"Welcome to My House" - Atlanta 2006: Networking to Extend God's Invitation to Ethnic America

The Atlanta Summit was the sixth in a nationwide series of gatherings encouraging, enabling, and enhancing intercultural ministry connections. These annual events, presented by the Ethnic America Network, began in 2001 in Los Angeles then continued in Charlotte, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Dallas, and now Atlanta.

The Atlanta Summit is now a past event, but there's much more to which we can look forward. And if you missed it, or want to remember some of what you heard (or couldn't hear because you were in a different seminar), see the news link for getting the recordings of sessions.

IMCA

Saturday, January 19: Intercultural Ministries Connection Atlanta

The Intercultural Ministries Connection, Atlanta (IMCA) is the Post-Summit follow-up to enable us to move forward with the network connections and mutual encouragements and enablings forged through the 2006 Ethnic Workers' Summit.

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Happy New Year! What a joy it was to talk with you and know how God continues to mold you into His image, His character. To Him be all the glory!

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to an evening of praise and prayer, to re-dedicate and re-commit our hearts to the service of our King, for our hearts to be stripped of complacency, hardness and coldness which we have allowed to accumulate. Many of us have come to America from various part of the world, where the Gospel is not preached, not practiced, not lived out. Upon coming to this great country, we have grown comfortable in the blessings we've received, at times becoming insensitive to our own countrymen when they arrive and even arrogant in our demeanor towards them. May God forgive and have mercy upon us. There are many in this world who effectively risk their lives daily, by living out their faith and unable to congregate together to pray as we have occasion to.

For this reason, we invite you to join us on Saturday, January 19th, at 7:00 P.M. at the Gwinnett Romanian Baptist Church, 2159 Azalea Drive in Lawrenceville, GA 30043, together with your congregations, to humble ourselves before the Lord and supplicate Him to prepare us to be His faithful servants for this year. To cleanse and renew us, to protect and illumine us, to rekindle the passion for all who are lost, that we would be transparent in our actions of love for God and man.

Our guest speaker will be Narendra Singh from India, who is the head of the Rajasthan Bible Institute in Jaipur. RBI exists to train pastors and evangelists for pioneer missionary work among Hindi speaking people. Together with his wife, Pinky, they communicate the voice of truth and salvation over the radio waves to the least Christian regions of the world. We look forward to hearing God's message to us through His servant.

Our evening will conclude with a time of fellowship with one another as we enjoy some refreshments. Should the ladies at your churches delight in bringing something sweet for coffee, it will add a most welcome culinary note to this international gathering. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me at 678.386.3700. May God bless and keep you until then.

The least of His servants,

Anna Wlasiuk