Prayer Requests

Please be in prayer for a situation with one of the church members in Kiari where the Ellisons (far right) and Owens (far left) are working. The member is showing a lot of bitterness. Pray that the Ellisons and Owenses would have wisdom and that the Lord would change the heart of the church member.

Who Should I Vote for in the SC Primary Saturday?

Well, first off, who is on the ballot?

Because of late drop-outs, some people on the ballot for Saturday are no longer running. If you vote for Michelle Bachman or Jon Huntsman, you might as well vote for Mickey Mouse.

According to Google, the front runners for the GOP nomination are Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.

Mitt Romney has a reasonably good resume and exudes competence for handling the position of presidency. His website says that he wants to cut government spending, repeal Obamacare, and reduce unemployment. Mr. Romney graduate from Brigham Young University. He is not completely pro-life, but he does not approve of funding abortion federally.

Newt Gingrich also has a reasonably good resume. He is believed to be the most intelligent candidate in the primary. His website says that he aims to reverse the countries current socialist leanings. He does not have a biographical section to his site - in my opinion because he has a hard time being faithful to his marriage vows. However, he does vote pro-life.

Rick Santorum is the most conservative candidate running. As a Catholic, he is strongly pro-life and pro-family (he has seven children). He makes boldly conservative statements on his website about the economy, healthcare, national defense, education, the judicial system, and the GNP.

Other people on the ballot Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, and Rick Perry.

Pray and vote!

Rachel Potter

SGI Conference

Student Global Impact National Conference 2012

The 2012 SGI National Conference magnified Christ’s name by displaying and proclaiming the wonderful and amazing work God is doing to call people from every nation to serve him. The conference inspired in all who attended a desire to go out and spread Christ’s name. Inter-City Baptist Church in Allen Park, Michigan has made the conference available to all interested in missions through the incredible generosity of its people. Several members of our Sunday school class were able to attend this year’s conference and each one of us greatly benefited from the powerful preaching of God’s word and from the helpful workshops focusing on specific aspects of Christ’s work in the world.

Dr. Doran, Senior Pastor, InnerCity Baptist Church

This year’s conference featured a number of general sessions starting with the opening meeting on Tuesday evening (Jan. 3), and finishing with the closing service on Thursday evening. In these services Steve Pettit, Dave Doran, Dan Brooks, and others opened God’s word and encouraged the saints in gospel proclamation. Between services, a wide variety of workshops highlighted particular facets of missions such as cross-cultural communications, literacy and linguistics, technology in ministry, training nationals, mentoring ladies in Kenya, teaching English as a ministry, current trends in missions, frontiers for limited access countries, and many others. The SGI conference demonstrated to all who attended the enormous need for missions in the world and the wide-open opportunities to serve our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. God is doing a phenomenal work in the world through his people so that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy!                                      
--Andrew Threlfall

SGI 2012 Not Ashamed of the Gospel

      For those of you who are not familiar with SGI, it is a missions conference for college students and young adults held every other year at Inter-City Baptist Church in Detroit, MI. SGI stands for Student Global Impact. Part of the purpose for the conference is to encourage and motivate us as young adults to be on fire with the light of the gospel and to share it with the world. Motivating the leaders of the conference is the knowledge that some of the greatest awakenings in our history started on college campuses.

     The men were housed in the gym on the church campus and the ladies stayed with families in the church. The daily schedule included general sessions, workshops, meal times and times spent in what is called the "Global Cafe".

      The Global Cafe was a place to meet and mingle with the other conference attendees and, most important of all, to get coffee (Starbucks!)! I'm pretty certain some of us would not have survived without the caffeine. The first general session was Tuesday evening - the day we arrived - and things started bright and early Wednesday morning at 8am and finished around 9pm. This was also the case for Thursday's schedule, with the conference ending after the 8pm session.

     The speakers included Steve Pettit, Dave Doran (the pastor of Inter-City), Dan Brooks (pastor of Heritage Bible), along with a missionary from a restricted access nation. Workshop teachers included some of these speakers, along with missionaries, representatives from Bibles international and church members there at Inter-City.

         Some specific thoughts taken away from the conference: a) We were saved because Jesus was willing to undergo humiliation and a death that was taboo to even refer to in polite society (Steve Pettit), b) The only possible explanation for our involvement in ministry is the mercy of God (Dan Brooks), c) Boldness in sharing the gospel is not brash and obnoxious behavior - it is an openness, plainness, freely given and confident presentation of the truth.(Dave Doran), and d) I should not be ashamed of the gospel because I have experienced its power for myself. (Steve Pettit).

     It was a blessing to spend so much time with fellow missions-minded people and to glean from the wisdom of those involved in full-time vocational ministry. I hope many of you are able to attend in 2014!

Lynnette Jones