This past week, Pillsbury College hosted its annual missions conference. We enjoyed hearing from veteran missionaries and missionaries just getting ready to go to the field. According to Mr. Dan Morrell, who heads up the Pillsbury Missions Department, we had more missionaries and more mission boards represented than ever before.The first of our keynote speakers was Rev. Steve Fulks. According to the Baptist Mid-Missions website, he is the Administrator for Church Relations and Enlistment. He and his wife Judy were missionaries in Peru from 1985 until 1997. He spoke from Ezekiel 37 concerning the role of Ezekiel in speaking to the valley of dry bones. God asked Ezekiel to prophesy to the dry bones, but it was God who breathed life into those dry bones. The application was that when we do our part to reach people with the Gospel, God will do His part to bring some of those people to Himself.
Our other keynote speaker was Dr. Mark Batory, who is the Executive Director of Gospel Fellowship Association. He and his wife Paula served as missionaries to Mexico from 1979 to 1983. He also assisted Dr. John Vaughn in planting a Hispanic Baptist church in Greenville, SC. Our daughter Cynthia attended that church for several years.Dr. Batory spoke about the fact that several of the the apostles were those "who turned the word upside down." Yet these "Galileans" struggled while they were being mentored by our Lord during his earthly ministry. After our Lord's resurrection, God sent the Holy Spirit to minister to the needs of the apostles. It's the same way with the Christian life. Many of us are just like the "Galileans." We have struggles in our Christian life, but the Holy Spirit ministers to our needs and helps us achieve spiritual victories.
The theme of our Pillsbury missions conference was to encourage all of us to worship God more. As a result of that, we will then have the proper motivation in our ministry to others. All in all, our missions conference was spiritually uplifting.
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