The following story comes from the upcoming issue of Onward scheduled to arrive at mailboxes in Canada and the US in the coming weeks.
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Over the past several years, the North American Baptist Conference has worked diligently to recruit, assess, equip, and support church planters and revitalization pastors in deep and meaningful community – all for the sake of seeing the Gospel spread across North America.
As part of this shared mission, most planters enter into a multiplier agreement. This covenant invites each multiplier to actively engage their region and the broader NAB family, while also investing relationally and strategically in the planting and renewal of churches across our conference. Multiplication is not a solo effort – it is a shared calling.
One meaningful way we cultivate that shared calling is by connecting our multipliers to the global mission of the NAB. Through vision trips and sister-church partnerships, we give planters exposure to our international mission fields. We believe NAB churches grow stronger and more aligned with the heart of God when they learn from and serve alongside brothers and sisters in our global family.
Recently, as part of connecting multipliers with the global mission of the NAB, nine pastors and leaders from NAB churches partook in a vision trip to Romania. Stu Streeter, VP of Church Multiplication, alongside Pastor Drew Steinhart of Disciples Church in Medina, Ohio, led the team of planters and revitalizers to experience firsthand the ministry of Camp Falcon Rock and to explore sister-church partnerships with our brothers and sisters in the Convention of Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania (HBC).
Partnership is at the heart of trips such as this; they are not only about building partnerships between churches in North America and sister churches in Europe or elsewhere, they are made possible, in part, due to the churches and individuals who choose to partner with the NAB through their generous gifts. When you give to the NAB’s Ministry Resource Fund on an ongoing basis, you are helping to support Kingdom work such as this. . . .
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There is still time to let us know if you are coming to the next International Missions Pop-Up Event. It will take place tomorrow night, May 8, 7:00–8:30 p.m., at Cross of Hope Church in Parma Heights, Ohio. Refreshments will be served.
Experience an evening of engaging conversation and connections around international missions. Hear from:
- Joel David, NAB vice president of International Missions
- Maureen Moody, NAB missionary to Cameroon
- Shan Reed, NAB mobilization director
- Lyndell Campbell Réquia, NAB missionary in Brazil
It can be easy for our churches to feel isolated or like what we do doesn’t seem to make any kind of global impact, particularly when it comes to the Kingdom efforts regarding international missions. This Pop-Up will help your church grasp the larger picture of NAB International Missions, help connect you with other local NAB churches who share a similar interest in missions, and hopefully promote awareness of and engagement with NAB International Missions and missionaries.
Reframe is a four-week, online training for pastors and leaders to help you assess your congregation’s evangelism readiness. This training will provide an evaluative framework to help you to recognize gaps you may need to fill and distortions you will want to correct, and it will provide a clearer path forward toward helping your church become more evangelistically faithful.
Reframe is not a training that will focus on how to better do evangelism but instead will focus on how to be evangelistic.
- How well equipped is your congregation for the ministry of evangelism?
- How do you evaluate your church’s health in that regard?
- How would you identify equipping gaps in your congregation’s evangelistic faithfulness?
Each training consists of an online, 90-minute session. They will take place 10:00–11:30 a.m. (Pacific) each Wednesday in June (3, 10, 17, 24).
Training is free for NAB ministry leaders. Register at the link below. For questions, connect with Deb Judas.