With Missions Emphasis Week just around the corner, I've been plowing along trying to get everthing ready. There is a lot to do, and this is reflective of the substantial chunk of missions work we do here.

I've been working to consolidate the lists of people and missionaries we support through the Smokey Point Missions Fund. There are several. I've been poking around on the CMA website and found some inspiring video links there. I've been working on response cards so that when you see the awesome documentary that Paul Waggoner and the Young Adult Ministry group is putting together and hear from Bob Merrill next weekend, you'll have someplace to channel that inspiration into action. God is up to something, closing some doors and opening other doors of possibility to us in missions and I am excited to see where he might be taking us. I'm also working on assembling a team of folks to help lead SPCC in missions for the coming years. We just sent some funding from our Year-End-Goal to Delfin in the Philippines to allow them to get started on the next phase of construction on the training facility we are working with them to put together.

On top of all this, we've heard more and more people asking and pleading with us to be a part in some outreach here in the community, which we are working on. When I reflect on the possiblities of what God could do with our resources and energies when we are devoted to the gospel of Christ, I like the picture I see. What if we were so mobilized in missions here and abroad that we kept sending people away to plant churches, or become missionaries? Sure, not everyone could go, but someone should. I dream of the day, and I pray it is soon, that we are a church like that. And my work over the last few days gearing up for missions week encourages me that this kind of thing IS possible. Our God is certainly sufficient for it.