Our aim in global missions is to proclaim Christ in order to establish reproducing, indigenous churches among the world’s least reached peoples. It’s God’s mission for his glory, and he gives the church the mission of proclaiming that glory.
Sunday, October 5, is the beginning of Global Outreach Week (GO Week), our annual focus for two Sundays on the mission of the church to make disciples of all nations. GO Week will be bookended as always by two sermons, this year from Acts 13 and 14, looking at Paul’s first missionary church. We’ll look at those passages together to learn God’s plan for the local church being the means and end of missions.
There are also a few other opportunities during the week.
Sunday Morning, October 5, Kids in the Cave
Children in 1st through 3rd grade are invited to Kids in the Cave during the morning service for a special time learning about global missions. Among other activities, they’ll watch together The Gladys Aylward Story from The Torchlighters: Heroes of the Faith series. Gladys was a missionary to China during World War II. She was a woman small in stature but mighty in faith, and the Lord used her to spread the hope of Christ to lost and hurting people.
Sunday, October 5, 4:30 p.m., Missions Movie Night
The Apostle Paul’s ambition was to preach the gospel where Christ had not already been named (Rom. 15:20). Do places and people like that still exist today? And how does the gospel get to those people? Join us in the Fellowship Hall as we watch the true story of a Scottish pastor, John Paton, risk everything to make disciples and plant a church among a cannibalistic tribe of the South Pacific. Come watch Brooks Buser, an accountant from California take his wife and son to a small tribe in Papua New Guinea to learn their language, translate the Bible, proclaim the gospel, plant a church, and return to the USA having raised up elders to lead that body.
Shepherding Groups are encouraged to attend together and visit one of the international restaurants listed below afterward.
Saturday, October 11, 8:00 a.m., Men’s Breakfast
All Heritage men and their sons are invited to our annual Men’s Breakfast. We’re privileged to host Jeremy Farmer, one of our church’s longtime supported workers in Asia. Come share a meal together and then hear from Jeremy about how the Lord is at work in and through him to make disciples and establish a local church. Sign up today to reserve your spot.
Sunday, October 12, 4:30 p.m., Evening Prayer
Our regularly scheduled time of prayer together will include specific ways we can be praying for God to be at work in missionaries sent by Heritage, along with those we also support, and for the people they are all working to reach with the gospel.
Taste of the Nations in Greenville
You might not be able to go to the nations this week, but you can get a taste of other cultures and pray for the nations, all without leaving Greenville at international restaurants here in our city. Grab a friend, your family, or your shepherding group during GO Week to enjoy some wonderful food, experience a different culture, and pray for progress of the gospel among those people.
Plan to attend one or all of these special opportunities as we celebrate the work God is doing to spread his glory throughout the earth.
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