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Ajith FernandoAjith Fernando

National Director,
Youth for Christ
Sri Lanka

Ajith Fernando has been the National Director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka since 1976. He is regularly involved in teaching ministry with staff and volunteers, pastoral care of leaders, supervising Youth Guidance and YFC’s drug rehabilitation ministry. He is also a visiting lecturer in Biblical Studies at Colombo Theological Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and several other theological seminaries in Asia-Pacific and North America.

In addition to lecturing and speaking at conferences in Sri Lanka, Dr. Fernando has authored 11 books, found in 11 languages, including: The Supremacy of Christ; NIV Application Commentary on Acts; Sharing the Truth in Love; Jesus Driven Ministry; and is presently working on a preaching commentary on Deuteronomy. Dr. Fernando has spoken several times at previous Urbana conventions, and will serve Urbana 06 as the Bible expositor for the book of Ephesians in the plenary sessions.

 

 
 

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"Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!" "I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life." "

Mark 10:28-30 (NIV)

 
 

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