Mission Moments
Up-to-date mission news, events, and prayer requests
Mission Moment
April 21, 2024 • Scott Ward
Our church will be having a booth at the Steel Horse Rally. We are needing volunteers to help man the booth. We will have some different activities available, including a large photo backdrop and a carnival game. Please offer to help people take pictures. We are also needing volunteers to help with the cleanup after the event is over on Sunday morning. This will be done prior to church starting, so you can still make it to church on time.
Mission Moment
April 14, 2024 • Scott Ward, Matt Whitson
May is National Foster Care Awareness Month. Currently, there are 380 children in foster care in Sebastian County alone. From now until May 9, 2024, Arkansas Family Alliance will collect new and gently worn shoes in various locations across Fort Smith to be donated to the children in need in our community. We will be collecting shoes at our church. Bring shoes of any size to the Missions Area of Guest Services or the church office.
Mission Moment
April 7, 2024 • Scott Ward
Secret Church 24 will take place on April 19th at GABC in Room 120 (College Room). We will begin with a meal together at 5pm, and the livestream will begin promptly at 6pm. The cost will be $20 each which includes dinner, snacks, drinks, a guided Scripture journal, and the cost of the livestream. Be prepared to stay until around 12:30am.
Mission Moment
March 24, 2024 • Scott Ward
We will be taking up our annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering on Easter Sunday morning, March 31. Our church's goal this year is $25,000. The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) is the primary way Southern Baptists fund missions in North America. One hundred percent of gifts given to AAEO go to the field to support more than 2,900 missionary families serving across the United States and Canada.
Mission Moment
March 17, 2024 • Scott Ward
During this week, we will have multiple opportunities for you to sign up for different local mission projects. This is an all-out blitz of projects all over the city in order to invite people to our upcoming Easter services. We hope that you and your family will sign up for any and all of them! Sign ups are online NOW!
Mission Moment
March 10, 2024 • Scott Ward
Join us for our Go Clip to Pittsburgh Tuesday, March 12th at 8pm. We will be hearing from our partner, Will Cole, and his work planting a new church called New Horizon Church. Be sure and sign up for this. You will be sent a link to this online meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Mission Moment
March 3, 2024 • Scott Ward
We are hosting a neighborhood block party on our parking lot on Good Friday. This party is for our neighbors who live around the church. We are asking our church members to come out and serve as a part of our For The City Week. We are going to be needing volunteers to cook, serve, greet, and man the games.
Mission Moment
February 25, 2024 • Scott Ward
Every year, SBC churches observe the Week of Prayer for North American missions by praying for missionaries, their ministries and their families. Because these missionaries make Jesus known in places all over the U.S. and Canada where there’s little or no gospel witness, they experience opposition and they battle loneliness and discouragement. That’s why they need your prayers.
Mission Moment
February 11, 2024 • Scott Ward
Would you take a moment in your Community Group this morning and pray for our mission team in Honduras this morning as they are ministering to the hundreds of children at Orphanage Emmanuel? Don't forget to sign up for our Go Clip to Vietnam this coming Tuesday evening at 8pm.
Mission Moment
February 4, 2024 • Scott Ward, Butch Booth
Join us for one or ALL of our Go Clips. A Go Clip is a one-hour, live, online time with one of our mission partnerships. You will be able to hear about what God is doing in the life and ministry of our partners, ask questions, and know how to pray for them. Although you will be blessed by these, the Go Clips are really a time of encouragement for our partners. I would encourage you to log in and make sure you show your smiling face! This is a great way to show support for our missionaries and church planters. Due to security reasons, you will need to sign up for each and every one, but it is very easy to do from one website. On the Monday prior to the date of the Go Clip that you sign up for, you will receive a link to the online meeting. All of these will happen either on Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
Mission Moment
January 28, 2024 • Scott Ward
Throughout the month of February we are asking you to intentionally reach out to your healthcare providers, such as your doctor, your dentist, your physical therapist, a nurse’s station, etc. Take them a couple of boxes of donuts or a plate of cookies, and just let them know that you and our church cares. You are welcome to come by Guest Services in the missions area and pick up a handful of information cards. You can set some next to your goodie that you bring and use it to invite people to church.
Mission Moment
January 21, 2024 • Scott Ward
The warehouse volunteers at Community Rescue Mission are being given the month of February off, and our church, along with other churches in the community, are going to provide volunteers to help. Throughout the month, we will need 3-4 volunteers every Tuesday and Thursday 9am-12pm. Your job will be to simply process all of the donations that come in. This means that you will go through them and keep everything that CRM might need. The items that are not needed are put in a pile to go to other agencies in the area.
Mission Moment
January 14, 2024 • Scott Ward
Join us on our 13th annual mission trip to Wyoming. We base out of Riverton and help Hillcrest Baptist Church with their VBS, plus we do work on the reservation each evening. The trip dates are July 26 - August 3. Be sure and email our Mission Pastor, Scott Ward, for more details (mailto:scott@gabc.church). The deadline to sign up is February 18. A $50 per person deposit is due on April 7.
Mission Moment
January 7, 2024 • Scott Ward
Throughout the month of January, we will be celebrating the Sanctity of Life by collecting diapers for First Choice Pregnancy Medical Center. You are welcome to get diapers of any size and bring them to the missions area in Guest Services any time until January 28. First Choice Pregnancy Medical Center is a place where women and/or couples can go to get free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds. While there, they are lovingly advised of their options regarding the alternatives to abortion, and, if the opportunity presents itself, they are told the gospel. This is a wonderful organization that we have supported for years.