ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
We invite you to come to Trinity Baptist Church, on November 5th — explore Jesus’ heart for Muslims, consider your own intentionality and re-discover how your personal story fits into His eternal plan.
Your location, culture and life’s experiences are so familiar. Those simple parts of life may not seem very impactful or far-reaching. But with the gospel, they are!
This year, we hope to help you focus on the power of your proximities — living purposefully — the ways nearness can build bridges and make sincere connections possible with people who may have never seen the love, gospel or hope of Jesus Christ.
So for 2022 — a 2-hour, post-conference training is available to learn what it means to have conversation without compromise, share stories and nurture relationship.
Would you join the vision to love Muslims and eliminate the fear of Islam through the power of the gospel!
Please pray for the conference and Jesus’ faithful witness among Muslims in your community.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Jose Martinez – Breath of Life International
Jose Martinez is the founder of Breath of Life International which is dedicated to impacting whole communities with the gospel of Jesus Christ and discipling believers who become disciple-makers. One of its primary ministries is providing discipleship, mentorship and access to higher education for young people. After their studies—these young professionals are able to embark on careers and carry the gospel with them wherever they work throughout the unreached world. Breath of Life International works in Asia, Latina America and the Caribbean.
Jose Martinez is a Civil Engineer by profession and he has furthered his education at the Emmanuel School of Religion, Regent University, and The Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary.
Farah Saada Marvil – Hope for Ishmael
Farah Saada Marvil is the Chief Operating Officer of Hope for Ishmael, an international ministry that seeks to reconcile the sons of Ishmael to the Father through the gospel of Jesus Christ. At the age of 15, Farah converted from Islam to Christianity. At 22, she began volunteering with the ministry in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. She joined her parents, Tass and Karen Saada, the Founders of Hope for Ishmael — reaching out to Palestinians through education and humanitarian aid.
Hope for Ishmael disciples believers of Muslim background, trains the western church how to effectively reach their Muslim neighbor, supports persecuted Christians in Jordan and the Holy Land and the ministry creates opportunities in the Holy Land to bring reconciliation between the sons of Isaac and Ishmael. With her years of research and experience with Muslim outreach ministry, she developed Lead with Love—a training course to equip the American church for focused outreach and discipleship to Muslims in the USA and Europe. Farah and her husband have three young children.
Jami Staples – The Truth Collective
Jami L Staples is the Founder and CEO of the Truth Collective, a ministry that calls “Christian women to own the Truths of the Bible and invite our Muslim friends to courageously examine the words of Jesus.” That vision began in 2010 while Jami and Brian, her husband, served in ministry in East Africa. There, God opened their hearts and minds to the Muslim world.
After returning, a respected mentor, Fouad Masri of Crescent Project, encouraged Jami to see the growing opportunity in the United States to educate and inspire the Church to reach out to the Muslim world in America. She joined the staff of Crescent Project in January of 2015 as the Director of Women’s Training and, with her amazing team, built a training platform for thousands of Christian women who were eager to share the Gospel with Muslims. Jami discovered a large segment of the Western Church resisted the idea of sharing Christ with Muslims.
With renewed vision and blessing from her team, Jami founded The Truth Collective as a means to call more Believers into a Biblical response toward the Muslim world. With gratitude to parents who loved God and loved the nations, Jami grew up in South Dakota with a heart of global concern. She is a graduate of Bethel University in St. Paul, MN with a degree in Communications and a minor in Biblical and Theological Studies. Together the Staples raise two young boys and have traveled to more than 23 countries.
FEATURED SPEAKERS & PRESENTERS
Valerie A. – International Students Inc (ISI)
Valerie A serves as the Northern Mid-Atlantic Area Director for International Students Inc (ISI). Additionally, she serves as adjunct faculty for Alliance Theological Seminary (ATS) in the areas of Missions and Evangelism and does Emotional Intelligence coaching for the Center for Emotional Development. She served as a chaplain at New York University for 14 years where she founded the English Connections program for international students. She has earned both a BS and MS in Biblical Studies, and a Doctorate of Ministry in Leadership in the Global Context. Her current role involves oversight and development of staff, as well as providing training for ministry partners/volunteers. She desires to connect missional believers with opportunities to serve and reach international students. Valerie’s free time is spent with family (4 nephews, 2 nieces), and involvement in her hobbies which are vocal performance, travelling, reading, and British mystery shows.
Rev. Dr. Alfonse Javed – First Baptist Church of Metuchen
Dr. Alfonse Javed, the Senior Pastor of 1st Baptist Church of Metuchen, has planted a church abroad, has been a missions pastor and has served as a missionary in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. He has also planted a church in Greece.
Born in Lahore, Pakistan — the son of a pastor — Pastor Javed began serving in church at a young age. In the 1990s, a providential relationship formed when Calvary Baptist Church started supporting his ministry efforts; he would later serve as the missions pastor of that congregation. Eventually, in 2009, he moved to New York with a new vision — mobilizing churches to engage Muslims in the NYC metro area.
Dr. Javed’s advanced theological training is from the Greek Bible College, Davis College and Liberty University. He maintains a blog, www.alfonsejaved.com, and is the author of The Muslim Next Door: A Practical Guide for Evangelism and Discipleship. Dr. Javed and his wife, Sarah, have four children
Florence Moore – Urban Nations, West Africa Center
Florence Moore is the Coordinator of the West African Center of Urban Nations, an evangelistic mission organization focused on ministering to Muslims in New York City. She has been involved with serving West African’s since 2004. In 2015, Florence felt God calling her to work with West African immigrants in New York City. Since that time, she has been using English as Second Language (ESL) to build relationships in NYC and share the gospel. She has worked in Brooklyn. And, more recently she works in the Bronx with Spanish speakers as well as West African immigrants where she is a member of Fordham Community Church.
Mursheda Parveen – Center to the Unreached
Mursheda Parveen was born in Bangladesh in 1969 and brought up as a strict Muslim woman. When she was 17, she was given in marriage to a man she hardly knew. After a prophecy given to her by an astrologist, she and her husband moved to New York City.
On an evening in NYC, a Christian knocked on her door to share the Gospel. They became friends. And after five years of friendship, her Christian friend helped her to break the astrologist’s curse and Mursheda accepted Jesus as her personal savior in 2011.
In the following years, Mursheda was able to lead over 60 people to the Lord who came from Unreached People Group (UPG) backgrounds. In 2019, she started working for Center to the Unreached. She serves as one of their international workers, sharing the gospel locally in her community, in Bangledesh and other Muslim-majority countries. Mursheda is a gifted evangelist whose ministry is fueled by prayer. She has been able to establish small group Bible studies among UPGs all around the world down to the third generation of believers.
Pastor Mimsie Robinson – Bethel Gospel Assembly
As an associate pastor of Bethel Gospel Assembly in New York City, Pastor Robinson has been involved in disciple-making efforts in India, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Venezuela, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and several islands in the West Indies. Through involvement with Evangelism Explosion International as a teacher/trainer, he has been able to help many believers become effective witnesses at home and abroad. His involvement with Perspectives on the World Christian Movement includes serving as a class coordinator and an instructor of classes throughout the USA. In December 2019, he completed his Doctor of Missiology (Applied Intercultural Studies) with the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
In 2009, Dr. Robinson helped plant Living Water Christian Center, a bilingual French and English congregation, affiliated with Bethel Gospel Assembly which serves the spiritual needs of the growing number of French-speaking West African immigrants in New York City.
