Promise Keepers
in Southern California

By Paul Sniffen
Men’s ministry director
Southwest region

LOS ANGELES—Our theme for this year’s Promise Keepers conference in Southern California Sept. 27 and 28 was "Come as a Child" (Matthew 18:2-3). Many hours of hard work in preparation for this men’s ministry event resulted in what the leadership team with rejoicing referred to as "payday," and it was well worth every effort.

Close to 15,000 men attended the two-day conference at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles. More than 3,000 men went forward and made a commitment to Jesus Christ.

It has been a year of tremendous spiritual growth and self-awareness, as God led us through a self-searching period of how to be simultaneously childlike and men of integrity.

We look forward to the coming year with great anticipation as God is leading us to focus on what it means to love him with all our heart, mind and soul, and our neighbor as ourselves (Matthew 22:37-40). It is clear to us that God is reconciling his creation, and through this movement he is teaching us to do so, from the inside out—male and female, both made in his image—then those they are given responsibility for and then to the broader community.

Paul and Leigh Sniffen
[Photos by Michael Morrison]

Promise Keepers conference at the Great Western
Forum in Los Angeles.

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