Every year in January Azalea Garden Church puts on the most awesome missions conference I have ever seen in forty three years of ministry! Missionaries come from all over the world and share their lives with us for five days. Everything begins on Wednesday afternoon when all of the missionaries set up their table displays. As missionaries to the military Yvonne and I always set up our military ministries display too.
This year Kari Jorgenson, Bob Kroeger and Andrew Raffety attended the conference. They were the best looking part of our display board this year!!! Looks way better with them in the picture than just the board - doesn't it?!
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| Bob Kroeger, Me, Yvonne, Kari Jorgenson, Andrew Raffety |
Wednesday through Friday evenings included worship opportunities as well as testimonies and experiences the missionaries shared with us from the field. We had 25 missionaries here this year, from literally every continent!
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| Leading worship are Jennifer and Neal Lawrence - Missionaries from Kenya, Africa |
Then Sunday night, the grand finale is an enormous missions banquet with international foods, international costumes, and global table centerpieces.
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| Yvonne made the little German house for the centerpiece on the German table |
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| Yvonne and Kari |
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| Kari and Bob |
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| Kari, Bob, and Yvonne |
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| Me and Andrew |
One special treat during the week is hosting one of the missionaries or a missionary couple. This year we hosted Suzie and John Pickens, who are missionaries to Malaysia. We had so much fun laughing and talking story, and eating together. It's a wonderful experience to host a missionary. To get to know them and visit with them between conference sessions. This puts a really personal face to the idea of a "missionary"
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| Me and Yvonne, and Suzie and John Pickens - Missionaries to Malaysia |
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