How Shall They Know?

Today began Missions Conference at Pine Forest Estates Baptist Church in Pensacola, FL. Amy and I are privileged to be members of PFEBC as well as to be featured missionaries participating in the Missions Conference. The conference runs Wednesday through Sunday with a lot of events planned each day. Amy and I will participate personally in 3 of those days.

Wednesday kicked off the conference with a Missions video called "Open Their Eyes Lord" by BIMI about missionaries Joe and Tanna Collins to the Tibetans of Nepal.
Thursday will feature a presentation from missionary Troy Lewis to Belize as well as a message from Keynote Speaker Gary Sprunger, Director of the Caribbean for BIMI and member of PFEBC. He will continue to speak each night of the conference.

Friday will be our day to present our work. Lord willing, if all goes well, we plan to bring Australia missionary Steven Maldoff to the service with us via Skype. He'll give a live brief overview of the work in Australia as we look forward to working alongside the Maldoff's full-time in the future. We will also be sharing photos from our previous two missions trips, giving a "Day in the Life of a Missions Trip" to let you know what we've done and what we're hoping to do this summer.

Saturday will be a church work day, followed by our International Dinner and Missionary Panel. The International Dinner will feature dishes from many different countries, including some homemade meals from Australia that Amy plans to make. The Missionary Panel will conclude the evening, giving those in attendance the chance to ask questions that they haven't gotten answered yet in the services.

Sunday will conclude Missions Conference with missionaries attending different Sunday School classrooms, giving a challenge from the Word of God. In the morning service, the International Children's Parade will take place as the children dress up in national attire. Sunday Morning, Gary Sprunger will speak on Faith Promise Giving. Sunday Night will conclude our Missions Conference with a presentation and message from missionary Mark Liedtke, also to Belize.

Will you pray that God will help us as we prepare our presentation and hope that the electronics function properly for the Skype to work? Will you pray with me that God uses this Missions Conference to grip the hearts of the people for Missions? Maybe God would call someone, young or old, to the mission field. "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest." Luke 10:2

Traver Freeman