Global Missions rejoices in announcing the appointment of Dave and Bonnie Baylor as missionary apprentices to Kenya.

Dave first felt the call to missions during his involvement with the Navigators at Purdue University. However, at that time Dave felt that God was leading him into professional life as a mechanical engineer. During the next twelve years, Dave was active in the local church through lay church leadership, teaching, and supporting missionaries.

By Marcy Miranda - San Antonio Express-News

Volunteers at the San Antonio Children’s Museum are hardly unusual, especially in the summer, said Lynne Lee, the museum’s volunteer coordinator. But volunteers from Canada, in San Antonio for a weeklong convention, are much harder to come by.

More than 1,700 young volunteers in town for the International Youth Convention of the Church of God took to the city on Wednesday as part of IMPACT San Antonio, an event convention organizers created to encourage giving back.

By Marcy Miranda
Courtesy of San Antonio Express-News 

In a massive hall at the Convention Center, more than 5,000 chairs are set facing the stage, making a half-circle. Several mirrors are placed on the periphery of the chairs, and as young Christians and their counselors listen to inspirational speakers delivering the Scriptures, the mirrors return the main theme organizers are trying to deliver: to reflect.

For students attending this year's International Youth Convention of the Church of God, the week will be spent making new friends, finding ways to be more in tune with their faith, and making changes in their lives to put them closer to God, said Andy Stephenson, lead organizer for the convention. Thousands of students from across the nation are in San Antonio for the week participating in the convention, which happens every two years in a different city.

From across North America and around the world they came, as they have for more than one hundred years, to worship together, fellowship, learn, grow, and conduct the annual business of the Church. And those who attended the 122nd North American Convention of the Church of God in Anderson, June 20-25, experienced the joyful celebration of unity. 

"This year's convention has been a wonderful time for worship, fellowship and spiritual growth as we celebrated the unity within the church and the body of Christ, said Dr. Ronald Duncan, general director of Church of God Ministries. "It was truly a blessing to all who attend, whether they came from across the country, around the world, or from right here in Anderson."

Church of God Ministries accepted the resignation of Dale and Connie Fillmore as career missionaries to Brazil, effective June 13, 2008.

Dale Fillmore has turned in his ministerial credentials to Indiana Ministries.

Please pray for the Lord's leading in the life of the Fillmores as they make their career transition.