A Church With A “KINGDOM” Mind…
After we felt God lead us to begin the new work at Life House God blessed and allowed Cindy and I to be approved as North American Mission Board Missionaries. We have always pastored “established” churches. Our first church just celebrated their 129th anniversary and our last church was in it’s 30′s. Being a part of a new work and serving as a missionary is new territory for us yet exciting territory. We’ve been blessed in this short time of serving to find many people and churches in the body of Christ who have a “kingdom mind”. They have the mind that kingdom work isn’t about just their local body but reaching souls world wide. Someone summed it up at a recent church visit when they said, “I’m excited that we can go on a missions trip to reach souls in another country, another state or even a few miles from home in Texarkana.”
We have been blessed by churches already both personally and as a mission. One VBS from a church in Arkansas sent me a “get well” card signed by every child in VBS from the Kindergarten to 6th grade. What a blessing! To think the church thought of us and prayed for us during VBS. This church also gave their missions offering to Life House Church to help the mission. THANK YOU! AMEN!!
We’ve seen churches give time, energy and money to help us…and we are humbled and blessed that they would travel, take time and give their hard earned money to get this work off the ground. We’ve seen several churches in both of our local associations, state of arkansas and even some churches that aren’t even Southern Baptist give to help a mission work to become a new, strong church. Thank God for churches that have “kingdom minds”.
I”m proud to be a Baptist, even a Southern Baptist. Baptists by and large are people with a heart for souls. Yes, there are some churches who are more concerned with their programs, policies and politics – but that’s all over the world. Thank God for those who don’t just write a check but actually put their heart into missions and get their hands dirty for the kingdom. It’s our joy to labour with kingdom minded people and churches. Pray for us and come see us at Life House. Pastor James