Ohio Conference

 Sam Salinas

Story by Tom Albrecht

Earlier this year, more than 60 young adults from across Ohio gathered at the Camp Mohaven Conference and Retreat Center in Dansville for the first Immersion conference where they spent the weekend actively learning to study the Bible, not passively listening to a speaker. Designed by Edward Marton, conference youth director, the event instructed attendees in the methodology of proper Biblical study. Organized into groups of eight, the study session was left to the young adults to practice what they learned.

Attendees studied the book of Joel, and leaders report that all came away with a better understanding of how to study the Bible, as well as a deeper appreciation for the book of Joel and its prophetic message.

Story by Jessica Beans
 
Last Saturday Kettering College confered degrees and certificates on 244 students graduating with 249 majors at the school's 48th annual commencement ceremonies.
 
The event was held at the Dayton Convention Center at 8 p.m., Frank Perez, CEO Emeritus at Kettering Health Network was the keynote speaker.
 
College president Nate Brandstater granted 39 Associate of Science (A.S.) degrees in the following areas: radiologic technology (19) and respiratory care (20). Three certificates of completion in computed tomography, one in cardiovascular interventional technology, two in vascular interventional technology, and three in magnetic resonance imaging were granted.
 

After a lengthy search for a new assistant treasurer, the Ohio Conference hired Roy Simpson. Simpson, son of a pastor, lived in five different countries while growing up in Central America.

Story by Heidi Shoemaker

He opted to study accounting because he “wanted to work for the church, and numbers have always been my strongest area in school," he shares. Simpson has a bachelor’s in business administration, and expects to complete an MBA in finance in about a year.

Pedro Simpson, director de ministerios hispanos de Ohio Conference y cuatro Iglesias hispanas en el área de Cleveland, propuso a sus líderes y miembros llevar a cabo campañas evangelísticas simultáneamente. Aunque al principio las congregaciones dudaron, al final la fe prevaleció.

Los feligreses distribuyeron cientos de estudios bíblicos con invitaciones a amigos y familiares. Cada grupo pequeño fue anfitrión de su propia pre-campaña, algunos de ellos divididos en parejas misioneras. Los líderes colocaron anuncios locales, y los feligreses promovieron la asistencia “mayormente por medio del contacto a personas, cada uno trayendo uno”, dice Simpson.

Al terminar los pastores invitados de predicar en las cuatro iglesias, se unieron todos en celebración en la iglesia Ebenezer Spanish, donde 29 personas se decidieron por Cristo. A continuación Simpson impartió un programa de cinco semanas de capacitación para nuevos conversos y nos comparte que todos están involucrados en la misión.

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