts, connections, responsibilities, relationships, positions of authority and money (not just money). There's never waste in the kingdom.
Faithfulness for what God puts in front of you. Slow down so we can live in the present and not fast track to future roles and responsibilities. The things we are called to do can ruin us if we get to our call prematurely. Moses grew up in a palace to prepare himself to lead the nation of Israel. David, known as a king of war (learned to hear God voice and kill bears as he worked as a shepherd).
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