This past week Global Focus and Miramonte Baptist Church held a Missional Church conference in which we were able to teach how to leverage your church in order to impact the nations. We had nearly 200 pastors and leaders come from Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and El Salvador. Our pastor Dr. Johnny Hunt did an outstanding job at challenging the pastors to use their role as pastor in order mobilize the people to God’s mission. Dr. Doug Ripley taught very biblical lessons on how to raise funds that can finance the mission.
Then pastor Luis Marti showed everyone how to integrate missions into every ministry of the church, so that missions is not a separate department of the church, but the main reason for its existence. Pastor Mauricio Castellon taught how to develop missional teams with lay people in order to give away missions tot the congregation. I was able to teach on the barriers to mobilizing our people for God’s mission. We believe that the answer to world wide missions, to the need of unreached people groups, is the local church. The church has to understand and own its singular mission.
