Sending Church
The All-Nations mission begins and ends with the local church. Here's why!
Listen as Brother Val teaches on the value and importance of the local church in God's eyes. How is this reflected in your affection for your local congregation?
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Why Our Mission Starts with the Church
One of the primary ways God intends to reach the world with the gospel is through the love and witness of the local church.
Bryant and I traveled to Oregon and Washington last week with board member Harold Troyer and his wife Larissa. It was time for a sending church encounter, and we used the opportunity to meet with two other sending churches in the area. From conservative Mennonite, to German Baptist (New...
This week we got to spend time with a congregation just two hours from here in Pennsylvania. They are preparing to send the Hege family to join the Wagoner family on the Mixtec project in Guerrero, Mexico.
Joe Root, our advisor from Mexico, was able to join...
For the first three days of this week, the three of us here at ABT (Joel, Aaron, Bryant) had the privilege of traveling through three states (PA, Ohio, Indiana) to meet up with three ABT members and their churches. It was a blessed time!
The church’s place in going is to send. When someone has a vision to go, it is the church’s privilege to confirm the vision, bless them in it, send them, and support them as they go.
But what if a church has the vision to go? A church can go by...
On Monday evening of this week Aaron and I had privilege of joining in a Sending Church meeting in snowy southern Virginia. For 3 hours we discussed many principles, challenges and ideas. It was encouraging to see God guiding and providing as this church takes up their mission of sending. Lord...
This past weekend several ABT representatives had the privilege of assembling in Kansas with two churches that are sending a Bible translation and church planting team to Southeast Asia. It was exciting to see these churches taking another important step in the long-term work of sending and...
Take a look at the relationship square below. This square is a simplified representation of ABT’s relationship to sending churches and the Bible translation and church planting process.
The relationship square illustrates three main points: