MAHO:--- Continuing until Saturday, July 7 specially invited evangelists and speakers from the Seventh-day Adventist church will be speaking at the 2012 North Caribbean Conference's (NCC) Festival of the Laity. Held at Sonesta Maho Resort the sessions begin at 10am. These are free and open to the public.Pastor and Evangelist Mark Finley will give the key address on Saturday during the divine service at 10:45am.
Mark Finley (born 1945) is the former speaker/director of It Is Written (from 1991–2004), for which he traveled around the world as a televangelist, and spoke on the weekly television show It Is Written. He was the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor to do a satellite evangelistic series. He also served as one vice-president out of nine for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and has written over 71 published books. Evangelism is where Finley made his mark on the world, presenting more than 150 evangelistic meeting series around the globe in about 80 countries with resulting baptisms numbering in the thousands. His best known association is as a television speaker for the current series Experience Hope, a weekly broadcast of the Hope Channel; for the It Is Written telecast of 13 years; and also for the first two NET evangelism satellite series broadcast in North America.
The Festival of the Laity is a personal ministry event where members of the NCC can report in a creative and dramatic fashion the evangelistic achievements of the last three years. Each island of the NCC will give a special presentation which includes their projection for the "vision one million" project.
Each day until the close other invited speakers such as Dr. Derek Morris, Bondil Moriss, Silton Brown, Danforth Francis, Brenda Walsh, Claudette Andrews, Andrew Farrell, Mildred Rominson and many others will give special workshop with the aim of mobilizing the church for ministry.
Friday's topics include leadership and evangelism with Eugene Daniel and Roosevelt Daniels, Health with Bodil Morris, and reaching the unreached with Danforth Francis. At 7:50pm delegates from Anguilla, St. Eustatius, Saba, and St. Croix.
On Saturday at 9:55 am delegates from St. Maarten will make their presentations on evangelistic achievements.
The conference continues today until Saturday, July 7 with sessions starting at 10am. All sessions are open to the public and are free. For updates and detailed information visit www.facebook.com/festivalofthelaity.stmaarten. The conference is broadcasted live at www.churchpond.com/index.php/vod/vod_philipsburg. Past days are also posted on that website.