What a day! The first “official” day of Bible conference, although our students gave us a head start since Friday night. Here are my highlights of the day in no particular order of importance.
- 4,000 assembled and packaged Farsi New Testaments were sitting on the altar as we began the service this evening at 6:00pm. Good beginning despite some persistent problems with one of our binders.
- Ethnic clothing day! Tim sent out a brief email last week encouraging people to dress in their native clothing if possible today. Home run! I have to say the Africans took the morning – both services. I knew we had a growing population of Africans in our church, but today was an exclamation mark! I stood in awe of the beauty on display. I wanted time to talk with each African ethnic group represented and learn as much about their garb as possible. One family from Cameroon in particular was off the charts beautiful! The Hispanics took the evening as many of the ladies especially showed up in their finest folkloric clothing. I had fun getting my picture taken with many of them.
- Steve Coffey and Greg Parsons delivered the goods today as our guest speakers. I love these guys and have been blessed to work with them on the Christar board. This was the first visit for both of them to KCBT and they both related so well. They knew exactly what we needed to hear. Thanks to both! Greg has to rush off to teach a Perspectives class tomorrow in Las Vegas, but Steve and Beth Coffey will be with us for the conference.
- Watching people work on the scripture assembly line – this is always a highlight to see old, young, married, single and of all ages and ethnic groups working on putting Farsi scripture together. Hey’! We need all the help we can get, especially at the stranger hours like from 3:00am to 1000am.
I hope we get some pictures posted on the www.kcbt.org site. For the moment, here is what the stack of raw scripture looked like on the side of the gym Saturday morning.
Tomorrow night at 7:00pm we will hear from a Kurdish lady from Nashville. We met her at The Summit in March and loved her passion for her people. More Kurds live in Nashville than any other US city. She has a fabulous ministry to Kurdish women. Come early and work on the assembly line. Or, stay late.
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