Over 600 attended each night meeting.

FirstBible International was invited to preach a Pastors Conference at the South India Baptist Bible College in Coimbatore, India on February 2 – 4, 2010.  I was privilege to participate in this conference in which each night service was attended by over 600 people.  What a sight to behold as nearly 300 pastors from all over India came and joined the college students during this time.

Dr. Charles Keen and Dr. Ken Fielder led the FirstBible team of pastors from here in the states which included Dr. Fred Schindler, Pastor Scott Hooks, Pastor Richard Sheer, Pastor Andrew Dennis, Pastor James Overton, and myself.  What an honor to serve the Lord with these pastors as we sought to glorify God in encouraging, challenging, training and edifying these national pastors from India.

Preaching the Tuesday night service.

I was also privileged to preach the closing service on Tuesday evening.  The Lord moved on my heart to preach on “The Value of One” from Joshua chapter two.  After about ten to fifteen minutes into the message as I was preaching about the blood of Christ the power went out and I had to continue preaching without the aid of lights or notes.  It was then the Lord gave strength to carry on.  The Lord moved and received all the glory for what was accomplished.

This was truly a trip that has done much to stir my heart for the cause of World Evangelism.  Never has there been a time when we could affect the lives of people around the world for the cause of Christ.  With all the means of technology today we could and I believe we should do much more, more quickly and efficiently in accomplishing the Great Commission which the Lord has entrusted to His church.  He did not give us a task to do that could not be done.  We must remember the ultimate purpose of World Evangelism is for God’s glory.