UNIE CONFERENCE 2010

It was a joy to see the Association of Churches that we affiliate with worked together to plan and host a conference on October 21-23.  Each evening about 200 believers from about 14 churches came together to be challenged and encouraged.  The guest speaker was from Holland.  The message was spoken in Dutch and then translated in Sranan Tongo, the trade language, for the tribal leaders and Bush Negroes leaders to understand.

There were church leaders from the Amerindian church in the interior who came to the conference.  It was encouraging to see church leaders and believers from the villages of Lawa, Apetina, Pelemeu, Tapu, and Kwamula. The Association of Churches helped with the cost of getting the interior church leaders to attend the conference in the city and they provided lodging and transportation for them. This will no doubt encourage the tribal leaders to see that they have not been forgotten.

The Bush Negroes church from Nieuve Wakapoe from French Guiana also attended the conference.  Pastor Bhago and a group of believers came to join the fellowship.

There were also Guyanese churches, Creole churches, Javanese Churches, Bush Negroes Churches, Trio and Wayana Churches, and a Spanish church that were represented.  On Sunday morning about 400 believers from all of these churches gathered together for a celebration in singing worshiping, and hearing from God's Word.  Different group had the opportunity to go up the platform and sing and worship in their mother tongue.  There were songs in Dutch Sranan Tongo, French, English, Javanese, Wayana, Trio, and Spanish.  It was a great experience to hear and see the people worship the Lord in different languages.  It is a little foretaste of what it would be like when the redeemed from the nations of the world would gather before the throne of God to bow down and worship the Lamb of God.