Rick Mosher

2009 MCC President
 

“Intensive Evangelism: The Call Comes Ringing”.  I’m excited about our theme and the 2009 Missouri Christian Convention.  Our brotherhood of Christian Churches and Churches of Christ has been growing in recent years; perhaps you’ve experienced part of that growth in your congregation.  There is so much more, however, left to do in our communities, our state, our nation, and around the world.  If our Heavenly Father delays Christ’s return and allows us to meet in 2009 I pray this convention will ignite the greatest, most intense, time of evangelism in the history of our movement.

 The messages in our main sessions will challenge us, encourage us, and equip us to leave with Christ’s call to soul winning ringing in our hearts.  This convention will be designed to help every Christian and every congregation catch this evangelistic fervor while also holding fast to the truth of God’s Word and its New Testament plan of salvation without which our evangelistic efforts would be misguided and worthless.  The workshops, teen sessions, and children’s sessions will also support this theme.  We want people to go home and intensify their efforts to win the lost to Christ at home and abroad.

 We have two outstanding preachers coming to help ignite in us this flame of evangelism.  One needs little introduction to the people of Missouri.  Roger Tribble, senior minister at the Phillipsburg Christian Church, has held hundreds of revivals over the course of the past sixty years and led many to Christ both in his revivals and in two highly successful located ministries.  His opportunity to speak to a gathering such as ours is, in my opinion, long overdue.  We look forward to Roger sharing with us his passion for souls and experience in soul winning.  Also speaking for us will be Tom Ellsworth, senior minister at Sherwood Oaks Christian Church in Bloomington, Indiana.  I’ve watched Tom grow from a freshman in Bible college to a man whom God has used to take a young church and lead it to become one of our “mega-churches”.  He has served as President of the North American Christian Convention. Tom will also share with us his excitement and insights about evangelism.

Come join us in Springfield for two great days that we pray will not only change your life, but will affect our entire world!

Rick Mosher, President

2009 Missouri Christian Convention