Watchman Evangelism UPDATED SPRING, SUMMER & FALL Preaching and Ministry Schedule So far...

Watchman Evangelism

UPDATED SPRING, SUMMER & FALL Preaching and Ministry Schedule So far:  

If you see dates that are OPEN and you would like to contact me about a revival, event, or speaking engagement, feel free to send me a direct FB Message, shoot me a text, or give me a call at (316)200-0156.

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MARCH 2017

3/5 - 3/8/17 - REVIVAL Elkhart Church of The Nazarene

3/12-16/2017 - COMMUNITY REVIVAL, Arnold NEBRASKA

3/19 - Preaching - Emporia First Church of the Nazarene. 9:30 AM & 6 PM

3/22 - iWalk - Teaching - Hutchinson Bethany Church of the Nazarene / family dinner 6:30pm & 7pm speak

3/26/17 - BOOKED / FAM SCHEDULE

APRIL 2017

4/2/17 - BOOKED / FAM SCHEDULE

4/8/17 - WEDDING

4/9/17 - REVIVAL, Lewis UMC, Lewis, KS

4/16/17 - EASTER SUN / JC Naz 4/15 & 4/16 - Preach pm and x2am

4/18-4/20 PAPILLION NEBRASKA, Teaching at DCPI-CPE

4/22 - 2nd Annual MOA Spring ClayShoot at Lynbrooke Sporting Clays in Augusta, KS.  Registration Begins at 11:30 / Shoot begins at 1pm

4/23-26 - Revival Winfield Church Of The Nazarene "iWalk" (Prayer Walk Event Built In)

4/30/17 - 5/3/17 Revival Paducah Kentucky, Paducah First Church of The Nazarene

MAY 2017

5/7/17 - "iWalk" presentation Codell, KS AM (Preach, PM Training)

5/14/17 - BOOKED FAMILY SCHEDULE

5/21/17 - 5/24 - Revival: Kingman Mennonite Church

5/28/17 - PREACHING - Bethel Church of The Nazarene, Johnson, KS

JUNE 2017

6/9 & 6/10 Rehearsal & Wedding

6/11 Preaching at Wichita Crossfire Church

JULY 2017

7/7/17 - Wedding

7/16-7/18 - KS Church Of The Nazarene District Assembly, Garden City, KS

7/21-7/23 - Natoma, KS, IMPACT 2017 Community Revival

7/28-30 - Booked Family

AUGUST 2017

8/6/17 - PREACHING - Bethel Church of The Nazarene, Johnson, KS

8/1317 - Open Date

8/20/17 - Open Date

8/25-8/31 - 3rd Annual MOA ELK HUNT, Colorado

8/27/17 - BOOKED MOA

SEPTEMBER 2017

9/3/17- Open Date

9/9-9/13/17 - REVIVAL Cimmaron Church of The Nazarene (starting with a meal on Saturday PM)

9/17/17 - 9/20 Westside Church of the Nazarene, 2300 S. Seneca St. Wichita, KS, 67212

9/21-24 - Attending Minister & Mates Retreat, Horn Creek, Co.

9/24/17 - Open Date

OCTOBER 2017

10/1 - 10/4/17 - Severy Church of The Nazarene.  

"iWalk Series"

10/8-10/11/17 - Medicine Lodge Revival, Medicine Lodge, KS Sun-Wed 

10/15/17 - Open Date

10/22/17 - Open Date

10/29/17 - BOOKED FAMILY SCHEDULE

NOVEMBER 2017

11/5/17 - Open Date

11/12/17 - Open Date

11/19/17 - Open Date

11/26/17 - Open Date

A Great Time To Pray For A New Great Awakening!

In Joshua Chapter 5, Joshua the new leader of his nation is facing an insurmountable obstacle and an extremely difficult set of circumstances.  In fact, the situation he and his nation are facing in the text is a logistical train wreck.  I can only imagine what carnage would be taking place among his people on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat if Social Media were a thing in Joshua's day.

But, a cool thing happens in the midst of it all, Joshua has a God encounter.  He sees what looks to him like "...a man standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand...".  Joshua musters his courage and approaches the "man" and asks a very "human" question.  He says: "Are you for us or for our adversaries?"  The response Joshua gets to this question is stunning, the Angel says: "No...".  

Do you get it?  The Angel answers a question Joshua isn't asking.  In Joshua's question, he reveals that in reality, he has the wrong perspective.  Joshua doesn't realize it, but he himself is actually asking the wrong question from an egocentric, human, perspective.  Joshua is asking his question from his "me-niverse" and the answer he gets is not what he wanted to hear.  

The Angel provides an answer that, as Joshua's Spiritual eyes are opened, realigns Joshua's heart allegiances.  The Angel's complete answer is: "No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD."  Now, watch what Joshua does when he begins to realize he has it all wrong!  "And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, 'What has my lord to say to his servant?'"

So...  what am I saying here?  I think what I'm trying to say is this; Friends, there is so much senseless and damaging verbal and relational carnage taking place on Social media right now.  And, there is so much anger, hate, and violence in our nation these days.  Our role as followers of Jesus is not to try to get God and others to be on our side, or to viciously attack those who we perceive as being on the "other side."  Our task is to be on God's side... and I think we get there most effectively when we respond like Joshua did, when he fell on his face and humbled himself in communication with God.  And, what might happen if we began to go there together, all of us, at the same time every day?

Personally speaking, I feel as if God is calling me to pray fervently for a New Great Awakening here in The United States of America and to raise up others who will pray with me for this Awakening.  Would you be willing to join me in this?

If so, Here's an easy way to do so!  Every day set an alarm for 3:16pm and when the alarm goes off, pray a prayer something like this:  "God, Your Word tells us that You loved the world so much that You sent Your only Son, Jesus, to die for our sins.  Please God, pour your Spirit out on our Nation in such a way that people are brought back to You, and into a saving relationship with Jesus.  Bring about a New Great Awakening God, and let me be a part of it!"  

If you would be willing to join me in this prayer, please feel free to cut and paste this, share this, or whatever else you'd like to do with this post.  Most importantly though, PRAY!  

2 Chronicles 7:14 says: "If My people who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."  

Our land needs healing...  desperately so.  Will you join me in seeking to be a part of the solution as we seek God's face in prayer and ask Him to bring about a New Great Awakening?

#PrayAmericaGreatAgain

UPDATED PREACHING & MINISTRY SCHEDULE (Fall/Winter/Spring 2016-2017)

Hey All,

Here is my Updated Preaching and Ministry Schedule.  If you see dates that are OPEN and you would like to contact me about a revival, event or speaking engagement, you can send me a direct FB Message, text or call me at 316-200-0156 or email me at robwas2@yahoo.com.

UPDATED PREACHING & MINISTRY SCHEDULE 

(Fall/Winter/Spring 2016-2017)

8/21-24 - Revival, Great Bend Church of The Nazarene

- 8/28 - AM OPEN

            - PM BOOKED (Ministry Meal)

SEPTEMBER 2016

- 2nd Annual MOA Elk Hunt, (Montrose, Colorado) Buckhorn Mountain Ranch. (8/31 arrival Jeff & I, Hunt 9/1 - 9/5 & 9/2 arrival Mahlon and Andrew, Hunt 9/3 - 9/7, head home AM 9/8)

- 9/11-9/13/2016

Revival, First UMC, Curtis, Nebraska

- 9/18-21/2016

Revival, Milford Congregational Church

9/22-25

- Speaking at Church of The Nazarene, Kansas District Minister & Mates Retreat at Horn Creek, CO

OCTOBER 2016

9/30 & 10/1 (Hayley & Alex Freking Wedding) 

10/2 - 10/5 - Revival at Severy Church of The Nazarene

10/9 - Preaching, Bethel Church of the Nazarene, Johnson City, KS.

10/15 - MOA Fall Clayshoot, Lynbrooke Sporting Clays (Reg 12:30 with Shotgun Start 1:30pm)

10/16-10/18 Revival Miltonvale Wesleyan Church (9:30 SS, 10:45W, 5pm meal/6pm Worship)

10/23-10/26 Community Revival Hugoton (DETAILS TBD)

10/27 - Day of Renewal / 1st Naz Wichita, KS

10/30 - OFF / CAMPING WITH Z & E

NOVEMBER 2016

11/6-11/9 Revival-Grace Church of The Nazarene in Wichita/Park City 11/6-11/9, 10:45am Worship, 6pm nightly.

11/13 REVIVAL - SUN AM/PM - Meade Church Of The Nazarene

11/17-20 REVIVAL Pratt Church of the Nazarene (Ragamuffin Church Coffee House / Thursday)

MOA Deer Hunting Retreat

(Archery Season/Dates/Times/ Details TBD)

DECEMBER 2016

POSSIBLE / REVIVAL / NEBRASKA

12/4-12/8. (TBD)

MOA Pastor's Deer Hunting Retreat (Firearms Season/Dates/Times/ Details TBD)

12/11-12/14 - REVIVAL Osawatomie Church of the Nazarene.

12/18 - Preaching, Bethel Church of the Nazarene, Johnson City, KS.

12/25 - OFF: FAMILY SCHEDULE

2017 Ministry Dates So Far:

1/1/17 - OPEN DATE

1/8/17 - OPEN DATE

1/15/17 - OPEN DATE

1/22/17 - OPEN DATE

1/29/17 - OPEN DATE

FEBRUARY 2017

2/5/17 - OPEN DATE

- 2/7-2/9, Teaching at DCPI Training in Garden City, KS.

2/12/17 - OPEN DATE

2/19/17 - OPEN DATE

2/26/17 - OPEN DATE

MARCH 2017

3/5/17 - OPEN DATE

POSSIBLE / REVIVAL / NEBRASKA

3/12-16/2017 (TBD)

3/19-22/17 - REVIVAL, Lewis UMC, Lewis, KS 

3/26/17 - BOOKED / FAM SCHEDULE

APRIL 2017

4/2/17 - OPEN DATE

4/9/17 - OPEN DATE

4/16/17 - EASTER SUN / OPEN DATE

4/23/17 - OPEN DATE

4/30/17 - OPEN DATE

MAY 2017

5/7/17 - OPEN DATE

5/14/17 - BOOKED FAMILY SCHEDULE

5/21/17 - OPEN DATE

5/28/17 - OPEN DATE

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Updated Preaching And Ministry Schedule for Watchman Evangelism and Ministry Outdoor Adventures

If you are interested in scheduling revival services, or are in need of a guest speaker or bible teacher for an event or a Worship Service, contact me directly with a Call or a Text (316)200-0156, an e-mail to robwas2@yahoo.com, or an FB Message. Here is a link to my upcoming schedule for Watchman Evangelism and Ministry Outdoor Adventures so far:

 

Updated Preaching, Teaching & Ministry Schedule 2016-2017

 

MAY 2016
- 5/1-5/3 - Revival at Howard UMC, 815 E. Randolph Street, Howard, KS 67349
- 5/5/2016 Speaking at "Sons Of Thunder" Motorcycle Rally & Men's Event Ulysses, KS (arrive by 6pm) Meal at 6:30pm, Ulysses Civic Center
- Kaylee Cox Wedding, Ness City
5/6 Rehearsal 6ish, 5/7 Wedding 4pm (Sky Scraper of The Plains)
- 5/8 - 5/11 Revival, Woodland Lakes Community Church, Sun 11am to Wed at 7pm.
- 5/15 - Booked / Anniversary Trip 
- 5/22 - Booked / Anniversary Trip
- 5/27-5/30 - MOA Hog Hunt Recon Trip to Rocky Top Ranch, Oklahoma

JUNE 2016 
(Keeping Some Dates Open for Kid's Baseball Schedule)

6/1 Zeph Baseball 7pm Burrton

6/2 DCPI Training Hutchinson
Bethany Nazarene 9am-4:30pm

6/2 Zeph Baseball 6:30pm Haven

- 6/5 - Preaching at Pleasant Hill Church of The Nazarene, Sylvia, KS, 10:55am

6/6-6/7-6/8-6/9 Zeph Basketball Camp Haven 8am-9:45am
6/6 Zeph Baseball 6pm Gossell (east diamond)
- 6/12 - OPEN DATE
- 6/12 - Afternoon baptism (Brian & Courtney) and BBQ at Lynn & Audrey's in Wichita (4pm-7ish)

6/14 Zeph Baseball 6pm Buhler North Diamond

6/15-16 Genna Bball camp WSU 9am-9pm & 8am-8pm

6/16 Zeph Baseball 6:30pm Haven

6/17 Zeph Baseball 6:30 Haven

- 6/19 - SUN AM OPEN DATE

6/20 Zeph Baseball 6:30 Haven

6/24 Zeph Baseball 6:00 Gossell East Diamond

- 6/25 - 6:30p First Church of God, 801 W. City Limits St. Hugoton, KS
- 6/26 - AM 10:30 Trinity Baptist Church, 516 Northeast Ave. Hugoton, KS
- PM 6:30 Moscow Baptist Church, Road Y Moscow, KS (covered dish dinner @ 5:00-6:15)

6/27 Zeph Baseball 6:30 Haven

6/30 Zeph Baseball 6:00 Inman

JULY 2016
- 7/3 - Smith Center Naz
- 7/10 - Preaching Kingman Mennonite 9:30 AM / 6:00 PM 1620 South Main Street, Kingman, KS 67062

- 7/10 - 7/11 - 7/12 - KS DISTRICT ASSEMBLY NAZ

- 7/17 - Preaching at Bethel Church of the Nazarene, Johnson KS
- 7/19-21 DCPI Training Event
- 7/24-7/29 2016 for the Protection Community Outreach Mission. Protection, KS

- 7/31 - OPEN

AUGUST 2016
- 8/1-8/3 DCPI Training (Wichita) at Woodland Lakes Church of The Nazarene

- 8/7-8/10 Preaching / Teaching - Mount Hope Federated Church Bible Conference, Mount Hope, KS (111 South Thomas)

- 8/11-8/14 - MOA Colorado Hiking Trip (Details TBD)

- 8/21-24 - Revival, Great Bend Church of The Nazarene

- 8/28 - OPEN

SEPTEMBER 2016
- 2nd Annual MOA Elk Hunt, (Montrose, Colorado) Buckhorn Mountain Ranch. (8/31 arrival Jeff & I, Hunt 9/1 - 9/5 & 9/2 arrival Mahlon and Andrew, Hunt 9/3 - 9/7, head home AM 9/8)

- 9/11-9/13/2016 - Revival, Curtis, Nebraska

- 9/18-21/2016- Revival, Milford Congregational Church, Sunday September 18th - Wednesday the 21st

- 9/22-25 - Speaking at Church of The Nazarene, Kansas District Minister & Mates Retreat at Horn Creek, CO

OCTOBER 2016
- 9/30 & 10/1 Hayley & Alex Freking Wedding 
- 10/2 - 10/5 Preaching - Revival at Severy Church of The Nazarene
- MOA 2nd Annual Fall Clayshoot (dates TBD)
- MOA First Annual Fall (Kansas) Antelope Archery hunt (Weekdays TBD October / based on KDWP season dates & Schedule Early Archery 9/24-10/2, Muzzleloader 10/3-10/6, Firearm 10/7-10/10, Late Archery 10/15-10/31)
- 10/27 - Day of Renewal / 1st Naz Wichita, KS

NOVEMBER 2016
- Revival-Grace Church of The Nazarene in Wichita/Park City 11/6-11/9, 10:45am Worship, 6pm nightly.

- MOA Deer Hunting Retreat
(Archery Season/Dates/Times TBD)

DECEMBER 2016
- MOA Deer Hunting Retreat (Firearms Season/Dates/Times TBD)

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February 2017
- 2/7-2/9, DCPI Training (Garden City)

March 2017
March 19th-22nd REVIVAL, Lewis UMC

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Keep on Keepin' On IN Jesus!

- Rob Schmutz 

Pastors...

Pastors...

13% of active pastors are divorced.

23% have been fired or pressured to resign at least once in their careers.

25% don't know where to turn when they have a family or personal conflict or issue.

25% of pastors' wives see their husband's work schedule as a source of conflict.

33% felt burned out within their first five years of ministry.

33% say that being in ministry is an outright hazard to their family.

40% of pastors and 47% of spouses are suffering from burnout, frantic schedules, and/or unrealistic expectations.

45% of pastors' wives say the greatest danger to them and their family is physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual burnout.

45% of pastors say that they've experienced depression or burnout to the extent that they needed to take a leave of absence from ministry.

50% feel unable to meet the needs of the job.

52% of pastors say they and their spouses believe that being in pastoral ministry is hazardous to their family's well-being and health.

56% of pastors' wives say that they have no close friends.

57% would leave the pastorate if they had somewhere else to go or some other vocation they could do.

70% don't have any close friends.

75% report severe stress causing anguish, worry, bewilderment, anger, depression, fear, and alienation.

80% of pastors say they have insufficient time with their spouse.

80% believe that pastoral ministry affects their families negatively.

90% feel unqualified or poorly prepared for ministry.

90% work more than 50 hours a week.

94% feel under pressure to have a perfect family.

1,500 pastors leave their ministries each month due to burnout, conflict, or moral failure.

For more info on pastor burnout, go to (www.pastorburnout.com)

- Keep on Keepin' on in Jesus!

- Rob Schmutz

Is it too late to get back to the future?

(This is the text of an article I was asked to write shortly after surrendering my credentials as a United Methodist Pastor this past June.  Those who had originally asked me to write it then chose not to publish it.  So, after "rediscovering it on my desktop" tonight, I decided to put it out here now.  This was written before I knew I would become a Nazarene pastor and is from a Methodist perspective.)

“Back to the Future”

There was a time, a time when most of our churches were not yet born, when young itinerant evangelists, after hearing the call, took to horseback with what little they possessed, and gave up everything in this world in order to follow Jesus.  Leaving the world behind them, they took personally the responsibility to share the gospel with anyone and everyone they encountered, and in so doing, they willingly risked their lives, day in and day out,  in order to be faithful to the unrelenting call of God.  Theirs was a calling to… “Preach the gospel and spread Scriptural Holiness over the land.”

These lives of reckless abandon to God resulted in no shortage of great stories of dramatic conversions, ultimate sacrifices, hard fought victories, and of the many and myriad triumphs of faith.  These were preachers of renown, known, like the first century followers of Jesus, as those who were turning the world upside down.  Phrases like “It’s so bad out tonight, there’s no one about except crows and Methodist preachers…” were coined as colloquial tributes to their tenacity.  An unbreakable tenacity that also resulted in extremely shortened average lifespans, calculated to be as low as 33 years by some estimates.

Where are those preachers today?  Where are the messengers who will vow with their lives to fiercely love God, and passionately live out that love though they are overwhelmingly surrounded by an increasingly pagan, and pre-Christian culture? (That’s right, I said “Pre-Christian”!)  Where are those itinerant evangelists who will commit their time to preaching the gospel to all whom they encounter in this brave new world of affluent apathy and technological idolatry?  Where are those pursuers of Jesus who no matter how much the world insists that culture overrides God’s Word, are willing to take up their crosses daily, deny themselves, and let their lives be devoted to the spreading of Scriptural holiness throughout the land?  Why does it seem that pastors today have lost not everything for the sake of the gospel, but instead, only their ability to throw caution to the wind, and consider everything to be loss (or dung), in order that they may simply gain Christ?

It was in an elective preaching class that I had at Asbury Theological Seminary with the late Dr. Ralph Lewis, author of the classic book “Inductive Preaching,” that I heard him make a statement that I have never forgotten.  He said, “The Patriarchs built their altars and pitched their tents as they followed God.  In the church today, we build our tents and pitch our altars as we follow the world.”  Reflecting on that statement, it seems as if it is possible that our goal in ministry has radically and tragically shifted from “leaving it all behind” in order to risk our lives for the “call” of God, to instead, trying desperately to “keep it all gathered up” in order to live out a “career,” strategically progressing up to the next guaranteed appointment, so that we may then live the rest of our comparatively long lives with a sufficient pension, that will continue to provide for us and our families until we can someday arrive safely at death.

It was the early circuit riders (though they literally had nothing, and truly risked everything) who were the ones that officially first put Methodism on the map.  And, it appears that it will be us, sitting in these “tents” that were built long before we got here, with wealth and assets literally at our fingertips, that will be those who will watch Methodism’s accelerated demise.  Unless…  Unless, that is, we turn right now.  Right now!  It is not now too late for the Holy Spirit to fall on us again, to move in us, and to move through us.  But, we have to be desperate.  We have to be desperate for God, for God’s will, God’s Word, and God’s plan.  We have to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and with a passionate, uncompromising love for Jesus. We must be filled with a love for Him that makes us willing to lay ourselves down, and be found by Him on the right side of Scripture, even as the world accuses us of being on the wrong side of history.  And, whether standing together or alone, if we will stand solely on the Word of God, as we rush headlong into the fray, God can and will use us to turn the tide.  Will we do it?  Will you?  Jesus said that the gates of Hell would not prevail against the Church, and I completely believe that.  But, the Church must be moved to attack the gates. 

That’s our job preachers, we must move the Church.  Everything rises and falls with leadership.  We cannot just sit here in these parishes that have become our world, as culture wins the day, the debate, the vote, again and again and again.  It’s time to rise up Church!  It’s time to boldly speak the truth in love, without apology, laying our lives, careers, and everything else on the line.  Are you willing to risk it all, or leave it all behind, in order to follow Jesus?  Are you ready for the upward call of God in Christ Jesus, and all that He alone has in store for you?  Are you ready, willing, and able to get back to the Future God has for us as the Church?

"What should we do?"

Since I keep getting phone calls and messages from concerned United Methodists asking what they should do...  Let me just put it this way, here is a bare minimum of what you could be doing.  It's all pretty logical, common-sense stuff.

1) Pray fervently for leading from the Lord and ask God to speak to you from the Word as you discern "next steps" regarding the Great Plains Conference passing of petition 7, and what may happen at General Conference in 2016.

2) Write your Pastor and let him/her know what your concerns and convictions are, where you stand, and what you will do if Petition 7, or one similar to it, passes and the stance as it is currently stated in the UM Book of Discipline Changes.

3) Write your District Superintendent and let him/her know what your concerns are, where you stand, and what you will do if Petition 7, or one similar to it, passes and the stance as it is currently stated in the UM Book of Discipline Changes.

4) Write your Bishop and let him/her know what your concerns are, where you stand, and what you will do if Petition 7, or one similar to it, passes and the stance as it is currently stated in the UM Book of Discipline Changes.

5) As a church body, Write your DS & Your Bishop and let him/her know what your concerns are, where you stand, and what you will do if Petition 7, or one similar to it, passes and the stance as it is currently stated in the UM Book of Discipline Changes.

6) Some have suggested that concerned UM churches will be able to amplify their voice if they withhold paying apportionments until after the vote at GC 2016.  It is very important that if Churches do this, they also covenant to not keep those apportioned dollars if the vote does not go through (if petition 7 or others like it fail).  Those dollars would need to be sent in and any held apportionements paid in full as a statement of integrity.

All things considered, truly, NOW is the time to act, to let your voice be heard, and to discern from God what next steps you should take.  Waiting to act until after General Conference 2016 is a bit like going into the storm shelter after the tornado passes. This situation is, I believe, in some ways very similar to our governmental legislative process, our congressmen & congresswomen (representatives and senators) need to know where their constituency stands BEFORE a vote is taken.

So...  The elected General and Jurisdictional Comference Delegates would also be good candidates for receiving letters from concerned persons.  You can get that list by calling the Conference Office.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Keep on Keepin' On In Jesus!

- Rob Schmutz