March 29, 2010 – 10:48 AM
March is for Missions! That’s been my mantra for this entire month. We’ve been blessed to have an expanded Missions Conference, complete with a pre-conference speaker and a post-conference speaker. Our post-conference presentation was last night, as we welcomed Chris and Cassie Hill to share the burden that the Lord has placed upon their hearts. [...]
March 24, 2010 – 11:34 AM
I recently received this handy-dandy little prayer card from the Alliance World Fellowship that I would like to share with you. The AWF is a ministry of the Christian and Missionary Alliance that facilitates cooperation among its member churches around the world as they work for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. One of the [...]
We concluded our 2010 Missions Conference last evening with another inspiring testimony from Mrs. Evelyn Mangham. Evelyn reminded us, as did our missions video, that the mission of Christ must continue until the Lord returns for His church. Each one of us were tremendously blessed and encouraged that our God is still doing performing miracles [...]
Yesterday morning I delivered my annual missions sermon on the concluding Sunday of our Missions Conference. The sermon was exposited from Matthew 5:14-16 and entitled “You Are the Light of the World.” As I told the people of our congregation, these words were originally given by Jesus near the beginning of His famous “Sermon on the Mount,” just after what is commonly [...]
What a blessing the Missions Conference has been! Last evening, we welcomed a different missionary family for our third straight night. Don and Joan Ewan represented Ecuador on Sunday night. Reynold and Betanie Jean-Baptiste represented Haiti on Monday night. And last night, Toby and Kiersten Hull were here to represent the nation of Burkina Faso in [...]
March 16, 2010 – 11:21 AM
Our Missions Conference continued last evening with another interesting missionary presentation. The spotlight was on Haiti, and more particularly on the extraordinary things that the Lord has been doing there since the devastating earthquake in January. Reynold Jean-Baptiste and his family were with us to give a report on the needs in Haiti and to share the [...]
Our Missions Conference message last evening was remarkable! Our church had the pleasure of hosting Don and Joan Ewan who currently reside in the Tampa area, where they serve with the ministry of New Hope Alliance Church in Land O’ Lakes, Florida. Last night’s message, however, focused on their years in Quito, Ecuador, and Joan’s prison ministry in particular. [...]
March 15, 2010 – 12:29 PM
We just kicked off our annual Missions Conference yesterday morning with a terrific start. Rev. Joseph Wong, Pastor of Living Stone Community Church in Orlando, gave the “Church Multiplication Report” (otherwise known as the “Home Missions Report”) for this year. I have known Joseph personally since we were students together at Reformed Theological Seminary back in [...]
With the onset of our annual Missions Conference, I thought it would be appropriate to provide a little introduction into the missions emphasis of our own denomination. A better understanding of our roots will reveal the source of the intense passion for missions that so many of our churches embody. Our church belongs to a large family [...]
Last evening, Maranatha Fellowship Church was blessed to have Dorothy Adam as our special guest speaker for our Missions Pre-Conference Event. Dorothy is retired from her vocational missions work now, but she’s certainly not retired from the ministry work that the Lord continues to give her. She currently resides at the Alliance Community for Retirement [...]