By Brian Blackwell, Message Staff Writer WOODWORTH – Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director/treasurer of the Woman’s Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention, will challenge ladies attending the upcoming Louisiana Baptist WMU Mission Celebration to embrace their God-given mandate to fulfill His purpose. Scheduled for April 13-14 at Tall Timbers Baptist Conference Center in Woodworth, the event will highlight how women are participating in what God is doing in the state, North America and around the world. The meeting’s theme is “Embrace,” based on Esther 4:14b. “Young Queen Esther, with human trepidation and courageous faith in God, approached the king to make a bold request that would save her Hebrew people,” said Janie Wise, women’s missions and ministry strategist for Louisiana Baptists. “God equipped her for the moment and for the mission. That is where women are in this day – living in a world, in a state, where we are surrounded by the lost, the lonely and the hurting. “We find ourselves making bold requests of the Father,” she continued. “But He is faithful and He has equipped us. He has “’made [us] queen for such a time as this.’” The event kicks off Friday evening with dinner at 5 p.m. and a … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2018
LC revival: Find your identity in Jesus Christ!
By Victor Villavieja PINEVILLE (LBM) – D.A. Horton, pastor of Reach Fellowship in North Long Beach, Calif., led Louisiana College’s revival March 6-8, urging students to find their identity in Christ. Horton, Chief Evangelist for the Urban Youth Workers Institute, warned that searching elsewhere will lead to a dissatisfying life. “This new generation of believers struggles with the issue of identity. They are trying to find themselves, and they are trying to find who they are, and sometimes they root their identity in their experience and in their preferences,” Horton explained. “I help them understand that their identity can be found in the finished work of Jesus,” he continued. “It allows them to live out[side] this cloud of uncertainty.” Horton underscored that “Jesus meets us wherever we are,” contrasting that biblical truth with the endless search people make in trying to find themselves in possessions, or status, or accomplishments. The three services, held at the Martin Performing Arts Center, were based on different focal passages, but each emphasized God’s immeasurable capacity to forgive and wash away the human sin. “You can never ‘out-sin’ the bloodshed of Jesus Christ,” said Louisiana College … [Read more...]
LC international student dreams of spiritual, political renewal for Africa
By Victor Villavieja PINEVILLE (LBM) — Louisiana College senior Lievin Manisha returned to Africa on a mission trip last Christmas break. The student from Burundi took part in an expedition that visited one of the biggest settlements of refugees in Central Africa, Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda, where he helped distribute backpacks to school kids, and buckets and water filters to over 100 families. Importantly, he also used the opportunity to share the Gospel with some of his 8,000 expatriated Burundian compatriots living in Nakivale. “I was very touched. I encouraged them to keep going,” Manisha recalled. “I told them that I had been in their shoes; that I am not better than them. I told them not to give up.” It was Manisha’s first visit to Africa since he moved to the United States in 2014. Manisha was 6 years old when he lost his family in the civil war between the two predominant Burundian ethnicities - the Hutu majority, and the Tutsi minority. In June 1993, after 25 years of Tutsi totalitarian regimes, Burundi’s first multi-party elections were held, and Melchior Ndadaye became the first democratically elected Hutu president. Four months later, Tutsi extremists assassinated Ndadaye and violence broke out … [Read more...]
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