Mission Moments
Up-to-date mission news, events, and prayer requests
Mission Moment
September 24, 2023 • Scott Ward
Be sure to check out our Go Checklist on our website or app. This is a great way to find out how to be involved in missions at our church and to determine where you are on your own personal Game Plan to Worship, Grow, and Go. Today we are talking about Participation. Every missionary is to go locally, nationally, and internationally according to the Great Commission in Acts 1:8.
Mission Moment
September 17, 2023 • Scott Ward
Be sure to check out our Go Checklist on our website or app. This is a great way to find out how to be involved in missions at our church and to determine where you are on your own personal Game Plan to Worship, Grow, and Go. Today we are talking about Evangelism. Every missionary is called to share the good news of Jesus Christ with those who are near to you but far from God.
Mission Moment
September 10, 2023 • Scott Ward
Be sure to check out our Go Checklist on our website or app. This is a great way to find out how to be involved in missions at our church and to determine where you are on your own personal Game Plan to Worship, Grow, and Go. Today we are talking about Training. Every missionary needs to be well trained in order to be the most effective for God’s Kingdom. We offer many different ways in which you can be trained in going locally, nationally, and internationally.
Mission Moment
August 27, 2023 • Scott Ward
We are excited to get to host a water stop for the Fort Smith Marathon on Sunday, September 24. The route of the half marathon and the full marathon both run right by our church. As a matter of fact, we are the last water stop before the end of the race at UAFS. I am needing folks to sign up for a 2-hour time slot to help pass out water, Gatorade, and snacks and cheer the runners on to the finish! Sign up by going to http://www.gabc.church/missions. SIGN UP TODAY - Say Something Evangelism Training - September 3 Say Something Training will be held in Room 110, 6pm-7:30pm. During this class you will learn about starting spiritual conversations, telling your testimony, sharing the gospel, and starting the discipleship process with those near to you but far from God. Our goal is to help you survey your existing relationships where you live, work, and play. Get signed up today! SAVE THE DATE - Go Day - October 22 Go Day is our church’s annual event celebrating all of our mission partnerships. On Sunday, October 22nd, immediately following the Worship Service everyone is invited to the Activities Building for our fair featuring booths from our local, national, and international partners, including all kinds of wonderful foods to try. Kids, don't miss our partnership scavenger hunt!
Mission Moment
August 20, 2023 • Scott Ward
Say Something Training will be held in Room 110, 6pm-7:30pm. During this class you will learn about starting spiritual conversations, telling your testimony, sharing the gospel, and starting the discipleship process with those near to you but far from God. Our goal is to help you survey your existing relationships where you live, work, and play. Get signed up today!
Mission Moment
August 13, 2023 • Scott Ward
I hope everyone got a Mission Bulletin this morning. Please, take a moment and go over this with your Community Group highlighting some of the key dates. An important thing to point out is our upcoming 2024 mission trips. We will have more trips than just these, but the ones listed are some that we will for sure be hosting. Even now, people can get on and apply for these trips and begin raising funds.
Mission Moment
August 6, 2023 • Scott Ward, Brennan Ward
Many of you know our former youth pastor, Josh Hargett, Nan and the kids left to move to Colorado Springs and replant First Southern Baptist Church there in the heart of the city. This church used to be a thriving fellowship, but over the last number of years had experienced dramatic decline. Instead of closing their doors and selling the building, they agreed to bring in Josh in partnership with our church and others to attempt to relaunch the church. It has been a tough road, but they are seeing new people come in and people placing their faith and trust in Jesus. About a year ago, Brennan and Hannah Ward joined the team there to lead the worship and help with young people. Hear from Brennan as he shares a brief update on how the church is doing.
Mission Moment
July 30, 2023 • Scott Ward
Thank you for praying for us! We had an incredible trip getting to minister out on the reservation. We got to share the gospel multiple times with different people. We, also, got to organize and run a Vacation Bible School for Hillcrest Baptist Church. They are a local church who asked us if we could help them. They have not had a VBS for four years! We were able to have a great group of kids!
Mission Moment
July 23, 2023 • Don Lehman
Many of you might not know that we have two mission houses. These are houses that the church owns, and we let our missionaries and church planters stay in them when they need a home away from home. These are fully furnished, and we take care of all the utilities in order to be a blessing to those who have sacrificed so much for the cause of Christ. Our big house has been lived in by many different folks over the years and has been in need of a remodel. Well, thanks to our church, a couple of generous donors, and the hard work of Don Lehman we are almost complete with the renovations. We are going to be asking you soon to provide items that we need from a registry, and we will hold an open house at some point!
Mission Moment
July 16, 2023 • Scott Ward
Be sure and be in prayer for our Wyoming Mission Team as they begin to head out next weekend. They will be in Riverton, Wyoming doing ministry on the Wind River Indian Reservation as well as hosting a Vacation Bible School at Hillcrest Baptist Church in town. If you are interested in being a part of next year’s team, those dates will be July 26-August 3, 2024. Go ahead and put it on your calendar NOW!
Mission Moment
July 9, 2023 • Scott Ward
Our High School Ministry will be taking a group of students to Brazil. They will be working with our partner there, Jose Liberio, July 13-25. They will be going to the state of Minas Gerais where there is an historic 16th Century town with a large university. Liberio has started a campus ministry there to reach out to the college students. Our mission team will be going there to engage more college and high school students to the ministry and church.
Mission Moment
July 2, 2023 • Scott Ward
It is important for all of us to know why we are a part of the church where we are members. It is simply good stewardship to know where our money goes when we give. In this video, Scott, our mission pastor, shares briefly why he has chosen to be a Southern Baptist. He chooses to be a Southern Baptist for two main reasons... 1. The Southern Baptist belief system is closer to the Bible than any other denomination. 2. The main focus of the Southern Baptist Convention is to complete the Great Commission. Check out these Southern Baptist entities... - North American Mission Board - http://www.namb.net - International Mission Board - http://www.imb.org - Send Relief - http://www.sendrelief.org Brazil Mission Trip: Our High School Ministry will be taking a group of students to Brazil. They will be working with our partner there, Jose Liberio. They will be going to the state of Minas Gerais where there is an historic 16th Century town with a large university. Liberio has started a campus ministry there to reach out to the college students. Our mission team will be going there to engage more college and high school students to the ministry and church. Donate to the team at http://www.gabc.church/mission-calender
Mission Moment
June 25, 2023 • Scott Ward
We have partnered with Compassion International to support 2 churches in Ethiopia that combined have around 300 children that need sponsored. We are over 2/3 of the way to our goal! Would you be willing to sponsor a child today? Go to http://www.gabc.church/missions to choose a child to sponsor from our partner churches in Ethiopia. When you sponsor a child, you care for and encourage them through prayer, letter writing, and financial support. That support empowers a local church to individually and holistically meet their needs in a loving, safe community where they can learn, grow, play and dream.
Mission Moment
June 18, 2023 • Scott Ward
We will be showing the newly released movie, Jesus Revolution, on Saturday evening, June 24, in Room 120 (College Room) at 7pm. We will have free popcorn and drinks. This is a great movie to invite a friend to!!! Jesus Revolution - based on a true story In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to an unexpected revival of radical and newfound love, leading to what TIME Magazine dubbed a JESUS REVOLUTION.