G321 is our Discipleship class for children and meets each Sunday evening at 5:00 pm. This 10 weeks the emphasis will be Missions. Our purpose is to lead children to be involved in the spread of the Gospel locally and abroad by praying, giving and doing. We will study Turkey and Uzbekistan this quarter, learning more about the missionaries and the work in those countries.
Your children will learn more about our missions partnership with Central Asia and Ecuador and about the missionaries serving there. Register your children for this fun missions learning experience by calling the church office or in your Adult Sunday School class.
We will need volunteers to help in the following areas:
Hygiene Kits Team, Children’s Ministry Team, Preschool Ministry Team, Grounds Teams, Hands of Christ Paint Team, Shepherd’s Staff Paint and Light Construction Teams, Housekeeping Teams, Servant Evangelism Team, Neighborhood Outreach Team, Friendship Mission Team
Sign up sheets available Sunday morning or you may call the church office at 272-2304 to sign up and reserve childcare.
Childcare provided by the Preschool Ministry Team (Please sign up). Mark this date on your calendar now and make plans to be involved in this day of service to our community. Sign up sheets will be available beginning Sunday, September 19.
Our Third Annual Global Missions Conference is September 10-12, 2010. It will take place on Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and evening, and both services as well as during the Sunday School and MIT hours on Sunday. As you know, we have recently adopted people groups and embarked on partnerships in three areas – the Reached, Unreached, and Last Frontier areas. This year we have the opportunity to have all of our missions partners at Morningview for our missions conference!
The term Reached refers to an area where over 2% of the population are believers. This term does not mean that the task of reaching people is complete, but it is simply a category that missiologists use to describe a population where the missionary task has surpassed the 2% mark and much of the focus is on discipleship. Our Ecuador seminary partnership falls into this category. Steve and Carol from Ecuador will be with us for our missions conference and you will have the opportunity to hear the latest about what is going on in Ecuador–specifically with the work at the Ecuador Seminary.
Another area of partnership is with the Unreached. While there are many individual unreached people around us, including here in Montgomery, this category refers to a people group or ethnic group where less than 2% of the population are believers. We have adopted an unreached people group in Central Asia, and our missions partner for our adopted people group, Ted, will be with us for our conference as well.
Our third missions partnership is with a Last Frontier group. A Last Frontier group is the term used when there is no gospel witness among a particular ethnic or people group and there is no work being done to reach them. Our Last Frontier group is also located in Central Asia, and we are partnering with Jeremy to reach them. Jeremy will also be with us during our missions conference, and we will get to hear more about the future of our partnership with him to reach this people group.
Ken will also be speaking, and I know you will appreciate hearing from him once more. There will be breakout sessions for adults, youth and children in K-6 grades. This will be an exciting opportunity for our children to hear directly from the missionaries for whom they have been praying. Childcare will be offered for those with nursery age children, but you must sign up for this. There will be fellowship dinners on Friday (5:15 pm) and Saturday (5:30 pm). Saturday’s dinner will be from Chick-fil-a and will also include a sampling of foods from the regions where our missionaries are serving.
This is an exciting time in the life of our church and we are blessed to have a senior pastor and staff who have a strong biblical understanding of missions and therefore have a passion for missions as well. Please make our Third Annual Global Missions Conference a priority and set aside September 10-12 to be with us. If you plan to attend either of the dinners or require childcare for the conference, please call the church office at 272-2304 to sign up. I am looking forward to seeing you at the conference.
Jonathan
You will be enriched in every way for all your generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. (2 Corinthians 9:11, ESV)
Save the dates for the Global Missions Conference: September 10-12.
Friday, September 10
5:15-8:00 pm
Saturday, September 11
3:00-7:00pm
Sunday, September 12
Regular Schedule Times
We are encouraging our church body to be in prayer daily for the upcoming mission trips. The first one will be in late May when four of our men will be traveling to Central Asia. Pray for them and their families and for the missionaries with whom they will working. Due to security concerns, we will not be publishing specific information about two of these trips, but you will be reminded often to pray.
RE: Community Missions Day and G321:Music Night
Dear Parents,
In case you haven’t already heard, we have some big plans for our community mission’s day on Saturday, March 27th.
While you go to your various areas of service, the children will be doing community missions by performing our G321:Music songs at a local nursing home, Crown Healthcare. In addition to this, we’ll be taking Continue reading
As of late, we have been putting a lot of emphasis on our global missions efforts — specifically the people groups we are considering for formal adoption by our congregation. These are exciting endeavors for our church family. But even as we consider these excellent works, we need to also keep an emphasis on gospel Continue reading
You will be enriched in every way for all your generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
(2 Corinthians 9:11, ESV)
The Ecuador missions trip will be June 18-26. Have you considered how God would have you be involved in this partnership this year? Will you send or will you go? Please be open to being involved in our Ecuador partnership this year and consider whether or not God would have you go on this trip or financially and prayerfully support those going.
