Emerge: 2014 National Ministers Conference

Ministers and professional church leaders are expected to be familiar and up-to-date with trends and issues facing the church today. While we must always be faithful to God’s calling, we must also be informed and prepared to lead our congregations to effective discipleship.

EMERGE, the 2014 National Ministers Conference meeting along side of the American Baptist Orientation to American Baptist Life for seminarians and new pastors to the denomination will help you to “emerge” to become the servant God has called you to be. Workshops, presentations and particularly, an opportunity to fellowship and interact with colleagues in ministry over important challenges facing doing ministry today will stretch your thinking, equip you with ideas, and support you in your ministry by making new friends and being in prayer with one another.

Every professional church leader needs to maintain the highest level of competency and confidence in ministry. Taking time to acquire such abilities means making our own staff development a high priority. As a senior pastor for the past 15 years, I know that I look forward to such invigorating experiences on a regular basis. As pastors and church leaders who would have just completed celebrating Christmas and welcoming the New Year, join me at EMERGE in Orlando in 2014!

Rev. Dr. Don Ng
ABCUSA Vice President, President-elect
Senior Pastor, First Chinese Baptist Church, San Francisco