46th annual missions fest' at Ebenezer Nov. 15-22
The 46th Annual Missions Festival at Ebenezer Mennonite Church, Bluffton, will feature L.T. Jeyachandran as speaker for both Sundays.
The conference will be held Nov. 15 through Nov. 22. L.T. Jeyachadran is the missions director for the Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, Singapore. He is a well-known Bible expositor and a student of theology and comparative religions. He is a civil engineer and is from Tamil Nadu, South India.
The theme of the conference is "The Mission of God" based on Genesis 1 and 2 and Revelation 21 and 22. The conference verse is Revelation 22:13 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the end." He will be speaking at Sunday morning services at 10:15 a.m. both Nov. 15 and Nov. 22.
Nightly meetings
Nightly meetings will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday Nov. 15 through Wednesday, Nov.18. Sunday, Nov. 15 has been designated at youth night. Friday, Nov.20 will be a family fellowship meal beginning at 6 p.m. A program with the missionaries will follow.
Saturday, Nov. 21, there will be a men's breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and the womens will have a refreshment hour at 10 a.m. A Children's Missionary Adventure will be held each evening.
Other missionaries involved in the conference are:
oPhil and Deb Leach, serving with BEE World in Asia;
oDale and Ruth Seefeldt, with TEAM have recently returned to the USA after having served many years in India;
oChuck and Naomi Smith serving with New Tribes Mission in Paraguay;
o Linda Sommer, recently retired from serving with TEAM and Black Forest Academy in Germany;
oLee and Michelle Sonius serving with HCJB Global in Ghana;
oAndy and Pam LaBreche, serving with GEM in Romania;
oBryan Friesen serving with SEND International in North Carolina, Michael Boehm and Kerris Wright, Jr. both serving in Louisville, Kentucky, with Encounter Ministries.
All services are free and open to the public. For more information call the church at 419-358-8588
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