Convocation 2013

Announced by Anonymous on Jan 11 2013

CONVOCATION 2013—Our Convocation will be January 18-19, 2013. This an experience of great spiritual blessings for all the Seventh-day Adventist churches in Bakersfield and Kern County as we come together to worship God and fellowship with one another. Our speaker this year is Pastor Jonathan Henderson, Senior Pastor of Grand Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oakland, CA. God has anointed this young pastor to preach the word with the power of the Holy Spirit. We encourage everyone to come and be a blessing and you will receive a bigger blessing from God!

BIO on our Guest Speaker:

Pastor Jonathan Henderson has been preaching since the age of 15. After graduating from Loma Linda Academy in 1994, he went on to Pacific Union College, graduating with a degree in Theology in 1998. After serving as the colleges Outreach Minister for two years, Pastor Henderson accepted to serve as the Campus Ministries Pastor at the Campus Hill Church in Loma Linda, California. In 2003, Pastor Henderson was led to serve as the Senior Pastor of the Grand Advent Church (formerly Grand Avenue Church), where he has remained for the past 10 years. Over the past 20 years in ministry, Pastor Henderson has enjoyed traveling throughout the world sharing the Gospel. 

In 2008, Pastor Henderson published his first book, Worth Every Drop—A Journey into the Heart of God. The second edition of  Worth Every Drop will be published by the Review and Herald in the first quarter of 2013.

Pastor Henderson is married to the love of his life, Iris, a nurse in the Bay Area. This past summer they welcomed their first child, Nathan Allan.

NO SABBATH SCHOOL or services at Hillcrest January 19 due to Convocation

SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013 7pm "With Jesus in the House" at Central SDA Church 4201 Wilson Rd.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2013 10:30 a.m." With jesus in the Heart" and 3:00 p.m "with Jesus in Heaven" at Saint John Missionary Baptist Church 1401 E. Brundage Lane.

Saturday Night 7:00 pm "Hell and Mr. Fudge" A little story about a big lie. Fox Theater 2001 H St. Tickets are $5 and available at Hillcrest Church, Central Church, and www.foxtheateronline.com