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The Great Commission
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We were created to impact all nations for the glory of Christ. The testimony of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation is that we were created to enjoy God’s grace in relationship to Him, so that we may extend His glory to the ends of the earth. Matthew 28:19 commands and commissions us to “go and make disciples of all nations…”
Our goal is to be a faith family of world-impacting disciples who are partnering with our brothers and sisters here and around the world to produce ever-multiplying churches all around our city, this country, and to the ends of the earth. Our strategy is to send out short-term teams to serve the local church abroad and to expose our faith family to other contexts, allowing God to use those experiences to prompt people to plant their lives and establish churches in othere parts of the world.
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How We Participate in Taking the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth
The Great Commission is not an EITHER/OR option, but a BOTH/AND command. From cover to cover, the Bible teaches that all the church – not just select individuals, but all the church is created to reflect all the glory of God to all the world. We are all commanded and commissioned to make disciples of all nations. Each of us must:
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Pray for the nations and areas/peoples we are serving and have yet to serve.
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Give to short-term efforts, mid-term efforts and long-term efforts to send teams to strengthen and establish the church and make disciples of all nations.
- Go on a short-term (1-2 weeks), mid-term (2 months to 2 years), or a long term (lifetime) mission to make disciples of all nations.
Current Ways Grace Church is Impacting the Nations for Christ
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We give to the International Mission Board, which supports and sends missionaries to share the gospel with other nations.
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We give to the mission agency To Every Tribe, which trains and sends missionaries to unreached people groups.
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We give to Heart Cry Missionary Society, which seeks primarily to work with indigenous congregations, elders, and missionaries of integrity and faith in the unreached world to help them evangelize and plant churches among their own peoples.
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We give to The Voice of the Martyrs, which is dedicated to supporting the persecuted church worldwide.
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Check back for Opportunities to Go!
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The Unreached People Groups of the World
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What is an unreached people group (UPG)? An unreached people group (UPG) is a people group in which less than 2% of the population is Evangelical Christians. Globally there are approximately 6,400 UPGs.
(Source: This information was provided by The International Mission Board – Global Research, www.peoplegroups.org.)
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What is an unreached, unengaged people group (UUPG)? Unengaged unreached people groups have no coordinated evangelical Christian missionary presence among them. Unengaged unreached people groups have never heard the Gospel, or they may have been exposed to the Gospel in the past, but have been forgotten.
There are approximately 5,845 UUPG’s worldwide:
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For information about Unreached People Groups, check out the following resources:
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The Joshua Project is a research initiative seeking to highlight the ethnic people
groups of the world with the least followers of Christ.
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This site contains various forms of information (maps, tabular data sets, and written descriptions)
that is helpful in assessing the current status of Missions progress throughout the world.
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The IMB (International Mission Board) is a entity of the Southern Baptist Convention. The goal
of the IMB is to fulfill the Great Commission of Matthew 28:18-20 by making disciples of all peoples.