Missions

God’s Heart for the World.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Matthew 24:14 (KJV)

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STUDY MATERIALS PURPOSE

The purpose of these study materials is to help, strengthen and educate the Persecuted Church around the world.

People have contacted us from very remote and persecuted areas of the world. These resources are not available to them and/or if they are seen with them they can be persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ. Some people can only look at these resources for a brief moment on their cell phones. This library is dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ and to those with fierce determination are following Him.

The books, media and information on this website are a library service and for educational purposes only. This is a lending library for the persecuted church around the world. Please look inside the back of each book or look up the authors name on the internet to obtain more information and more resources from these great ministries. Also, please financially support their ministries as they bring the good news of Jesus Christ to billions of people around the world.

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Going and Sending

There is a spirit of going and a spirit of sending in the Body of Christ today. People in every nation need to hear that God loves them and Jesus Christ is the way to connect to God. Some people will sense a call to go to nations, either on short term trips or to live. Others will sense a call to stay home and support those going into the harvest fields of the earth. This is also a call from God to supply the means for others to go and keep them in the harvest fields. Now we all need to be senders, and in one sense we can all be goers, because when we send somebody we go too. This is the joy of all of us working together for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Send us around the world with the news of your saving power and your eternal plan for all mankind. Psalm 67:2 (TLB)

Are You Going Yourself or Sending Others? Lets Reach the World Together!

For the Kingdom!

Pastor David

God is on the move through out the whole world!

The Most Important Work - Oswald J. Smith

What, then, is the most important work of the hour? It is to carry out our Lords last orders. It is to give His gospel to the unreached tribes and peoples of the world. That, my friends, is more important than anything else. “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

By this, in this alone, we must judge all spirituality, all Bible knowledge, all doctrinal and theological discussions. If we are truly spiritual, if we are real Bible students, if our doctrines are scriptural, we will put world evangelism first; we will give, and give the liberally, to missions. All our Bible knowledge, all our spirituality, all our doctrinal standards are nothing but make-believe, unless we are putting first things first.

Let those who do not have the vision, those who do not know God's program, let them give to the many worthy causes here at home: But let those of us who have heard God's call, let us concentrate on pioneer work in the Regions Beyond. Let us put our money into one thing and one thing only, that of reaching the unevangelized tribes with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Excerpt taken from the timeless classic, The Challenge to Missions by Oswald J. Smiths.

One of Pastors David & Carol Joy’s favorite articles…You go Mom & Dad Brazee!!!

God’s Heart for the World

Written by Pastor Mark Brazee

Missions is the heart of God for God so loved the world—the entire world. As a minister and as a believer, we have one great commission—go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. Building a ministry is fine, but that is not our calling. Building large churches, beautiful buildings, retirement centers and television ministries are all good things to do. But all this falls down the priority list after first of all going into all the world to preach the Gospel to every creature. Whether we are called as a frontier evangelist or a local family church pastor, our calling is first of all to missions. 

Missions is such an important vision in the heart of God that it is almost a tangible thing—it can be taught, but it is better caught. I have been consumed with world missions since January 1975, when I had the privilege of spending a week at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, under the influence of Pastor John Osteen. When he walked on this earth, he carried the world in his heart. It was so tangible in his church that without even hearing messages specifically on missions, I caught it. 

Now after 31 years of ministry, I can look back and see many things I learned the easy way and lots more I learned the hard way. My wife, Janet, and I have traveled the nations for 20 years and now pastor a church with a wonderful congregation also consumed with missions. In fact, we still travel to the nations on a regular basis. But now we’re able to look from the aspect of the “goer” and also the “sender,” and I see things I wish I had known much earlier in ministry.

As an itinerant minister in America and abroad, one of my greatest suggestions for others in the same type of ministry is to connect tightly with a local church that believes in you, believes with you, and believes for you. Being on the field with a church family “holding the ropes” is something we now experience when we go and something we provide for others as they launch out. In the book of Acts the apostles knew to return to their own company when they ran into trouble. A company is not just a group of ministers, it is a group that believes in each other and will pray “instantly and earnestly” in each other’s behalf. 

Let me tell you about one missionary. He launched out from his home church with his family to live in another nation, but after a period of time returned home defeated and discouraged. The missionary slipped into a service on a Sunday morning but heard no mention of missions and no prayers for those laboring in the nations. The church was enjoying the presence of God and the Word of God and was busy fulfilling their local vision. After the service the missionary talked with the pastor and respectfully said, “Now I know why we floundered and eventually failed on the mission field. We went into a dark place to pull others out, and no one held the ropes.” 

That’s why in our church every time a person, family or group leaves for a nation or goes on a short term trip we call them up during a Sunday morning service to pray for them. Afterward the congregation comes from all directions to throw money at their feet to help them go. But it doesn’t stop there, as we have prayer groups who consistently “hold the ropes” for them while they are gone. It makes all the difference in the world—literally. When my wife and I travel within the U.S. or internationally, we also have our church family behind us. This prayer support is the difference between night and day.

On the other side of things, as a pastor it is a challenge—and a mandate—to keep a vision for the world in the local church. The path of least resistance is to be self centered and focus through life with tunnel vision. Yet, our job is to touch the world, not just our city or our community. 

Pastor John Osteen once said to me, “You’ll never touch the world without a power base.” So as a pastor, my job is to lead, feed and seed.  To lead doesn’t mean to coach from the sidelines, but to lead by going somewhere first. Our churches will end up being a carbon copy of us because “such as I have, give I thee.” If we want our churches to pray, we need to be pray-ers. If we want our churches to worship, we must be worshippers. If we want our congregations to go into all the world, we must go there first. In other words, what we are they will become. 

To feed doesn’t just mean to write a sermon for each Sunday service; it means to feed, watch over and protect. Then to seed means to plant vision in the people. Yet to do that, we can’t simply sit down and brainstorm, we must spend time in the presence of God and catch from heaven the vision God has for our church. One thing we can know for sure: If a vision comes from God, it will be very strong on missions. As one great missionary statesman said, “the mission of the church is missions.” And the light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.

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Pastors Mark & Janet Brazee

For more than 30 years, Pastors Mark and Janet Brazee have traveled throughout the world sharing the Word of God and the Spirit of God. Together they’ve shared the powerful truths of faith and healing in more than 50 nations.

Today Mark and Janet pastor World Outreach Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they base their ongoing outreach to the world. The Brazees still travel as the Lord leads, and they are raising up a congregation who share their passion to reach Tulsa and the world.

A World-Wide Vision

Written by Oswald. J. Smith

Has the Church of Jesus Christ lost its world- wide vision? Does the spirit of the great apostle no longer dominate it? Would Paul be welcomed today among its leaders?

To go to a church and find its vision entirely localized is a sad experience. Such a church can hardly lay claim to being New Testament in any true sense of the word. It sees nothing outside its own four walls, its own town and denomina- tion. Other leaders are unknown. Denomination comes first. Thank God, some are bigger than their denominations, who are Christians before they are anything else.

Oh, for such a vision! Nothing less will put us in line with the divine plan. It takes a world vision to efface self. No church is too small. There may be less than a hundred members, but with a vision of a world’s need, God will put it on the map.

Paul said, “I must also see Rome.” Rome was farther from Jerusalem in Paul’s day than the North Pole is from the South Pole today. Then, too, he planned to visit Spain. You could not keep Paul in Palestine just because there was still work to be done there. He was an itinerant missionary, a spiritual explorer. Jesus likewise had His mind on the “other sheep,” the “other villages.” He saw, not a single city, but a world. When He died, He died for a world. When God loved, He loved a world. He “so loved the world that He gave” a world gift.

Peter had to get that vision. He saw only the Jews until one day God showed him the Gentiles. Then he knew that the Gospel was for the world. Persecution had to scatter the believers every- where until they had a vision of a world minis- try. When John Wesley said, “The world is my parish,” he was but expressing this world vision which is so essential today.

It is always easy to tell when a church has a world-wide vision. The prayer meeting is one of the acid tests. Listen, if you will, to the petitions. In the average meeting for prayer, they center around the local church and the individual needs of the people. In fact, the whole prayer could be summed up in but one petition: “Lord bless me and mine.” When a church has caught a world- wide vision, the prayers of the people will be worldwide in scope. Petitions will be offered for various missionaries, missionaries whose names have become familiar. Many countries, still une- vangelized, will be included.

The type of building is another acid test. For the congregation that spends hundreds of thousands of dollars in creating a magnificent auditorium in which to worship, with every pos- sible luxury and comfort and little or nothing for foreign missions, has never caught the vision of a world without Christ. I am afraid that if Je- sus Christ were here, He would walk by many a church, for He could not avoid contrasting the Laodicean edifice of the twentieth century with the poverty-stricken mission fields of heathen- ism.

The same is true of the foreign field. Too much money by far is squandered in bricks and mortar. The converts of the Early Church wor- shipped in private homes, in cellars, in caves— anywhere. There is no record in the New Testa- ment of the building of special places of worship. Churches, as we know them today, were not con- sidered necessary in New Testament times. Jesus taught that God must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.

Some societies built great institutions in for- eign lands, only to have them confiscated in time of war and revolution. It is a known fact that the Faith Missions suffered least in the early distur- bances in China, whereas others lost almost all, Faith Missions having put their money into the souls of men, rather than into buildings.

How can a church get a world-wide vision? By inviting someone who has seen the world to its pulpit. By enabling its pastor to visit the mis- sion fields of the world. By getting the facts and accumulating a knowledge of conditions in other countries. By hanging a large missionary map of the world on the wall. By making a financial in- vestment in the Regions Beyond. By holding an Annual Missionary Convention, and thus edu- cating the people along missionary lines. Thus, a new interest will be created and a world-wide vision imparted.

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