With our 60th annual Global Ministries Conference in the books, let us praise God for how He has blessed us through a wonderful week of meditating on global missions. We are greatly privileged to have worshiped alongside brothers and sisters serving from many different nations, tribes, and languages. Let that joyful memory grow our longing to one day worship in the presence of God alongside peoples from every nation, tribe, and language as Revelation 7:9–10 says:

“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’”

As we send these ministry partners back out, we are happy to empower them to do the Lord’s work to lead many more people to Christ. Our support for them doesn’t have to stop after GMC. We should continue to pray for them to remain faithful and diligent in their very difficult countries. They can’t do their work alone and we can build our partnership with them through our prayer support on top of Faith Promise giving.

Getting Involved in Missions:

Everyone plays a part in missions. Whether domestically or internationally, we all have equally important roles in Kingdom building. If you’d like to get more involved with global missions, please talk with Missions Pastor Bryan Wintersteen. He would love to get to know you and point you to some next steps like:  

• Joining the Global Missions Team

• Going on a short-term mission trip

• Signing up for the Friendship Partners Program

• Helping with English as a Second Language classes

• Attending one of our Hispanic, Japanese, or Korean services

• We encourage you to pray continuously for the nations and let the Lord lead you to how He would have you join in on the work.

Faith Promise Announcement:

As of last Sunday night, our collective Faith Promise pledge was $2,474,426.52 and that number is still growing! Praise God! We are so encouraged to see our members’ faithfulness in giving to global missions. This year, we have 30 members giving to Faith Promise for the first time ever. We are so excited to see how God will bless these efforts.  

You can still make a pledge to Faith Promise if you haven’t already. We are still short of our Operational Goal for ministry partner support this year. We would greatly appreciate your contribution to help us continue supporting our ministry partners and begin to support more if possible.

To Make Your Faith Promise Pledge:

• Bring your completed Faith Promise card forward during morning worship.

• Send your completed Faith Promise card by mail to Briarwood.

• Email faithpromise@briarwood.org with your commitment.

• Complete your pledge on our website briarwood.org/faithpromise.