If you have ever thought about what it would be like to be a missionary or wondered if short-term mission trips were for you, come experience global missions in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina. The New Wineskins for Global Mission 2010 conference demonstrates what God is doing around the world and equips churches and individuals to fulfill Christ’s Great Commission to make disciples of all nations. And I will be leading two of the conference workshops.
April 8-11, 2010, the New Wineskins Missionary Network, a ministry created to provide Episcopal and Anglican churches with mission materials, training seminars, and other resources to help them fulfill the Great Commission, will host the sixth New Wineskins conference at Ridgecrest Conference Center, just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. I have conducted workshops at four previous New Wineskins. One thousand or more clergy, lay leaders, youth pastors, potential missionaries, and mission supporters (mobilizers) are expected to attend New Wineskins 2010. Although the emphasis is on mission in the Anglican Communion, New Wineskins welcomes participation from mission-minded believers from other denominations, as well.
With the Blue Ridge Mountains as a breathtaking backdrop, we will enjoy plenary sessions featuring archbishops from Nigeria and Myanmar, a baroness member of the British House of Lords, and other missionary leaders. Worship will be lead byThe Prince George Winyah, South Carolina Episcopal Church worship group, blending traditional, contemporary, and international music. And, oh yes, there will be 60 workshops, including the two that I have been asked to lead, “What Can We Do? Advocacy for the Persecuted Church” and “This Day We Fight: The Spiritual Battle Against Islamic Imperialism.”
I have done workshops on advocacy for the persecuted church at the previous New Wineskins conferences, but this will be the first time that I am doing a workshop on Islamic imperialism. Radical Islam is making headway in North America and Europe as the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical groups use our freedom and democracy – and “tolerance”, political correctness, and fear – against us to destroy Western civilization from within. My workshop will discuss how Christians can counter this attack with spiritual warfare to counter spiritual blindness and deception, by loving people and praying for them to experience the love of God the Father through finding Christ as Savior, and by demanding honesty, justice, and reciprocity for people of all faiths.
There will even be free time to enjoy the scenery, explore the mission exhibits, and have a gathering of any and all IRD Religious Liberty Program friends that are present! On Sunday, April 11, the conference will end in the typical global fashion of New Wineskins, with a Kenyan Service of Holy Communion celebrated by the Reverend Qampicha Daniel Wario, from Northern Kenya. I’d love to see you there.
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