Randy and Deanna Harrison, keynote speakers (Weds Feb 17, 7 p.m.; Friday Feb 19, 7 p.m., Sunday Feb 21, 10 a.m.) 

Randy and Deanna are true missions veterans, having served more than 30 years on the field.  Starting with several years in Zaire (now Congo), the Harrisons were forced to flee that nation due to civil war.  Following their initial time in central Africa, the Harrisons missions service has taken them to pastor two different churches in France for about a dozen years, as well as to Burkina Faso in West Africa.  Randy has an earned doctorate in theology, and currently teaches at West Africa Alliance Seminary in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.  During the 2009-10 school year, the Harrisons have served as international workers in residence at Simpson University in Redding, California.  Deanna works closely with the local church and various ministries in Africa, and serves as a regional educational consultant for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in West Africa. The Harrisons have been TCF missionaries since their first term on the field, and have three children, Daniel (married to Kim), Christy (married to Peter Sensing) and Rachel (a sophomore at Simpson Univ). 

Tulsa Christian Fellowship

2010 Missions Conference 

Schedule of events: 

Sunday, Feb. 14, 10 a.m.: kickoff – speaker: Joel Vesanen, international operations director for Terry Law Ministries/World Compassion

Wednesday, Feb 17, 7 p.m.: meet the speakers, with Dr. Randy and Deanna Harrison, missionaries to Ivory Coast

Friday, Feb 19, 7 p.m.: question and answer session with Randy and Deanna Harrison

Friday, Feb 19, 7 p.m.: Children’s Missions Conference, featuring TCF missionary with YWAM Andrew McEndarfer

Sunday, Feb 21, 10 a.m.: missions conference finale with Randy Harrison speaking

Throughout the missions conference, peruse displays featuring TCF’s missionaries and their countries.

Joel Vesanen, missions conference kickoff speaker (Sunday, Feb 14, 10 a.m.) 

Joel, a TCF elder since 1986, has served for more than 39 years with Terry Law Ministries/World Compassion, currently as international operations director.  He has travelled to difficult to access countries such as China, the former Soviet Union and Iraq to share the message of Jesus Christ and to support indigenous churches and Christian humanitarian aid and relief programs.  In these countries, World Compassion has smuggled in Bibles and other Christian teaching materials to help establish both underground and official churches.  Joel has travelled in close to 60 countries related to his work with World Compassion.  He consults with in country leadership on location on a regular basis to provide ongoing direction for the work.  Joel Vesanen is a graduate of Oral Roberts University.  After graduating from ORU, Joel soon joined Living Sound, a music group founded by Terry Law, and ministered with Living Sound in some forty countries.   Living Sound pioneered work into the Soviet Union and other communist nations such as Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.