Our second year Faith Promise increased 10% w i t h a much broader base o f participation. To keep our missionary concerns be fore our people, all o f our Sunday School departments meet a mis sionary every month. Our weekly church paper has devoted a page to interesting mission news, ex cerpts from letters and a financial report. Prayer is a vital ministry in missions; hence we include a prayer calendar fo r the week in each bulletin. A mission display cabinet in our foyer is a silent, but attractive witness, to the peo ple o f what their mission dollars are doing to win people to Christ. The primary p u r p o s e o f a strong missionary program is to take Christ to a needy world, not to build the local church. Yet we have found our church strength ened and grow ing because o f our new involvement in world evan gelization. New prayer concern and grow ing faith can be seen. There is a victory every time someone discovers he cannot out- give God. A new spirit o f gener osity is a common result o f trust ing God fo r a special g ift fo r
missions. Some have discovered they too can be missionaries right here at home by becoming part o f a street meeting with Open A ir Campaigners or partici pating in Campus Crusade evan gelistic thrusts. Several young people have been challenged to enter some phase o f the Lord’s service by the constant presenta tion o f the need o f the world and oui commission to meet it. It is thrilling to see G od w ork ! One couple’s income from overtime was the exact amount o f their Faith Promise fo r the year. Another couple received the pay ment o f a loan they had crossed off as hopeless years before. A young c o l l e g e girl wrote, “ I thank God fo r your church’s mis sionary p rog ram ; through it I learned the meaning o f giving.” There is no jo y like seeing God answering prayer. In planning fo r our monthly missionary emphasis this year, our committee gained fo r ty fer tile ideas fo r promoting missions in one short brainstorming ses sion. This year film has been sent to our missionaries so that we can feature new color slides dur ing our conference. Personal con tact between our people and mis sionaries is being encouraged by promoting f e l l o w s h i p dinners with a missionary couple as spe cial guests. Our committee is concerned with making our whole congregation missionaries. To im plement this, every fam ily is be ing given an opportunity to be come a Christian friend to an in ternational student and also to participate in a door - to - door evangelism program. For seven years we dabbled with missions and saw little hap pen. Then when we cut the rope and launched out into the deep, we saw God work in a new way. Here is where you find the excite ment in service fo r Christ. Be come involved in world evange lization, that which is dearest to the heart o f God, and you will see Him use you and your church in a new way.
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