Missions Helping Missions…
One of the goals I’ve had for Life House as a new church plant is for us to always be mission minded. We are looking toward the future and hopefully in two to three years our church will be strong enough that we will be able to commission a group of 10 – 25 members to move to another location and start another church with the same “style” and “DNA” as Life House in the Texarkana area. We MUST remain missions minded. We practice missions by giving a tithe (10%) of every dollar that comes into our church to missions. It’s my hearts desire to build a MISSIONS MINDED CHURCH – one that has it in her DNA to always seek to reach the local area, state, nation and internationally as well.
One missions blessing we had was this morning as Maya Mason came to share about her upcoming Missions Trip to Tokyo, Japan. I had the blessing of serving as Maya’s pastor for a few years. When I was made aware that she had applied and been accepted to go on this missions trip I invited her to come speak to our mission and allow us to take up a free will love offering to help her reach her goal of over $3,000.00. Every student who goes on this trip must raise the money for airfare, lodging and ect. It was a blessing to see her stand before the Life House congregation this morning, listen as she shared her heart and then know that our little mission took up over $200.00 to help her with this trip. This was above our regular tithes and offerings. We believe in missions! It’s our job now to remember Maya in prayer as she works to raise the money and then as she makes the trip to Tokyo, Japan.
How can you help? Let me suggest the following:
1. Invite Maya to come to your church to share her heart. She spoke for 3 minutes this morning and it was a blessing to our church family.
2. Ask your church to help her out by taking up a love offering. She isn’t asking for anything to benefit her personally – she just feels called and led to go with this missions group for 12 days and serve.
3. Lastly but most importantly – put her on your prayer list at your church and in your private prayer time. She desires your prayers as she prepares and makes the trip.
If you need a reference for her – call me. If you would like for her to come share at your church or group – give her a call: Maya Mason (903- 701-4484) and she will be more than happy to schedule a time to come to your group or church.
If our little mission can do it – then I know your church can too. Help out if you feel led and let’s make this mission trip possible. It’s my hope that when Maya gets back from her trip that we can have her back to Life House to share information about her trip and show some pictures of it all. God wants to use people to reach people – the least we can do is help them when they are willing!
Let’s help! Pastor James