Annual Family Conference 2026
“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
James 1:2-4
Our theme for our 2026 Annual Family Conference is: “Count It All Joy.” It can be easy to get discouraged as we face difficulties in life and see the challenges our culture is facing. God’s desire for us as believers is that we lift our eyes off of ourselves and our circumstances and look to Him. Instead of just enduring the trials of life, Christ actually calls us to count these tests as joy!
How can we be joyful in the midst of hardship and why should we count these these trials as joy? Because God wants to conform us into the image of Christ through the temporal suffering we are going through. We are able to experience joy even in out affliction, because we know He is doing an eternal work in our lives! II Corinthians 4:17 says: “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” God shapes us more int the image of His Son as we respond rightly to the irritations and tests we face in life by counting them all joy, through His divine enablement.
Jesus told His disciples in John 16:33 that in the world they would have tribulation. But then He tells them what their response should be : “But be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
As believers, the joy of the Lord is our strength. Even in the midst of persecution, rejection and trials, we can rejoice because Christ has overcome the world and He dwells in us!
We trust that your family will be encouraged and challenged at the 2026 Annual Family Conference through the engaging messages and meaningful fellowship to look to the Lord and experience His super-abounding joy even in the midst of trials!
More details to follow soon.