Lott Carey Convention Adopts Operation Inasmuch

Meeting in New Orleans in August, the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention adopted Operation Inasmuch as the model their churches will use to in reaching their communities for Christ.  The Convention purchased 1,200 copies of Operation Inasmuch: Mobilizing Believers Beyond the Walls of the Church and gave them to delegates to the New Orleans convention meeting.  Eighteen classes were held in which the book was taught.  Rev. Dr. Yvonne Best, the convention’s organizer, said:  “This was our Missions Study for the week.  In years past we have given convention attenders a choice of classes, but this year we had everyone study the same book.”

Lott Carey invited David Crocker, Executive Director of Operation Inasmuch, Inc. to address the convention in their closing session.  He encouraged the Lott Carey group to remember one thing:  It’s not about us; it’s about them.  He charged them not to leave what they’d learned in New Orleans in the Big Easy, but to take it home and implement it. 

He also participated in a panel discussion about the convention’s mission emphasis that week.  In response to one question about whether there will be another book with more inspiring testimonies, he revealed that a second book is in process and this book will move individual believers and congregations toward lifestyle compassion ministry.  Crocker said this next book will be chocked full of wonderful stories of what God is doing in persons’ lives. 

He also mentioned that he is building an Inasmuch Network, joining together all the churches doing Operation Inasmuch.  These churches will have the ability to go to the ministry’s website and learn from each other better ways to conduct Operation Inasmuch.  Many, many stories will be shared there.

Not only did the Lott Carey Convention study about community ministry, but they also did it.  On Monday of the week they met in New Orleans more than 350 of the delegates disbursed into the city still showing the effects of Katrina from 2 years ago giving more than 2,100 hours and conducting a number of projects to help rebuild the city and encourage the local citizens in their long ordeal.  They were so well received that city officials asked them to give more help the remainder of the week, so they changed plans for their youth who took one day to paint a school, another day to work in the NO Second Harvest, and one day to give out school supplies.

At the end of the Blitz Day on Monday, one participant said:  I can’t believe it!  We did all this without a committee meeting!”

For more information about the Lott Carey Baptist Convention, go to www.lottcarey.org.

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