Mark Cizauskas speaking at the 2025 GARBC Conference at Harvest Bible Chapel.

I have always enjoyed attending the GARBC conferences. My wife and I have come for many years. We brought our kids when they were younger for many years, and they always enjoyed the youth programs and the friends they made, and all of that was a great joy.

I have found the fraternity of brother pastors that I’m able to be with at this conference to maybe be the greatest treasure for me—just seeing friends talking ministry, being together. I so enjoy that. . . .

Brother pastors, our calling is a privileged one.

Mark Cizauskas is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Rochester, Minn. This article is an edited transcript of a main session of the 2025 GARBC Conference.