LOOK OUT JACKSON (MS) HERE WE COME!!
Friday morning – 4 a.m. – (That’s RIGHT! – 4 a.m.) the Life House Mission Team will be pulling out of Texarkana and headed to Jackson, Mississippi to help one of our Partner Churches, Raymond Road Baptist Church, in a big event at their church designed to reach out to the community around their church. Many in our group have never been to Mississippi and this is a BIG adventure for them. I can’t wait to tell them that “BOILED PEANUTS” is all that people in Mississippi eat and see their reaction. Most have never heard of boiled peanuts and most would actually believe me LOL This is going to be a trip full of fellowship, laughter, fun and most of all prayer, hopefully lots of work and a time to help us as a mission be on the “giving end” of missions. One of the things we’ve sought to design in the DNA of Life House is outreach. Missions is WHO we are and WHAT we do. We BELIEVE in outreach and missions. At the present, Life House gives 15% of ALL monies that come into our church BACK to missions. EVERY DOLLAR that comes in – designated AND undesignated – we give 15% back to missions. (We realize you cannot take away from designated monies - but we go ahead and give out of our undesignated funds the same amount to missions as if the designated funds were undesignated. – make sense? lol) We believe that Jesus heartbeat is souls and for us to accomplish His mission, our commission, then we must seek to love, feed, touch, minister to and win souls to Him and for His kingdom. Pray for us as we make this trip. It will be a short, overnight, quick trip but being our first it’s a good chance to see how our people will react and handle themselves on the “mission field”. Just a word of warning to the residents of Jackson, MS - look out – here we come!!! I can’t wait!! Pastor James
P.S. Pray for our Raymond Road Baptist Church Family as they seek to impact their community and city. Pray for souls to be saved, folks to be brought into the church and for God to bless Raymond Road like never before!!
June 18th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Looking forward to having you guys here! If all goes as planned, I’ll have plenty boiled peanuts: enough for everyone to have a bag!