Sunday, September 21, 2008

Reformation Weekend

Reformation Weekend

October 31, November 1-2, 2008

First Baptist Church

420 S. Scott

St. Francis, KS

Calvinism and Missions

Meeting times:

Friday 7:00 pm (session 1) The Calling of Abraham Genesis 12:1-3

Saturday 10:30 am (session 2) The Calling of Moses Exodus 3:1-4:12

12:00 pm (dinner is provided)

1:30 pm (session 3) The Calling of Jeremiah Jeremiah 1:1-10

3:00 pm (break)

7:00 pm (session 4) Going for His Glory Psalm 96

Sunday 10:30 am (session 5) Teaching Them Matthew 28:20

12:00 pm (dinner is provided)

Lodging is available in homes on a first come basis. For more information call: 785-332-3921 or 785-332-2959, or email: fbc67756@sbcglobal.net. In St. Francis there is Cook's Empire Motel, 785-332-2231. In Goodland (35 miles south) there are a number of motels; including Comfort Inn, 785-899-7181, Howard Johnson, 785-890-3644, Super 8, 785-890-7566, and Best Western, 785-899-3622

Our conference speaker will be Dr. David Sills, Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He also serves as Director of the Doctor of Missiology program, Director of the International Church Planting program, and Director of Great Commission Ministries. Dr. Sills joined Southern Seminary after serving as a missionary in Ecuador. While with the International Mission Board, he served as a church planter and general evangelist among the Highland Quichua people in the Andes and as a seminary professor at the Ecuadorian Baptist Theological Seminary. He also served as Rector and professor of the Baptist seminary as a missionary with Global Outreach International. In addition to leadership training and seminary ministry that has taken him throughout Latin America and as far away as Nepal, he has started and pastored churches in both the United States and Ecuador. As an author, his latest book is The Missionary Call: Find Your Place in God's Plan For the World (2008). David and his wife Mary have been married for over thirty years and have two grown children. For more information about the ministry if Dr. Sills go to www.davidsills.org.

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