About Joe Oden Ministries
We appreciate you taking a few minutes to better acquaint yourself with Joe Oden Ministries, and for showing interest in what God is doing in and through this ministry. This ministry wants to see the Church set ablaze for evangelism and would love to work with you.
Over the past decade, Joe Oden Ministries has had the privilege to serve the church and body of Christ as a foreign missionary throughout the world, a missionary evangelist to America and overseas, and in church planting. The nations we have been able to reach are Thailand (where a church was planted and is there still today) India, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Holland, Poland, and Nigeria. Throughout these nations souls were saved, people were healed, churches were planted, and churches were mobilized to win their cities.
The vision God has given this ministry comes from Ephesians 4:11-12: "It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and some to be teachers, to prepare God's people for the works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up." and Luke 4:18-19: "The Spirit of he Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
This ministry holds to the New Testament mandate that the office of the evangelist must train through practical teaching in evangelism and strategy to mobilize the church to reach their community. Not just head knowledge, but with faith that God will bring about deliverance in people's lives that are bound. Although it is needed, the call of the evangelist is much more crucial than preaching in churches and witnessing to the lost. An evangelist must also equip the body to operate in evangelism beyond a weekend event. One operation of the evangelist is not of greater value to the church than the other. For example, preaching in a church or crusade is not a greater role than equipping the saints to effectively win souls. They are both equally important. It's not one or the other; it's both!
We have a passion to help revive the local church, powerfully communicate the gospel to the lost in one-on-one or to the masses, and equip the church to win souls. Through this function, it is our heart to serve pastors and the body of Christ to strengthen the local church to be more effective in reaching more people for Christ.
Joe Oden Ministries has designed several outreaches to help serve the local church. One of them is called The Acts 29 School of Evangelism and Outreach. Acts 29 provides an in-depth manual and training in the basic foundations of sharing your faith, as well as equipping individuals in spirit-led and power evangelism. After a time of training, churches experience a wonderful faith-building outreach that is based on the needs of the community and the vision of the pastor or leader.