Nearly 200 pastors and their spouses came to the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, to hear more about My Hope with Billy Graham.
Pastors encouraged each other in ministry over dinner prior to the program.
Pastors and their spouses spent time in refreshing worship.
My Hope area coordinator Jim Wilson told pastors how they could use My Hope in their churches.
Will Graham, a former pastor, prayed for pastors to have strength and courage as they reach out to others in their communities.
Will Graham spoke to pastors and their wives, reminding them that with Christ, more can be accomplished—and more people reached—than we ever imagined.
Paying close attention to Will Graham's message about ministering to others even when we don't feel like it.
Several pastors stood and prayed for their fellow pastors.
Praying for My Hope to be fruitful around the region.
Roxanne Wynne, an elder and youth minister at her church in Asheville, prayed a powerful prayer over fellow pastors.
Will Graham is passionate about My Hope and shared a story about his own experience sharing his faith.
Pastoring is hard, Will Graham said, yet as Christians, we still have a responsibility to share the Gospel and shouldn't let that responsibility slip.
“This is a prayer-centered outreach,” Joe Mott, My Hope manager of church engagement, said. Mott encouraged pastors to start now, getting their churches to pray for non-Christians.
“Even if all that happens is that you get a core group of people in your church praying," Joe Mott said, "have we not accomplished something great?”
Pastors picked up free materials to take back to their churches.
