EMA 2013 Pastors Conference

The Scottish-Northern Irish contingent outside Buckingham Palace.

"Faithful - living and preaching in an alien world" was the theme of this years' Evangelical Ministers Assembly which was held for the first time in the Barbican in the centre of London. The teaching was refreshing and bold and as you can see, so was the 'craic'. On the final evening, in a moment of madness, 9 baptist preachers decided to hire some bicycles and to pedal around and see some of the sights of London.
Audio from the main sessions can be downloaded here for free.

 

Impressions from Zürich

For a long time I have wanted to visit the Shepherds' Conference at Grace Community Church and maybe someday I will... but even though it wasn't LA it was still very special to be in Zürich and to fellowship with brothers and sisters from across Germany and Switzerland who share the same desire to see the Word of God faithfully proclaimed across this most needy continent of Europe. The Masters Seminary has established a distance learning programme for German speakers in Berlin and Zürich know as EBTC (European Bible Training Center). They were the organizers behind this conference.
I especially enjoyed the messages from Mark Dever and the chance to chat to him briefly. I also met some old friends and made some new ones.
Last night we had John MacArthur preach to us via live video link from his church in LA. Of course he also had to be simultaneously translated into German. How does that work you may ask? The little clip below will let you see how it was done. I must say, it was all very professional (Martin is an excellent translator!)
The conference was extremely well organized and we enjoyed the excellent conference facilities and accommodation at the Mitternachtsruf mission headquarters.
All this only a few miles away from the Grossmünster where Ulrich Zwingli preaching the Word of God verse-by-verse and led the Reformation in Switzerland.

Shepherds' Conference in Zurich, Switzerland

Tomorrow I plan to attend the Hirtenkonferenz (Shepherds' Conference, 4-6 Sep. 08) in Zurich, Switzerland.
I am really looking forward to hearing the main speaker - Mark Dever (Senior Pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church and President of 9 Marks Ministry).
Also speaking will be Stephen Lonetti and John McArthur who will feature via video-link. There are also many more speakers from the German speaking world. I pray that this will be both refreshing and challenging to sit under these guys ministry and also that we will make new contacts with Swiss and German churches.