By Salvador Barragan
MEXICO City, Mexico--Fifty-two ministers and wives met for a Mexican ministerial conference April 9 to 12.
The conference was conducted by Randal Dick, superintendent of missions; and Charles Fleming, regional director for Latin America.
The conference started with the commemoration of the Lord's Supper April 9.
Guillermo Briceno, pastor of the Monterrey, Mexico, church, said it was the most inspiring Lord's Supper he had attended in his 25 years in our fellowship.
The next day, Mr. Dick spoke on Bible ethics and values, and their relation to the practices in our fellowship.
Before the worship service April 11, Mr. Fleming conducted a session based on the letters Jesus Christ sent to the churches in Revelation 2 and 3.
Mr. Fleming asked participants what they felt would be the contents of an imaginary letter from Jesus Christ to the Worldwide Church of God in 1985, with the emphasis on three main aspects:
(1) Values and practices to keep
(2) What we need to change
(3) What we would have been exhorted to acquire.
During the worship service later that day, Mr. Dick and Mr. Fleming gave split sermons and inspired the brethren on the fullness of salvation and grace.
Later, Mr. Dick covered the subject of shared leadership under the teachings of the New Testament.
Sunday, April 12, Salvador Barragan, subregional coordinator, gave a presentation on worship. Mr. Fleming followed with a refinement of the imaginary letter from Jesus Christ to the church in Mexico.
Mr. Dick then spoke about the work of advancing the kingdom of God, explaining how God and the angels rejoice when one sinner repents, and how all of us can share that joy when God invites us to be his instruments to bring new children to him.
Alberto Esquivel, an elder from the Mexico City congregation, said that Mr. Dick's presentation was eye-opening and that it gave him a new perspective on the happiness of being invited to bring children to the kingdom.
Several participants mentioned that God was giving a true revival to the church in Mexico.
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