"Seventh-day Adventist Church president Ted N.C. Wilson urged 52,000 people packed into a sports stadium to always have “beautiful feet” after many of them spent an afternoon distributing 2 million copies of the 2019 missionary book, “Hope for Today’s Families” in Lima, Peru.
Thousands of Adventists passed out copies of the book by Willie and Elaine Oliver, directors of the Adventist world church’s family ministries department, across Peru’s capital after Sabbath worship services on May 4. The initiative, called Impact Hope, was part of weekend celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Peruvian Union University, an Adventist institution of about 12,000 students located outside Lima.
Wilson, wrapping up a two-week pastoral trip to South America, also dedicated the opening of the university’s first church building and attended an anniversary parade with 20,000 people over the weekend.
Speaking to the stadium crowd, representing half of the church’s membership in Lima, Wilson said church members do not need to be preachers to preach.
“Yes, God uses preachers and evangelists, but we all need to work together,” he said. “God is calling you today to preach the message in Peru.”
Opening his Bible to Romans 10:13-15, he read, “For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
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Thousands of Adventists passed out copies of the book by Willie and Elaine Oliver, directors of the Adventist world church’s family ministries department, across Peru’s capital after Sabbath worship services on May 4. The initiative, called Impact Hope, was part of weekend celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Peruvian Union University, an Adventist institution of about 12,000 students located outside Lima.
Wilson, wrapping up a two-week pastoral trip to South America, also dedicated the opening of the university’s first church building and attended an anniversary parade with 20,000 people over the weekend.
Speaking to the stadium crowd, representing half of the church’s membership in Lima, Wilson said church members do not need to be preachers to preach.
“Yes, God uses preachers and evangelists, but we all need to work together,” he said. “God is calling you today to preach the message in Peru.”
Opening his Bible to Romans 10:13-15, he read, “For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
--How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
--And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
--And how shall they hear without a preacher?
--And how shall they preach unless they are sent?
As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!’” (NKJV)."ANN