Foreign Missions Service
By LJ Harry

"Tonight is going to be a great night in the Kingdom of Heaven."  - Norman Paslay, II

I couldn't have said it better myself.  We heard from God tonight.  That much is true.  He chose to use two speakers, one choir, and multiplied missionaries.

In his keynote address, Mark Johnston said, "we consider it our mission to always be asking for more."  Johnston challenged us to consider asking, reaching, and praying for more.

In typical hysterical fashion, Norman Paslay and Paul Mooney conducted the offering ceremony.  They pulled out all the stops.  As each missionary family received enough pledges to return to the field, the military chaplains drove them in golf carts out of the service beneath a shower of confetti made of yellow shredded PIM forms. 

By the close of the offering, a record number of the following foreign missionaries were funded to return to the field.

• the Klines to Lesotho (meet the Klines)
• the Doans to Japan (meet the Doans)
• the Thompsons to Guatemala (meet the Thompsons)
• the Whites to Malaysia and Indonesia (meet the Whites)
• the Hayes family to San Andres Island and Colombia (meet the Hayes family)
• the Barkleys to Chile (meet the Barkleys)
• the Carvers to Australia and Papua New Guinea (meet the Carvers)
• the Kinneys to Austria (meet the Kinneys)
• the Simoneaux family to Zimbabwe (meet the Simoneaux family)
• the Pattersons to Romania (meet the Pattersons)
• the Walmers to Brazil (meet the Walmers)
• Stan Scism to India (meet Stan Scism)
• the Hemus family to the United Kingdom (meet the Hemus family)
• the Antonio Marquez family to Costa Rica (meet the Marquez family)
• the Addingtons to New Zealand (meet the Addingtons)
• the Guidry family to Spain (meet the Guidry family)

Following the offering, the Florida District Choir sang wearing their multi-colored robes.  Each of the 8 sections of the district wore a different color robe, reminiscent of cultures the world over joining together to worship one God.

Jerry Dean then preached the "Crushing Weight of Eternity".  Following his message, many filled the altars under the crushing weight of conviction to answer the call of the "Crushing Weight of Eternity."

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