Somewhere in history the church got lost. Very lost. And confused. Confused about who She is and what She is to be doing. In our generation, the great mistake has been to define the success of a congregation by two factors: (1) attendance and (2) offerings. The more people and the more money a local congregation has, the more successful most people view it as being. And, oh yes, you've GOT to have a new multi-million dollar facility to go with that! But is that the Biblical model? Hardly! The success of a church should be measure by how effectively they equip the believers for the work of ministry. In other words, how many ministries has YOUR ministry birthed in the last year? A truly effective local church gives birth to other ministries, congregations, missionaries, and all the Five-Fold Ministry offices. People sitting in pews do the Kingdom no earthly good. Money sitting in the bank does no earthly good unless it is being spent to bring people to Christ all across the world and to meet the needs of the people, especially them that are of the household of faith. And a multi-million dollar facility does no good unless it being used to nurture and incubate believers and ministries. The Ephesians 4 Centre for Learning takes this opportunity to salute Dr. Fred Heath, now retired, but formerly of Ammons United Methodist Church in the Walnut Hills area of Cincinnati. In the midst of absolute poverty, in one of the worst sections of the city, Dr. Heath took a disintegrating UMC and revitalized it by turning it into a training center for Spirit-filled ministries, many of whom came from outside of the UMC. Despite strong resistance from within his own denomination, and with virtually no help from the outside, Dr. Heath made Ammons UMC one of the finest developmental centers for the equipping of the saints that we have ever encountered. In fact, if not for Dr. Heath, The Ephesians 4 Centre for Learning would not exist, for it was Dr. Heath who, according to the Biblical model, reached out to a middle-aged couple trying to leave secular employment in Louisville, KY, and go full-time in the ministry, and enabled them to come through an open door in the Cincinnati. Truly, Dr. Heath was our "Man From Macedonia". Any church with resources should be actively striving to enable and equip ALL the saints, not just their own. And if multiple ministries will work together and share facilities, then the work of the ministry, which is by far the most important thing, will go forward effectively and powerfully.