Saturday, December 3, 2011
Our Bible Conferences are
exciting times of personal ministry and edification, coupled with a renewed
casting of vision. One of the great
challenges is always to hear the Holy Spirit when He says, “separate me Barnabas and Saul (you could put lot of people’s names
here!) for the work to which I have
called them.”
This year we announced a new
overseas church plant into Bamenda,
Cameroon with Phillip and Kristin Kuti-George. The other part of this venture is taking over
the church in Silver Spring, MD where the Kuti-George’s have labored is Jamile & Yinka Hurst from London,
England. To me, the exciting part is we
normally heart about sending workers and missionaries from the U.S. into other
places. In this case, the order is
reversed: we’re bringing a couple from London to pastor here in the U.S.! Especially in one of the most influential
metropolitan areas in the country, Washington,
D.C. Silver Spring is a suburb, located approximately 8 miles from D.C. The whole area there is an incredible melting
pot of people of various ethnicities and people from many different parts of
the world. Originally, this was one of
the incentives for Phillip & Kristin to go there, with its large population
of people from Sierra Leone and other West African nations.
Jamile Hurst was saved in
November of 1999 in South London, and was originally from the Caribbean country
of Antigua. He has pastored in the U.K. and for the last
few years he has evangelized throughout England and other countries. I am excited because, first, he is a man of
God with real vision, and secondly, I think that he will be uniquely positioned
to not only relate, but also to transcend many of the barriers between people
in that area. They have just enlarged
and remodeled the building in Silver Spring.
The Hurst’s arrived yesterday and the official changeover will take
place on 12-11-11. Pray that by God’s grace the church is positioned to move
forward and the Word of God can “multiply
and prevail!”About Me
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