You Don't Want To Miss This Event!
New Fellowship Baptist Church will host a conference Sept. 17 and 18 entitled “How to Survive and Thrive by Making Healthy Choices: Sex in the City, Sex in the Church,” based on Romans 12:2.
The conference will deal with the emotional, psychological and spiritual risks of casual sex.
The guest presenter will be Dr. Freda Mckissic Bush, co-author of the book, “ HOOKED: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting our Children.” The book provides parents and others who care about young people the facts to steer them away from making life-changing mistakes and lead them toward reaching their full potential.
Dr. Bush is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Jackson, Miss. and a clinical instructor in the Department of OB-GYN and Department of Family Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Married for 41 years, she is the mother of four children and the grandmother of seven. Dr. Bush will focus on the conference theme, “How to Survive and Thrive by Making Healthy Choices”
The Rev. Michael Williams, pastor of Family Time Baptist Church, will serve as praise and worship leader for the conference.
Registration and fellowship begins at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 17. Food will be served during the fellowship. The conference session begins at 7 p.m. and will feature a breakout session by Debra Burchfield, director of the Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center in Pine Bluff. She will focus on the topic, “The Importance of Sexual Purity.” She is married and she and her husband have six children and three grandchidren. Having personally experienced God's freeing power over the bondage of addicttion, Burchfield has a passion for serving Jesus.
On Sept. 18, registration and a continental breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. The session will begin at 9 a.m. It will feature praise and worship and a presentation by Dr. Bush. Lunch will be served following a question and answer session.
The cost of the conference is $10 for those who register by Sept. 15. After Sept. 15, the cost is $15.
For more information or to preregister, call 870-536-1511