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The Missions Committee
The Missions Committee has oversight of the missions focus and activities of our Church. Our Church Constitution states, “This Committee shall consist of twelve members, two of whom shall be the Women on Missions Director, and Brotherhood Director. It shall be the duty of this Committee to keep the Church active in mission programs, whether establishing new work, supporting existing work, or being alert to missions extension work in any needed area. This Committee shall coordinate all Church-wide missions.” Our present Committee members and their tenure can be found in the members only section, Leadership Directory, by logging in from the home page. Or you can contact the chairman, Graham Walker at (407) 774-2490.
HOW DO WE EMBRACE THE WORLD ?
By praying, giving and going!
Our primary partner in this process is the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
The Global Missions Offering of CBF is the primary way our field personnel are funded. Through this offering, we partner with others to do things we could not do alone!
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s annual global missions expenditures exceed $11 million….which enables us to support 150 missionary personnel and field work around the world.
We minister in China, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East , India, and North America. However, some of our missionaries have had to cut back on ministry opportunities because they lack the funds they need. THEY COULD DO MORE!
At College Part Baptist Church our World-Wide Missions Offering Goal is $60,000 for 2007-08. Of this amount, $42,500 will go to CBF as our part of the Global Missions Offering; 100% of this offering supports field missionaries and their ministries.
Our missionaries work among the most neglected and economically disadvantaged peoples of the world, where a little goes a long way for them.
- Just .33 cents would provide a bread and yogurt lunch for an orphan child in Macedonia.
- $50. provides a new baby welcome for Albania House ministries in Greece…
- $100. buys a healthy pig for the backyard enterprise of a poor farmer in Thailand…
- $135. covers the cost of a nurse for 1 month on a medical boat in SE Asia….
- $250. provides one semester of schooling for a student in a Chinese seminary
- $1200. will provide milk for 30 street children in Indonesia for a year…..
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In 2005 we launched a ten-year focus on projects initiated by CBF missionaries in Kenya, Africa. Our World Wide offering goal this year also includes $10,000 to help Kenyans operate and maintain the ICDC School we built last year: it will provide bee hives, dam construction, and tree nurseries for economic development.
$5,000 will enable us to partner with Sports Friends Ethiopia, a vibrant ministry to young people. $2,500 will provide another much needed water well in Ethiopia, where only 20% of the people have good water to drink.
Another way we can Embrace The World is to give regularly through our Church operating budget. The mission section of our 2007-08 operating budget is $125,000. This will meet many local and other missions needs – including English Literacy and Bible study, Parents’ Night Out at Arnold Palmer Hospital, Christian Service Center, Jail Ministry, Disaster Assistance, Open House Ministries, Touching Miami With Love in Florida; Hope Child (Africa), Barry Hall family, (Brazil) Betty Ratliff (Zambia), Baptist World Alliance, Emergency Missions, Habitat for Humanity, and more!
Just look around at our annual missions fair and see some of our mission projects and find ways you can get involved! Be sure and pick up a copy of HANDS ON – Missions Projects to Bless Others, our guide with names and contact information on how you can connect!
Let us pray that through all of these efforts, the voice of Jesus may be heard again declaring, “As the Father has sent me, so send I you.” (John 20:21); pray that He will give you a personal passion to EMBRACE THE WORLD.
PRAY - GIVE - GO
PRAY: In Matthew 9:35-38, we learn that Jesus saw crowds wherever he went with compassion for they were as sheep without a shepherd. Then he noted that the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. His solution was for his disciples to pray that the Lord of the harvest would thrust forth laborers into his harvest field. Christians are not to simply rush out on our own to do good things, but to pray for his revelation of who, what and where he would have us to be involved. When he calls and we are available, he empowers us to be all and do all that he requires. Also, we need to pray for the world’s peoples, their needs and peace; for our missionaries and their families; our church, for her vision, priorities and obedience; and ourselves, to care, to listen, hear, discern, obey and be available! The more we pray, God blesses and expands our horrizons!
GIVE: We all have much to give. Romans 12:1 calls us all to give ourselves as a living offering to God! When we do this, he chooses what he wants and when; he sets our priorities!. . . . we hold ourselves in trust as stewards for him!
GO: In Matthew 28:19, Jesus said for us to go and make disciples. When we go in obedience to him, Jesus opens all the doors and enables us to be all and do all that he requires for he has promised in verse 20 to be with us always! As you consider the opportunities God may be opening to you, please consider the following possibilities that he has already provided for others in our Church fellowship; he may be calling you to join them. God will bless as you go!
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