SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE REPORT

The Lord blessed us with a most inspiring, encouraging, and challenging Spring Missions Conference. As I always say, we can prepare to host it, and we can make a schedule, but only the Holy Spirit can write the program. And, we believe He did. THANK YOU! to all our preachers who challenged us from the Word of God to make the best and most use of the time God has given us to meet the urgent challenge of reaching our generation of the world’s people with the Gospel of God’s saving Grace.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED. You are the ones who make up the spirit and environment of the Conference event by your presence and participation. We certainly hope you will already be making plans to be back next year.

WE HAD FIVE OF OUR MISSIONARY FAMILIES IN ATTENDANCE. The presence of our missionaries always adds a very palpable sense of relevance and perspective to our Conferences. We do everything we do, first, for the Glory of our Great God – but we also do everything we do for the encouragement and empowerment of our missionaries. We never want our missionaries to attend our Conferences and leave discouraged or depressed. I believe all our missionaries who attended and ministered to us were encouraged by the interest and participation we demonstrated during our Conference services.

Maybe I should allow some of our attendees to evaluate the Conference by their own experiences: “...Enjoyed the Conference as much as any I have ever attended...One of the best Conferences I have ever seen...This was one of the best Conferences I have attended in several years. The preaching was great, the music uplifting, the fellowship sweet, and the meals delicious. The Lord willing, I hope I can attend next year as well.”

We also believe the Lord has great things in store for the growth and improvement of our missions ministry as our response to our being together for those three days. We always enjoy having an exciting Conference event during the time we are together – but we measure the true effectiveness of a GOOD Conference by how we follow-up when we all go back home. We are praying and hoping that we all respond with a greater and more passionate interest, investment, and involvement in supporting our missionaries with our prayers to God and offerings...as we GIVE GOD GLORY AMONG THE NATIONS!

CONFERENCE OFFERINGS
A total of $4195.00 was given during the Conference. We had announced beforehand that the Conference offering would be designated toward meeting the 4-YEAR AUTO ALLOWANCES for our missionaries. $3720.00 was given toward MISSIONARIES’ AUTOS. Another $220.00 was designated for GENERAL FUND purposes. An additional $255.00 was designated for BRATCHERS’ MANAUS HOME to help them recover the damages and losses they have suffered from the vandalism to their home in Manaus in their absence.

BRATCHER MANAUS HOME
If you want to help Harold and Marie Bratcher repair the damages to their Manaus home and replace their appliances which were burglarized, you may designate your offerings for BRATCHERS’ MANAUS HOME. They are going to need about $5000.00 to make things whole again after the recent vandalisms.

You may also send offerings directly to them at: 104 Glass Avenue, Lexington KY 40505. Their Lexington phone number is: 859.389.8975.

THANK YOU! MONTHLY GENERAL FUND CONTRIBUTORS
Please continue your commitments and giving to our MONTHLY GENERAL FUND. We must maintain and increase our generous giving to our MONTHLY GENERAL FUND to supply the essential needs our missionaries have to conduct their daily ministries.