A historic meeting in Lubbock

As you read this, we are headed for or are working in West Texas for our 12th annual SBTC convention meeting. This meeting is historic for a couple of reasons.

For one thing, we’ve not met in Lubbock before. Actually, we’ve only met in West Texas twice in the life of our convention. This location facilitates attendance by churches in that region who might find an East Texas locale impossible. The folks in Lubbock are excited to host us and have been working closely with us to provide a great experience for our messengers and guests.

The second historic aspect is our Tuesday evening evangelism event. We’ll have two meetings there in the convention center beginning at 7 p.m. on the 27th. Johnny Hunt, our SBC president, will be preaching an evangelistic message in the convention center theatre, and Team Impact will be performing and preaching the gospel in the exhibit hall. We expect thousands to attend and we’re praying that God will save many people during this special evening.

I hope you’ll be there for our Lubbock meeting. If you can’t be there, please pray for us that our business times will honor the Lord, and that he will show us a great spiritual harvest on Tuesday night.

I’m praying that our meeting this week will be one for the record books. What an honor it is to serve such a visionary and evangelistic fellowship of churches!