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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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Correction: The time for the evening evangelistic and worship service will be 7:30 PM MDT, not 7:00 PM as reported in the previous post. All other times listed in the previous post are correct.

On Friday, June 5, there will be a memorial service honoring our Church leaders, as well as veterans and active duty military personnel, who have gone home to be with the Lord in the past year. This will be part of the evening evangelistic and worship service. The guest speaker for the Friday evening service has not yet been announced.

We look forward to seeing you at Camp Meeting!

in His service,
Pastor Marv

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The Southwest Indian Ministry annual Camp Meeting will be held Monday, June 1, through Saturday, June 6. Here is the schedule of events:

Starting on Monday and running through Friday, the evening evangelistic and worship service will be held at 7:00 PM MDT. Bishop Tom Tapley, from Mississippi, will be the guest speaker Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Bishop David Griffis, of Cleveland, TN, will be the guest speaker Thursday. The gueat speaker for Friday will be announced at a later date.

The Victory Gospel Singers will lead Praise and Worship each evening, Monday through Friday. There will be special singing each night, as well. Monday and Tuesday, the special music will be provided by New Creation and Freddie James. Wednseday, Dylan Yazzie will provide special music. Thursday, the special music will be Fire On the Mountain and Bunky Barker. Friday, it will be New Harvest and Frank Scarberry.

Tuesday through Friday, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM MDT, Bishop Bill Sheeks, from Cleveland, TN, will teach the Bible class.

Dinner will be served each evening following the Evangelistic Service.

Saturday, there will be an Appreciation/Birthday Dinner for our Administrative Overseer, Bishop Douglas Cline, and his wife, Linda. The Thoreau Church of God Choir and Children’s Choir, as well as Dylan Yazzie, will provide special music for the dinner. The dinner will be from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM MDT.

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We had a few technical glitches moving from diyiinbi.com/blog (where web space was donated by Diyiin Bi, LLC, whose home page is still under construction) to a new hosting account all our own on http://diyiinbi.org.

In the course of the move, we managed to lose all of the posts and comments from the old installation…so it’s like we are starting all over again.

First thing in the morning, we will (re-)post the schedule for the annual Southwest Indian Ministry camp meeting. Camp meeting starts Monday, June 1, and runs through Saturday, June 6.

Please remember to update links and rss/atom feeds, and tell everyone you know about Blog Diyiin Bi.

God bless you,
Pastor Marv and Betsy

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