The Love Test

1. Here is a Test that we all need to take before going to Acuna.
3. It is not hard.
   It reveals the truth about ourselves.
4. It is VERY revealing.
5. It will encourage all to want to be obedient children of God and to begin growing.

Please take the time to take it. It will only last about 1-2 minutes.

Why It Matters That God Does Everything For His Own Glory

June 20, 2008 By: John Piper
Category: Commentary





Why should we emphasize that God loves, forgives, and saves for his own glory?

Two reasons (among others).

1) Because the Bible does.

I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. (Isaiah 43:25)

For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great. (Psalm 25:11)

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name's sake! (Psalm 79:9)

Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. (Jeremiah 14:7)

We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you. Do not spurn us, for your name's sake; do not dishonor your glorious throne. (Jeremiah 14:20-21)

God put [Christ] forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (Romans 3:25-26)

Your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. (1 John 2:12)

2. Because it makes clear that God loves us with the greatest love.

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory. (John 17:24)

God loves us not in a way that makes us supreme, but makes himself supreme. Heaven will not be a hall of mirrors but an increasing vision of infinite greatness. Getting to heaven and finding that we are supreme would be the ultimate let down.

The greatest love makes sure that God does everything in such a way as to uphold and magnify his own supremacy so that when we get there we have something to increase our joy forever—God’s glory.

The greatest love is God’s giving himself to us for our eternal enjoyment for ever, at the cost of his Son’s life (Romans 8:32).

Close Than You Might Think

When we go to Acuna, we will have the great honor of meeting a Christian who is from the very place this video was filmed...

Mexican Missionaries

The following article, found at IMB.ORG, describes what God is doing with the hispanic people right here in, and near Texas. He is sending dark skinned, dark haired and dark eyed brothers and sisters who will not draw attention to themselves like an anglo westerner would in the middle east. My prayer is that when Megan and I get to Queretaro, God will raise up a people there who will desire to go to the nations like the lady described below!



Missions movement expanding among Hispanics7/30/2007
By Sue Sprenkle
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Claudia Ramirez* knew God called her to the Arab world, but her small church tried to convince her otherwise.
The Spanish-speaking church bordering Texas and Mexico told the 20-something that Christian workers came to them, not the other way around. Ramirez disagreed, packed her bags and headed to North Africa.
“Our responsibility is to God’s people, and His people are all over the world,” Ramirez says, noting that her church’s attitude since has changed. “After spending two years here (North Africa), my church has totally grasped this idea of reaching the world. Their eyes have been opened to the world just from my obedience to go.”
Ramirez and her church are part of a growing missions movement among Spanish speakers in the United States. They are just one of 3,000 Southern Baptist Hispanic churches to become involved in missions outside of the Latin community.
In 1999, the International Mission Board reported having 29 Hispanic missionaries. Jason Carlisle, Hispanic mobilization consultant for the IMB, says these 29 were appointed over a 20-year period. By 2003, there were more than 100 Hispanic missionaries on the field. In 2006, there were 25 applicants to the board’s International Service Corps (ISC) program. In the first three months of 2007, the ISC program already had received 10 applicants.
Traditionally, Spanish-speaking churches reach out to their communities. Hispanic church leaders say that in the past decade, many started looking beyond the city limits to their home countries. A desire to share the Gospel with family members still living in their mother countries fueled volunteer trips to Latin America. From there, trips expanded to other areas of Latin America. A common language, Spanish, made it a natural fit.
Mauricio Alvarez, senior pastor of Casa de Vida para Las Naciones (House of Life for the Nations) in Greenacres, Fla., says the next stage of the missions movement is to look beyond language and take the Gospel to places where there is no Christian witness. Alvarez works with Southern Baptist Spanish-speaking churches to mobilize them for missions. His church includes 19 different Spanish-speaking nationalities, giving it a vested interest in the world.
“For years, missionaries have gone to Latin America or to work with Hispanics in the States,” says Alvarez, whose life was influenced as a young boy in Uruguay by Southern Baptist missionaries. “This example of missions has taken root among the Latin population. In the last 20 years, a missionary movement among Latinos started emerging. We began to realize that we can do missions and that it’s our responsibility, too.”
Bea Mesquias, a Woman’s Missionary Union leader from Harlingen, Texas, accepted the challenge to go beyond her comfort zone. Normally, she takes WMU groups on mission trips to Mexico. She says it’s a natural thing to do for the Spanish-speaking groups. However, the trip that made the greatest impact on her was her first in a non-Spanish-speaking country, Moldova. There, she saw poverty in Eastern Europe as she’s never experienced in Mexico. Moldovan women happily gave up their entire week’s ration of food to serve her a “proper” five-course Moldovan meal.
“It’s a totally different experience being in a place you can’t speak the language,” Mesquias says, as a new Moldovan friend who did not speak English or Spanish tightly hugs her neck. “I found out that you can express God’s love without talking. It’s in a look, in a smile or an embrace. We are all God’s children and need to experience His love.”
Alvarez’s first trip to North Africa also changed his view of missions. He says the North Africans looked like him – brown eyes, brown hair and olive skin. A mutual interest in international soccer teams quickly bonded them. He also found that the culture in most third-world countries is close to his own Latin culture, where interpersonal relationships are highly valued. One North African man commented to Alvarez’s volunteer team that every Latin volunteer he had met had a “special light and love” radiating from him. The eyes of one volunteer lit up as he realized the man referred to the love of Jesus Christ, giving him an opportunity to share the Gospel.
Carlisle says in the past few years, more Hispanic volunteer teams are taking trips to the unreached world. Several vision trips have been organized to introduce Hispanic volunteers to specific needs on the mission field in hopes that the vision for God’s kingdom will continue to expand. Carlisle says the vision is for more than just going, it’s also for prayer support and giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
Giving monetarily to support mission efforts is a growing trend among Hispanic churches, Carlisle says. In 2005, Iglesia Bautista El Calvario in Seymour, Ind ., was recognized as the church giving the highest amount per capita to the Lottie Moon offering. The 25-member church, which draws nearly double that number in attendance, collected $10,000 for the offering. Alvarez’s own church, with about 100 members, also is one of the highest giving churches per capita to the annual offering. Its Lottie Moon offering receipts for 2006 totaled $33,206.
“Latinos can do missions – it’s our responsibility to join God at work!” Alvarez says. “It is the time for us to work together in reaching the world for Christ.”
The opportunities are vast, from open evangelism in Senegal to training Nigerian churches how to evangelize in persecuted areas.
While in North Africa, a former Muslim man told Alvarez stories of being harassed in the markets and threatened for being a Christian. Despite threats he continues to spread the Gospel.
“I was struck by what these people give up to be Christians,” Alvarez says, admitting he also was struck by the man’s final request. “He told me, ‘Please tell your people to come help us.’”
*Name changed for security reasons.
Emily Peters and Jesse Lyautey contributed to this story.

How Rich We Are

From the standpoint of material wealth, we Americans have difficulty realizing how rich we are. Robert Heilbroner, who has written dozens of books on the subject of the economy, suggests that we go through a little mental exercise that will help us count our blessings. Imagine doing the following, and you will see how daily life is for more than a billion people in the world.

1. Take out all the furniture in your home except for one table and a couple of chairs. Use blanket and pads for beds.

2. Take away all of your clothing except for your oldest dress or suit, shirt or blouse. Leave only one pair of shoes.

3. Empty the pantry and the refrigerator except for a small bag of flour, some sugar and salt, a few potatoes, some onions, and a dish of dried beans.

4. Dismantle the bathroom, shut off the running water, and remove all the electrical wiring in your house.

5. Take away the house itself and move the family into the tool shed.


6. Place your “house” in a shantytown.

7. Cancel all subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, and book clubs. This is no great loss because now none of you can read anyway.

8. Leave only one radio for the whole shantytown.

9. Move the nearest hospital or clinic ten miles away and put a midwife in charge instead of a doctor.

10. Throw away your bankbooks, stock certificates, pension plans, and insurance policies. Leave the family a cash hoard of ten dollars.

11. Give the head of the family a few acres to cultivate on which he can raise a few hundred dollars of cash crops, of which one third will go to the landlord and one tenth to the money lenders.

12. Lop off twenty-five or more years in life expectancy.

By comparison how rich we are!

How would this situation affect the teaching methods, illustrations and activities used on a short-term mission trip?

The Word of God

Why Read The Bible?

Let's be honest, most Christians are familiar only with a number of stories in the Bible which they heard as a child or learned in Sunday School and perhaps the “Romans Road to Salvation.” They have the impression that the Bible, particularly the O.T., is a collection of stories about interesting people of faith and miraculous events. The Bible is more like a basket of fragments, so many loose grains of sand unconnected to each other, rather than the one story of the history redemption to them. They have been exhorted and encouraged to read the Bible many times and perhaps have done so once or twice, but because they see no unified message they usually fizzle out by Leviticus.

They read exciting things in the Bible about the Bible, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path," Ps. 119:105. It gives wisdom and understanding, 119:98, 99. Some verses declare how the Bible is a source of joy, Psalm 119:14, 47, 70, 162. Jeremiah 15:16 reads, “When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight....” The Thess-alonians “Welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit,” I Thess. 1:6. But somehow, it hardly ever becomes that to them.


They read glowing comments about the Bible from others. J.I. Packer wrote, "The Bible appears like a symphony orchestra with the Holy Ghost as its Toscanini; each instrument has been brought willingly, spontaneously, and creatively, to play his notes just as the great conductor desired....It is meant to be a constant means of enlightenment, enrichment, and encouragement, its dynamic influence bringing a deepening joy into our daily lives." But, if that’s the case, then most people must be tone deaf!
A significant stumbling block and discouragement in reading the Bible often arises either from an inadequate goal, an incorrect method, or an insufficient motive.

THE GOAL: WHAT does the Bible say?

Your goal is to know what the Bible says, what it means, and how to apply it. But, as we said, there doesn’t seem to be a unified message to the Bible. What is the relationship between the O.T. and the N.T.? Therefore, some Christians read the Bible merely for daily inspiration, or as a secret prophetic code to be deciphered and charted, or as a manual on soul winning, or just for finding solutions to personal problems. This is one of the reasons we finds so many different editions of the Bible directed to particular groups or subjects. Have you been to a Christian Bookstore lately? Here are some of the Bible now in print: the Woman’s Study Bible, the Prophecy Study Bible, the Word in Life Study Bible, the New Possibility Thinkers Bible, the Children’s Ministry Resource Bible, The Precious Moments Baby Bible, the Precious Moments Small Hands Edition, the Precious Moments Wedding Edition, the African Heritage Study Bible the New Explorers Bible, the Life Builders Study Bible, the Little Lamb N.T., the Spirit Filled Life Bible (plus, the Spirit Filled Bible for Students!), and my personal favorite the “Woman Thou Art Loosed Bible.” What’s wrong with this? It leads people, like the “red letter” editions (“I just like to read the words of Jesus”),instead of hearing the whole counsel of God to every person and every area of life, to simply read and apply a limited and narrow portion of the Bible (I know the whole Bible is in each of these editions). These are simply inadequate goals.

THE METHOD: HOW should we read

and study the Bible?

You started reading in Genesis but were defeated by the time you got to Leviticus. Is that where you should have started? Or, maybe you became discouraged because of all the different translations or interpretations; you didn’t know which one to buy or trust. Also, why read the Bible when everybody disagrees about what the Bible teaches. Plus, you were discouraged when you tried reading and interpreting the Bible for yourself but someone pointed out that what you thought this or that verse meant was wrong! Perhaps your method of reading and studying was incorrect.

THE MOTIVE: WHY should we read

and study the Bible?

Perhaps your GOAL was to read, understand, and apply the whole Bible, your METHOD was sound, but in the end, your MOTIVE was insufficient and inadequate to cause you to persevere.
Few Christians would take the approach of the man who said, “I read the Bible once – why read it again?” But you may think you know what the Bible says so you don’t need to read it as much or as often any longer. Perhaps your motive is just to reinforce what you already believe or just to impress others in Sunday School or in a Bible Study with how much of the Bible you know. Maybe you just read the Bible to defeat or argue with others who don’t agree with you or your church. Perhaps your motives are too narrow, like the ones described above under the Goal, just reading the Bible to answer a personal question, for a devotional thought, etc.

WHY SHOULD YOU READ THE BIBLE?

Do you realize that tape-recorded readings of the Bible have demonstrated that a person can read through the entire Bible in 72 hours?! That’s only 3 days! The average person watches that much television in less than two weeks. In no more than 15 minutes a day you can read through the entire Bible in less than a year. So the real issue in not the time, it is a lack of motivation and discipline!

Perhaps you can remember when you first became a Christian and you couldn’t read the Bible enough. At one time you may have been like David in Psalm 119, verses 97,105, 98-100, 103, and 115. When’s the last time you read your Bible or made a commitment to read the Bible every day or through the whole Bible in a year? What’s happened? Why do we fail to read the Bible more than we do? Why have you lost that zeal, excitement, commitment, and self-discipline to read the Bible? It’s not uncommon for the excitement to wear off, even for people who have been Christians for years. John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrims Progress, confessed, “I have sometimes seen more in a line of the Bible than I could well tell how to stand under, and yet at another time the whole Bible hath been to me as dry as a stick”? Perhaps you have just become dependent upon and satisfied with a sermon on Sunday morning once a week, a very dangerous attitude to have. A part of the problem is that we don’t have sufficient biblical motives!

MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE!

Deuteronomy 8:1-6, quoted from by Jesus during His temptation recorded in Mat. 4:1-11 sets before us the most significant biblical motive: “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God!”

In Deut., God had said to be careful to obey my word. This is “Deutero” – “second,” “nomy” – “law,” the second time the law has been given to the nation of Israel. The first time was on Mt. Sinai, Ex. 19-20. But that generation failed to enter in to the land of promise because of unbelief and disobedience, Dt. 1:26, 32, 9:23. The refusal of the people to enter the land was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The people of God had tempted Him ten times, Num. 14:22. They wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. Now the 40 years of wandering are over, a new generation has arisen, and in Dt. 8, as the people of God stand perched to enter the land of Promise, God calls this new generation to be faithful, to believe and obey His word.

In 8:2, God said He fed you with manna to teach you that we do not live by bread alone but by the Word of God. Manna was not food provided by their own labor or strength – but by God, the Word of God. It came at God’s commandment. It did not fall on the Sabbath to show that God is able to provide for His people. They do not have to labor on the Sabbath to provide sufficient food for themselves. The bread you need on the Sabbath is the bread of the Lord’s Supper. God is making it plain that God and obedience to the word of God is the basis for life. Man lives by the blessing of God, not by bread, and God is the one who provides the bread and we need, and so we live by every word and the will of God. We depend upon God. See Deut. 30:15-20.

The manna taught Israel that it is only as a person is obedient to God’s sovereign word, the ultimate source of life, that he finds true and lasting life. Moses himself lived and died according to the Word of God, Dt. 34:5. Mary said “Let it be unto me according to thy word,” Luke 1:38. In Luke 2:29, Simeon said, “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word.” Man lives and dies by the word of God! That’s the lesson we must learn. We are to live according to the Word of God and we live as we live according to the word and will of God.

Now, Jesus, like Israel, is being tempted, tested, in respect to obedience to God’s word. God had said to Israel that if they obeyed they would receive blessings, Dt. 28:1. But they did not obey and, therefore, they did not received the blessings of God. They wandered in the wilderness for 40 years eating manna which came by the Word of God to learn that man does not live by bread alone but the word of God. That generation did not enter into the promised land because of a lack of faith and disobedience to the Word of God.

Now, Jesus, the son of David, the son of Abraham, is God’s Son, Mat. 1:1, 3:17, Ex. 3:10, 5:23. The kingdom of heaven was now at hand! (Mat. 3:3). But like Israel, since he represents Israel and is an Israelite Himself, He too must be tested first. And so, like Israel, he is tempted and tested in the wilderness. But unlike Israel, he is faithful to the Word and will of God. He quotes and lives by God’s word, Deut. 8. You should also remember that even after Deut., the second giving of the law in preparation for entering the land and the conquest of the land under Joshua, the people of God throughout the rest of the O.T. era continued to fail to live by faith and be obedient. Priests were not holy, kings were not just and served themselves, and prophets spoke lies. They trusted in alliances with foreign kings and worshiped other gods.

Now, Jesus, the Messiah, the Christ, has come to inaugurate the kingdom, but He, unlike Israel of old, is faithful and obedient, inheriting the promises and making those who like Abraham, Jews and Gentiles, who believe in Him the heirs of those promises, Gal. 3. And even Like Moses who fasted for 40 days before giving the law, Dt. 9:9, so Jesus, the Son of David and Abraham, in His temptation, fasted for 40 days before repromulgating the law in the Sermon on the Mount, Mat. 5, scraping away the Pharisaical encrustations, and revealing the deeper intent of the law. Then, having passed the test, he begins preaching, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand,” Mat. 4:17, 23. Because he was obedient and faithful, there is no wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, no postponement, but inauguration! But, like Israel, those who do not repent, believe, and obey will not inherit the promises, but those, like those Israelites who did, the remnant, they shall enter and possess the kingdom!

Satan tempted Jesus saying, to paraphrase, “If you are God’s son…use your power to save yourself from this hunger; end your suffering. We have to live don’t we? The end justifies the means! Exploit your Messiahship for self serving ends.” But, just like later at the cross, if Jesus does not obey the Word of God, if He saves Himself, He cannot save us! He must do the will of His Father, not his own will.

Jesus embodied the principle of obedience to God’s Word, of living by the Word of God. Jesus did not live by bread alone but by every Word of God.

Why must we read the Bible? Because, man does not live by bread alone, but by the Word of God!

Loui Giglio-Indescribeable

Indescribeable

You Are Not A God

How Geat Is Our God

Acuna, Mexico

I found this video as I was surfing the internet today. Though it is unlikely that we will see poverty such as this, it will still give you a good idea of what we will experience in Acuna.

The Great Need

The link provided HERE. Is an excellent resource for explaining the need of preaching the Word. This is what we hope to be doing in Acuna, so I pray that you will take the time to read it.

As well you get a bonus in that it helps direct you to the type of pastor Evant needs; one who will preach the Word, one who will be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Tim 2:3-4

God Centered Missions vs. Man Centered Missions

God-centered Mission

vs.

Man-centered Missions

As we will see in the graph below, mission must be Theo-centric
(God-centered), because God is the source, means, and content of mission.
The mission is God’s mission and not, as we often say, the Church’s mission.

Categories God-centered Mission
Man-centered Missions

I. The Goal

The chief purpose of the Church’s Mission is to bring glory to God.
Glory is brought to God when every nation, tribe, and tongue find their delight in worshipping God.
The salvation of souls is certainly a goal in mission. When we look at souls, however, we desire not only that they are saved from hell, but saved for heaven.

In man-centered missions’ the salvation of the lost is seen as the main purpose of missions. Men & women are dying without Christ, and so we must bring them the good news.
This is so true, but it shows salvation only as removing the negative.

II. What drives us?

People deserve to be damned, but Jesus, the suffering Lamb of God, deserves the reward of His suffering." from Let the Nations. p.39
We go out because we love Christ, and we desire that others would love Him too. (Of course we are also to desire that the lost would be saved and that they find true fulfillment in God.)

Man deserves hell. It is often difficult to develop a love for the lost world, as the lost are so unlovely. To love the sinner who hates both God and Christians is very difficult.

III. Worship

Worship of the Triune God is both the fuel and the goal of missions. Mission exists because worship does not. In heaven there will be no need for missions, but we will be worshipping God for eternity. (Rev. 5:8-14)

In man-centered missions, worship is often seen as only a secondary activity, not as important as missions.

IV. Missions? or Mission?

There is only ONE mission of the Church: to bring glory to God by proclaiming the Gospel and reaping the harvest of souls which will worship and delight in God forever.

There are numerous missions’ plural, because there are numerous souls to save.

V. Bricks or Cathedrals?

The big-picture’ bricklayer constantly envisions the cathedral that he has a privilege to play a part in building. So the God-centered missionary envisions the kingdom of God which he is engaged in building.

The little-picture’ bricklayer only sees the bricks and the mortar. The work becomes drudgery. So it is with the man-centered missionary, who when he is rejected or encounters trials or failures, cannot look beyond to see the hand of God in it all.

VI. Work with or for Christ

We are not working for’ Christ as much as we are working with’ Christ. (Matthew 28:20b)

In this view, we focus on our job, what we can do for’ Christ.

VII. Human worth

Human worth is not diminished by being God-centered. Instead, it is established. That is, when we focus on God who alone has worth in Himself, and we understand that we are created in His image, this brings us great worth.

Man has no worth in and of himself, and being man-centered in one’s approach to anything is ultimately futile.

VIII. Humility Vs. Pride

Though he thanks God for the opportunity to serve Him and desires to accomplish great things for God, the God-centered missionary knows that he is replaceable. He is a tool in God’s hand, and God can choose to discard’ him when God pleases. This brings about humility.

Again, the man-centered missionary is on his own mission or various missions, and without him the venture would fall apart. The tendency is toward a Lone Ranger’ mentality. This fosters pride.

IX. Prayer

Colossians 4:2-4 Only God can open man’s hearts, so we must ever be in prayer when we are engaged in mission work. Methods are important, but only after you pray and get the message straight.

Man is pursued with any method or technique that will get him to listen, to open his heart’. The problem, only God can open a man’s heart.
Prayer takes a back seat to the methods, and the message is often compromised.

X. Evangelism

We focus on our faithfulness to the message, allowing God to change hearts. (I Cor 3:5-8) We have no reason to boast for our successes’ except to boast in the Lord. Those who reject the Gospel are not rejecting us, but God.
A side note: though we must allow the Gospel to be offensive (the innocent God-man dying for wretched sinners), we must not add our own offensiveness to the mix.

The focus in on persuasion & results, because anyone’s heart can be opened if we have the right key.’ We are seen as failures if the person doesn’t choose Christ. Successful’ evangelists have reasons to boast, because they persuade people to choose Christ. Method and delivery are exalted above content. Offensive doctrines like eternal judgment’ and total depravity’ are avoided, so as not to drive away seekers.’ (Obviously there is no true gospel where sin & hell aren’t preached).

XI. Success & Failure

Success is guaranteed, because it is God who will build the church.
(I Cor 3:4-6 , Matt. 16:18)
This is not to say that man has no role in God’s mission. Man is used as an instrument in the hands of God.
(Isaiah 18:6, II Corinthians 4:7)
Even our failures are used by God as successes (Gen 50:20, Rom11:33-36)

Success is questionable, since it missions is seen as man’s mission, and humans make mistakes.
With a man-centered viewpoint, when we succeed, we tend to become prideful, and when we fail, we tend to get defeated.

XII. How great a sacrifice?

Though to the world it appears as if you have made a great sacrifice, when we focus on the sacrifice that Christ paid for us and the benefits that He gave to us, our sacrifice is minimal. (See Matt 13:44-46)

With the wrong perspective, the sacrifice becomes unbearable, and when too much rejection, too much hardship comes, the man-centered missionary is more likely to give up.

Is Your Church Mission Minded?

The following post can be found at SBC Impact!

Many congregations throughout the Southern Baptist Convention along with many other evangelical churches have the desire to be described as “missions-minded” churches. There is a well intentioned yearning to impact eternity with their efforts in global evangelization and ministry. This description of being a missions-minded church can also provide a sense of confirmation to congregation’s efforts in response to the Great Commission and to Acts 1:8.
But what does it mean when it is said of a church that they are missions-minded?...
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EVANT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

EFBC On MISSION
Let it be known that it appears that 12 members of the Evant First Baptist Church (that is between 20 and 25% of the entire body) will be taking their first mission trip outside the country. This trip will be the first trip of this nature sent out by EFBC in at least 30 years...maybe ever.
20-25%, what an incredible number!

What is even more amazing is that only one of the 13 who wil be going is a youth!!! I am 40 years old, and if I am not mistaken, I am the second youngest who will be going on this trip...Praise God for the crowns of splendor! Also, only two of the 13 who have signed up to go have ever been on a mission trip outside the United States. Ask the Lord to allow us all to see His greatness through this trip. May He make our hearts become desperate for Him. May we all rejoice at the work that He is doing in Evant, Texas!