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Mission Summit 2013 Program Book AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES USA June 21-23, 2013 Overland Park/Kansas City Welcome to the 2013 Contents 1 Welcome! Mission Summit/Biennial 2 in Overland Park/Kansas City! 3 Mission Summit 2013 in kan in don hna! 4 Taste and see that the Lord is good! 5 On behalf of your Welcome to the 2013 6 Bawipa cu a tha, ti hi tep cio u law hmu cio American Baptist Mission Summit/ tuah u! sisters and brothers Biennial. Each night 8 Emancipation Proclamation called in Kansas, Oklahoma will inspire as we ABHMS to ministries of justice and Arkansas who are celebrate the 150th 9 the American Baptist anniversary of the Churches of the Central Region, signing of the Emancipation welcome to Overland Park and Proclamation, the 200th of the 10 Sal Luatter Thawngthanhnak nih American Mission Summit 2013. Hosting this landing of the Judsons in Burma Baptist Home Mission Societies cu diknak year’s gathering of our American and the 375th of the founding of the ṭanhtu rianṭuannak bu a si Baptist family and friends is an First Baptist Church in America in 12 Providence: The First Baptist Church incredible privilege and pleasure. Providence, Rhode Island. in America While Dorothy may have discov- Our time together will 13 ered “there’s no place like home,” …challenge us as we explore 14 Providence: The First Baptist Church we hope you’ll discover there’s no together critical questions about the in America in Chin place like America’s heartland for shape of ministry and mission today 16 Mission Summit Conversations this gathering of God’s people and in Mission Summit Conversations; 17 Registration/Exhibit Hall Hours this celebration of Christ’s mission. …inform us at a variety of meal 17 Biennial Activity Guide: Welcome! We’re glad you’re here! events sponsored by our mission 17 Wednesday/Thursday John S. Williams, Executive agencies and partners; 18 Friday Minister, American Baptist …bless us as we worship, meet 19 Saturday Churches of the Central Region dear friends, and leave empowered 20 Sunday for service. 20 Officers and New Region Executive Welcome to Overland Welcome to Mission Summit Ministers Park! With a sense 2013! 21 Board of General Ministries Election Slate of standing on tiptoe A. Roy Medley, General Secretary, 22 Session Details on holy ground, I American Baptist Churches USA 24 Song: “Hallelujah Chorus” welcome American 27 Mission Summit/Biennial Speakers and Baptists to the Mission Worship Team Summit/Biennial in Overland Park. 28 Awards Building on the experiences we 30 Mission Summit/Biennial Program shared in Puerto Rico, we will Leadership engage in conversations about the 32 Regional Youth Representatives issues that we face individually and 34 Mission Summit/Biennial Sponsors corporately, building the agenda for 36 Local Mission Projects the future as we allow God to trans- www.abc-usa.org 39 Join us in 2015: Overland Park Again! form us by the Spirit. Together we 39 Native American Welcome and Blessing will worship, commemorate signifi- 40 Hotel Information cant historical events, and celebrate 41 Overland Park Convention Center Layout where God is moving us to be 42 Exhibitors, Vendors and Booth Location Listings God’s hands and feet in our neigh- 43 Exhibit Hall Floor Plan borhood and around the world. 44 General Information Come prayerfully…leave trans- formed for mission! This program book and all publicity and news resources Ruth Clark, President, relating to the Mission Summit/Biennial are made possible by American Baptist Churches USA your generous contributions to United Mission. Thank you. Mission Summit 2013 1 Ministry in Such a Time as This Adaptive Change for Faithful and Effective Leadership Mission Summit/Biennial 2013 in kan in don hna! Kansas, Oklahoma Overland Park in Dawtmi Aiawhtu le Arkansas i a kan in don hna! le Mileng ummi American Hmun thiang ah vialte hna, Baptist Churches dirdihlik i a dirmi 2013 Mission of the Central bantuk ah kaa Summit/Biennial Region in nan unau ruat i, Overland in kan in don American Baptist Park i tuahmi hna. Tutan ah pawl nih Overland Mission Summit/ hin Sal Luatter Park le Mission Summit 2013 i a rak Biennial Civui ah a rak chuak Thawngthanhnak Ca min an rat ra khomi nan zate nan kut kan in khomi American Baptists vialte thut kum 150-nak, Judson te nupa tlaih hna. Tukum American Baptist kan in don hna, ti chim ka duh. Burma an rak phak kum 200-nak, chungkhar le hawikom vialte i pumh- Puerto Rico i kan hmuhton cang Rhode Island i Providence khua ah khawmhnak a bultawltu inntek kan mi kan i zohchun i, tutan ah hin America ram i Baptist Khrihfabu si hi caan sunglawi tuk ngei kho ah pumpak in le a bu in harsatnak kan Hmasa Bik a rak dir kum 275-nak kan i ruat i kan i lawm tuk hring- tonmi tete kong biaruahnak ngeih campha hmannak zan fatin te kan hran. “Dorothy” bia ah, “chungkhar i Thlarau hruainak in Pathian nih ngei lai i, cu nih cun nan thinlung khuasaknak inn (home) bantuk cu zeitin dah thlen a kan duh, ti zoh dih-umnak in a lak dih te lai. khoika hmanh ah a um kho lo,” a rak i hmailei rianṭuannak ca agenda Kan caan kan hman ṭi ding mi ah ti ko nain, America ram hmun laili ah pawl ser ding kan si lai. Kan zate hin atu bantuk Pathian mi hna i pumh- Pathian kan thangṭhat ṭi lai, kan … Mission Summit Biaruahnak khawmhnak le Khrih rian ṭuannak tuanbia i a cangmi pawl ruah nolh timi kan ngei lai i nihinni i kan kong caan hmannak sunglawi bantuk le hngalhṭhannak tehna, Pathian rianṭuannak le a ram kauhnak rian phun hi hmun dang khoika hmanh ah nih kan innpa kan chakthlang le kan ṭuannak hi zeiti pungsan in hmuh khawh a si lai lo, nan ti cio ko vawilei khuazakip ca i A kut A ke dah kan kalpi lai timi biahalnak lai tiah kan ruah ko. Kan in don hna! si ding A kan duh kong tehna kan kan i ruahceih hna lai i, cu cu a Nan rak chuak kho i kan i lawm! chimrel ṭi hna lai. kan zuamcawhtu a si lai; John S. Williams, Thlacamnak he nan rak chuak hna …mission lei i rianṭuantu bu pawl Executive Minister, i …mission thinlung ngei lak i nan i le hawikom pawl nih an tuahmi American Baptist Churches of thlen bu in tlung cio te u! raw-ei caan hmannak nih hngalh the Central Region Ruth Clark, awk tam ngai a kan hngalhter lai. President, …Pathian kan thangṭhat ṭi lai, American Baptist Churches USA hawikom dawt he kan i hmutong lai, rian sunglawi ca ah thazang thar kan la lai i, cu cu kan thlua- chuah a si lai. Mission Summit 2013 in kan in don hna! A. Roy Medley, General Secretary, American Baptist Churches USA 2 Mission Summit 2013 Mission Summit 2013 3 Taste and see that the Lord is good! Psalm 34:8 by Reid S. Trulson 200 YEARS churches, and their experience of being part of the global body of Christ. Years later, mission leaders were not exagger- ating when they observed that they and the American Baptists before them had been engaged in “a great experiment.” n 1782, George and Hannah Liele At this historic 2013 Mission Summit/ sailed to Jamaica. They had em- I Adoniram and Ann Judson Biennial, the Holy Spirit is calling us braced the cause of Jesus Christ and again to embrace the cause of Christ. were committed to proclaiming the vate through the missionary work of To see God at work in and around us. liberating gospel to those who were Ann and Adoniram. In response, they To adapt in order to faithfully serve as enslaved in Jamaica, just as they organized on a national basis for the hands and feet of Jesus in God’s work of themselves had been enslaved in the first time by forming “The General changing the world through the power United States. The Lieles pioneered as Missionary Convention of the Baptist of the Spirit. volunteer American Denomination in the United States of What words of wisdom would the Baptist foreign mis- America for Foreign Mission.” Judsons and Lieles have for us today? sionaries with no sus- That mission agency, today known Surely they would remind us that Scrip- taining support from as American Baptist International ture still calls us to “taste (experiment) America. Ministries (IM), named the Judsons and see that the Lord is good!” (Psalm Thirty-one years after as their first appointed missionaries. 34:8) the Lieles had begun The organization enabled American their work in Jamaica, Baptists to participate meaningfully in The Rev. Dr. Reid S. Trulson is the execu- George Liele tive director of American Baptist Interna- Adoniram and Ann mission by supporting the Judsons, tional Ministries (IM). After 23 years as an Judson arrived in Burma in 1813. Like sending new missionaries, and gaining American Baptist pastor, Reid and his wife the Lieles, the Judsons dedicated their deeper insights about mission at home Janelle served as American Baptist mission- lives to making God’s love and salva- by seeing God at work among their aries in Europe, living in Austria and the tion known. God worked through their brothers and sisters in Burma. Czech Republic. He then served for six years mission service to transform people The Judsons’ ministry also led our as area director for Europe and the Middle East. In December 2006 Reid was called both in Burma and in the United States. forebears to adapt in other ways – in to his current position and has oversight of In fact, the Spirit challenged our their understandings of Scripture, their American Baptist mission work in more than American Baptist forebears to inno- fellowship in and between their local 70 countries.
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