April 20, 2006

VALLEY FORGE, PA – The Wait On The Lord Conference in Orlando, FL is still in progress but is already being heralded as a resounding success. Heralded as a "Spiritual Oasis" by ABCUSA General Secretary, Roy Medley, the conference is designed for ministers and lay ministers to foster Christian spiritual formation and rejuvenation.

On Monday, April 17th, approximately 275 attendees, including pastors, chaplains, and pastoral counselors, descended on the Rosen Centre Hotel for four days of worship, workshops, preaching, lectures, bible studies, and small groups. Dr. John Kinney, a former Dean of the School of Theology at Virginia Union and current pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Beaversdam, VA, is the keynote speaker at the conference and a distinguished systematic theologian, academician, and administrator. He is joined by Bible Study Leader, Jaime Clark-Soles, Worship Leader, Brad Berglund, and Musician, Frank Colon.

Participants at the conference have full days starting early every morning and going late into the night but are constantly uplifted by each other and by the spiritual instruction they receive. "I am positively impressed," said Carlos Dario of Coatesville, PA. "I especially love the preaching. Dr. Kinney is very good."

Wait On The Lord ends Thursday, April 20th. For an in-depth account of the conference with pictures, http://www.abc-usa.org/documents/WOTL.htm.

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