Natl Church & Ministry Directory - COC Direct

09/02/2025

Ever asked yourself:

“Where can I find a church when I move to a new city?”
Or “What ministries are serving in my state?”

Too often, the answers are scattered and hard to find.

That’s why we’ve launched the National Church & Ministry Directory — a centralized resource to help believers and seekers alike find churches, ministries, and faith-based organizations nationwide.

📖 Get your church or ministry listed today https://www.cocdirect.com/

Your listing doesn’t just promote your ministry — it fills the void and helps someone find the connection they’ve been praying for.

Together, let’s build a resource that connects the body of Christ!

— Pastor Derick E Wilkes

Congregation of Churches




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Find and connect with like-minded churches and ministries across the nation.

08/22/2025

Leadership Lesson:

MARKETPLACE MINISTRY
Using Every Available Platform to Publish the Gospel

1. “Go Ye Into All the World” – Mark 16:15

Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel.”

The “world” does not mean geography only — it means systems of influence that shape culture.

- Legal world.
- Medical world.
- Entertainment world.
- Business world.
- Digital world.

You may not be travelling across the globe, but you can still enter these “worlds” through influence.

2. The World Wide Web: A Net for Souls

Just as Peter used a fishing net, today we have a digital net — the WWW (World Wide Web).

The online marketplace is one of the largest mission fields.

Your phone, your podcast, your social media, your livestream — all can be ways to publish the gospel.

3. Every Tool Becomes a Platform

- A fisherman had a net.
- A carpenter had a hammer.
- A tax collector had a ledger.

Today: an accountant has spreadsheets, a teacher has a classroom, a business leader has meetings, and you have a keyboard or camera.

Every vocation and every tool can be a platform for the gospel.

4. Multiplied Grace Through Leadership

As pastors, we may not step into every world personally.
But through those under our leadership, we can leverage their platforms to extend our influence.

This is multiplied grace: our voice multiplied through the voices of those we equip.

5. Defining the Marketplace Simply

The marketplace is where commerce and interaction happen.

- It may be a physical business district.
- It may be a virtual meeting on Zoom.
- It may be your office PC when you log on and connect globally.

Wherever people interact, exchange, and influence — that’s marketplace.

6. Nuggets for Pastors

Think Platforms: The Kingdom isn’t limited exclusively to the Sunday morning pulpits.

Empower Your People: Train members to be ministers in their professions.

See the Digital Space as Sacred Space: The online world is not secular; it is a mission field.

Celebrate Marketplace Wins: Testimonies of integrity, breakthrough, and influence at work should be celebrated in church.

7. Call To Action

The Great Commission is not just about geography — it’s about systems, structures, and spheres of influence.

As pastors and leaders, let us send believers into every world they touch, and let us personally use every available platform to publish the gospel until “the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ” (Revelation 11:15).

Here's Practical Application:

The National Church & Ministry Directory

We’ve created a National Church & Ministry Directory as one of those marketplace platforms.

A Kingdom resource to help ministries be found, connected, and represented in the digital world.

It’s part of using every available platform to strengthen the Body of Christ.

During this pre-launch season, your church or ministry can be listed for free.

👉 www.cocdirect.com/listing-form.html

📢 Social Media Call-to-Action

Pastors and Leaders — let’s merge ministry into the marketplace!
This is more than a directory — it’s an opportunity to connect churches, ministries, and believers across the USA. 🌎

✅ Get Listed.
✅ Get Connected.
✅ Get Found.

📌 Secure your FREE pre-launch listing today: www.cocdirect.com/listing-form.html

Derick E Wilkes
Congregation of Churches

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08/21/2025

Nugget:

Sometimes "shutdown" warnings are a common scam. Attackers send these messages as a malicious prank or harassment, possibly aimed at discrediting a page or even a scam to gain access to your account. They also want create a sense of urgency, hoping you'll click on a phishing link or provide personal information out of fear.

Always verify information directly through official Facebook channels rather than relying on unverified messages or posts from third parties.

Walk in wisdom!

Pastor Derick E Wilkes
Congregation of Churches
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National church and ministry directory

08/17/2025

🌍 Pastors & Ministry Leaders — This is Your Invitation! ✝️
We’re building the National Church & Ministry Directory — a Kingdom resource designed to help churches and ministries across all 50 states get seen, connected, and supported.
🚀 During this pre-launch period, we’re offering something special: 👉 If you sign up through this page, your church or ministry will be listed for FREE in our national directory.

https://www.cocdirect.com/listing-form.html

Derick E Wilkes
Pastor
Congregation of Churches
COCDIRECT

08/17/2025

Become a PARTAKER of God's Grace, Don't just TAKE PART. Hummh

The Apostle Paul in writing to His partners at Philippi, revealed that God would supply for their needs as they (his partners) were partakers of his work in ministry. The same grace that was available to Paul in the field as an Apostle would also be available to his partners although they were not engaged in ministry to the same degree.

Listen to Philippians 4:15

Philippians 4:15 - Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

Now listen to verse nineteen:

Philippians 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Why would the Apostle Paul say that his God would supply their needs?

Paul did not say; MY God shall supply MY needs, or YOUR GOD shall supply YOUR needs. Instead, he said; MY GOD shall supply YOUR needs.

The equation was my and your!

Did he and his partners serve different Gods? No, of course not!

He was simply sharing with them that THEY would be PARTAKERS of HIS grace. They would know the same benefit and reward he knew as an Apostle working directly in the field.

It, would be helpful for me to define what the word PARTAKE means.

PARTAKE means to SHARE FULLY!

PARTAKE is not the same as TAKE PART.

TAKE PART is to take part but not all whereas; PARTAKE is to share fully.

Listen to this reference from the book of Hebrews chapter two and verse fourteen.

Hebrews 2:14 - Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Jesus took part of flesh and blood. He took the flesh part of the first Adam, but not the blood.

Mankind however partook of both flesh and blood of the first Adam.

This word PARTAKE as seen in the book of Hebrews is the same word the Apostle Paul will use in Philippians chapter one and verse seven.

Listen to Philippians 1:7

Philippians 1:7 - Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

Again, who was Paul speaking to?

He was speaking to his partners in the gospel.

If you are a partner to a ministry, you should NOT only TAKE-PART, instead you should PARTAKE.

Partners PARTAKE of the same grace upon the ministry they are connected with.

By way of illustration; that would look like one Christian investing in the work of the kingdom financially and another going into the field or teaching and preaching the gospel. The one who sent is rewarded in the same way as the one who went into the field.

There is a precedent for this even in the old testament.

In 1 Samuel 30. David and his men pursued their enemy, the Amalekites. Some of David's men had become tired when they reached a certain brook called Besor. Two hundred (200) of his men were too exhausted to go on. David instructed the weary ones to remain behind and guard the supplies. Then he and the rest of the men went on across, found the Amalekites, and—by the power of God—defeated them.

They not only defeated the army and recovered all their own possessions, they took what belonged to the Amalekites as well. So when they came back across the Besor, they brought with them a great spoil! When the fighting men rejoined the 200 others, some of them didn't want to share the rewards of that war with those who had stayed behind.

"Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered," they said.

It was at that moment that David, a man after God's own heart, officially established the principle of partnership.

1 Sam. 30:23-25 - Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us...but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike. And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

You may not be on the front lines of the fivefold ministry. Yet, because of partnership with a minister who is doing the work of God, fighting alongside him or her through prayer or through giving, you'll receive an eternal reward for every person who is born again, and every believer who is strengthened or healed or delivered as a result of that minister's endeavors.

Become a partaker of God's grace through partnership.

Derick E Wilkes
By Evangelist & Pastor
Congregation of Churches





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