17th Annual Missions Conference

Grace Presbyterian Church will hold its 17th annual Missions Conference March 3-5 at the church.  Key speaker for all services will be Les Thompson, founder and president of LOGOI, a ministry that trains pastors and provides various outreaches to help the church leadership in the fast-growing Spanish churches throughout Latin America.

The conference will begin on Friday, March 3, with a service at 7:00 p.m. Additional services will be Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday at 9:30 a.m., 10:55 a.m., and 6:30 p.m.  Other speakers include Don and Sue Gahagen, church planters among the Quechua Indians of the Andes mountains and indigenous tribal groups of the Amazon jungle region of South America; Nena Cadiente, church planter in Timisoara, Romania, working in evangelism and discipleship; Roger and Dianne Smalling, whose vision is to bring the Reformation to Latin America by establishing leadership training centers and writing dynamic reformed literature; Jay and Nancy Matsinger, missionaries in the suburbs of Paris, France, whose ministry is personal evangelism and discipleship; and Bill Sims, Southeastern Area Representative for The JESUS Film Project of Campus Crusade for Christ.  Ward Satterfield, Minister of Music and Outreach at Grace, will lead the music during the conference.  The praise team from Nueva Vida (New Life) Baptist Church will participate in the Saturday evening service, which will be focused on ministry in the Hispanic community in Dalton.  Mr. Thompson will deliver the message in Spanish during the Saturday evening service, with translation into English.