Motivating you for INTERNATIONAL VISION!
More Focus . . . More Vision . . . More JOY!
Why do we have a vision for missions?
A missionary evangelist, Oswald J. Smith said, "I have seen the vision, and for self I cannot live. Life is less than nothing, till my all I give." We too have seen the vision. We've seen the world's need with our own eyes. And we've learned the truth about missions in our own Bibles - from cover to cover! A better question to ask is, "As followers of Jesus, how could we not have His vision for missions?" The word mission brings to mind synonymns such as goal, vision, and purpose. As Christians, what is God's purpose for our lives? What are His goals and vision?
Our primary calling . . . is to know and love the Lord. But if that were all, God could have taken us to heaven the moment we received Jesus Christ.
Our primary mission . . . is to glorify God in and through our lives and to help make God known throughout the earth.
For more about our international vision:
Harvest Ministry (Website Homepage)
Osanidde Village (Harvest Ministry's orphanage in Uganda, East Africa)
Our Passion for Souls (Mission Articles)
N.E.T.S. Outreach (Harvest Ministry's National Evangelism Team Support)
International City-Wide Outreaches (Harvest Ministry's Mission Evangelism)
Samples of "Harvest Report" Newsletters
10 MISSION-MINDED QUOTES:
The mission of the church is missions. - David Livingstone, Missionary and Explorer to Africa
When I'm a man, I mean to be a missionary, and go to China - Hudson Taylor (at age 5)
The Great Commission is not an option to consider, but a command to obey. - Hudson Taylor, Founder of China Inland Fellowship (and known as one of China's most famous missionaries)
Give me the love that leads the way, the passion that will burn like fire.
- Amy Carmichael, Missionary to India
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once? - Oswald J. Smith, Missionary Evangelist
To know God, and to make Him known - Loren Cunningham, Founder of YWAM
The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity - Ron Luce, TeenMania
Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God. - William Carey, Missionary to India
This generation can only reach this generation. - David Livingstone
Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. - Jesus (Mark 16:15)
Lord, I give up all my plans and purposes,
All my own desires and hopes,
And accept Thy will for my life.
I give myself, my life, my all,
Utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever.
Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit.
Use me as Thou wilt,
Send me where Thou wilt,
Work our Thy whole will in my life
At any cost, now and forever.
Betty Scott Stam
Missionary to China, and Martyr
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MISSION-MINDED LIFE is an outreach of HARVEST MINISTRY
P.O. Box 727 -
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