Monday, February 21, 2005
OPPORTUNITIES TO KEEP OUR CHURCH’S FOCUS BALANCED
To keep our church from becoming too inwardly focused God has brought some wonderful local and world mission opportunities to our church. We want to keep our commitment to be faithful to God’s call to world evangelism.
One of our college students will be going to Costa Rica on a mission endeavor through his College in May.
A couple of our young adults are going on a short-term mission trip to the Ukraine in June.
Also in June five of our high school youth and six adults are going on a short-term mission work project to the state of Pennsylvania.
One of the young adults going to the Ukraine in June will be going to the Ukraine long-term) 2-3 years) as soon as she has raised her support.
These mission trips will give our church an opportunity to become more knowledgeable in effectively supporting missions not only with our money but in other ways as well. There is more to supporting a missionary (or missionaries) than just sending money every month. We are going to use these opportunities to educate our congregation on how best to go about supporting missions—especially those of our own congregation.
I am thrilled because this balance will hopefully keep us from being selfish and interested only in doing for ourselves. Some would say this is bad timing to be adding on to our building and thinking about supporting these mission activities at the same time. But I see it as God’s timing to keep us from becoming self-centered.
And God is doing other things in our church, too. But I’ll save those things for another post.
Jim
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