Dr. Kent Brantly to Speak at the GME 2015

We just received confirmation that Dr. Kent Brantly has accepted to speak and participate at the Global Missions Experience 2015. He will be at the event Sept 17-18, will address all participants, and will also meet with students interested in doing medical missions work.

Brantly was one of two Americans transported back to the United States from West Africa in August after contracting the Ebola virus. He began a two-year term in October 2013 working as medical director for Samaritan's Purse Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia, Liberia. Brantly was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Aug. 21 after blood tests came back negative for the virus. Since then, he has had numerous media appearances and speaking engagements.

Registration is Now Open

Registrations are already beginning to trickle in as participants commit to coming to the Global Missions Experience this fall Sept. 17-20. As you register you will be able to select housing preferences to sleep in nicer climate controlled cabins, cabins with bunks, or in Harding University Tahkodah's global village. Harding University will be having a large registration drive Wednesday, April 29, 2015.

Our Keynote Speakers for Global Missions Experience 2015

This fall Harding missions students and faculty will host the Global Missions Experience at Camp Tahkodah September 17-20, 2015. Our theme this year is RELENTLESS. We are praying that attendees will be moved by God's relentless grace so that they will pursue him, his mission, and commit to attempting to answer the relentless cries of the world. We have given much thought and prayer to the task of selecting keynote speakers for this event.

Here's a sneak peak at the Keynote topics and speakers…

Thursday Evening: Scott Karnes (Ireland) "Relentless God"— From the beginning, God has relentlessly sought to reconcile his creation to himself. He is the God of mission, the God who is determined to recover the lost.

Friday Morning: Alan Howell (Mozambique) "Relentless Pursuit"—Moved by God's grace, out of profound gratitude and for His glory, we respond by seeking God, his will and his mission.

Friday Evening: Dr. Bob Lawrence, "Relentless Cry" – God hears the relentless cries of the lost, the oppressed, the poor, and those who are in need. We who seek to be attuned to his heart, hear the cries, and desire to participate in his response.

Saturday Morning: Adrian Teo (Singapore) Relentless Mission– The Kingdom of God is forcefully advancing and the gates of Hades will not be able to stand against it. Wherever God's people partner with him in his mission with relentless effort and determination, working by his power, guided by His Spirit, the Kingdom grows and blesses the masses of the world.

Saturday Evening: Greg Mckinzie (Peru), "Relentless Now"— When we come to understand the relentless demonstration of God's grace and the urgency of his mission to the world, we come to the threshold of our own decision. Will we will relentlessly spend our lives in this mission?

Check Out this YouTube Video of Pictures from the GME

Special thanks to J. Rucker who collected and selected most of these photographs. You can see them in a slideshow and share the weekend with your friends at this link

http://youtu.be/gt2Z-Hu3u3w

Thanks to God for a Great GME

God blessed over 1,000 participants and volunteers with a truly global missions experience this past weekend at Tahkodah and HUT. Groups representing Lipscomb, Freed-Hardeman, Faulkner, Ohio Valley, Harding, Abilene, Lubbock, AIM, Oklahoma Christian, and several churches and campus ministries attended. We were drenched with rain twice during event, but God was glorified through the positive and daring attitudes of students who enjoyed the radical opportunity to discover what it would be like to live in countries around the world. Observers noted that there was relatively little milling around as students preferred to be immersed in the cycle of Bible study, learning stations, world market, and classes which had been planned for them. Keynote speakers spoke passionately about their areas of the world and shared stories from their countries of origin. Worship leaders from five different Christian universities coordinated and united to open our hearts and pour out praise to God. Each evening closed with campfires and story telling and even though the days were full and people were tired, the campfires, representing various areas around the world, were well attended. Friday evening the Iraqw Tanzanian team, which departs for the field in January, interviewed the Kalejin Kenyan Team on the occasion of its 30 year anniversary of the beginning of its work. The event culminated in the call to commitment Saturday evening when 132 young people made their commitment to become full-time longterm foreign or domestic missionaries. It was inspirational and heartening to see each one come forward, put their hand in paint, and then place it on the area of the world in which they intend to serve.

It's Here!!!

September 27: Pray that words, thoughts, actions, ideas, and attitudes stem from God and glorify him throughout the weekend.

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him."

John 9:3

Declare his glory among the nations,

    his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

Psalm 96:3 

See you there!

Registrants Top 600 in Last Day for Online Registration