 
 The 120th General Conference (19th Biennial) was held June 27 to 30, 2008, at the Sheraton Parkway in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The theme selected for our 2008 gathering, “Jesus worshipped in the nations,” is especially apt as we took General Conference to the Toronto area, one of North America’s most culturally diverse metropolitan regions. In addition to drawing upon the resources of our own BIC World Missions team, conference planners capitalized on the rich array of ethnic congregations in and around Toronto in order to bring a global perspective to worship services, children’s and youth programming, and break out sessions. Conference Multimedia » Wrap-up Video- download .wmv | download .mov » Pastor's Tribute- download .wmv | download .mov » More multimedia coming soon! Registration Frequently Asked Questions Conference Schedule Conference Agenda Conference Program Conference Speakers/Presentations
Mirta Colloca is a dynamic, gifted preacher whose passion for evangelism makes her a sought-after speaker and workshop leader within the United States and across Latin America. She also hosts a daily radio program that draws people to the Gospel message through discussions of everyday topics such as family, personal relationships, and emotional health. Reflecting on the warm welcome she and her husband, Roberto, have received within the BIC Church, Mirta states: “Coming as we do from a Spanish-speaking church, we usually feel like a minority, but we do not feel that way in the Brethren in Christ. I think the fact that I was asked to preach at General Conference speaks clearly to that. The Brethren in Christ is an open-minded church when it comes to accepting and respecting other groups. We are a beautiful organization."
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» Danisa Ndlovu
As early as his student days at Daystar University College in Nairobi, Kenya, Danisa Ndlovu’s gifts of leadership were already being noticed by those around him. Today, he is bishop of the Zimbabwe Brethren in Christ Church, the largest of the worldwide network of BIC conferences. He is also the president-elect of Mennonite World Conference. Bishop Ndlovu brings to General Conference 2008 a powerful message of Jesus worshipped in a time of trouble. Despite the extreme difficulties of everyday life in Zimbabwe, Brethren in Christ churches joyfully look beyond themselves, reaching out to orphans and widows and other hurting people. Bishop Ndlovu notes, “The church’s peace position—non-resistance in response to violence—and its message of holiness as lived and demonstrated in all our affairs of life have gained the denomination respect in these trying times.”
Close box » Charles Price Charles Price is senior pastor of The Peoples Church in Toronto, a position he has held since 2001, and where he continues to legacy of founding pastor Oswald J. Smith, who established the church as a base of operation for worldwide evangelism. Previously, Charles served for almost three decades with the Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers in Lancashire, England, where he was engaged in an itinerant ministry of evangelism and Bible teaching for half the year, and the rest of the time at the Capernwray Bible School. Today, his ministry extends worldwide through his weekly, hour-long television program, Living Truth. In addition, his Sunday messages are translated into the Farsi language and broadcast into Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Close box » Jay Smith and Shabir Ally Jay Smith is a longtime BIC missionary currently working in apologetics among the Muslims of London, England. Starting with his childhood as the son of missionaries to India, he has become versed in Eastern and Western worldviews. Jay is widely acknowledged as one of the leading Christian authorities on the historicity of early Islam and the Qu'ran, and has been active in debates and seminars on the university campuses around England, Europe and the US and has written a number of tracts and papers on Muslim Apologetics which are on the internet at: http://debate.org.uk.
Shabir Ally is the president of the Islamic Information and Dawah Centre International in Toronto where he functions as Imam. He travels internationally to represent Islam in public lectures and interfaith dialogues, is considered an accomplished and experienced Muslim debater dealing particularly with Christian. He is the author of numerous booklets and articles on Islam and comparative religion. He also hosts a weekly television program called “Let the Quran Speak.” Past episodes of this show can be seen online at www.shabirally.com. Close box The Toronto Mass Choir brings together a talented group of youthful musicians (most in their 20s and 30s), all of whom define themselves as “missionaries in song.” The choir maintains a busy concert schedule throughout Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, including stops at The Ottawa Bluesfest, Quebec’s La Festival de Musique, the Toronto Jazz Festival, Missionfest, and Gospel Music Workshop of America conventions in Washington, DC, Atlanta and Detroit. In recent years, TMC has performed with well-known gospel singers such as Tramaine Hawkins, Alvin Slaughter, Take 6, and Jessy Dixon. Selections from the choir’s extensive repertoire can be accessed on their website.
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