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Drawing from Acts 1:8, Fred Luter, senior pastor of Franklin Avenue Church in New Orleans, La., preached about how the early disciples were able to turn “the world upside down” in their neighborhoods, cities, nations and the ends of the world.

Kim Hardy, the keynote speaker for the Ministers’ Wives Brunch, which was held during the Nov. 8-10 annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware in Towson, Md., understands this statistics. She has spent the last 23 years alongside her husband in ministry, the last four as a church planter’s wife.

Larry Steen, senior pastor of Westminster Church, in Westminster, Md., asked God to enlarge his missionary heart in the same way that God enlarged the Apostle Paul’s missionary heart.

Three hundred forty three messengers and 70 guests gathered on a clear, autumn leaf crunchy weekend for the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware’s 174th annual meeting, Nov. 8-10 at the Sheraton, Towson.