I am here in Dallas with a couple of guys from Wheaton Bible Church… Hannibal and Chris. We are here with the Leadership Network as a part of one of the externally focused communities. Our church is really beginning to launch an external focus. We have done SO much for international missions (we give something like 24% of our budget to what God is doing internationally), but only recently realized we do less than 1% of our budget to local ministries!
What a terrible disparity.
The county we live in has huge opportunities to serve the world literally on our door step. By the year 2010 33% of our county will be non-white/ethnic groups. Primarily Hispanic. What an exciting thing to be a part of the front end of this opportunity. We will be returning here every 6 months as a team… hopefully with more church staff in the future.
One ministry Not for Sale is a ministry I want to check out.
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