Starting a Missions Culture in Your Church (AUDIO)
MTW West Coast recently hosted an Equip missions conference on the topic of "Launching Missions in Your Church." We will be posting several of these talks to the blog in the coming weeks. To listen to the full series of talks, visit our page on Soundcloud.
What is missions culture? We are not given the option to merely support missionaries dutifully, but commanded to co-suffer joyfully with them. In this session, "Starting a Missions Culture," Mark Bocanegra, pastor and missionary serving with MTW in Chiba, Japan, examines scripture to help answer the questions of “What is a missions culture?” and “How do you cultivate it?”
A missional church is a church that is obedient, self-denying, and joyful servant to the Lord of the harvest. Listen as Mark unpacks these three crucial elements through the lens of the Philippian and the Colossian church.
This seminar gives a basic overview of the foundational principles of missions culture. For a practical how-to guide, you may be interested in our resource, Establishing an Effective Missions Program. Or if you're in the Southwest area, you may want to consider attending one of our Advancing in Missions workshops.
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SEE MOREGive thanks for the past decade of missions and collaboration between MTW and MNA, and pray for the next 10 years for both agencies seeking to advance the gospel locally and globally.
Pray our the church revitalization efforts in England and Scotland as MTW missionaries come alongside UK national pastors to strengthen their efforts.
Give thanks for faithful missionaries who have spent their lives serving internationally in global missions.
Pray for parents in the unique challenges that come with raising kids on the mission field. Pray for missionary kids growing up as third culture kids.
Pray for those God is calling to serve internationally that they would hear clearly and heed His call.
Pray for Kharkiv Presbyterian Church in eastern Ukraine. Amid constant fighting, the church remains strong and retains a deep commitment to care for its community.
Pray that churches would actively live out the Great Commission, making disciples of non-Christians and sending workers into the field.
DAY 30: Pray for security and stability in Haiti.
DAY 29: Pray for a Bible translation project in rural North Africa.
DAY 28: Pray for new church planting opportunities in Sofia and Ruse, Bulgaria. And pray for wise, mature, and bold Bulgarian leadership to be raised up.
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