Submitted by JT on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 2:34am.
Next weekend March 12-13 CFC has the privilege of hosting our annual Missions Weekend. Join us as we listen and learn from a great lineup of speakers this year and grow your Heart for the Harvest! (Please note the schedule at the end of the post)
Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Solomon Aryeetey
Founder and Director of Pioneers-Africa
Friday night Large Group: The Main Thing
Plenary 1: A Volcano, Begging to Explode
Plenary 2: Partnership with the Emerging African Enterprise
Sunday: What are YOU prepared to do?
I began medical school in 1972 and after seven long years, I graduated with the MD degree. Those seven years made such a radical change in my life. All I cared about was Jesus and His Gospel. As a trumpeter, singer, and songwriter, I was actively involved in a music and evangelistic ministry in Ghana both on campuses and in the rural areas. I knew the Lord had called me into full time ministry as a missionary.
It all started in the spring of 1986, when my lawyer wife, Letitia and myself (now a medical doctor) were about to fulfill our dreams of immigrating to the USA. God, however, had other plans. A Pioneers representative challenged us with the needs of the Fulani people in Mali, West Africa. Letitia and I knew that God was calling us to go. For seven years we lived in the desert among the nomadic people, learning the language and sharing the gospel from hut to hut and through a mobile medical clinic. During this time we faced many hardships, including being separated from our 6 children. Eventually, believers were disciplined and a church was started, which continues strong today.
In 1994 Letitia and I founded Pioneers-Africa to awaken and mobilize the Church in Africa to proclaim Christ to the unreached people groups. Today the mission has over 164 national African missionaries serving in places of the greatest need and least opportunity.
Seminar Speakers:
Dr. Michael Chupp
World Gospel Mission
Seminar: Come Walk with Me
My wife and I call Michigan home where we began my surgical practice in 1993 with Southwestern Medical Clinic in Berrien County. Our oldest two children, Steven and Melody, were born in St. Joseph, MI, during our three years of practice with this wonderful group of Christian doctors. In 1996 we moved to Kenya and Tenwek Hospital where I began my career as a missionary surgeon. We were accepted as career missionaries with World Gospel Mission in Marion, IN in 1995. For 12 years we have served with World Gospel Mission at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya. During that time I was the medical director for four years but have spent the vast majority of my time practicing general and orthopedic surgery as well as training young Kenyan medical professionals. Our youngest two daughters, Kayla and Ashley, were born at Tenwek Hospital.
Our current plans are to return to Tenwek Hospital in Kenya in July 2010 for a two year term. I plan on resuming leadership in the surgical department, especially in the area of orthopedic surgery, as well as teaching/training many Kenyan doctors undergoing internship and residency training at Tenwek. We currently reside in St. Joseph, Michigan with our four children. Mike is in his sixth year of practice with Southwestern Medical Clinic, Inc, since joining in 1993. Southwestern is a group of over 60 Christian physicians with a strong interest in domestic and international ministry in medical missions. Several partners in the practice, including Mike, are considered career missionary partners serving with various mission organizations around the world at this time.
Marcel Morneau
Pioneers
Seminar: Redefining Missions: It’s Not about Geography Anymore
Marcel grew on the Pacific Coast of Canada on a healthy diet of ice-hockey, Sunday school and board sports. In 1995 he met and married Christina, the most amazing girl on the planet, and presently have two terrific kids. In 1999 Marcel and Christina went to India to learn the Punjabi language by immersion to be able to return to Canada and work among the Punjabi speaking immigrants from India. They are at an area with nearly 15% Punjabi population and up to 30% in specific areas with no Punjabi believers and no gospel witness in the Punjabi language. The Punjabis are primarily of the Sikh faith.
Today you may find him doing any number of a variety of things; he is a lead pastor, a missionary, a conference speaker, and a settlement counselor. The message he brings is one that will challenge you to think outside of your missions box; missions is not about geography anymore - it is God calling you to do the impossible because He longs to do the amazing!
Nathan Montgomery
Salt and Light
Seminar: Always Being Missions Minded
Nathan is the Executive Director and one of the co-founders of Salt & Light. Nathan’s involvement with Salt & Light stemmed from a desire toward missions which ultimately led to God placing him in a mission field in his hometown. Nathan and his wife Jenny have four children: Ashton 13, Benjamin 9, Addy 6, and Lilly 4.
1 John 3:17-18 states: “If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” This is what Salt & Light is all about-Action. Through the services they meet physical needs, educate their clients to help them meet their own needs, and attempt to meet their most basic spiritual needs.
Missions Weekend Schedule for 2010
Friday Night –March 12th
| 7pm |
Large Group at Wesley |
| 930pm |
Coffee House at various classrooms |
Saturday –March 13th
| 9am |
Plenary 1 |
| 10 am |
Seminar #1 |
| 1130 am |
Lunch |
| 1230pm |
Seminar #2 |
| 2pm |
Q & A |
| 245pm |
Plenary 2/Closing Worship |
