The SDB Summit will be the first stop for the 2025 SDB Visiting Instructors Program. Pastor Canaan Phiri from Malawi and Pastor John Ryakitimbo from Tanzania will be interacting with gathered SDB ministry leaders in Janesville, WI from April 25 to 28. The Visiting Instructors will be part of the team providing presentations, preaching at gathered worship, and leading Bible Studies over the course of the weekend.
The Summit
Here is key information about the Summit from SDB Director John Pethtel:
Are you a leader in a SDB expression of faith (XF)? You should be @ The Summit. Do you have a leader in your SDB expression of faith (XF)? You should send them to the Summit. The Summit 2025 (A SDB Leaders Conference) will take place from April 25-27, 2025 (with an optional preaching seminar on April 28) in Southern Wisconsin. The theme will be The Discipled Leader. All serving or retired pastors/elders/church planters/chaplains/preachers/pastor-type people and their spouses are welcome to attend. Anyone training for XF leadership or feeling a call to XF leadership and their spouse is also welcome to attend. If you have a question about whether you should be attending, please contact the Director of Pastoral Services.
You can Register Here for the Summit 2025. The registration deadline is quickly approaching.
SDB Visiting Instructors Program
The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference of USA and Canada will be hosting two Visiting Instructors from Africa in the Spring of 2025. The Visiting Instructors will provide opportunities for us to gain a broader understanding about public witness of our faith, more tools to engage in effective discipleship, and a greater appreciation for how we are invited to join God in His gospel work daily. Please be on the look out for more information about the 2025 SDB Visiting Instructors Program across the coming weeks. There is a lot more story yet to be told.
The Visiting Instructors initiative is thanks to a collaborative partnership between the SDB Missionary Society, the SDB Memorial Fund, and the SDB General Conference of USA and Canada. The SDB Missionary Society is the catalyst behind the educational initiatives and the SDB Memorial Fund is providing funding to make training by Visiting Instructors here in North America possible. Ultimately, we are partnering with God in actively advancing His Kingdom. Please be in prayer as we prepare for this amazing opportunity—together. What a blessing that SDBs from around the world are partnering together in God’s gospel work. We are better together.
