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MISSIONS: GETTING INVOLVED
The Mission Team has two areas of responsibility in enabling New Summit Church to fulfill this commitment:
- To oversee the spending of the congregation’s mission funds
- To communicate with the congregation, enabling them to personally support missionaries with prayer and encouragement, and to participate in some aspect of mission work if they desire
The list of ministries we give to is very small compared to the many requests received. This is because our giving is historically based on a commitment to the work of the denomination and other ministries based on a unique and personal knowledge of them by someone in the congregation or by the pastor. The team considers certain criteria when evaluating the support of a ministry.
A supported ministry should:
- Fit with New Summit Church vision, mission and values. We are especially concerned with value statement 4, which reads: "We believe that, as members of God’s family, we give and serve I our homes, our communities and our world."
- Fit with biblical principles of mission. I was hungry and you gave me something to drink, a stranger and you invited me in, needing clothes and you clothed me. (from Matthew 25:35-36).
- Provide information about program and financial responsibility. Ministry provides financial and program information. Communicates with the congregation or team.
- Concur with the team’s guidance and inspiration about the program. What character does this ministry demonstrate? After prayer, meditation, conversation, what is the consensus of the team?
- Have the congregation’ support. There are people in the congregation who support this ministry by participation or prayers and communication.
Anyone who attends New Summit can support missions. Here are some ways.
Help:
Join the Mission Team. We meet once a month and members take responsibility as they choose. Help with correspondence, contacts, filing, publicity, projects, and evaluation of financial requests is needed.
Encourage:
Participate in "Have a Heart" (Missionary pen pals). Be a contact person to a sponsored ministry by seeing how the church might be able to serve them and help setup the work project.
Love:
Volunteer at one of the sponsored organizations regularly or occasionally. Small groups could take on service projects.
Pray:
Pray for a missionary, mission project, world missions. Pray on the 27th of each month for peace in Israel/Palestine.
We are excited and grateful to be part of a congregation that works at living out a real commitment to mission in this world. This is the same world that our Lord Jesus loved enough to give the priceless gift of Himself.
Books to read to prepare for Mission Trips:
- Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence, by David Livermore.
- The Day That Everybody Ate, by Margaret Trost.
- Guidebook to the Road Less Traveled: Your Preparation Manual for Short Term Missions, by Kyle Faircloth.
- Called, by Lena Wood.
New Summit Mission Team:
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