Adventist WestPoint 2014 Free Audio Downloads Available Now

 Adventist WestPoint in Mesa, Arizona

Adventist WestPoint 2014 (April 20-23) was truly the best-ever of our annual series.   Every year I'm just thrilled at the way God uses AWP to bring pastors, church members, and conference leaders together for creative thinking about growing the work of God in the Pacific Union and around the North American Division.

 Sponsors Hall

We met at the beautiful Arizona Golf Resort in Mesa, Arizona and were blessed with fantastic speakers, music, and seminars.  We recorded the morning and evening presentations and you can download them all for FREE at our website.

Go to www.AdventistWestPoint.org and select the "Archives" tab to capture these six amazing messages.  By the way, you can also download the audio of the presentations from Adventist WestPoint 2013 aboard the Queen Mary at the same location.  And, look for Gerry Chudleigh's pictures of  our participates at the "Archives" section as well.

If you haven't yet come to an Adventist WestPoint it's worth your review (of course, I'm a little biased).   At our website you will see that we're meeting  April 5-8, 2015 at the Mission Valley Marriott in San Diego. Registration opens this Fall.

Best of all you can enjoy meeting friendly folks like these three good friends of mine that help make Adventist WestPoint a "go-to" event every year.

Pictured left to right:
Larry Witzel (SermonView)
Ernie Furness (Southeastern California Conference)
Kingsley Palmer (Arizona Conference)

esprit de corps

In 2004 I was introduced to my first Nevada-Utah Regional Convocation in Salt Lake City, UT when I had been President of the Conference for just a few months. Still getting to know people around my field, I was impressed with the warmth and esprit de corps that exuded this gathering.

This Sabbath Jennifer and I returned for my 5th Convocation, this time in Sparks, NV. Pastor Kingsley Palmer has organized these events each time I have attended and has been used by the Lord to create an inspirational environment for members to draw closer to one another and to Jesus.

The music and preaching for the Sabbath worship hour was rich. Following lunch we adjourned to the neighboring Y.M.C.A. for the "Bible Bowl"--yours truly was drafted as one of the "judges." How exciting to see these young people energized by their knowledge of the Scriptures.

After a change of clothes following the setting of the sun the evening was devoted to a friendly basketball round-robin tournament. I insisted that "the union office is officially neutral" about which region of the field won. Jennifer enjoyed holding the babies and little kids on her lap while we clapped for our favorite players. Trophies were presented to every team as we shut down the place at 12:15 a.m. Sunday morning.

What a great way to start the week! It was a blessed Sabbath fellowship with our brothers and sisters.