This past week (6-13 March 2011) we at Every Nation Bloemfontein held our first Missions Week. The focus: taking the gospel to the nations, giving up our lives to disciple the nations, looking outward past our own comfort zone and taking the gold bars of truth to the ends of the earth!!
Through the week we had prayer from 6am to 7am on Bloemfontein’s central “mountain”, Naval Hill.
We also worked through a devotional that focussed on the heart of missions. What really made an impact on me was the vision that missions is essentially about worship. Missions is not the focus, worship is. Missions is all about worship. Missions begins and ends with worship! Because we worship Christ, we desire to fulfill His heart’s desire and His heart’s desire is for all creation to worship Him! So when the driving force behind our mission is to impart a heart of worshiping God to the lost world, we have found the heartbeat of God’s heart regarding missions!
The week was ended with a guest speaker from Lesotho, Pastor Daniel Tsikoane who imparted the heart of missions with fire and gusto! What an inspiration! I hope to be able to get the podcast of it soon to share with you…
There was a display table for Lesotho, our adopted nation for Church planting, and a few congregation members dressed in their own countries’ traditional dress.
The whole thing was topped with a family celebration of cultures and nations at our International Food Evening where 7 countries’ culinary cultures were displayed and everybody had a chance to savour the flavours of Italy, Greece, China, India, America, Holland and South Africa. There was also a selection of coffees from around the world… Funny enough, that was the most popular stall… says something for addiction, doesn’t it…?? ;o)
I will have pictures from the International Food Evening soon to share with you… Until then…
Shalom! ;o)
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