Faith Promise Conference in Ponca City, Oklahoma

Pastor Ken Newport

This past Thursday was the start of a Faith Promise Missions Conference at Second Baptist Church in Ponca City, Oklahoma. This church has been led by Pastor Ken Newport for the last 17 years. He took this church from being Southern Baptist 12 years ago and turned it into a good independent Baptist church that runs buses, is King James only and is reaching folks in this community. What a great example!

Missionary Rea

The conference opened up Thursday night with Veteran Missionary David Rea to Zambia. He did a great presentation. Then second generation Missionary Jonathan Mislan to the Philippines preached the evening message. Both did a great job and it was a great kick off to the conference as people seemed moved.

Mrs. Mislan singing special

Then Friday night Brother Mislan presented his mission to the Philippines. His wife also sang the special that night. (I discovered that his wife's father is Pastor Ed Lorena from the Philippine Islands. He is a great pastor and I have visited his church years ago.) Then I preached the message that evening and gave the invitation. Several came forward and it seemed like another great evening as the pastor continued to promote Faith Promise giving to his people.

Saturday there was a ladies brunch in which the missionary wives were to speak to the church ladies. My wife gave her testimony and answered questions. She said it went well. In the afternoon we gave out Gospel tracts and witnessed to several people. I took a man named Christian through the plan of salvation but he did not choose to trust Christ as his Saviour.

Brother Joel Garza

Sunday morning we attend Brother Joel Garza's couple's class. He did a great job of teaching on Galatians chapter 4. We enjoyed the class greatly. We then headed into Junior Church for a question and answer time with the kids. Then we were brought into the auditorium to hear the end of Pastor Ken Newport's Resurrection message. All the missionaries were then brought up to the platform after the invitation to be introduced to the congregation.

Pastor Newport preaching

There was also a lot of great singing and special music all throughout the conference. It was a blessing to see the pastor getting behind the piano for a few of the specials!

Pastor Newport playing the piano

 Then Sunday night they had me present our mission to Thailand. Then Brother Rea preached a great message on soul winning. The altars were filled and many were praying about becoming better soul winners. God blessed the entire conference. We enjoyed getting to meet and fellowship with the church members.

Presenting Sunday night

I want to thank all the families for the great meals and fellowship. I also want to give a special thanks to Norma Cook for keeping us in her home during the conference. What a blessing it was to get to know this special lady. Please pray for us as we will be in Oswego, Illinois on Wednesday night.

Norma Cook