Hope and Truth Shared Through Pentecost 2025
DALLAS – Inspired by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, the North American Division launched Pentecost 2025, a movement aimed at reigniting evangelism across the territory. The initiative challenges church members to share the Gospel in their communities. Across the Southwest Region Conference territory, pastors and members have been actively engaged in Pentecost 2025 initiatives to share these three God-ordained attributes.
Hope was shared at the Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist Church in San Antonio, where a Break Every Chain Revival was held, April 9-19. Led by the church’s pastor, Robert Norwood, and rooted in Luke 4:18, the revival centered on the power of prayer. The church transformed its parents’ room into a prayer space, where many individuals were prayed for and experienced a powerful spiritual renewal, breaking free from mental and emotional burdens.
One participant shared: “Growing up in the church, I always believed in God. I knew He was real. But I didn’t realize how much pain I was still carrying or how deeply negative spiritual influences had taken root in my life. I thought having faith was enough, but the truth was, I was still bound by wounds that I didn’t know how to heal and burdens that I didn’t know how to lay down. When I experienced deliverance through the prayer ministry of the Break Every Chain Revival, my life changed forever. For the first time, my entire life was prayed over—every season, every hidden hurt and every unspoken memory. I surrendered everything to God—my past, my pain, my mistakes, my identity and my future. I laid it all at His feet, and in return, God gave me hope and something I had never truly experienced before—freedom. The heavy chains of trauma and shame have fallen away.”
In the newly formed Northeast Louisiana Seventh-day Adventist Church—representing Monroe, Tallulah and Winnsboro—Pastor Wesley McNorton and church members have demonstrated compassion in their neighboring communities. In Tallulah, where access to clean water has been a challenge for more than a decade, underserved residents often rely on help from churches and nonprofit organizations. Choosing to be the sermon, rather than just preach one, the church gathered at Wright Elementary School on Sabbath, April 26, and distributed free Brita water pitchers and more than 200 cases of bottled water.
In Dallas, from March 22 through April 5, Southwest Region Conference President Carlton Byrd and members of the Dallas Project Church conducted the Good News Revival. Each evening, Byrd preached God’s Word with boldness and compassion, while church members displayed God’s love through various ministries and fellowship. As a result, 70 individuals gave their lives to Jesus and were baptized.
The Southwest Region Conference is experiencing Pentecost 2025 as hope, compassion and truth are actively being shared. And the year isn’t over. More opportunities remain to experience the power of God’s Spirit, fulfilling Acts 2:47: “And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”
By Leslie Soupet
Communications Director
