Area Staff Conference

One of the best parts in the conference was the praise and worship. When one thousand staff member sang together there is power in it. We praise God different languages. We came from 18 countries. I will upload a song in Russian next week, because my internet connection not the best at home. When I was a student in elementary school I studied Russian under communism. I remembered the Russian alphabet and some word :)

My another favorite part was speech by Erik Thoennes, professor of Bible, Biola University U.S.A. He told us the next true story about two boys.

A chaplain told this story of two little boys who lived in a small town in the United States. The town’s economy heavily depended on the river, which ran through the town, so the people kept dumping the sand out of the river and piling it up on the banks. As they scooped the sand making huge heaps of it, children liked playing on them, which was extremely dangerous since pockets of air were formed inside these sand piles.

One day two young boys decided to play in the sand and as they climbed on top they both fell into this vacuum and sank in the sand. Since they didn’t go home and nobody knew where they had been, their parents called the police and the town’s people immediately organized a search party to find them. When they got to the sand heaps, they found the younger boy sunk in the sand up to his neck. They ran up to him and asked: ’Where is your brother?’ The little boy answered in tears: ’I’m standing on his shoulders.’ As his older brother was drowned in the sand, he saved the younger one’s life. The same way we are standing on Jesus’ shoulders as he laid down His life for us.