Missions Ministry
In Acts 1:8, Jesus told the apostles, “ ... And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Surely we can deduce that the ends of the earth extend to the United States as well.
It is important that we stress the urgency of missions in America. Our country has an estimated 105 million lost souls. If we sit by and do nothing, there can be no doubt God will hold us accountable for letting these people die without Christ when it would have been so simple to share the gospel with them.
As congregations across America see the statistics of suicides, drug use, and false religions, and watch interviews where men and women of all ages and ethnicities deny the existence of our sovereign God, the monumental task before us becomes all too apparent to them.
U.S Missions home page
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How could such a small group of Christians even consider such a daunting task? Because their vision had been forged in the fires of Pentecostal revival! They believed Christ truly meant "... go into all the world and preach the gospel" (Mark 16:15, NKJV), and that the power of the Holy Spirit would enable them to do it. (Acts 1:8). From the outset, our Fellowship has been marked by a vision to reach all the world and a dependence on the Holy Spirit to do supernatural works.
One of the resolutions of the same meeting led to the creation of a missionary-sending agency. "Whereas, there have sprung up spontaneously ... Pentecostal centers, ... and ... moneys for missionary purposes are being sent to these several centers and distributed upon the missionary field, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Presbytery be instructed to seek to bring about a more perfect cooperation among these centers, in the matter of distribution of missionary funds and the sending out of missionaries, with a view to greater efficiency."
World Missions home page
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