This week we will have our annual Missions Conference beginning on Wednesday night.  Our theme is “Go Reach Your World.”  This is our cause and God’s plan - to reach the world for Christ.  We have a tremendous group of missionaries and national pastors who will be with us.  It is our honor to have guests from St. Vincent, Kenya, Bahamas, India, Philippines, Thailand, Chile, Bolivia, Haiti, Grenada and Vietnam.  You will get a much better pulse for what is going on around the world.  Be sure to be here each night for the conference.  Begin now to pray for your Faith Promise Missions giving for the next year.
 William Wilberforce, who led the abolition of slavery in England in the 1800’s, worked closely with a group of believers called the “Clapham Sect,” named for a neighborhood in south London.  In 1834, Katherine Hankey was born in Clapham, the daughter of a banker who was a leader in the “Clapham Sect.”  As a young girl, she taught Sunday School and organized a Bible Study for factory girls at the age of 18.  Kate got a heart for missions, especially Africa, and devoted her finances to reaching the lost around the world.
 At the age of thirty-one, Kate became very sick and had to remain in bed for a full year.  During that year she wrote a poem entitled, “The Story Told.”  William Fischer put the music to it and published it in an American hymnbook in 1869.   It became one of D.L. Moody favorites.  Notice the first verse:

  I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
  Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love.
  I love to tell the story Because I know ’tis true,
  It satisfies my longings As nothing else can do.