"The Nations Wait: Into the Harvest"

MOW International Missions Conference
March 11-14, 2008 in Columbia, South Carolina

Conference Schedule

Conference Speakers

Mel Tari

Mel Tari, world known evangelist and founder of World Mission International, was born and raised in Timor, Indonesia. He is an eye-witness to some of the greatest miracles to occur in the twentieth century, like raising from the dead, water turned to wine, healing from all kinds of diseases (the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, leprosy, cancer, etc.), and millions come to know Jesus all over the world in the last four decades. He is the author of the best seller "Like a Mighty Wind", which has sold millions and has been translated into more than 40 languages. He is also the author of "The Gentle Breeze of Jesus," "America, Jesus is here," and "The Kingdom". Mel Tari and his family live in Southern California from where he launches his international ministry. He and wife Joyce have three sons, Joshua, David and Michael. He is a key-note speaker at major conventions and conferences all over the world and is very much involved with missions and evangelism. www.worldmissioninternational.com

Surprise Sithole

Surprise "Supressa" Sithole was called by the Lord Jesus Christ at a young age of 15 when the Lord told him to leave everything behind, follow Jesus and preach the gospel wherever he went. Leaving his family and all possession, he took up his cross to follow the Lamb wherever He goes and has never looked back since. In 1997, God sovereignly connected Surprise with Heidi and Rolland Baker of IRIS Ministries. Surprise now serves as the International Director of Pastors for IRIS Ministries where he helps oversee the rapidly spreading revival in southern African which has witnesses close to 7,000 new churches being birthed since 2000. Surprise loves Jesus more than life itself. This all consuming passion drives him to the darkest and most unreached areas of the world with one desire alone - to see the glory of the Lord cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab 2:14). With a special impartation to catalyze revival fire all over the world, Surprise is often sent by the Bakers to stir an unquenchable hunger for Him and the harvest. www.irismin.org, www.surprisesithole.com

Rolland Baker

Rolland & Heidi Baker arrived in Mozambique in 1995, and began to pour out their hearts to 80 children. Amazing miracles began to take place along with great resistance, both from government and from adverse weather conditions. Today, Iris Ministries oversees 7 different bases, five in Mozambique, one in South Africa and one in Malawi. They are just in the process of opening a base in Chennai, South India as well. This ministry, has literally exploded in Mozambique, where on average over 1,000 children are fed every day. Since that time, Heidi and her apostolic outreach teams have regularly seen about 1,000 people saved every week, countless healings and miracles, and hundreds of churches planted in the area. At times the teams must travel to very remote areas by plane, where an advance ground team needs to chop down trees to prepare a landing strip. In total, since the disastrous floods of 2000 and Heidi's encounter with God at the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, Iris ministries has planted about 8,000 churches in about six years in Mozambique and other countries of South East Africa and the world. Iris Ministries now has churches in over 30 countries of the world and bases in nine countries with church planting teams and children's homes. www.irismin.org

Lesley Anne Leighton

At an early age, Lesley was often visited by Jesus and was once actually taken to the gates of hell. This experience burned in her a holy violence and commitment that none should perish. She has laid down her life to follow the call of God and serve Him in different nations. Loving the prostitutes, setting the drug addicts free, and befriending the poor, God has used Lesley to profoundly affect the lives of many people. She has repeatedly risked her life to impact the Underground Church in China, and continues to reach out to the poor and destitute in such places as Russia, Philippines, Siberia and New Zealand. She has ministered alongside Heidi and Rolland Baker in Hong Kong, Siberia, and other most un-reached areas of the world. www.holygiven.org

Leif Hetland

Leif Hetland is from the country of Norway, from a small city on the Stavanger. In 1984, after 5 yrs of rebellion, he heard the call of God to ministry. Through a glorious healing, deliverance and impartation of love, he ventured into the world of full-time ministry. Leif Hetland is the founder of Global Mission Awareness based in Florence, Alabama. In 1995,while he was pastoring a small Baptist church in Norway, Leif was invited to a pastors’ meeting where Randy Clark would lay hands on him and catapult his life and ministry into a whole new realm. Since that powerful experience, Leif has ministered in over 51 countries on 5 continents! He is one of the most influential Christian leaders in the Muslim nations today. His meetings and crusades are widely regarded for supernatural healings and signs and wonders. www.globalmissionawareness.com

Shampa Rice

Shampa Rice was raised in Calcutta, India across the street from Mother Teresa. God opened a door for Shampa to minister in the difficult, unreached areas of North and Northwest India. Shampa and her husband lead conferences and church leadership seminars in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh states. Many have come to Christ, many have been healed and delivered, and many house-churches have begun as a result of these meetings. They are the directors of Iris India Ministries. They are in the process of starting an orphanage/boarding school in Calcutta, rescuing children born into Brothels, giving them a chance to start a new and successful life. And offering their parents a way out from a hopeless occupation by giving them help with different organization to start their own small business. Besides this they have several projects to be started in different states. “Being in the dark places you realize the light of the gospel shines so much brighter that there is no way you can cover it up. There is no way you can hide it.”... “I love to cook. I am a woman from the kitchen. God is not looking for someone important; he's looking for anybody who loves him because he wants to be found more than we want to find him.” www.irismin.com

Danny Steyne

Danny Steyne has been a church planter, pastor, teacher, and worship leader for over thirty years. His heart is to release ministry that is full of the power of God and demonstrated through the authentic miraculous works of Jesus. He currently is a part of the apostolic team of Mountain Of Worship. Danny travels extensively hoping for more freedom for the Holy Spirit among His People and breakthrough for His Purposes in their lives. Prophetic release, healings, and the miraculous are frequent in his ministry. He and his wife Karen live in Columbia SC with several of their children. www.themountain.org

MOW Worship Band

Faceless is comprised of musicians and worship leaders who flow together from around the world. The music is raw, prophetic energy. People have come out wheelchairs during the worship... ears have opened... the blind have seen. It is music in the realm of the vortex of heaven... meant to catch you up to His Throne... His Face... His Eyes... His Breath! It is a synergy exploding through a vortex of time, space, and life. Truly a fusion of anything that has been created to make a sound that will cause all of heaven to shout with joy and worship with passion! Currently it's primarily a fusion synergistic rock ala alternative ala worship ala 3rd Heaven Key of H sound.... www.myspace.com/themowband

Conference Host

Mountain Of Worship - MOW
P.O. Box 212204
Columbia, SC 29221-2204
www.themountain.org
(803) 665-8990