Philadelphia Bible Fellowship Church Planting Alliance

Philadelphia Bible Fellowship Church Planting Alliance A mission's agency purposing to fulfill the Great Commission of Christ by networking relationships

The Philadelphia Bible Fellowship Church Planting Alliance:

1. Mission-ally, the Alliance functions as a mission’s ministry to uphold its call and commitment to make the fulfillment of the Great Commission of Christ its central purpose for existing.

2. Governmentally, the Alliance is to be governed by a board of directors and managed by a ministry staff. The Alliance also will aim to be account

able and accessible to an advisory board composed of select ministry leaders.

3. Legally, the Alliance is bound by and accountable to a set of distinctly drafted bylaws. It also holds a 501c3 IRS tax exempt grouping status as a federal benefit to itself and which will be offered or shared by individual church plants in partnership with its entity.

4. Functionally, the Alliance will operate as a fellowship of churches and sponsor select annual functions shared together for leaders and laity.

5. Minister-ally, the Alliance is established to ordain pastoral and additional church ministry leaders when deemed necessary.

6. Spiritually, the Alliance will serve as an oversight and leadership ministry that provides spiritual direction, edification, encouragement and accountability for partnership churches.

7. Financially, the Alliance will be responsible for being financially self-supported by raising or securing funds for its operating expenses both within and without the ministry through a variety of fund raising approaches.

8. Supportively, the Alliance will exist to lend support to needs specifically associated to the initiation and maintenance of church planting ministry where deemed necessary.

The 30Plus Celebration of Ronald and Cynthia ParksOctober, 30 Plus Years of serving in global missions ministry will be ...
08/14/2026

The 30Plus Celebration of Ronald and Cynthia Parks

October, 30 Plus Years of serving in global missions ministry will be celebrated of the ministry of Ronald and Cynthia Parks.

Since 1991, The Parks have traveled separately and together to serve in many nations of our world, including, Ghana, Kenya, Russia, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cambodia, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, Ukraine, Haiti, England, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. They traveled to and temporarily lived in these nations’ greatest cities and rural dirt road villages. Wherever the people were, the Parks went.

The Parks greatly cherished the role of serving, supporting, encouraging, and strengthening missionaries and ministers who answered God’s call to mission fields of our world. Traveling to and with missionaries, they crossed the paths of some of the most amazing indigenous servants of Christ with existing ministries in their homelands serving their fellow countrymen. This would lead to cultivating endless relationships and open doors for expanded ministry ventures. And along the way, God granted The Parks countless opportunities to use their gifts, acquired skills, and Christian experience in meaningful ways to impact lives of numerous others and ministries. Even from a supporting posture, The Parks firsthand shared in:
• Presenting the gospel and leading the unsaved to Christ
• Discipling believers in their faith
• Sponsoring and preaching evangelistic crusades
• Collaborating with church planters organizing new congregations
• Training and equipping ministry leaders
• Academic teaching and supporting education programs
• Lifting the hearts and status of orphans and widows
• Assisting with humanitarian needs in communities they served.

Their ministry service has been carried out in partnership with numerous mission agencies, local churches and ministries, including Worldwide Evangelism for Christ (WEC), Carver Missions, World Gospel Mission, Campus Crusade for Christ, Windows of Hope International Children’s Ministry, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Every Home for Christ, Global Mission Frontier, Cornerstone Fellowship International, Soles For Jesus, Faith Chapel Evangelistic Ministries, Careview Community Church, Beulah Baptist Church, Deliverance Evangelistic Church, Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas, Shoeless Fellowship Mission, Chosen Generation, Meet Me In Africa mission project. And to their great joy, The Parks were the catalysis for many pastors, ministers and parishioners realizing their very first ministry trip aboard as they organized several short-term mission trips.

Through the thirty years, their travels have included bringing needed material goods to missionaries and people they serve. Upon returning home to their local church ministries, career associates and community residents, The Parks continued and expanded their support efforts by raising awareness of missionary needs and mobilizing support through communication, fundraising, and personal advocacy.

At the October event, The Parks will be celebrating foremost God’s faithfulness, evidenced in seemingly endless opportunities to individually and in collaboration with missionaries and indigenous ministers to see the literal fulfillment of great commission of Christ. They consider a huge aspect of their service the God ordained relationships that were forged.

The 30Plus celebration event will be an event to praise God, spotlight aspects of the three decades plus of service, honor supporters, bless missionaries and to challenge all to be a participant in the completion of the great commission of Jesus Christ.

July 30Plus Feature - The 1996 Church Remains The 2026 ChurchToday, if you heard the history read of the Faith Chapel Ev...
07/02/2026

July 30Plus Feature - The 1996 Church Remains The 2026 Church

Today, if you heard the history read of the Faith Chapel Evangelistic Ministries, a segment states its founding to be inspired by a group of missionaries from America who came to Cote D'Ivoire, West Africa to serve Liberian refugees. The Reverend Ronald Winston Parks is referred as a co-founder with the original founders. And while it was certainly that initial African leadership team that put in the majority of the earnest prayer and fasting effort, the evangelistic outreach, the preaching, teaching, organizing and physical construction work, Ronald Parks would serve as a networking arm of the then new church that today remains five churches, three in Liberia, two in the USA. And the outreach arm of Faith Chapel has spun a church networking collation that has translated into encouraging, edifying and equipping church leaders all throughout the country of Liberia and beyond.

1996 could be referred as a year of random church planting before church planting was understood as it is today. With a devoted and willing leadership core Ron Parks met on his very first mission trip abroad, he simply used the God-given gifts entrusted to him along with teaching and training skills cultivated as a bible school student, being a local church pastor for nine years and a plethora of ministry experience acquired during a then lifetime of being associated to church and ministry life. In fact, he would readily learn and make it a staple of his mission ministry training, that if you are genuinely executing New Testament ministry practices at home, those practices can easily translate into serving Christ causes and people any place in the world.

1996, another value lesson Ron Parks would learn is, God's word can be more readily applied in another place of the world than where you actually lived. It can be said that Faith Chapel Evangelistic Ministries grew out of a steady application of teaching and training principles and practices Ron Parks taught at home. Then, leadership and membership of Faith Chapel seem to implement all they were learning and at a pace that was surprising.

One definite celebration and commemoration of this season of mission ministry is how Faith Chapel Evangelistic Ministries continues to be a thriving church ministry. It's a reminder of God's amazing faithfulness, but also the dedication of the church's leadership that remains true the biblical values it was founded upon that first year of 1996.

June 30Plus Feature - Cynthia's Calling Point To ServeFor decades now, Missionary Jacqui Forde has referred to Cynthia a...
06/08/2026

June 30Plus Feature - Cynthia's Calling Point To Serve

For decades now, Missionary Jacqui Forde has referred to Cynthia as, foot solder. It's an affectionate designation given to mark Cynthia's longstanding role and practice simply to serve missionaries as a supporter of their lives and ministry work.

For over their three decades journey, serving as supporters of missionaries and mission's ministry work, it's a role the Parks have cherished. Cynthia Parks has even highlighted a single Scripture reference that perfectly describes and validates the supporting role, The Apostle Paul's request of Pastor Timothy in his travels, "When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments." [2 Timothy 4:13]

In the early years, Cynthia passion for missionaries and their work was expressed by writing to them encouragement letters. One missionary in particular responded to Cynthia's letters, Missionary Jacqui Forde, and a relationship was spun that would become decades of friendship and collaborative ministry service. In the 90s, Jacqui Forde and her late husband, organized the Windows of Hope International Children's Ministry, a ministry that would serve at risk youth in Uganda during the height of the aids epidemic at which time many youth lost parents to the disease. Simply, the couple believed their God would 'open the windows of heaven' (Malachi 3:10) on behalf of Ugandan youth and give them 'a hope and future.' [Jeremiah 29:11] https://wohuganda.com/ Decades later, the ministry has been used by God to be a catalysis of redemption and renewal for the lives of hundreds youth.

Cynthia found a certain missionary call to serve in a supporting role to missionaries, again in the spirit of 2 Timothy 4:13, "When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls', especially the parchments." Her international travel would translate into bringing to field missionaries what they needed for their work, their lives, those they served. Especially serving WOH over the decades, Cynthia trips to Uganda and those traveling with her, it was common practice that travel included 4-10 completely full duffle bags with what the ministry needed as deemed by its directors.

Over decades now, Missionary Jacqui Forde's designation of Cynthia as foot solder of the ministry, it would become a practice whereby one would perform all efforts necessary to ensure a broad range of physical needs were met on behalf of the ministry. It's the lesson anyone can learn who may not be a year round lifetime or fulltime field missionary. If you know a missionary who has dedicated their life to serving Christ and others abroad, your support ministry can be making sure they have what they need at the expense of you getting it to them.

Serving is definitely support and supporting those who serve.

30Plus Years - Global Missions Expanded My Affection Due To God Expanding My Audience For three decades, the Apostle Pau...
05/02/2026

30Plus Years - Global Missions Expanded My Affection Due To God Expanding My Audience

For three decades, the Apostle Paul’s heartfelt desire expressed towards Roman believers in Christ, it has become the personal testimony and truth that underlies every ministry travel abroad, every support effort of encouragement, edification, equipping, evangelizing: “I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.” [‭‭Romans‬ ‭1‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬]

1996, stepping on the West African soil of Cote D’Ivoire to serve Liberian refugees whose country (Liberia) was war torn due to the civil conflicts, I knew with absolute certainty God was giving me an expanded call to the gospel ministry to a people beyond my Philadelphia-USA boarders. What I did not expect was to cultivate such deep affection for the people that again, only The Apostle Paul’s testimony helped me to adequately describe, “I long to see you.” [Romans 1:11]

More than at any time in my life and Christian journey, I know exactly why the Spirit disqualifies anyone’s gifted service who doesn’t genuinely love the people they serve. [1 Corinthians 13:1-3] The gospel ministry is the wrong place to love watching your gifts operate more than you love the people you’re serving. When the Spirit concludes ‘one is nothing’ and ‘one gains nothing’, it’s because there’s a disconnect of the heart with those served though the gift is in action serving. I’m convinced it’s traceable to The John 3:16 love bar the Father sets for rest of us involved in His work to emulate, this made abundantly clear in Matthew 5:44-48 and Ephesians 5:1-2. Ministers and missionaries must authentically love the people they serve just like the Heavenly Father or else ‘they are nothing’, ‘they gain nothing’ for their service. There are possibly many in ministry who love the acts\gifts of service more than they love the people they serve. And judgement day before Christ and His throne, unfortunately they will discover just how serious and true the Spirit’s revelation was, “I am nothing”, “I gain nothing.” You must love those you serve.

For me, gospel mission ministry abroad is driven by God-given affection for new audiences He set before me over a thirty year period of my life and ministry. There’s a work of God that can only happen in your heart by going where they are, by seeing them face to face, by listening to them, by learning from them, by physically touching them, by emotionally bounding with them. Even they will tell you, your coming to see them, it means more to them than other forms of support you can send them.

And it’s the affection that creates bonds, deep relational bonds of the heart. The words, “I long to see you”, I view as a gift of Almighty God, especially when it becomes a mutual longing with mutual encouraging benefits, again, only Paul helps me to describe it perfectly, “That you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.” [‭‭Romans‬ ‭1‬:‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬]

After three decades, I’ve watched that affection become an audience I’ll be bonded to for all eternity, on this side of heaven and the new heaven and earth God promises is to come.

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