The Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) has confirmed the main speakers for the Baptist Youth World Conference in Singapore from July 17-21 next year.
More than 6,000 youth from some 100 countries are expected to attend the plenary sessions each morning and evening, “fringe events” with musical performers and other participants, and “family Bible Study groups,” as well as other activities.
Speakers include Edmund Chan, pastor of the Covenant Evangelical Free Church in Singapore; Christian Rommert, head of the German Baptist Youth Department; Lucas Leys of Argentina, director of the Hispanic Division of Youth Specialists and vice president of publishing at Vida Publishers, the Spanish language division of Zondervan publishers; and Rachael Tan, a member of faculty at the Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary and associate dean at the Asian Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary.
Other speakers include Thembelani Jentile, senior pastor for the Mamelodi Baptist Church in South Africa; Dave Overholt, founding pastor of the “Church on the Rock” in Canada; and Diana Francis, president of the Student Christian Movement of Bahamas and host of a youth television program.
Youth are invited to share in a number of mission projects before and after the conference planned by the Singapore Baptist Convention and conventions and unions in other countries in South East Asia.
Registration, travel and accommodation details for the youth conference can be obtained at the BWA website at www.bwanet.org.
Baptist World Alliance®
© July 16, 2012