Mission Conference 2012

MISSIONS CONFERENCE 2012
February 3 - 5

"For Christ's Love Compels Us"
Sharing the gospel locally and abroad

Conference Preacher: Dr. Charles ("Chuck") Frost

Dates: Friday - Saturday, February 3-5
Location: NCPC's new building at 7133 Enterprise Road

Conference theme: "Sharing our Faith Locally and Abroad"

Theme verse: "For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should not longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).
Schedule: See below

Two Mission Seminars will be held Saturday morning, February 3. See information below.

Rev. Paul Nasekos, Director of the Jackson Chapter of the Child Evangelism Fellowship and a PCA minister, will lead a seminar on evangelizing children.

Dr. James Stewart, East Region Coordinator for Evangelism Explosion and a PCA minister, will lead a seminar on sharing our faith with unbelievers.

Pratt and Ashley Butler, serving in Nicaragua with Young Life and NCPC's first missionaries, are to be with us for the conference.
Mac Kelton, Director for the Belize Project, will also be with us.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKER

Dr. Charles ("Chuck") Frost serves Reformed Theological Seminary as Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Planned Giving, serving all of the RTS campuses. He served as the Senior Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia for eleven years. and pastored four other churches throughout Georgia, Mississippi and Florida prior to that. During 1999-2009 he led short term mission teams to Mexico, Turkey, Bulgaria and Belgium. His military service spans thirty-one years, serving as chaplain in several areas throughout Georgia and Mississippi and retiring as a colonel.

MISSIONS AND MINISTRIES

Pratt and Ashley Butler serve in Nicaragua with Young Life Ministries.
Pratt and Ashley’s focus is on high school and college students, as well as a staff and volunteer leadership development in Nicaragua. They recently began new roles as Area Directors of Central Managua, working alongside thirty-five Nicaraguan staff and approximately two hundred volunteer leaders. Pratt is the grandson of NCPC's Celia Butler.

The Belize Project builds relationships to help in the areas of education, health care, and micro-enterprise to help support the local churches so they can spread the gospel. The ministry works with schools, churches, and organizations to build up people so they can be active in their churches. NCPC plans to focus on developing a partnership with the work in Belize and is developing a plan to do so. Mac Kelton, coordinator for the Belize Project, plans to be with us for the conference.

Mac Kelton, a founding member of Christ's Presbyterian Church (PCA) of Nashville, serves as the Director of The Belize Project.

SATURDAY SEMINARS

Child Evangelism Fellowship. The mission and purpose of CEF is to see children become worshipers of God by disciplining them in Christ and seeing them established in churches, that they should find in the chief activity of their life their true identity and their highest joy as His worshipers. The seminar will be led by Rev. Paul Nasekos, Coordinator for the Mississippi chapter of CEF.

Rev. Paul Nasekos serves as the Director of the CEF Chapter of Jackson. An ordained minister in the PCA, he has served pastorates in South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, and Mississippi. He and his wife served as houseparents at French Camp Academy where he also taught High School Bible classes. Paul holds degrees from Columbia International University, Wheaton College, and Reformed Theological Seminary.
Paul has been the director of the Jackson Area Chapter of CEF for five years. As a missionary with CEF, he speaks in behalf of lost boys and girls to churches, groups, and individuals, and he recruits, trains, equips, and shepherds volunteers and CEF workers to establish Good News Clubs where children gather after school and 5-Day Clubs in the summer.
Paul and his wife Jeannette have been married forty-three years. They have three children and thirteen grandchildren.

Evangelism Explosion. The mission and purpose is EE is to equip local churches to multiply through friendship, evangelism, discipleship, and healthy growth. Evangelism Explosion is a ministry that trains people how to share their faith in Christ and how to bring people from unbelief to belief. It utilizes a variety of components including prayer, actual on-the-job training where the experienced lead the inexperienced, and the principle of spiritual multiplication. The seminar will be led by Dr. James Stewart, East Region Coordinator for EE.

Dr. James ("Jim") Stewart was converted in 1966 through the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ while a student at the University of Georgia. A graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson (M. Div. and D. Min.) and an ordained minister of the PCA, he has served with Campus Crusade, as a pastor, as a missionary in Taiwan and Hong Kong, as a lecturer at the Chinese Missionary Seminary in Hong Kong and at Reformed Theological Seminary, and as assistant Pastor of Missions and Outreach at First Presbyterian Church of Jackson from 1993-2008.

Dr. Stewart has served with Evangelism Explosion since 1996, first as a Clinic Teacher, then as Gulf States Coordinator, and currently as the East Region Coordinator for the USA.

For the past eleven years he has led mission teams into Ukraine and Myanmar to hold EE clinics and into China to take Bibles and to train house church Christians.

Dr. Stewart is Chairman of the Mississippi Valley Presbytery Mission to the World Committee, a past Moderator of MVP, and a member of the PCA's General Assembly Mission to the World Committee.

He and his wife Sue Ann, are the parents of three grown children.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
We look forward to beginning our time in our new building with this Missions Conference!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3

    Worship Service    6:00 p.m.
            Preaching: Dr. Charles (Chuck) Frost
            Ministry Report: The Belize Project
            Music by the NCPC Choir
    Fellowship Supper to follow (soup and sandwiches)


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4

     Saturday Morning Seminars     9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
            Child Evangelism Fellowship (Rev. Paul Nasekos)    9:00 - 10:00
            Refreshments                                                                10:00 - 10:30
           Evangelism Explosion (Dr. James Stewart)               10:30 - 11:30

     Lunch at a local restaurant (Dutch Treat)

    Evening Worship Service    6:00 p.m.
           Preaching: Dr. Charles (Chuck) Frost
           Ministry Update: Pratt and Ashley Butler
           The NCPC Children's Choir will sing
           The children will meet with Mac Kelton after they sing

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5

    Breakfast                              9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

    Sunday School Hour         9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
        Adults: The Belize Project
        Children: Pratt and Ashley Butler
        Youth: Pratt and Ashley Butler

    Morning Worship           10:30 a.m.
            Dr. Charles (Chuck) Frost, preaching
            Recognition of Missionaries

The purpose of NCPC’s Missions Conference is to nurture a heart for missions within our church family that will result in faithful prayer, participation, and provision for the mission of extending Christ’s kingdom locally and throughout the world to the glory of our Living God.

The challenge of our conference is to be so convinced of the power of the gospel of Christ that we are compelled by the love of Christ to be whole-heartedly committed to the kingdom of Christ.