A New Ministry to New Hampshire Public Servants

November 2014

Take one church that wants to reach Public Servants for Christ but isn’t sure how, connect them with Capitol Ministries which has a winning game plan to do just that, and through their friendship, you have a ministry to New Hampshire state Public Servants.

That’s what happened when Peter Chamberland, pastor of the Granite State Baptist Church in Concord, NH met Ralph Drollinger, President and Founder of Capitol Ministries.

“Our church had a burden to minister to Public Servants, but I didn’t know a possibility like that would even exist,” said Pastor Chamberland.

But it has for 18 years. Over that time, Capitol Ministries has established more than 50 ministries in US state capitols and foreign nations and in Washington D.C., where Drollinger teaches the weekly Members Bible Study to Congressmen — soon to include Senators.

Earlier this year Drollinger introduced Pastor Chamberland to Rep. Warren Groen, R-NH, who wanted to host the Bible study in the New Hampshire State House, and a ministry was begun.

Pastor Chamberland said the training was ‘tremendous’ at the Annual Ministry Leader Training Conference held Nov 4-8 in Palm Desert, CA, that he and Rep. Groen both attended. The independent ministry is set to begin in January.

“This is church involvement in our capitol,” Pastor Chamberland said. “Our church is going to be involved. If we have a meal or a breakfast, it will be the ladies of our church who will be cooking and serving.”

The Granite State Baptist Church was established by Pastor Chamberland and his wife, Crystal, who, for 15 years, served as prison missionaries with Rock of Ages Ministries in Cleveland, Tennessee. On Nov. 23, the church will celebrate its one year anniversary.

“I have asked the church to pray on a daily basis that God would open these doors and change our state,” Pastor Chamberland said. “I believe the king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord. And as the rivers of water, he turns it wherever he will.”

“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. —Proverbs 21:1

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Representative Daniel Webster

Florida

A Christian Congressman can’t separate his faith from the decisions he makes in office. Faith should be an integral part of a Christian’s life. Whether your job is running a business, or whether your job is being a laborer, or whether your job is being in the United States Congress, it really doesn’t matter; if your faith is integrated into your life, it is going to affect how you think, what you do, and how you act.“For me, my faith is the center of my life. The principles of my faith are found in the Bible. I read the Bible all the way through every year; I read Psalms and Proverbs through every month. And every day I look for a verse that I write down on a piece of paper and put in my pocket, knowing I will come across the reason it is there and, sure enough, that is how it works out. The biblical principles I live by, affect everything I do every day including making votes, meeting with constituents, or trying to serve the community in other ways. Faith can’t be pulled apart from other areas of life. You can’t separate faith and say, ‘I go to church on Sunday thatis the faith part of my life, and the rest of the week is the secular part of my life.’ You can’t live like that and have real faith. As a Christian, my faith affects everything I do.

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Dr. Dan DeShong

As CapMin’s Director of Local Government Ministries, I am seeking qualified candidates to establish weekly Bible studies to city and county elected and appointed public servants across the United States. I also led the first LGM Bible study to city and county commissioners in the greater Sacramento, CA area. I taught the curriculum, Oaks in Office: Biblical Essays for Political Leaders, which contains the most pertinent Bible studies Ralph Drollinger, President and Founder of Capitol Ministries, has authored to meet the spiritual, personal, and professional needs of Christian legislators over his more than 25 year ministry. Our Sacramento group is still meeting to study the Bible and we are studying Oaks in Office a second time.

The experience was exhilarating to say the least! None of us had any idea that the Bible had so much to say about immigration, parenting, racism, deficit spending, and other contemporary issues. One elected official had planned to leave politics and now he says, “No wonder God has me in this position!“

As Christians, we sort of take biblical precepts and doctrines for granted, but when the issues are broken out in specific chapters like Ralph has done in Oaks in Office, they become very clear and very real.

This first group was pretty excited about this study and will be sharing their story with city and county commissioners around the country. Who knows where God will take this?

Ministries to local government public servants have been planted in California, Texas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, and in dozens of provinces and territories in European nations.

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