What is S.O.S. ?

Summer Of Service (S.O.S.) is a challenge for Christians to dedicate their summer vacation to participate in winning the lost and planting a church in a target town or city. "He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son." (Proverbs 10:5)

• It is a Church Planting Strategy. A trained and organized team is sent to a target place to start a local body of believers using the formula of fieldwork: Contact, Convert, Congregate and Consolidate. A trained Pioneering Pastor receives the results of the saturation evangelistic campaign.
• It is a Membership Mobilization. The ministry belongs to every member of the church. Local churches send their members and leaders as volunteers so ordinary members are activated for fruitful ministry.
• It is a Ministry Oriented program. Members of the participating churches, from age 17 to 71 years old, go out and serve Jesus in missions. They are taught to witness, knowck on doors, distribute tracts, give their testimonies, conduct Bible Study, heal the sick, cast out demons, disciple young believers and assemble them for church service.
• It is a Training-on-the-job- concept. The training and activities are goal-oriented. Nothing is included that will not help reach the goals. The exposure of members to the actual evangelistic environment trains them to become effective members in their churches.
• It is Power Encounter Evangelism. The concept of evangelism by the witness of signs, wonders and miracles is practiced at every opportunity. Pentecostal missions are at its best when these are employed. We do spiritual warfare and confrontation with the forces of darkness within the context of the Filipino spirit world.
•  It is a Summer Camp with a PLUS!  Traditional summer camps, retreats, seminars, and the like are good but do not produce the same results that SOS do.  SOS utilizes members' desire to campout by bringing them into a town in a camping situation. But   at the end of all the activities, a church is planted – this is the GREAT PLUS!
• It is a Church Planting Laboratory. SOS is a hands-on training in church planting. Churches will be planted by the participants during the OJT followed by a multiplication of the church planting efforts by the local churches in their local targets. It is a program of acceleration.

  The story of S.O.S.

  SOS as a church planting program was born in response to the Great Commission. The Great Commission is a GOING commission, so the best way to do missions is to GO to the Harvest Field.

  The development of the S.O.S. work is a beautiful picture of Acts 1:8 -- "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

  Rev. Reynaldo Calusay,  Senior Pastor of First Assembly of God challenged his church to reach their Jerusalem - Roxas City, in the province of Capiz. His vision was to fill the city with the doctrine of Christ. Ordinary members were trained and mobilized to preach the gospel and conduct evangelistic Bible studies throughout the city.

  The burden to fill the city of Roxas with the doctrice of Christ grew to reaching the neighboring towns, then the neighboring provinces and islands. The SOS concept continued to spread as churches and leaders from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao requested for SOS in their areas. Filipino missionaires to Cambodia, namely, Warren Aragona, Fred Capapas and Jose Estrebilla were pioneer Field Directors of SOS. They have adopted the SOS strategy and mobilized Cambodian believers.

   S.O.S. Marching Orders

  Church planting through SOS is moving under God's  marching orders expressed in a yearly selected theme. Each theme  is taken as a prophetic word with which an army of the Lord is called to arise to conquer new grounds for the Kingdom of God.
  
  1988   Send me to the Frontline               1998    Let His Word Resound
  1989   For You Will Spread Out                1999     Is There Not a Cause
  1990   Freely Give                                        2000    Nevertheless  will 
  1991   On the Go                                         2001    Crossing Rivers, Taking Cities
  1992   Light Shine n the Darkness          2002    Blessed to Bless
  1993   Possess the Land                          2003    Do Somethingt
  1994   Behold an Open Door                    2004   Give me This Mountain
  1995   Souls beyond Our Walls               2005   Accelerate
  1996   Break the Silence                           2006   Mobility
  1997   No Trnng Back                                2007   Accelerate (for the second time)
  
  2008-2009   - Saturate!