Welcome to Wayside's 35th Annual World Missions Conference. Here on this web page you will find some photos of our conference, and the sermons preached. We have tried several different ways of doing our conference. Presently we are having meetings three Sundays in a row, usually in the month of April. Each Sunday we invite one missionary family to be with us. They teach Sunday School, they give testimonies in the morning worship service, and on Sunday evening they usually show slides or give Power Point presentations. The Sunday morning missionary sermon is usually preached by Pastor St. John. Wayside is a small church, but by God's grace we have been able to give generously to missions, usually in the neighborhood of $60,000 per year. Our missions giving is separate from the church budget. During our missions conference we challenge our members to make a "Faith Promise" to God about missionary support. Whatever the Lord provides, that is what we give. The Saturday night before the conference we have a kick-off pot-luck supper. Each Sunday evening we have a family supper at the church at 6 PM, before hearing our missionaries speak.
Our missionary guest for April 11 was Mr. Jack Deal, who heads up the Navigator outreach programs at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. Here he is in a couple of photographs....
All by himself...
And with Diana Mick...
First Sermon: The Missionary's Confidence (April 11, 2010)
Second Sermon: Proclaim God's Wondrous LOVE (April 18, 2010)
Third Sermon: The Emphasis Must Be On PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL (April 25, 2010)
Our missionary guest on April 18 was Virginia Strom. Virginia taught for many years at Woodstock School in N. India. Recently she has been working with Somali Bantu refugees in Atlanta, with Mission to the World, and World Relief. Here is a photo of Virginia Strom with our missions chairman, Jerry Best...
And here are some miscellaneous photos of our 35th World Missions Conference...
Janet Best with Bob Bukovsky, who is our "Mexican Fiesta Chef" for April 18th's supper!
Our missionary guest for April 25 was Steve Rowan, of Wycliffe Bible Translators. He is working with the "Seed Company," developing Bible Stories for people who have no Bible, and who can't read or write. Here he is installing batteries in our DVD remote... All over the world, and he is a GLOBAL traveler, Steve Rowan's cowboy boots make an impression... Room and board and transportation for Steve were provided by Bob and Susan Bukovsky. Here's a photo of Steve Rowan and Bob Bukovsky... The adult Sunday School class paid close attention! Virginia Dove made refridgerator magnets with missionary names and email addresses... Our organist Fern Eaves was absent to Washington DC on April 25. Dan Rineer cheerfully filled in at the organ, and even sang for us. Here he is (holding his organ pedal shoes) with Janet Best...
