I am looking forward to our annual Mission Symposium at Stony Point Baptist at Potosi on Friday evening, May 14. Pastor Claude Evans and Stoney Point has put together a great program with Bro. Sam Husser, Tony Crocker, and Jamie Jones as some of the evening speakers. On Saturday morning during our semi-annual meeting, we will hear from Missionary David Dickson. I really want to encourage you to attend this meeting. Some have asked me if we need a mission symposium. In recent years we have only had about 30-35 people in attendance at the symposium and it does make you wonder if there is a strong interest. Please consider making a special effort to attend the symposium and the semi-annual meeting for we are spending extra funds in providing traveling expenses for our speakers.
Within the next few weeks, the special missions committee will be visiting with Pastor Claude Evans to evaluate the progress of Stony Point Baptist as they attempt to reach full time pastor support. We will also be traveling to Smithville, MO to visit with church planters, Jamie and Rebekah Jones. You can read his article elsewhere here in the paper and you will find that God is at work in Smithville.
In the first week of May I will be involved in church planting training in Little Rock, AR. I will be teaching some of the DCPI church planting essentials to potential church planters and state mission directors from the BMAA. Pray for a good time of learning and planning to expand our mission endeavors.
