Grace Church at Willow Valley

Grace Around the World Missions Conference - March 20-21, 2010

Jesus Hope for the Nations!

Conference Events and Missionary Personnel

Saturday, March 20th

Pray Around the World 9:00 am Saturday—9:00 am Sunday
Make a difference through prayer! As a Grace Church family, we will pray "around the world" in 30-minute time slots from 9:00 Saturday morning until 9:00 Sunday morning. The focus of this year's prayer is the people groups being reached by our Grace Church missionaries. Sign up for a time to pray at the Hospitality Centers. You will receive a prayer guide in your mailbox on March 14th.

Cultures of the World Urban Scavenger Hunt 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bring your family and follow a list of clues that will take you on a 90-minute walk through Lancaster's cultures - from Greek to South American, Italian to Korean, British to Japanese and more. After the "hunt,” you will return to the church for a quick time of sharing about what you learned on the hike. Meet in the upstairs lobby of the church at 9:45. We will take a bus into the city to avoid having to find and pay for parking. Sign up at the Hospitality Centers.

Missionary Progressive Dinner 5:30 pm—9:00 pm
Eat five courses, get to know five missionaries! Each host will provide one course of a 5-course meal: appetizers, soup, salad, or a main course. Each course will include a presentation by one of our missionaries, and lots of fun and fellowship. This event is for adults. Sign up at the Hospitality Centers - seating is limited! You will be given directions to your first host's home the week before the dinner.

Sunday, March 21st

Adult Class Missionary Workshops 9:00 and 10:30
Come and enjoy in-depth reports from the field featuring our conference missionaries. Each workshop will include a question and answer time, so that you can learn more about the missionaries and ministries that are part of the Grace Church family.

Sunday Morning Worship Celebrations 9:00 and 10:30
Keynote speaker Dr. Nicanor Tamang will share about how Jesus is the Hope of Nepal, and how Grace church can partner with the Church around the world to preach the Gospel to all nations.

Meet Your Missionaries Luncheon immediately following the 10:30 service
Don’t go home and cook! Stay and have lunch with our missionaries. Enjoy a special time of food and fellowship with all of our conference missionaries and learn more about how God is using Grace Church around the world. The luncheon is by donation. Please sign up at the Hospitality Centers.

Conference Personnel

Dr. Nicanor Tamang, keynote speaker IN-Network, Nepal
Nepal is the world's only Hindu kingdom (where Hinduism is the state religion). Since the revolution in 1991, there has been freedom to profess and practice religion, but not to proselytize. Dr. Nicanor Tamang founded I.N. Network Nepal in 1974 with an emphasis on church planting. Today, he oversee a variety of outreach ministries, including the work of Gajendra Limbu, a Nepali evangelist Grace Church has supported for many years.

Keith and Karen Dodson, Missionary Maintenance Service
Keith and Karen are part of the dynamic ministry at MMS, “preparing people and planes” for worldwide service. Learn how MMS has played a pivotal role in providing aid to Haiti and in other crisis situations around the world.

Barb Wooler, GBIM Project Hope and Charité, CAR
After many years of ministry among the Pygmy people, Barb Wooler began working with Project Hope and Charité, a multi-national partnership of people who are committed to empowering the church in the Central African Republic to obey God’s command to care for their orphans.

Roger and Phyllis Wambold, Hebrew Christian Fellowship
Hear how HCF is lovingly and sensitively presenting the Gospel of Messiah Jesus to Jewish people directly through ministries in the land of Israel and indirectly through the equipping of believers in local churches to reach Jewish people in their circles of influence.

Conference Outreaches

March 13th –20, 2010
Tennessee Missions Team
Pastor Shannon will lead a construction team to serve at Camp Galilee with our missionaries Adam and Becky Fladie. This camp reaches hundreds of unchurched kids every summer.

March 19 - 30, 2010
International Student Missions Team
Grace Church will host eight Japanese students and their leader from March 19th - 30th. Special church-wide events with the students will include a welcome party with the Youth Group on Saturday, March 20th, and an American Home Life Closing Program on Monday night, March 29th.

Please stop by our Hospitality Centers to register for the events you will participate in. Your registration helps us to plan and prepare more efficiently. For your convenience, registration cards will be in the bulletin on March 7th and 14th.