Faith Promise Missions

It began with the "On Mission Celebration" when we heard from missionaries from Uruguay, Thailand, San Francisco, Indiana and yes, right here in Arizona. The missionaries were representative of International Missions and North American Missions of our Southern Baptist Convention. We heard each missionary share how they were able to serve on there particular mission field because of the support of churches, like ours, that give regularly through the Southern Baptist Cooperative Program. What we experienced was the joy of putting a face on the financial support that we provide through our church budget.

Now, we are in our Faith Promise Missions emphasis. The missions committee has done an excellent job of arranging for us to hear from various representatives of the ministry and mission items in the Faith Promise Mission budget. This is just a continuation of the overall mission strategy of our church. The difference in Faith Promise missions and the Cooperative Program missions is that FPM is directed to local ministries and involves our own people going on mission projects. January 26 will be very important to all of us. This is day that we will participate in the Faith Promise Missions Fair sponsored by the missions committee. We will have opportunity to meet representatives of each of the ministries that are in the FPM budget and will be fed by the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention disaster relief team. They will have their disaster relief mobile unit set up for us to see and will prepare and serve the food from that unit. I'm sure many of you remember that during the hurricane Katrina, we gave generously to support the ministry of the Southern Baptist disaster relief teams that went to New Orleans. My prayer is that once we have seen this unit and how efficiently this Arizona team serves, we will have some of our people desire to be a part of this very important ministry.

Well, God called us all to be on mission with Him and the challenge that we all must face is how do we respond. It will be different for each of us. I want to be and do what God has called me to do. Will you join me with your commitment?
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