WELCOME
Welcome to the 2019 Word of Life Bible Institute Missions Conference!
This year’s theme is Forward: God’s Mission in Motion with guest speakers, Todd Ahrend, Kris Stout, and Don Lough, Jr. God has called us to be a part in taking His Good News to all people. We are told in 2 Thessalonians 3:1, “Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you.” Jesus did not give us an impossible task to do. This world can be reached with the Good News of the Gospel, but it begins with YOU reaching your world for Christ.
The following schedule outlines the weekend activities. Our prayer is that these sessions would motivate each and every one of us to be more faithful in sharing the Gospel.
5 SCHEDULE
7 MISSIONS AGENCY PRESENTATIONS
9 SPEAKERS
12 HELPING HANDS FOREIGN MISSIONS
14 MEET ISMAEL & MARTA
15 DEVOTIONS SCHEDULE
17 MISSIONS AGENCY REPRESENTATIVES
19 SESSION NOTES SCHEDULE
MISSIONS AGENCY PRESENTATIONS
SPEAKERS
HELPING HANDS FOREIGN MISSIONS
MEET ISMAEL & MARTA
DEVOTIONS SCHEDULE
MISSIONS AGENCY REPRESENTATIVES
SESSION NOTES SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY
5:30 – 6:15 PM Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 PM General Session* Todd Ahrend
8:30 - 9:30 PM Missionary Mixer
9:45 - 10:15 PM Dorm Devotions: Mission Reps*
THURSDAY
7:30 - 8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 AM General Session* Todd Ahrend
10:30 – 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Mission Agency Presentations* (See next page for locations)
12:30 – 1:15 PM Lunch
1:15 – 5:30 PM Free Time
5:30 – 6:15 PM Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 PM General Session* Kris Stout
8:30 - 9:30 PM Missionary Mixer
9:45 - 10:15 PM Dorm Devotions: Mission Reps*
*INDICATES A REQUIRED STUDENT ACTIVITY 5 FRIDAY
7:30 - 8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 AM General Session* Todd Ahrend
10:30 – 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Mission Agency Presentations* (See next page for locations)
12:30 – 1:15 PM Lunch Word of Life Internships (Conference Room B)
1:15 – 5:30 PM Free Time
5:30 – 6:15 PM Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 PM General Session* Don Lough, Jr.
*INDICATES A REQUIRED STUDENT ACTIVITY 6 MISSIONS AGENCY PRESENTATIONS
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 11:00AM-12:00PM
LOCATION MISSION BOARD PRESENTER
AUDITORIUM Baptist Mid-Missions Mark Seymour Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc. Tom Simcox Helping Hands Foreign Missions Kevin Ross
CONFERENCE Fellowship International Mission Steve Wilt ROOM C Africa Inland Mission Sam Thomas Ethnos360 Mark Barnes
CONFERENCE UK-USA Ministries Leah Reist ROOM E His Mansion Ministries Heidi Johnson Faith Baptist Missions Chris Marine
CONFERENCE Pioneers Sam Welch ROOM F Breathe Partners Stephanie Taylor Crossworld Joe Potter & Dennis Day
7 MISSIONS AGENCY PRESENTATIONS SPEAKERS
TODD AHREND Dr. Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
He is the Founder and International Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nationwide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East.
He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have five children.
9 DON LOUGH, JR. Don Lough, Jr. (2011 – present) graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary before he began serving in 1992 with Word of Life’s International Ministries. In 2006, he was appointed Director of Word of Life, and he became the Executive Director in August, 2011.
Don and his wife, Darla, have four children. Alyssa is an elementary school teacher in Florida; Jonathan is a student in Texas at Dallas Theological Semenary; Justin is a student at Cedarville University; and their youngest daughter, Ashlyn, is presently a second- year student at Word of Life Bible Institute.
Under Don’s leadership, the ministry has initiated a renewed vision for expanding its outreach and fullfilling our Founder’s belief that...It is the responsibility of every generation to reach its generation with the Gospel of Christ. KRIS STOUT Kris graduated from the Word of Life Bible Institute, attending campuses in both New York and Argentina. He and his wife, Debbie, began the Word of Life Ministry in France in 1999, where they served for over 10 years before being asked to return to the United States and serve in the home office as Vice President of the International Ministries Division. In this role, he oversees more than 1,500 missionaries in over 71 countries. Married for 22 years, Kris and Debbie have three children: Natalia, Michael, and Luc. They currently reside in Schroon Lake, New York.
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HELPING HANDS FOREIGN MISSIONS
In August 2002, Drs. Richard and Brenda Kowalske were in Cochabamba, Bolivia, participating in a short-term volunteer missions trip with their church. God interrupted their plans and called them to full-time ministry while simultaneously giving them a vision for the initial ministry project—a Christian Complex that would serve as the base of operations for Word of Life Bolivia. They returned home to Georgia and immediately began to learn Spanish with the intention of moving to Bolivia. By early 2003, Helping Hands Foreign Missions was formed.
Uganda was another country where the Kowalskes ministered with their church. As the project in Bolivia started to come together, Richard and Brenda began taking volunteer teams to Uganda. The two countries— though very different and very far apart—were clearly the focal points of God’s direction for Helping Hands. The Village of Eden is the current project in Uganda.
After working in Uganda for several years, God showed Dr. K a vision for a children’s village located in the bush country. This village was to be a refuge for the most vulnerable children in the region—a place where they could live and learn in safety as part of a family. Richard and Brenda began sharing the vision for the Village of Eden in 2008. Today, Dr. K is in heaven, but his vision is a living, breathing reality in the bush village of Namuwombi, Uganda. Soon, 800 children and 100 widows will live there in safety and learn about the One True and Living God whom Dr. K served right up to his last day on earth.
Helping Hands is currently under the leadership of Kevin Ross, who is with us at this conference, and continues to expand around the world. The opportunities available with Helping Hands include Missions Trips, Medical Clinics, Disaster Relief, Child Sponsorship and “Fill-a-Bottle”. They have recently began a partnership with our children’s ministry in Atibaia, Brazil.
Our mission goal for this year is to fill and send 1,000 water bottles to kids who need them around the world.
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MEET ISMAEL & MARTA
Ismael was born in Spain and has a Muslim background. His mother is from Spain and his father from Morocco. When he was five, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother as a Muslim who was not practicing Islam. As a troublemaker at the age of twelve, he was sent to live with his father and began practicing Islam, even though going to the Mosque, following the laws and praying were not fulfilling him. He was sent back to his mother again and met new friends at school who began to talk to him about Jesus. Through this friend he was invited to volunteer at a camp and then came as a camper the next week. As a camper he saw more than a hundred young people who enjoyed reading the Bible and studying and worshiping God by their own choice! That week he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior.
Marta was blessed to grow up in a home where her parents were Christians who were active in their local church. At the age of thirteen, after a really difficult crisis of identity, she understood how great God’s love is, and she trusted Jesus Christ as her Savior. Two years later she was able to serve in an evangelistic campaign in a village in her home country of Spain with a missionary family. At that time God called her to serve full time in missions as well. At the age of eighteen she realized that her calling for missions was to Muslim people, and she was given the opportunity to take a trip into Morocco. She saw the hard work of missions in North Africa and the needs of the Muslim people. She returned, shared a video and talked to a group of people about the experience, including Ismael. God used that presentation to ignite Ismael’s heart for returning to Morocco to reach Muslim people for the Lord.
Ismael and Marta were married in June 2017 and were accepted as missionaries to Word of Life Spain with a focus on Muslim people in Spain and North Africa in November 2017. They are currently raising their support as they serve with our team in Spain and look forward to being used by the Lord to reach Muslims with the Gospel there and in North Africa. For the sake of their safety and that of their coworkers, we ask that their pictures and information not be shared at all on social media or in public areas.
GIVE.WOL.ORG/04231S 14 DEVOTIONS SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
DORM/ROOM RA ROOM HOST SPEAKER
Colombia Noah Schmidt Eduardo Araujo Dominican Republic Ethan Crawford Mark Seymour
Czech Republic Jovanny Arrendondo Joe Potter
Korea Toby Heimbach Mark Barnes Panama Darrien Conley Chris Marine Honduras Hunter Elliott Stephen Wilt
Room 5103 Anna Powell/Michaela Stephanie Taylor Cheeks Room 5107 Tessa Walsh Leah Reist Room 5110 Jordan Snapp Marta Chouird Room 5113 Susanna Casillas Heidi Johnson Conference Rm B Kelsey Bagg/Catelyn Debbie Seymour Rodriguez
Room 5203 Kailey Swaine Suzanne Wilt Room 5209 Kate Thompson Diane Marine Room 5212 Sarah Ferguson Terry Barnes
15 DEVOTIONS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY NIGHT
DORM/ROOM RA ROOM HOST SPEAKER
Colombia Noah Schmidt Chris Gaither Dominican Republic Ethan Crawford Thomas Simcox
Czech Republic Jovanny Arrendondo Ismael Chouird
Korea Toby Heimbach Sam Thomas Panama Darrien Conley Denny Day Honduras Hunter Elliott Eduardo Araujo
Room 5103 Anna Powell/Michaela Terri Potter Cheeks Room 5107 Tessa Walsh Debbie Seymour Room 5110 Jordan Snapp Bonnie Thomas Room 5113 Susanna Casillas Terry Barnes Conference Rm B Kelsey Bagg/Catelyn Diane Marine Rodriguez
Room 5203 Kailey Swaine Marta Chouird Room 5209 Kate Thompson Leah Reist Room 5212 Sarah Ferguson Stephanie Taylor
16 MISSIONS AGENCY REPRESENTATIVES
AFRICA INLAND MISSION FAITH BAPTIST MISSIONS Sam Thomas Chris Marine [email protected] [email protected] www.aimint.org/us www.faithbaptistmission.org
BAPTIST MID-MISSIONS FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL MISSION Mark Seymour Steve Wilt [email protected] [email protected] ww.bmm.org www.fim.org
BREATHE PARTNERS HELPING HANDS FOREIGN MISSIONS Stephanie Taylor Kevin & Kristan Ross [email protected] Kevin.ross@helpinghandsmissions. www.breathepartners.com org www.helpinghandsmissions.org CROSSWORLD Joe Potter & Dennis Day HIS MANSION MINISTRIES [email protected] Heidi Johnson www.crossworld.org [email protected] www.hismansion.com ETHNOS360 Mark Barnes [email protected] www.ethnos360.org
17 MISSIONS AGENCY REPRESENTATIVES
THE FRIENDS OF ISRAEL GOSPEL MINISTRY, INC. Tom Simcox [email protected] www.foi.org
PIONEERS Sam Welch [email protected] www.pioneers.org
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION (TEAM) Justin Flint [email protected] www.team.org
UK-USA MINISTRIES Leah Reist [email protected] www.uk-usaministries.com
WORD OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL (CCI) Eduardo Araujo [email protected] www.wol.org
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