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The annual Southwest Indian Ministry Minister’s Conference was held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, September 3 – 5, 2009, at the Gallup Inn in Gallup, NM.

The theme of this year’s conference was “The Pursuit of Excellence.”

We had four excellent classes Friday – Pastoral Leadership Developement, taught by Pastor David Renfro; Pastoral Leadership for Small Congregations, taught by Pastor Scott Kazee; Pastoral Purity, taught by Pastor Randy Barr; and Practical Pastoral Leadership, taught by Pastor Samuel Salyer. Our Administrative Overseer, Bishop Douglas Cline, addressed the assembled pastors and evangelists on the topic of Pastors and District Overseer Relationship. Various Southwest Indian Ministry District Overseers and ministers opened each session with Bible reading and prayer, and closed each session with prayer.

Rev. Dan Hughes preached two of the best sermons I have ever heard for the Thursday and Friday night worship services, and also served communion for our closing service Saturday morning. Music for Praise and Worship on Thursday and Friday nights was provided by our very own Victory Gospel Singers. Special music was provided by Dillon Yazzie, the Thomas Brothers, Pastor Florence “Bunky” Barker, and others, all from the various churches of the Church of God Southwest Indian Ministry. The Victory Gospel Singers also provided the sound equipment for the conference, and recorded each session. Each attendee will get a set of CDs. T. J. Salyer, son of Pastor Samuel Salyer, took video and still photos of the services and classes.

All five of our guest speakers are Spirit-filled Men of God from Ohio. Overall, on a scale of one to ten, this year’s conference rated at least 18. All of us who attended were blessed beyond description and look forward to next year’s conference.

Over the coming weeks, I will post additional articles about highlights of the conference.

in His service,
Pastor Marv

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When Blog Diyiin Bi was started in May of this year, it was intended to be a commercial profit-making venture. It quickly evolved into a ministry blog, and the commercial aspects of it now look out-of-place mixed in with devotionals, articles on apologetics, and other Christian ministry posts.

So Blog Diyiin Bi is getting a sister blog. All new articles related to eCommerce that would have been in the “Pastor Marv Recommends” category of Blog Diyiin Bi will instead be on the new blog, The Go Light.

The “dofollow” plugin has been installed on The Go Light. It disables the “nofollow” attribute for links in comments on the blog. Leaving a comment about an existing post will result in the search engines indexing your websites that are linked to in the comment. And, of course, any comments with inappropriate content, including links to inappropriate websites, or comments with more than a couple of links, will be deleted without notice. Repeat offenders may be blacklisted on all blogs that I moderate. I reserve the right to delete without notice or explanation anything that I deem inappropriate, whether spelled out on this website or not. See the About Us page on The Go Light for more on this. In general, and there may be exceptions to this, a comment will not be deleted just because the author of it disagrees with me. This policy also applies to Blog Diyiin Bi.

The Go Light is a blog about ways of building traffic to a web site and means of converting that traffic to sales. The name “The Go Light” is a play on the phrase “Stop Light.” Thus, our Go Light is at the intersection of Ways and Means! We will also have reviews of online business opportunities. After all, why build web traffic if you don’t have something to convert into sales?

Over the next few weeks, most of the advertising in the sidebar and footer will be moved from Blog Diyiin Bi to The Go Light. The PayPal “donate” button will remain, as well as advertising and links aimed at getting more traffic to Blog Diyiin Bi. Also, everything on the page that lists links from the Pastor Marv Recommends articles will stay in place, as well as any articles already posted.

Blog Diyiin Bi will, for the time being, continue to have reviews of software and Internet resources that are of interest to Christians, especially those who are involved in ministry. But we are developing another new blog, Christian Internet Resources, that will take over most of Blog Diyiin Bi’s “Pastor Marv Recommends” articles that are not posted to The Go Light. We had hoped to launch both new blogs at the same time, but ran into technical difficulties related to hosting (Christian Internet Resources is hosted with a different company than The Go Light and Blog Diyiin Bi) and so must delay getting it online for a few days.

The Go Light uses the Wordpress blogging platform. Blog Diyiin Bi is built on the b2evolution blogging scripts. At some time in the near future, Blog Diyiin Bi will be moved to Wordpress, but that will be a major project which will possibly result in the blog being down for a few days. The move will be made because Wordpress has about ten times as many plugins and themes to choose from as does b2evolution, and it is difficult to find client software that works with b2evolution. This post is being written using BlogDesk, a freeware program that allows articles to be written on your PC and then uploaded to Wordpress and many other blogging platforms – almost everything except b2evolution! So, since this article will be posted to both blogs (with minor changes) it must be copied and pasted from BlogDesk to Notepad (or some other editor), re-edited for Blog Diyiin Bi, and then copied and pasted again to Blog Diyiin Bi’s article editing page.

in His service,
Pastor Marv

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