Focus on Missions and I will Build your Church

It goes against our nature to focus, to invest, to pray for or send our people to areas of the world that do not benefit our own churches. Our human nature wants us to focus on ourselves; that’s why so many churches just focus on things that can boast their own attendance or benefit their own church. In order to participate with what God is doing around the world, we have to focus on His Mission, not our own. This is the natural tension for every church, every pastor, every follower of Christ; our own self-centeredness struggles with God and His Mission.

Pastor Ezequiel Velez is pastor of Senda de Restauracion, a Hispanic church that we mentored in Global Focus about 5 years ago. God gave this word to pastor Ezequiel while his church was still renting other churches facilities and meeting on Sunday afternoons: “Focus on Missions and I will build your church”!  God has done exactly that; The congregation has significantly grown, and He has now given them their own beautiful campus. How did they get there? They focused on God’s Mission, and God has blessed their church!  Since implementing the principals we teach in Global Focus, now this Hispanic church in Atlanta is laser like focused on mobilizing its own people to local-global missions.

They have taken many of their people on numerous missions trips, they have seen hundreds come to faith in Christ locally and on the mission field! They are planting daughter churches, and they have worked with missionaries and  distributed food boxes to refugee families in the Middle East! Dr. Larry Reesor, the founder of Global Focus was able to preach their 5th Global Celebration and their Faith Promise Missions Offering was nearly $130,000.00 plus they raised another nearly $15,000.00 for special projects! God is doing an incredible work in this church that is focuses outside of its own walls!