missions

In 1886, evangelist D.L. Moody and campus minister Luther Wishard invited two delegates from each college across America to a month-long Christian conference at Moody’s residence in Mount Hermon, Massachusetts. Little did they know that what was about to take place would catalyze the largest student missions movement in world history.

While not every Christian is called to be sent internationally as an overseas missionary, every Christian is Biblically responsible to pray for the cause of world missions. John Piper said, “There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.”

We go in the name of the ONE having all authority – in heaven and on earth. We receive the power of the Holy Spirit as we go – to the people in our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria (“enemies” nearby), and the ends of the earth.

"Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told." - Habakkuk 1:5

As this nation languishes in the exposure and consequences of our historic inefficacies, fresh trauma threatens to impact the trajectory of young ethnic minorities to come. However, I believe there is a redemptive purpose to our generational pain, a transcendent wisdom within our conundrum, and a glorious future beyond the perplexity of today.

Huddled together beneath a haystack to keep dry in the sudden spring rain shower, Samuel Mills and four young men’s hearts raced as they discussed the great task before them: the evangelization of the “heathen world.” Sheer belief and whispered prayers sparked the greatest surge in foreign missions the world has ever seen. The refrain: “We can do this, if we will.”