FBC Jonesboro
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Missions

Our Mission's Ministry reaches from our local community to the very ends of the earth. We want to share the love of Jesus with our community through our food pantry, clothes closet, and our free medical clinic . We also desire to share God’s love with our country as well as the rest of the world by offering mission trips throughout the year – both stateside and overseas.  

Check out the upcoming mission trips by clicking HERE.

You may also want to see what ethnic congregations we have on our campus by clicking HERE.


A team returned this past weekend from New Orleans, Louisiana.   When the Southern Baptist Convention was founded in 1845 there were three assignments for the Home Mission Society; one of them was the city of New Orleans.  Our family mission trip helped a local pastor who has felt led to start a church in the area of the Crescent City that is overrun with gangs, drugs, crime and lostness.  FBCJ, through going and giving to the World Mission Offering, is helping take the Light into the darkness. 

Next week a team travels to the Dominican Republic where they will assist our partner churches in a children’s camp.  August and September will see trips to the D.R. to train pastors and their wives and to conduct a nation wide conference sponsored by our partners and 3 other denominations dealing with spiritual leadership.  FBCJ, through going and giving to the World Mission Offering, is being used by God to see nations move into a deeper walk with Christ.


In August a team of evangelists and servants participate in the annual largest gathering of Native Americans in the U.S.A. as they travel to the Little Big Horn area of the Crow Nation in Montana.  Each year many people come to know Christ.  Statistics show that in the five years we have been ministering at powwows in Montana, the number of native Believers in Montana have grown 50%, directly connected to this evangelical effort.  FBCJ, through going and giving to the World Mission Offering, is joining God as He draws into His kingdom those of every culture.

In the next few weeks we are increasing our presence in the communities of Keystone and Riverwood. People come to know Christ almost daily through the local missions of Lighthouse Ministry, the Riley Clinic, the Clothes Closet and Levi’s House.

This overview is just for July and August! If you are not part of the mission ministry of FBCJ, either by going or giving, you are strongly encouraged to find your place in what God is doing.