Within 30 days, Texas Baptist Men volunteers led Experiencing God training events for church leaders in Haiti, the Philippines and Ghana.
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Keith Mack, Texas Baptist Men missions and ministry consultant for children and youth, teaches water purification techniques to Filipino pastors during the Luzon Convention of Southern Baptist Churches. The TBM team delivered about 100 water filters. (PHOTO/Courtesy of Russell Schieck )
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In Haiti, TBM Executive Director Don Gibson and Claude King, who wrote the Experiencing God curriculum with Henry Blackaby, helped lead a two-day training conference for about 250 pastors and lay leaders at Les Cayes. The team worked with Donald Lyons, founder of Haiti Under God.
At the conference, participants received workbooks to assist them as they start Experiencing God groups in southern and western Haiti.
“There is a spiritual hunger in Haiti that only God can satisfy,” Gibson said.
In the Philippines, about 240 church leaders attended a two-day Experiencing God training retreat prior to the 54th annual assembly of the Luzon Convention of Southern Baptist Churches in Bataan. TBM volunteers trained 30 small-group facilitators who for the retreat.
“We saw God at work immediately in the midst of these leaders. God prepared our hearts for what would take place over the next week. The leaders were responsive to God’s Spirit as he led us into a time of confession and repentance,” said team leader Russell Schieck from First Baptist Church in Ralls, volunteer missions minister for Lubbock Baptist Association.
Participants at the West African Missionary Journey event in Koforidua, Ghana, register to receive their copy of an Experiencing God workbook and participants’ listening guide, made available by Texas Baptist Men. (PHOTO/Courtesy of Billy Ray Harper)
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Filipino Baptist leaders referred to it as the “precon” meeting—preconvention and “preconditioning of the hearts” of participants, said Keith Mack, TBM missions and ministry consultant for children and youth.
The TBM team also led disaster relief and water purification training at International Baptist Church in Manila and during sessions at the annual assembly.
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Billy Ray Harper, pastor of New Beginnings Baptist Church in Beaumont, and Delbert Mack, pastor of Cathedral of Faith Baptist Church in Beaumont, led an Experiencing God training retreat at the 8th West African Missionary Journey event in Koforidua, Ghana.
The two-day conference drew more than 100 pastors from Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Assembly of God and nondenominational churches throughout the area.
“These pastors were hungry for teaching and practical biblical truths to take back to their own congregations,” Harper said.
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