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2021 Missions Conference
Theme: Can These Bones Live?
Speaker: Dr. Thurman Williams
Project: Family Missions Project
Format: COVID transforms our Missions Conference into a Missions Month
Instead of packing everything into one weekend, we’re going to spread things out over one month between February 28 and March 28.
We’ll devote the videos in the Wednesday Update, Missions Moments each week during the worship service, and maybe even videos in Coming Sunday Update to let you hear from our missionaries.
Schedule
Sun, Feb 28: Missions Sunday with Guest Speaker Dr. Thurman Williams
Listing of Missionary Updates through
Mission Moments (MM), Wednesday Updates (WU), and Coming Sunday Updates (CSU):
Sun, Feb 28, MM: Brian & Mandy Stock (India)
Sun, Feb 28, SS: The Mills (Peru Mission)
Wed, Mar 3, WU: Samuel Bolen (Jackson Leadership Foundation)
Fri, Mar 5, CSU: Diane Johnston (Life for Little Lambs)
Sun, Mar 7, MM: Brent Kooi (Australia)
Wed, Mar 10, WU: O-Chan Odate (Church Planter, Chiba, Japan)
Fri, Mar 12, CSU: Chris & Josephine Hatch (Church Planters in England)
Sun, Mar 14, MM: Lee Thigpen
Wed, Mar 17, WU: Franky & Alaina Garcia (Church planters, Canada)
Fri, Mar 19, CSU: Chuck McArthur (Equipping Leaders Int’l)
Sun, Mar 21, MM: Erin Kate Goode (CPC Friends/Center for Pregnancy Choices)
Wed, Mar 24, WU: Richard Pratt (Third Millennium Ministries)
Sun, Mar 28, MM: DeSean Dyson (The Redeemer’s School)
About Dr. Thurman Williams
The Guest Speaker is Dr. Thurman Williams, Thurman currently serves as the Pastor of New City Fellowship – West End, a new church plant and new site of New City Fellowship in St. Louis. The church began holding public worship services in May of 2019.
He previously served as the Associate Pastor of Grace and Peace Fellowship (PCA) in St. Louis, MO from 2013 to 2018. Prior to moving to St. Louis in July of 2013, he was the Pastor of New Song Community Church (PCA), in the Sandtown community of inner-city Baltimore, MD, beginning in February of 2000. Prior to that, he served as the Minister of Outreach and Youth at Faith Christian Fellowship Church (PCA), also in the city of Baltimore, for 5 years while completing his Masters of Divinity (M.Div.) at Chesapeake Theological Seminary.
Thurman completed his Doctor of Ministry degree at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis in 2011, with his dissertation entitled, “Christ-Centered Preaching in Hip Hop Culture.” Before serving at Faith, he was on staff for 4 years with the ministry of Young Life.
Thurman has been married to his lovely wife, Evie, for 21 years and they have been blessed with four beautiful children, Charvez, Shaquana, Joshua, and Caleb. Thurman currently serves as the Chairman of the PCA’s Mission to North America. He also serves now on the Missouri Presbytery’s Credentials Committee and on the Reconciliation and Kingdom Justice Committee and as an adjunct professor in homiletics and city ministry at Covenant Seminary.
Thurman developed a strong passion for neighborhood parish-model type ministry in his 13 years serving in Sandtown as the pastor of not only New Song, but a whole community. He looks forward to serving in a similar way in the West End community where their family already lives and where New City has been doing grass-roots Christian community development ministry for over 25 years. They want to see a thriving, Christ-centered, evangelistic, discipling, neighborhood-loving church that is a place where the previously un-churched or de-churched feel at home.