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I
strongly believe that biblically, missions rise out of
the local church. In the first century, the church in
Jerusalem sent Peter, Paul, Barnabas, Silas, and many
others to preach the gospel, make disciples, and plant
churches.
At SIM, we believe the Church is still called to be the
source of missions. As a mission organization, our job
is to partner with churches and equip them to fulfill
Christ's Commission. In addition, we partner the
church "here" with the church "there"
to form mutually beneficial relationships that strengthen
both churches and empower them for more effective ministries.
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The majority of American churches
today are not mobilized and effectively
engaged in missions. To address this
reality, SIM USA is launching a renewed
effort to partner directly with churches
to help them get mobilized into missions--to
"connect the church here with
the church there."
With guidance and vision from Joe Warring,
SIM's new Director of Church Partnership,
SIM has developed a powerful partnering
program that seeks to relationally connect
with churches, equip them to have value-added
impact, mobilize them in short-term
team projects, and empower them for
long-term effective partnership with
national churches in a mission field. |
Joe Warring,
Director of Church Partnership,
is passionate about waking up
the Church in America
to the importance of missions.
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The effort includes working with healthy
churches already engaged in missions, but
also has a strategic focus of partnering
with the majority of churches in the United
States which have no effective missions
involvement.
But reaching out to thousands of churches
across the United States with a robust training
and partnership program will require significant
new resources. Aside from building the infrastructure
needed, we also hope to subsidize the initial
cost for smaller church partners, allowing
them to reinvest into SIM with financial
support once the fruit of growth born from
a mission commitment is realized. We believe
this kingdom-minded investment approach
will pay eternal dividends as these partners
become mobilized and connected with our
national church partners overseas.
Please join us in praying that God will
provide the resources needed to fund this
worldwide effort. Pray also that God will
use our efforts
to mobilize the Church in America to more
effectively spread the gospel of Jesus Christ
around the world.
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