By Larry Barker, Vice President for Church Strategy and Training
Healthy Church Solutions, your BMA Global church and leader health ministry, is pleased to bring you the Pastors’ Conference again this year at the National Meeting, April 22-24 at Pathway Baptist Church in Waxahachie, Texas. This ministry is also facilitating a variety of breakouts for you to choose from that we hope will be a blessing to pastors and church leaders.
Wayne Whiteside will speak at the Pastors’ Conference about “Living Sent, Even to Death Row.” Wayne was licensed to gospel ministry by Rosewood Baptist Church in 1981. He is currently the pastor of Crestview Baptist Church in Farmerville, La., where he has served for 27 years. For the past 26 years, he has lived sent and on mission as a volunteer prison chaplain in prisons in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Wayne is a Harmony High School graduate with a bachelor’s degree from East Texas Baptist University. He earned a master’s degree from New Orleans Baptist Seminary and a doctorate from Andersonville Theological Seminary.
Twelve different breakout sessions will be available on Wednesday morning, April 23, immediately following the Pastors Conference. Various departments and ministries will present topics relevant to our churches, pastors and leaders. Due to time constraints, there will only be an opportunity to choose one of the following breakout sessions:
• Social Media and the Church — Jon Dodson by Lifeword
• Trauma and Brokenness in Families Within the Church — Angelyn McMurray by We are Free
• Building Policies and Risk Management — Travis Weaver and Kurt Hetherington by James Green and Associates and BMA Financial
• Dangerous Study Habits — Dr. Clif Johnson by Baptist Publishing House
• Discussion over Article VII of the BMA Doctrinal Statement — Dr Philip Attebery by BMA Seminary
• Missionary Care — How We Can All Get Involved — Dr. Jonathan Montgomery by BMA Global
• Hispanic Church Planting — Elvis Garcia by BMA Global
• New Testament Expressions of the Church — Drew Cline by Healthy Church Solutions
• How to Prepare and Host an Event — Jason Prewitt by Daniel Springs Camp
• Handling Church Conflict — Larry Barker by Healthy Church Solutions
• Understanding Islam — Ashraf Sara by BMA Global
• Bi-vocational Pastoring — Robert Forrest by Healthy Church Solutions
