Missions 'the Heartbeat' of God

Pastor Delbert Davis

This past weekend the missions conference at Talking Rock Road Baptist Church of Branson West, Missouri started. The theme for the conference was "Missions 'the Heartbeat' of God." This church has been led by Pastor Delbert Davis for the past twenty two years. He is doing a fantastic job and the church has a great spirit among the people for missions.

Teaching Sunday School

On Sunday morning I taught Pastor Davis's Sunday school class which is called the Ambassadors Class. I taught a lesson out of Ecclesiastes chapter eleven on how to set sail with missions. God seemed to bless the lesson as several said they really appreciated it. During the morning service the pastor had all the missionaries come up and introduce themselves. Then one of the missionaries that the church already supports preached the morning message.

Central America Night

Starting on Sunday evening there would be a internationally themed meal each night of the conference put on by a different Sunday school department. The missionaries would do the judging of each group based on not only food, but the decorating and the dress of those serving. Every group did a great job of trying to emulate the area of the world that they were representing.

Being trained on the cutter

On Monday morning we went to work in the Seedline Ministry of the church. It is run by Brother Miles Wallis and they are producing a lot of Scriptures. In fact not too long ago they produced a bunch of Thai John and Romans that went to B.E.S.T. missions which is run by Dr. Bob Bowen and Bro. Curtis Hall which means they would eventually end up in the hands of someone like me in Thailand to hand out. We worked on French on Monday morning and Tamil on Tuesday morning. (Tamil is an ancient language still used in some places in India dating all the way back to the days of "doubting" Thomas the disciple.)

My wife and daughter working the stitcher machine

On Monday evening I presented my work by giving testimony and showing my video. I then preached the evening message. God blessed as many came up to me after the service and told me how much they appreciated the message and the truth that was given from the Bible. 

Preaching Monday night

Other presentations were given on the other nights by different missionaries. We enjoyed seeing the other fields and hearing the messages as well as the many different music specials. My daughters even sang a special on Tuesday night. 

Church kids singing a special

On Wednesday evening there was a special service taking place. They run a couple of their bus routes and had all the Sunday school classes come up and represent the different countries where some of their missionaries are at. They did a fantastic job! Since we were to be judges of who does the best, it was a difficult choice.

A class representing Africa

My daughters also sang a special for the second night in a row on Wednesday evening. I use to not have my daughters sing at churches but then I realized a few months back that it was robbing the churches of a blessing and them of an opportunity to serve our Saviour. Another interesting story is that we ran into the Player family here, I forgot to get a picture, but it was good to see them. When I was a deputy sheriff in Northeast Nebraska we use to attend the same church. It is amazing what a small world it truly is. Also, it is amazing that Brother Looper our assistant pastor at my home church use to serve as an intern here at the church. It is a small world!

Daughters singing special

Please pray for us as we are journeying back east for a series of meetings to try to finish up the majority of our deputation. (We do have two meetings for the very beginning of December.) Please pray for safe traveling and for us to get the rest of the partnerships that we need.