The annual meeting of the Eastern North Carolina Conference was held on Saturday, February 29 at Banner Chapel Advent Christian Church in Benson, N.C. Aside from conducting regular business, delegates spent an extended time together in concerted prayer.
Rev. Adrian Dixon, Field Director for the Ministry Training Institute (MTI), shared with the delegates about the MTI program.
Nine MTI students met during the conference session for their regular cohort training.
Southern Region Superintendent Joe Pritchett installed the officers of the Eastern North Carolina Conference for 2020.
Team Mexico is headed to join Mexican Medical Ministries this coming April. We are in the last stage of raising funds for this trip – $8,800.00. We are excited for this group of people and amazed at the outpouring of prayer and financial support already. God provides!
Submitted by Sherry Thibodeau
Pastor T. Daniel’s church at Periyakulam is southwest of Tamil Nadu State and is located in the foothills of the Western Ghats (mountains). Pastor Daniel ministers with an emphasis on reaching out with the gospel to villages which surround their town, and they have already begun services in one nearby village called Chemman Kuzhi. He is also concentrating on nurturing and teaching the young people in his church and in the villages that they visit. On Sunday, February 23, Pastor Daniel had the pleasure of going to a nearby river where he baptized seven new believers.
Pastor Timothy writes, “Three Bible students graduated on Saturday, February 22. Two are from my orphan home and one is from my home church. I and Hoi [wife] are very happy for them.”
We are saddened at the death of Paul Tial Ceu, a pastor, evangelist and church planter who served the Lord within the Advent Christian Church of Myanmar. Paul Tial Ceu died on February 27, 2020 from complications from two surgeries he had undergone on his stomach. Pastor Timothy wrote, “We lost a great man. He preached the gospel village to village all the times till he died.”