We held our Missional Church conference around the Global Celebration of Miramonte Baptista Church. In a time when many churches are moving away from doing a large Missions Celebration and bringing in missionaries to personalize missions, Miramonte had a packed house on Wednesday night. I wish you could have seen the enthusiasm of the people as they arrived early in order to walk through and personally interact with the missionaries at the Missions Fair. Then I wish you could have felt the palpable energy as the service started and they welcome their missionaries and missional projects to the platform. (This year they had to enlarge their platform significantly in order to fit everyone on the stage). That same energy continued through the rest of the week as each missionary met with small groups in order to share what God is doing in their projects, and how the people can engage with them.
Then on Sunday the challenge was given to Sacrifice for the sake of the Gospel, and the church responded with a commitment of $122,000.00 and many hundreds responded to he life commitment service Sunday evening.Our pastor Johnny Hunt, and Doug Ripley were visible moved at so many people from Miramonte personally engaged in missions. That is the whole purpose of Global Focus. It is not to teach a church on how to do their Global Celebration, but to engage every member in the church missionally.
