that this article be merged into billion soul harvest . discuss proposed since september 2015 . global pastors network inc. type corporation industry church planting genre evangelical christian founded 2002 founder bill bright james o. davis headquarters orlando florida united states area served international key people mark anderson president john c. maxwell chairman elmer towns dean products various media services education networking and strategic planning website http www.gpn.tv global pastors network inc. gpn is an incorporated educational networking and strategic resource for evangelical leadership founded in 2002 by bill bright the late founder and chairman of campus crusade for christ and james o. davis founder of cutting edge international . over the next decade when gpn hopes to help five million churches to be planted and in their own words win 1 billion people to christ worldwide . 1 2 3 it is based in orlando florida 4 5 and boasts 800 000 members worldwide . 6 contents 1 mission and strategic approach 2 notable events 2.1 billion soul pastors conference 2.2 billion soul sunday 2.3 soul millionaires 3 partners 4 key people 5 see also 6 references 7 external links mission and strategic approach edit gpn s current mission is helping to network train and focus the church for the fulfilment of the great commission . it has a goal of carrying out that vision to the extent that five million churches are planted around the world and a billion people are converted . gpn offers curriculum to help church pastors develop ministry skills biblical knowledge and spiritual maturity . it helps provide its members with information and networking on church planting issues and provides resources for participatory churches . bishop kenneth ulmer of faith central said we have been given the opportunity to reach win and disciple a billion souls for jesus christ . 7 gpn is one of the global networks actively involved in promoting the billion soul harvest movement . notable events edit billion soul pastors conference edit on january 31 2006 gpn made mention in time when it met with presidential hopeful rudy giuliani at the global pastors network billion soul pastors conference . a surprise guest he said he depended on his faith in god and people in the 9 11 events . strong beliefs guide countries and churches he said . i know many of the men who died on 9 11 came from religious homes where they were taught there is no greater principle than to lay down your life for another giuliani later added . 8 9 held on january 25 27 at faith assembly church in orlando over 2 000 pastors and business leaders were in attendance . bill bright s widow vonnette also spoke reminding the assembly of her late husband s commitment to evangelism . represented among the business sector speakers were al weiss president of worldwide operations for disney and s. truett cathy founder of chick fil a. the network made plans to organize a billion soul sunday a day of worldwide prayer for a billion souls to be saved . 10 11 12 billion soul sunday edit on september 17 2006 the billion soul sunday event was simulcast via the web . 13 soul millionaires edit soul millionaires was scheduled for january 29 31 2008 also in orlando . 14 partners edit gpn has a partner organization global pastors wives network that provides similar support to the wives of men in church planting and evangelical ministries . key people edit mark anderson president 1 4 5 7 john c. maxwell chairman ; leadership author and pastor founder of injoy 15 16 elmer towns dean ; co founder of liberty university 12 see also edit campus crusade for christ million man march promise keepers references edit a b about gpn . retrieved 2007 03 31 . lillian kwon june 20 2006 . billion soul brings harvest initiative to chicago . the christian post . retrieved 2007 04 01 . lillian kwon october 11 2006 . waking up christians to the unsaved world . the christian post . retrieved 2007 04 01 . a b billion soul tour . archived from the original on 2007 03 30 . retrieved 2007 04 01 . a b soul million releasing soul millionaires for god . retrieved 2007 04 01 . ebony windom october 5 2005 . mountainous goal mustard seed faith . st. petersburg times . retrieved 2007 04 01 . a b global pastors network draws 2 000 in evangelism focus . retrieved 2007 03 31 . hilary hylton january 31 2006 . rudy heads south . time . retrieved 2007 04 01 . billion soul pastors conference convenes all star cast of speakers . the christian post . january 29 2006 . retrieved 2007 04 01 . jody brown january 27 2006 . commentary and news briefs . agape press . retrieved 2007 04 01 . business world successfuls share secrets with pastors to evangelize . the christian post . january 16 2006 . retrieved 2007 04 01 . a b baptist press global pastors network draws 2 000 in focus on evangelism . retrieved 2007 04 01 . billion soul sunday . gpn.tv . retrieved 2008 11 10 . https web.archive.org web 20070210030247 http www.soulmillionaire.org . archived from the original on february 10 2007 . retrieved april 1 2007 . missing or empty title help injoy john maxwell . archived from the original on 2007 03 12 . retrieved 2007 03 31 . global pastors network . retrieved 2007 03 31 . external links edit retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title global pastors network & oldid 738561717 categories evangelicalismreligious organizations established in 2002christianity in orlando floridaorganizations based in floridapromise keepershidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsarticles to be merged from september 2015all articles to be mergedpages using infobox company with unsupported parametersvague or ambiguous time from september 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 18 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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