WHY, BO?
7 Questions you’ve Always Wanted To Ask about
Bo Sanchez’s KERYGMA CONFERENCE
CHAMPIONS, ARISE!
In the past few days, I featured articles about the Kerygma Conference.
I presented testimonies, the streams, the speakers, and the pictures of the
past conferences, . Still, we received questions—indicating huge interest in
Kerygma Conference.
We threw your questions to the best ever person who can answer them—the
founder of Kerygma Conference, our Feast Builder, Bro. Bo Sanchez. Read on…
Bo Sanchez: We playfully
call the Feast a prayer gathering on steroids. It’s wild, warm, and wonderful.
God speaks to us through the Holy Mass, powerful worship, and the practical
talk. I think of the Kerygma Conference as the Feast x 1000. More power. More
blessings. More Miracles. And there are other things in the Conference that the
Feast doesn’t have. The word Conference comes from confer which means to meet
and discuss a certain topic. So more than just a gathering, the Kerygma
Conference is a meeting about a specific topic—like the specific topics or what
we call the streams of the Kerygma Conference. And you know that in a meeting,
you can participate in the discussions.
That’s what’s happening in the Kerygma Conference. You participate—you
can ask the speakers questions who can right away answer them. You participate
in games, tests, and contests—what we call “gimmicks” which demonstrate the
topics so you can better understand them and, more important, remember the
lessons. That’s also the reason we call the Kerygma Conference a learning
event.
Because
we have a lot to receive from God. We have 14 streams. Actually, I wish we have
a 14-day conference—one day per topic. In the past, we had fewer topics. But people had requested us to
include more. So this year we have four new topics: Business, Career, Education,
and Health.
Because
on the second day, November 25, I’ll preach Talk 1 of our brand new Feast
series, Champions Arise—which is also the theme of this year’s Conference. The
Sunday after that, December 2, we’ll be back here in PICC to continue with Talk
2 of that series.
Because
I don’t want to get tired of me. I want you to miss me once in a while. He-he.
Seriously, because I can only give you insights from my own study and
experience.
One other
fantastic difference between the Feast and the Kerygma Conference is that you
get new, fresh, inspiring wisdom from other wisdom-givers who will share from
their own experiences. Believe me, the talks will satisfy your thirst for
guidance—which you can share with your loved ones and other people you want to
bring to the Lord.
Because
to mount the Kerygma Conference isn’t cheap. But more than asking you to shell
out cash for the conference, what I want to achieve is to make you give so you
will receive. Studies after studies show that people pay more attention, they
strive harder to learn, if they pay for the lecture.
I can pay for
you—but the effort is mine, not yours, so the blessing will got to me, not to
you.
Again, it’s all
about the Law of the Farm: what you sow you will reap. When you buy your
Kerygma Conference ticket, you are planting—really for yourself. You are
investing to gain knowledge and wisdom. Because you planted, you will
harvest—life-changing lessons and inspiration. You will never be the same
again. Your life, your outlook, your behaviour, your action will change for the
better.
Because
we won’t fit in the PICC. A survey of the Shepherd’s Voice Radio and Television
Foundation (SVRTV), the production arm of the Kerygma Conference, shows that we
will have about 15,000 participants in Kerygma Conference 2012. So we need a
bigger venue.
Last year, we held
portions of Kerygma Conference 2011 in various function rooms, buildings, and
theaters—and boy, that was so punishing for our production crew and volunteer
servants. I was also running around like crazy—although I enjoyed the exercise.
We also held the lst part of the Conference on the Cultural Center of the
Philippines Open Grounds—and whew, we were forever on tenterhooks, storming
Heaven not to let the rains fall.
So, we were happy
the Mall of Asia Arena is now open in time for Kerygma Conference 2012 and the
SMX Convention Center could accommodate us. They are the best event venues in
the Philippines now. The Kerygma
Conference is God’s event. So we are holding it in the best ever venue
available for us—for the Lord!
Because
Jesus told His disciples: Go the whole world over, and proclaim the Good News.-
Mark 16:15
The Good News is
that God loves us without condition and He sent His only begotten Son to give
us a new life. We want to proclaim that Good News—especially to the poor, the
downtrodden, the unchurched. Now, we—the priests, the preachers, all the
servants of the Light of Jesus Family—can’t do all the work. The Kerygma
Conference is an inspiring learning event where we teach a good number of
persons who can help us teach others about the Good News. Jesus made disciples
of simple, ordinary people. Those disciples went around the world to make more
disciples and through the years, those disciples have multiplied—otherwise we
would have not known about the Good News and we would have not become disciples
ourselves. Now, the work to make disciples is not yet done. There are still
many—millions and billions—who have not heard the Good News, who are still not
living the Good News. The Kerygma Conference will bring together 15,000 at the
Mall of Asia and SMX Convention Center on November 24-25 to teach them the Good
News so they can spread it to the ends of the Earth, as our Lord Jesus
mandated.
I pray you will be
one of those 15,000. I will wait for you at the Kerygma Conference 2012.
