The Chapel - OUR MISSION: Bring The Good News To Our World
Jesus’ final recorded words were: “you will be my witnesses…to the ends of the earth.”
What an amazing responsibility for a small group of around 120 people who were fighting for their very survival. It would have been easy for them to put global initiatives way down on their agenda. But God made sure they didn’t! Just seven weeks after the church began, something miraculous happened – “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them ability.” (Acts 2:5) People gathered in Jerusalem from every country in the world heard the wonderful things God had done, and many became Jesus followers. World missions had begun!
God is seriously concerned about people everywhere. Jesus’ death on the cross was for everyone: “Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Acts 2:21) Reaching the world with the Good News is the responsibility of every person, not just a few dedicated, unusual people willing to leave home to take the salvation message across relational and geographical barriers.
Right from the beginning, The Chapel has been concerned with helping bring the Good News about Jesus to people in every culture, in every nation of the world. But we’ve only just begun. Over the next years, we need to become more involved globally. We have adopted the PEACE Plan from Saddleback church as a foundation for our efforts.
Over the next 20 years we want to intentionally:
Plant churches
Equip leaders
Assist the poor
Care for the sick
Educate the children
…in as many parts of the world as we can.
What will this take?
- We need to form partnerships with those who are making a difference globally and join them in their work.
- We need to encourage and support some from our church family to full time missions.
- We need to send short term missions teams around the world
- We need to increase our resources to support these global endeavors.
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