September 6, 2010 | Visitor #4260

Advance Information

Evangelist Richard Coyle
Biographical Sketch

1972 - Born in Rochester, MN.
1984 - Saved at age twelve.
1989 - Surrendered my life to the Lord.
1990 - Graduated from Valley Christian High School in Mission, TX.
1990 - Entered Pensacola Christian College.
1991 - Called to preach while working as a Summer Staff Counselor at the Bill Rice Ranch.
1992 - Worked again as Summer Staff Counselor at Bill Rice Ranch.
1993 - Served as an Intern at the Campus Church in Pensacola, FL.
1994 - Graduated from Pensacola Christian College with a B.S. Degree in Bible and a minor in Computer Science.
1994 - Married the former Lorie Ballard of Murfreesboro, TN.
1994 - Began working at the Bill Rice Ranch in Murfreesboro, TN as a Staff Evangelist.
1999 - Ordained by Spring Meadow Baptist Church in Franklin, TN.
2000 - Entered full-time into the work of evangelism.
2004 - Incorporated as the R. E. Coyle Revival Ministries, Inc.
2005 - Received Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Pensacola Christian College
Present - To date, we have preached in about 250 churches in 28 States.


Revival Preparations

Revival never happens by accident. Therefore, preparation is vital to a successful meeting. As the Pastor, you will be the leader in preparing your people for this revival meeting. Make the revival one of the BIG events of your year!

Prayer
Prayer is one of the biggest steps in preparation for a revival meeting. Prayer simply is asking. You and your people should be asking for God’s power and blessing now, during, and after the revival.

Advertising
Advertising the meeting will help lay a good foundation. Announcing the meeting from the pulpit, in the weekly bulletin, and on a prayer sheet are excellent ways to advertise the meeting. Of course, the best means of advertisement is word of mouth; people personally inviting other people.

Clear Schedules
Once again, let me encourage you to make this meeting a priority. We encourage churches to put everything “on hold” for the meeting and to devote all of their energies and efforts to a successful revival campaign. AWANA, Christian school practices, and ball games are normal weekly activities in many churches. Canceling, for the meeting, AWANA clubs and ball games and shortening or canceling regular after school practices will be a great help. Remember, revival never happens by accident. Let’s prepare accordingly.

Make Sacrifices
Encourage your people to be willing to make sacrifices for a successful meeting. For many giving every night to being at the meetings will be a sacrifice. Not watching that television program, for some, will be a sacrifice. The list could go on and on. Though to me these seem trivial, for most they can become real obstacles to revival.

Allow me to share three things with which to challenge your people:

  1. Clear their schedules so they can attend every service.
  2. Contact their visitors well in advance of the meeting and line them up to come on a specific night. Don’t wait until the meeting has already begun to start the inviting.
  3. Ask God to allow them to be apart of at least one soul being won to Christ during the meeting. This will allow all to share in the burden of the meeting.

May I also recommend making copies of the next section, “Making the Revival a Success,” and distributing one to each family.

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Making the Revival a Success

  1. Plan to attend each and every service of the revival campaign. Do your best well in advance to clear your schedule so that you will be able to attend all the services. This will require effort and even sacrifice for some. Inevitably, the service that you miss is the one you will need the most.
  2. Plan carefully for the evening meals. Simple and quick meals will make being at the service that night much easier. Eating earlier than normal may also work for some. A joint effort (preparing, cleaning, etc) by everyone in the family ought make things run smoothly.
  3. Instruct children to do their homework as soon as they get home from school. If the children have their homework done before the service, they can better give their thoughts to the service and everyone can go home without wondering if the homework will get done.
  4. Put the television on hold for the week of the revival meeting. Most people will be amazed at the “extra” time they have from not watching the television. This extra time can become quality family time and will also allow everyone to get to bed earlier.
  5. Pray much for the revival meetings. Pray that God will speak to you personally and challenge you to live better for Him. Pray as a family that the Lord will make you stronger and more Christ-like. Also, as a family, pray specifically for those you plan to invite.
  6. Invite! Invite! Invite! Everyone can invite someone. This will require work, but it can be done. Invite the unsaved to the revival meeting. Invite other Christians that you may know. Plan on doing the inviting a month or two before the revival begins. Periodically remind those you want to invite about the revival and pray, pray, pray. Perhaps having your guest over for a meal before or after the meeting will make it easier for them to come. Offering them a ride can also help. We do not want to be obnoxious, but in a Spirit-led way, and as the old saying goes “Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.”
  7. Make sure that you yourself participate in the revival meeting. Sing with all your heart. Fellowship with others. Give in the offering. Don’t hesitate to respond in the invitation as the Lord leads you.
  8. Following each of the services meditate on the message and how the Lord spoke to you. Then, as a family, conclude each evening with prayer. Ask God to continue to bless in the meetings, and also pray for those you have invited.

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Order of Service, Music, & the Public Invitation

Order of Service
The services, of course, are what the revival is all about. We do not want to “shoot ourselves in the foot” by not planning an order of service that will help the preaching. Having all of the preliminaries completed twenty minutes into the service will provide ample time for the preaching and public invitation. Here is a recommended order of service for each evening.

Opening Song/Choir Opener
Opening Prayer
Congregational Song
Congregational Song/Special
Welcome Visitors*
Congregational Song
Offering
Special

* If special nights (see: SPECIAL NIGHTS) are used, this time can be used to welcome those who were invited. If prizes will be awarded, this can be done following the service.

Music
Music will be an important part of the upcoming revival meeting. Encourage your people to be involved in the music for the meeting. We encourage each church to plan carefully and wisely for the best possible music program. Having musicians prepared well in advance; specials chosen, practiced, and ready each service; offertories carefully selected; and congregational songs chosen from familiar hymns and choruses are essential to good services. I would like to plan on Lorie singing the special each time before I preach.

Invitation
The public invitation will be a crucial time in the service. I want to be careful that the public invitation is set up in such a way that when people respond by coming forward they can be helped. Personal workers (counselors) will be the key to this. Before the meeting, designate plenty of personal workers to be ready to help during the invitations. These workers should be prepared to:

  1. Clearly present the gospel and lead a soul to a definite decision to trust Jesus Christ as Savior.
  2. Give basic steps of follow-up to a new convert.
  3. Give biblical help to a Christian in an area of Christian growth.
  4. Sit near the front if possible and be looking during the invitation to see if they are needed to do personal work.

Coming to the front to pray in a public invitation certainly can be a help. However, the primary purpose for the public invitation is so that people can get help from the Bible by counselors.

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Meals & Daily Schedule

Meals
Often people like to have our family over for a meal. Doing this once or twice during the week usually works fine. In fact, we enjoy spending the noon meal on Sunday with the Pastor and his family. This allows us some time together early in the meeting.

We prefer to eat the majority of our meals in our home (our trailer). If ladies of the church would like to prepare one meal a day for us, that would be a great help and blessing. It works best for us if the meal is brought to us as early in the day as possible. Our big meal of the day is usually lunch. We enjoy just about everything: beef, chicken, pork, pasta, and lots of fruit and vegetables. Please suggest little or no desserts. If we could receive a schedule of those who will provide meals, we would appreciate it. Since Thursday is our “Family Day,” we would not need a meal provided.

If it is not possible for one meal each day to be prepared for us, then we will be happy to take care of them ourselves. Please let us know either way.

Schedule
Since we are in a different place almost every week it is important for us to have a daily schedule. I generally pray, study, and do other things in the morning. I would be glad to help with special visit for the meeting or soul winning in the early afternoon. I like to devout one afternoon for just my family and me and another afternoon for maintenance on our travel equipment.

Lorie is a vital part of our ministry. The majority of her work now is involved with our children. As a result, she will seldom be available. To be together “on the road” is a wonderful thing, but Lorie and the children both need daily disciplined schedules just like your family. Certainly, I can be available more than the rest of the family.

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Finances

Financially, we want to be dependent upon God through the giving of God’s people to meet our needs. Therefore, we come to you on an Expense & Love Offering basis. We trust the Lord to meet all of our needs as He has promised to do. I sincerely believe that if our needs are a matter of prayer on our behalf, and your people’s giving is a matter of prayer on their behalf, then God will provide through the Expense and Love Offerings.

Expenses
If you are able to help with the cost of travel expenses, please make this check separate and designate it as travel expense. We normally request the church provide $400 for the cost of traveling to the meeting. Please make check payable to R. E. Coyle Revival Ministries.

Offerings
As an evangelist, my family and I live solely on love offerings given to us by God’s people. I would encourage you to let your people know that we are dependent on their giving and that their giving will go to meet our living and ministry needs. May I recommend challenging your people to pray about what they should give? Because I am convinced that they “which preach the gospel, should live of the gospel” I feel strongly about coming to your church on a love offering basis. Please make check payable to R. E. Coyle Revival Ministries.

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Sunday School

Teaching the adult Sunday school class the first Sunday of the revival is something that I really enjoy doing. I would like to challenge your people with several things about this week of meetings. If at least the head of each household could be in this class, it would greatly help. I believe that this special class will be a help to your people and to the meeting.

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Special Nights

A Special night can be a great tool for inviting the unsaved and others who may not otherwise attend. Below is a link to a downloadable file of many ideas for special nights.

Please click here to download the "Special Nights" file .

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Children’s Meetings

Lorie is prepared and willing to teach children’s meetings for the revival meetings. These children’s meetings are for ages 4-9 and will begin on Monday night. Lorie will be able to teach up to 20 children before she would need help from a church member that would be willing to lend a hand.

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Fifth Wheel Travel Trailer

Our family lives in a 43 foot long Fifth Wheel Travel Trailer. For our meeting with you we will need a level place to park (preferably at the church), an outside water supply, and if possible, access to a 50 amp, 220 power source.


50 amp (240) plug
(ideal plug for our trailer)
30 amp (110) plug
20 amp (110) plug

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Schedule for the Coyles

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Download the advance packet

We are pleased to be able to offer the above invormation as a download in a printer-friendly PDF format. It is necessary to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer to be able to view and print the file. If you need it, you can click here to download a free copy.

Please click here to download the Advance Packet.

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Promotional Photos

We are pleased to be able to provide a selection of photos that you may wish to use in your promotion of the meeting. Simply click on one of the thumbnails below to get a larger version that you can save to your computer for further use.

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Promotional Materials

We are pleased to be able to help churches with high quality promotional items at cost. Each item comes completely ready with all of your specific information already on it. These items include 11x17 posters, 4x6 invitation card, and key cards (tri-fold brochures).


11x17 poster
Invitation cards
Key cards

Please click here to download the order form for these printed materials (PDF format).

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