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Saturday, July 30
7:15 p.m. – Selah in Concert
9 p.m. – Food and friendship on
campus
Sunday, July 31
8:30 a.m. – Begin the day with
prayer – R. R. Brown Chapel
9 a.m. – Annual Report to Conference
Family – Founders Hall
9:15 p.m. – Adult Christian Life
Community with Carrie Schlieker
– Founders Hall
10:30 a.m. – Skye Jethani, Worship
Team
6:45 p.m. – Evening Prayer – R.
R. Brown Chapel
7:15 p.m. – Joshua Becker, Worship
Team
9 p.m. – Food and friendship
Monday, August 1
8:30 a.m. – Begin the day with
prayer – R. R. Brown Chapel
9 a.m. – Morning Bible Hour with
Skye Jethani
10:00 a.m.to noon – Children &
Youth Communities
10:30 a.m. – Adult Christian Life
Communities
6:45 p.m. – Evening prayer – R. R.
Brown Chapel
7:15 p.m. – Tom Nelson, Worship
Team
9 p.m. – Food and friendship
Tuesday, August 2
8:30 a.m. – Begin the day with
prayer – R. R. Brown Chapel
9 am – Morning Bible Hour with
Skye Jethani
10:00 a.m. to noon – Children &
Youth Communities
10:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Pastors’
Day – Lakeshore Center at Okoboji
(Complimentary ticket required)
10:30 a.m. to noon – Adult Christian
Life Communities
12:15 p.m. – Luncheon for pastors
and spouses – Lakeshore Center
at Okoboji (Complimentary ticket
required)
6:45 p.m. – Evening prayer – R. R.
Brown Chapel
7:15 p.m. – Tom Nelson, Worship
Team, Theater for the Thirsty
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER
Sing it Selah
Okoboji Bible Conference opens Saturday, July 30
Continuing a longstanding tradition
the Okoboji Bible Conference
is back for its 82nd year.
They’ll once again be featuring intriguing
speakers, uplifting music and
much more from July 30-Aug. 7.
They are kicking off the nine-day
conference at 7:15 p.m., Saturday, July
30, with a free concert by the popular
group, Selah.
Selah is a contemporary Christian
vocal trio. It is made up of Todd
Smith, Allan Hall and Amy Perry.
Selah has won seven Gospel Music Association
Dove Awards and sold more
than 4 million albums and single
units combined.
This will be their third time performing
at the Okoboji Bible Conference.
“They are a conference favorite because
their music spans generations,”
said Jody Van Kley, the conference
coordinator for Okoboji Bible Conference.
“They also are known for
taking a church hymn and reworking
it into something very contemporary
and something people really enjoy
listening to.”
The concert is free and the doors
open at 5:45 p.m. About 1,500 can
fit in the tabernacle and the outside
tented area and it’s first-come, firstserve
when it comes to seating for the
concert.
Just like the rest of the nine-day
conference, the Selah concert is completely
free.
“We just believe that the Lord has
kept this event going for 82 years
and it’s supported by the people who
come and God has blessed us through
At a Glance:
WHAT: Selah in concert at Okoboji
Bible Conerence
WHERE: Okoboji Bible Conference
Ministries, 7 Okboji Grove Rd, Ardnolds
Park, IA
WHEN: 7:15 p.m., Saturday, July 30
COST: Free
CONTACT: 712-332-2883
ONLINE: okobojiconference.org
gifts from those generous people,”
Van Kley said. “We want it to be
available for anyone and everyone to
come.”
The first weekend will also include
some very interesting speakers. Skye
Jethani and Joshua Becker will both
give speeches on Sunday, July 31.
Jethani is scheduled at 10:30 a.m. and
Becker will follow later that evening at
7:15 p.m.
Those speeches as well as many of
the rest throughout the nine-day conference
will focus around this year’s
conference theme: Redeeming Work.
“It has a double meaning. The first
meaning is to remind us that we are
redeemed by Jesus so we celebrate
that fact,” Van Kley said. “The second
half of the meaning is that fact that
the work we do every day is work we
are called to do by God so that makes
it redeemed.”
This concept is discussed in Colossians
3, verse 23, and according to
Van Kley, it will be a common thread
throughout the conference this year. F
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