Mathew 9:37-38
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
Matthew 25:36-37
“for I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me;”
MISSION STATEMENT: Through the Preaching and Teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and providing a place of refuge and fellowship, we will establish a people through the Power of God’s Spirit rooted in these three things: Faith, Hope and Love. According to the “Great Commission”, occupying and advancing the Kingdom of God until He comes.
VISION STATEMENT: To establish an international and local ministry that focuses on the unreached and exposing them to the goods news of the Kingdom of God. To establish a congregation that’s committed to transcending beyond the walls and into the true mission fields. Therefore, pursuing the heart of God, to reap His harvest of souls and tend to their needs.
TARGET:
- Orphans, street children, women, aged, etc.
- Locally and globally
a. Hispanic community
b. Third world countries (i.e., Liberia, Ghana, and other African countries)
ISSUES:
- Education
- HIV-AIDS
- Women’s issues
a. Political status
b. Economic status
c. Healthcare
d. Empowerment - Illegal immigrants/Illegal trafficking (child prostitution)
- foreign assistance (other missions)
DIRECTOR OF MISSIONS: SHANTEL DANIELS
MISSIONS COMMITTEE: PASTOR LOU, ELDER VICTORIA, ANGEL JACKSON
Supporting Missions in the Church and Home
What My Father’s House Christian Church International can do:
Have a functioning missions committee.
Have a faith promise giving program for missions.
Have men’s and women’s groups with a focus on missions.
Invite a missionary speaker for worship service.
Provide lodging and opportunity for service to graduating Bible college students who plan to go to the mission field. This will give them valuable experience before going on deputation.
Provide housing and transportation for missionaries on furlough, especially those sent out by your church.
Give generously to visiting missionaries (even if we can not take them on for support, we can still help them with an excellent love offering).
Help the visiting missionary with maintaining their automobile, etc. Provide them with an oil change. Check to see if they need tires or other auto work, then get together with several church (family) members and pay for the work.
Have something special for missionary children when their parents are visiting your church.
Organize a mission’s trip for interested church members.
Send a construction team to help a missionary with a project on the field.
Have a section of the Sunday bulletin dedicated to missions
Pray for our missions and missionaries during intercessory, tell their specific prayer requests.
Communicate regularly with the missionaries the church supports. Have members of the church “adopt” a missionary family for a year and communicate with them (including E-mail) to encourage them and to keep them informed of “back home.” Send them birthday and anniversary cards, “care packages,” news about the church including the church bulletin, a photo(s) of a special church event, etc. Also encourage young persons to be pen pals with missionary children of their own age.
List the missionaries which the church helps support in a special section of the church directory.
Maintain a church Web site with a special section on the missionaries the church helps support including mail and E-mail addresses. If the missionary or their sending agency or church maintains a Web site, provide a link to it.
Have a church missions bulletin board where prayer letters, etc. are posted and where there is a world map indicating location of the missionaries the church helps support.
Have an annual missions conference or a missions emphasis month
What the family members can do:
Pray for missionaries during personal prayer time as well as during family worship time. Keep a list of missionaries and pray for 2 or 3 of them each day.
Read true missionary stories and biographies of missionaries as part of family worship time.
“Adopt” a missionary family or two (perhaps one you have had in your home for dinner when they were on deputation or furlough); sincerely care for and fervently pray for them.
Regularly write, E-mail, or phone a missionary (get your children involved as well in writing to the Missionary Kid’s.)
Send birthday, anniversary, and Christmas cards (again, do not forget the MK’s and to get your children involved too).
Send care packages.
Attend all the services in which missionaries are speaking and/or presenting their ministry.
Show hospitality to visiting missionaries on deputation or furlough (be willing to help where needed).
Give visiting missionaries prepaid phone cards.
Instead of trading in your car, donate it to your church for missionary use; or let a missionary family use an extra car (in good condition) while they are home on furlough.
Open your home during vacations and summers to MK’s attending Christian college “home side” and help them find short-time employment if needed.
If the missionaries have elderly relatives living in your area, offer to provide them help and support on behalf of the missionary.
Host and provide meals for visiting missionaries and their families (you and your family will be richly blessed!).
Give generously to missionary projects and love offerings for visiting missionaries.
Volunteer to serve on the missions committee.
Volunteer to maintain the Mission’s bulletin board.
Photos from 1st mission trip >>