Friends and Other Useful Information

Watercolor Books^® is rich with life’s greatest treasure of all – friends. These are people we admire and believe in, to whom we’d love to introduce you.

Why did we choose “watercolor” for our name? Because Nancy Corbett Cole adored beautiful watercolors painted by her beloved niece and acclaimed artist, Lyn Conlan. Stroll through Lyn’s gallery at www.watercolorlyn.com and let the colors of nature soothe and refresh your soul. Browse through to find artistic creations that bring you the same joy they gave Nancy.

To learn more about the international ministry to men launched by Edwin Louis Cole, go to www.EdColeLibrary.org, where Dr. Cole's entire lifetime of work is being compiled.

CMN Worldwide, one of your allies in reaching men for Jesus Christ.

What began as a dream in my dad's heart over 40 years ago has now become one of the hallmarks of the 21st century church - a global Christian men's movement that is impacting millions of men every day.

Together with other men's ministries around the world, CMN is focused on the core vision that Godly men accept responsibility for their lives, the lives of their family and the spiritual atmosphere of their community.

Our mandate is radically honest and dynamically clear, to impact men with the message that "Manhood and Christlikeness are synonymous." To that end we are fully committed.

Paul Louis Cole
www.cmnworld.com

Joann Cole Webster

Edwin and Nancy Cole’s daughter, along with their grandson Seth, wrote the hope-filled book, Can Stepfamilies Be Done Right? Read how blended families can choose the best course for discipline, determine a role for the stepparent, deal with “ghosts” from the past and much more! Order your copy at www.christianbook.com, or contact the publisher at www.strang.com

Steve Riggle

Steve Riggle, author of The Sharper Edge, is Senior Pastor and founder of Grace Community Church, a congregation of many thousands located in Houston, Texas. He also serves as the President of the Christian Evangelistic Assemblies, a fellowship of churches throughout the United States and the world. He has served as senior pastor since the 1970s and has an extensive background in church planting and multiple church-related ministries to the community. He has been married to Becky for over thirty years and has two married daughters, two grandsons and two granddaughters.

You may contact Steve Riggle at:

Grace Community Church
P.O. Box 891409
Houston, TX 77289-1409

G. F. Watkins

G. F. Watkins completed his Masters Degree in Education, but after six successful years of teaching and coaching, he felt the call to ministry. After five years as a Christian school principal and associate minister in a local church, he again pursued God's call, this time to pastor. By this time, G. F. had ministered from a book entitled Maximized Manhood in local prisons and face-to-face with hundreds of men.

PowerHouse Christian Center is the church G. F. and Rose Watkins founded in Katy, Texas, in 1996. They started knocking on doors to lead people to Christ and now have thousands of people, from all races, ages and denominations, who worship in a state-of-the-art facility. G. F. and Rose Watkins' personal mentoring by Maximized Manhood author, Edwin Louis Cole, acted as a catalyst to build their church on the strength of men's ministry. Pastor Watkins credits their emphasis on men with the hundreds of families that have been restored and spared the pain of divorce since the start of PowerHouse.

From the principles Pastor Watkins implemented sprang the G-MEN Strategy, a supernatural plan to provide the much-needed structure to retain the harvest of souls God sends and close the "back door" of the church. After implementing G-MEN, PowerHouse membership grew 50%, and the men's mentoring program grew to over 400 men in just the first two years. Pastors from all over the world now contact PowerHouse Christian Center, which is becoming a hub for a unified network of international churches using the G-MEN Strategy!

Pastor Watkins' calling and passion is to develop leaders in the Body of Christ, and his background in coaching has helped make him a spiritual coach to hundreds of men, including other pastors. He uses innovative methods to minister and communicate the Gospel, and signs, wonders and miracles follow his ministry.

You may contact Pastor G. F. Watkins at:

PowerHouse Christian Center
1818 Katyland Dr.
Katy, TX 77493
www.powerhousecc.com

Ron DePriest

Most people make an impression. Ron DePriest makes an impact! Because Jesus Christ impacted him so dramatically, his ministry is one of extraordinary revelation. At a time when people desperately need to hear from God, Ron's ministry is a word fitly spoken.

His testimony became a best-selling book, Loco, read by over half a million readers. They saw every kind of miracle and healing except raising the dead in Ron's services. In the early 80s, Ron was featured in magazines, making regular appearances on TV and leading tens of thousands to Christ. Yet, in all the popularity of twenty years of high-profile ministry, Ron found a nagging emptiness. This "chief of sinners" had now swung to the other extreme, finding religion as dark and desperate as solitary confinement in San Quentin.

Abandoning public ministry after 20 years, Ron was at the end of himself when the Holy Spirit and the words of a few faithful men drew him back to the simplicity and sincerity of his first-love encounter with Christ. All the knowledge of the Word and all the degrees couldn't replace the passion toward God's presence. It was faith in God that changed him once and faith in God that opened his heart again. The Holy Spirit answered Ron's desperation with a fresh visitation of the Father's grace and love. A new Ron DePriest emerged from the ashes.

Today, Ron DePriest and his wife, Minnie, travel the nation together. They have been in ministry for over 30 years.

Ron DePriest is available for ministry in your area.

You may contact Ron at:

P. O. Box 635
Grandview, TX 76050
www.RonDePriest.com