Let's pray together.

Almighty God and Heavenly Father, I thank you so much.

You are the one and only and true God and that you have revealed yourself to us and your son, that we might be saved from our sins

and given the hope of everlasting life with all those that you have called

to yourself from around the world and are today calling.

To know you is life and joy.

And I pray that you would come now and grant an anointing for this word and indeed for this entire conference.

I pray, oh God, in accordance with the command of our Lord Jesus that you would send

forth laborers into your harvest that you would loosen the roots right now of people in this room and quicken

their own sense of calling and change in their lives.

So come God and do this work that you have begun to do already in their lives and that you are continuing now to do.

Strengthen our hands in the work that you've called us to do.

Magnify your name.

Bless this church and make its blessing a joy to the nations, I pray, through Christ.

Amen.

The first missionary endeavor of Protestantism in England burst forth from the soil of Puritan hope.

Now you remember who the Puritans were?

The Puritans were those pastors and teachers from about 1560 to 1660 in England and then in New England who had the goal of purifying, hence the name Puritan, purifying

the Church of England so as to bring it into alignment with the great doctrines and practices of the Reformation.

They had a view of biblical authority and the sovereignty of God that filled them with hope for the triumph of the

gospel among all the nations and the world and they were deeply stirred by a passion of God's

kingdom coming to the nations.

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