Missions
Good morning One Hope,
As I am away enjoying some time with family before my kids go back to school, I am pleased to welcome Jill Lowery from International Missions. International Missions is one of our mission agencies that we support. In so doing, we are able to help financially support missions world-wide.
As we welcome Jill and hear an update on how our partnership is impacting the mission field and helping to fulfil the Great Commission, I want to highlight four key distinctives of IM that align with our mission at One Hope:
1. We respond to God’s call as Jesus taught us and as the Holy Spirit leads us
IM seeks to embody the example of Jesus who met the poor and marginalized where they lived. We align with the creative power and still small voice of the Holy Spirit embodied in our global servants and partners.
2. It is with flexibility, focus and investment that our work centers on persons and partnerships
We focus on discipleship and education, work for peace and justice, advocate for those caught in human trafficking and global slavery, nurture economic and community development and offer opportunities for all to participate in our work. Our faith and openness to innovation drives us.
3. Global Servants sustain and fuel our mission movement
Our dynamic, relational and incarnational global servants are answering the call. They are deciphering global need and helping to usher in God’s reign of peace where justice prevails, through their sacrificial and transformative ministries. They have accessed a unique call on their lives to grow and steward our mission.
4. We’ve been responding for centuries
We are the oldest Baptist international mission agency in North America, true to the gospel, faithfully innovating and sharing God’s love. IM has both connectedness to heritage and creative exploration and inventiveness in ministry.
I pray that you are encouraged by Jill’s mission update this morning and inspired to continue to work the Great Commission where God has called you personally to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ and disciple others.
In His Service,
Pastor Patrick