{"id":915,"date":"2016-06-17T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/?p=915"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:16:52","slug":"lifepoint-ministries-2016-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/2016\/06\/17\/lifepoint-ministries-2016-conference-report\/","title":{"rendered":"LifePoint Ministries 2016 Conference Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Bishop Thomas McGhee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was my pleasure to serve as the presiding officer for the <strong>Life Point Ministries Annual Conference Session<\/strong> held on May 14<sup>th<\/sup>. Pastor Brad Cooper and Christian Life Worship Center served as the hosts for the event. More than 125 delegates were in attendance along with a number of visitors. I was pleased to recognize former superintendents John Ingham and Bill Jones. We also gave special recognition to:<\/p>\n<p>Institutional Representatives<\/p>\n<p>Brian James \u2013 Emmanuel College<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Earl Beatty \u2013 Vice President, Holmes Bible College<\/p>\n<p>Beulah Sturkie \u2013 Emmanuel College Board of Trustees<\/p>\n<p>Missionaries<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Paul Oxley<\/p>\n<p>Felicia Bush<\/p>\n<p>Mandy Lester<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie &amp; Margaret Turner<\/p>\n<p>Former Director of IPHC Chaplains Ministry \u2013 Dr. Hugh Morgan<\/p>\n<p>I was blessed to share a presentation on our core value, &#8220;We Prayerfully Value Holiness.&#8221; The presentation was followed by prayer.\u00a0 Rev. J. Brian Williams presented the report of the Examining Committee.\u00a0 The delegates adopted the report to grant ordination to Rev. Roger Atkinson, Rev. Jeff Moss, and Rev. Richard Robertson and Minister\u2019s License to Rev. Colby Myers and Rev. Rachel White.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Tim Lamb shared his State of the Conference Report in which he stated, \u201cThe LifePoint Ministries family is expanding! LifePoint Ministries is answering our divine assignment to help fulfill the Great Commission.\u00a0 God has strategically positioned us as a ministry to make a difference in a troublesome world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Lamb emphasized four areas of his vision for the conference:<\/p>\n<p>Expanding Kingdom Life<\/p>\n<p>Inspiring Leaders in Servant-hood<\/p>\n<p>Enrichment through Relationships<\/p>\n<p>Empowering for Influence<\/p>\n<p>He reported a membership of 44 churches and 154 Credentialed Ministers.\u00a0 The conference attendees responded by a standing expression of appreciation for his vision and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Rick Womack challenged the conference regarding the World Missions Global Outreach Offering.\u00a0 He introduced the missionaries who were present and gave them a few minutes to share about their ministry.<\/p>\n<p>I was honored to lead in the Licensing and Ordination Service, followed by the Memoirs Report.\u00a0 Bishop Lamb shared the closing remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s join together in prayer and support of the LifePoint Ministries Conference as they endeavor to \u201cmake a difference in our troublesome world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[180,97,87,85,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"tag-180","9":"tag-conference-recap","10":"tag-conference-report","11":"tag-june","12":"tag-lifepoint-ministries","13":"entry"},"title_es":"","content_es":"","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/2016-Conference-Recap-Graphic-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Bx-eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}