Church Leadership Training Conference a Big Success

The Church leadership Training conference held on Saturday 9-11-2010 was very successful.  Over 500 Church leaders, Bible study teachers and those who just wanted to learn more about the Bible attended.  This marks the third year in a row that attendance has increased.  The conference got underway with the conference goers lifting their voices in worship.

For the second year in a row, Pastor Bill Peters, founder and President of "In The Beginning Ministries" was asked to present a Genesis based creation message.  This year's class "Can You Defend What You Believe"was the result of last year's response to the class.  Last year the class was presented in a 50 minute format for a lunch time elective class.  The Lord blessed the day with a standing room only class of more than 60 people.  A request was made to the conference organizers to bring the class back as a full day class.  We were honored and privileged to be asked to teach this important information in a full day format.

The class went very well, as Pastor Peters presented information on how to defend the Word of God regarding six days, Noah's Ark and the flood, creation, the beginning of life, fossils and dinosaurs.  Pastor Peters also dealt with the subject of young earth creationism vs old earth creationism and why young earth is more in tune with the statements of the Scriptures.

The day ended with a fun PowerPoint Jeopardy style game.  The class was divided in four teams and the four categories and twenty-four total questions went very fast.  All the teams had excellent answers, but alas, there could be only one winner.  The categories and questions were taken from the day's class and was meant to reinforce what the attendees had heard and written down during the day.

We were blessed with excellent evaluations from  those who attended the class.  It was a blessing to be with these Christian leaders who wanted to learn more about how to defend Jesus Christ and the Holy Scriptures to the world with reasoned and thoughtful answers.

1 Peter 3:15-17

15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.   NKJV