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INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

2016 GLOBAL OUTREACH CONFERENCE

INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

O N B E H A L F O F T H E G LO B A L O U T R E A C H C O M M I T T E E , I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO ATTEND THE UPCOMING GLOBAL OUTREACH CONFERENCE. IT IS A FORGONE REALITY THAT THE BLESSING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT SIMPLY ABOUT US, AND IS NOT INTENDED TO END BY OUR RECEPTION OF IT. RATHER, WE ARE TO CONTINUE TO PASS

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DOWN HIS TEACHING THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH! TO THE NEXT GENERATION. PSALM 78 INFORMS US OF OUR NEED TO TELL THE NEXT GENERATION THE WORDS AND THE DECREES OF GOD. PARTICULARLY, IN VERSE SIX, AS WE ARE TOLD TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN AND EVEN THE UNBORN. GOD REMINDS US OF THE NEXT GENERATION AND EXPANSION OF HIS GLORY INTO THE WHOLE WORLD. WE CAN BEGIN TO SENSE THE HEARTBEAT OF

YOUR GREAT COMMISSION By His Love Compelled For Christ’s love compels us … that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 2 Corinthians 5:15

GOD BY RECOGNIZING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PSALM 78 AND MATTHEW 28 AND THE GREAT COMMISSION.

JOIN US FOR OUR 2016 GLOBAL OUTREACH CONFERENCE. THE CONFERENCE FACULTY CONSISTS OF THOSE WHO WERE AT ONE TIME MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. THEY WERE IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE IN OUR BIBLE STUDIES AND WORSHIP SERVICES WHEN THEY HEARD THE CALL OF GOD TO GO INTO MINISTRY,

Sunday, February 21 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Worship Services

How Does the Church as a Body Reach People? John 4:7-26

The Reverend Michael Keller Reformed University Ministry, New York, New York Personal Testimony | James McDonald

TO GO TO THE MISSION FIELD. COME AND HEAR THEIR STORIES

6:00 p.m. | Sunday Evening Family Worship Service

OF GOD TAKING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL TO THE NEXT

What does Mission look like for Others? John 4:27-42

The Reverend Michael Keller

GENERATION. —ED NORTON Associate Pastor Global Outreach & 50s Community

IPC Sanctuary Worship Music will be provided by the Ole Miss RUF Worship Team 7:00 p.m. | Coffee and Dessert | Main Lobby

GLOBAL OUTREACH 2016 OUR PERSONAL MINISTRY Wednesday, February 24-Sunday, February 28

Saturday, February 27 8:30-9:15 a.m. | A True Southern Breakfast and Gibson’s Donuts The IPC Fellowship Hall | $3 per person, $15 per family SATURDAY SEMINARS (see page 4) * Nursery reservations required, email cwright@indepres.org by 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 23.

* Children’s Ministry K–5th Grade | 8:30 p.m. Romper Room CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Richard Rieves, Downtown Presbyterian Church Memphis, Tennessee Joey Stewart, Reformed Youth Movement, Coordinator Chattanooga, Tennessee

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday, February 24 5:30 p.m. | Congregational Dinner | Fellowship Hall 6:30 p.m. | The Love of Christ Compels us to See People Differently: Joey Stewart Introduction of the Go Conference Faculty * Nursery reservations required, email cwright@indepres.org by 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 23.

Breakfast and Movie

Sunday Morning, February 28 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Worship Services The Love of Christ Compels us to Live in a Counter-Cultural Community Reverend Richard Rieves Ministry Testimony | Rob Thompson 9:45 a.m. | Sunday School Hour This is your opportunity to hear someone you missed on Saturday! Conference Faculty will be assigned to various classes. Avery Bridges | Room 132 Bill Evans | Room 131 Luke Smith | Room 237 Clarke Norton | Fellowship Hall North Stasiek Sylwestrowicz | Fellowship Hall South Jill & Judith | Chapel

* Children’s Ministry Combined | 6:30–6:45 p.m. Romper Room 6:50 p.m. | CIA and Choir

Friday, February 26 5:30–7:30 p.m. | Homecoming Reunion Dinner | Fellowship Hall Hogg Wild, Jim’s Place Grille, Lucchesi’s, Superlo, Jerry’s Sno Cones, Gibson’s Donuts $6 per person, $20 per family

Sunday Evening Family Worship Service & Communion 6:00 p.m. | Sanctuary The Love of Christ Calls us to Live for the Global Praise of God | Psalm 113 Reverend Joey Stewart Worship Music will be provided by Luke Smith and IPC Musicians * Nursery reservations required, email cwright@indepres.org by 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 23.

Panel Discussion: Avery Bridges, Bill Evans, Judith, Clarke Norton, Stasiek Sylwestrowicz, Luke Smith, and Lisa Turner * Nursery reservations required, email cwright@indepres.org by 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 23.

* Children’s Ministry K–5th Grade | 6:25 p.m. Romper Room

M E ET T HE SPE A K E R S & FACULT Y Avery and Marilyn Bridges

S ATU R DAY SE M I NA R SCH EDULE Saturday, February 27

Along with his sweet wife, Marilyn, and their two precious girls, Isabella and Brook, Avery has served with Mission to the World in Bogota, Colombia, a beautiful and vibrant country, for the past two years in a crosscultural church planting ministry of the PCA. The Bridges have been members of IPC for five years. They love and miss Memphis greatly, especially IPC. They are grateful to IPC for their support in sending them to Colombia, where they can fulfill their calling to serve the Lord. Saturday Elective | REACHING OUR HISPANIC NEIGHBORS

8:30-9:15 a.m. | A True Southern Breakfast and Gibson’s Donuts The IPC Fellowship Hall | $3 per person, $15 per family * Nursery reservations required, email cwright@indepres.org by 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 23. * Children’s Ministry

SEMINARS

Seminars will be repeated at 9:15 and 10:15 a.m. Choose two to attend. 9:15-10:00 a.m. | Seminars 10:15-11:00 a.m. | Seminars Avery Bridges | Groom’s Room 124 Reaching Our Hispanic Neighbors Bill Evans | Room 130 A & B Simple, Effective Evangelism Jill and Judith | Room 125 Gone Fishing! Richard Rieves | Room 233 Does Memphis Need Churches with Racial Diversity Joey Stewart | Room 237 Parenting Your Children toward Jesus Clarke Norton | Room 132 Hospitality as a Road to Evangelism Stasiek Sylwestrowicz | Chapel Creation-Evolution Debate - A Trailblazer for Evangelism Luke Smith | Room 131 Small Groups: Disarming Shame and Loneliness

Bill and Dana Evans

Bill was raised in a Christian home, the son and grandson of Christian ministers. He sensed a call to ministry and tested that call over a period of years at IPC. In 1998, with the blessing and support of IPC, Bill and his wife, Dana, moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Bill attended Covenant Theological Seminary and earned a Master of Divinity in 2002. In 2004, Bill was ordained a PCA teaching elder and accepted a call to serve in Scotland with the MTW-Scotland partnership as redevelopment pastor of the Nairn Free Church. The Evans served there until 2008 when the church was handed over to a national pastor. Bill then accepted a call to Severna Park EP Church in Pasadena, Maryland, as Pastor of Outreach where he continues to serve. Bill and Dana have three children. Saturday Elective | SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE EVANGELISM

Jill and Judith

The Professors might win the prize for a novel ministry! Jill and Judith write curriculum that combines academics and evangelism! The Fishbait curriculum is for university level students. Fishbait includes Shakespeare classics and Carrot Papers—designed to get students thinking while discussing and debating ideas such as revenge and forgiveness, or love and hate. The E2E (Eden to Eternity) includes both Old and New Testament Bible stories. Many people do not or cannot read! Stories are a centuries old way to engage learners and help them remember the Bible stories! These lessons include creative teaching methods and are available on a web page so teachers all around the world can use them! Saturday Elective | GONE FISHING!

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Clarke and Khrystya Norton

Clarke was raised in the church, giving him the opportunity to go on several mission trips during high school. These trips led to an interest that has continued to grow. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in May 2009 and two weeks later he arrived in L’viv, Ukraine, to begin an eighteen-month internship with a church-planting team. Clarke has been working alongside the church plant as a university minister. In 2015, Clarke and Khrystya were married in L’viv; Khrystya, a native Ukrainian, loves being involved in ministry and some of her favorite ministries are the young adult ministry, working alongside Clarke in pastoring the teens, and helping to lead the children’s ministries of the church. Saturday Elective | HOSPITALITY AS A ROAD TO EVANGELISM

Luke and Joelle Smith

Luke was raised in the faith at IPC from the age of ten. After graduating from The University of Memphis, he worked for five and a half years in corporate accounting as an auditor and helped plant IPC’s daughter church, Christ Presbyterian, in Fayette County. Luke met his wife, Joelle, while at Covenant Theological Seminary. They welcomed son, Dale, in 2014. In 2013, Luke was called as Assistant Pastor of Rincon Mountain Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, where he regularly preaches, oversees small groups, community life, discipleship, adult education, music, and worship services. He is also a host of Tucson’s only faith-based radio program that ministers to the un-churched, de-churched, and skeptical by focusing on the intersection of the gospel with everyday life. Saturday Elective | SMALL GROUPS: DISARMING SHAME AND LONELINESS

Stasiek and Faye Sylwestrowicz

Stasiek and Faye have a long history in ministry. Stasiek is Polish and Faye is a native Memphian, and the first missionary to be sent out from IPC. The Lord brought them together while serving with Campus Crusade for Christ in Poland. They married and have remained in Poland, serving with CCC for many years. Now with Church Resource Ministries, they are building foundations for a church planting movement based on discipleship, helping local churches in Gdansk, and being involved in apologetic ministry based on teaching creationism. Stasiek is co-author and host of a televised apologetic documentary, Antidotum. They have three children and also are foster parents.

Lisa Francis Turner

Lisa serves as the Director of Women’s Ministry at IPC. Her family came to Independent Presbyterian in 1965, when they worshiped in a little white house. After graduating from Vanderbilt University in 1982, Lisa began working at IPC as the Director of Youth Ministries and has since served in several different ministries. Lisa married Buster Turner in 1986. Their daughter, Kelly, was born in 1989, the same year Buster was diagnosed with leukemia. He died a year later. Lisa received her Masters of Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary in 2003. She enjoys golf, time at the lake, and the beach. Lisa dearly loves IPC and can relate to what Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:8, “We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.” Saturday Elective | A TURTLE ON A FENCE POST

Richard and Rachel Rieves

Richard is the lead pastor of Downtown Church, an EPC church plant in the heart of downtown Memphis. He planted two additional churches, one in north Mississippi and one in northern Colorado. Richard and his wife, Rachel, have three married daughters and four grandchildren.

Saturday Elective | DOES MEMPHIS NEED CHURCHES WITH RACIAL DIVERSITY?

Joey and Connie Stewart

While at the University of Mississippi, Joey became involved in Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) ministry, and in 1992 graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss., with a Master of Divinity degree. In 1993, Joey was called as assistant pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Crossville, Tenn., with the responsibility of planting a PCA church in Cookeville, Tenn. Grace Presbyterian Mission was immediately formed and he remained in Cookeville for 14 years as the organizing pastor and later, senior pastor, of Grace Presbyterian Church. He then accepted a call in 2007 to become the Executive Director of Reformed Youth Movement ministry. Joey and Connie have four children and a Hungarian Sheepdog. Saturday Title | PARENTING YOUR CHILDREN TOWARD JESUS

Saturday Elective | CREATION-EVOLUTION DEBATE - A TRAILBLAZER FOR EVANGELISM 6

Michael and Sara Keller

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Rev. Michael Keller is the director of Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) City Campus in New York City. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, and received a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology in Apologetics from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He worked at London City Mission at Canary Wharf before serving for five years at Citylife Presbyterian Church in Boston as an Assistant Pastor. In 2009, he moved back to New York to start RUF NYC. His better half, Sara Keller, is a St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Vanderbilt graduate. They have been married for 13 years and have two daughters, Lucy and Kate.

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Please place in offering plate on Sunday, February 28.

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