Thursday, May 28, 2009
Our Mission: To Refresh and Serve
10:39 PM | 
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MB Sponski
The mission of Bending the Bow International is to refresh and serve Christian leaders in the nations. Most of what we do centers around five specific areas the Lord has laid on our
hearts:
• Encouraging Leaders through Personal Ministry
• Mobilizing and Leading Need-Specific Teams
• Empowering Individuals and Families to “Go!”
• Equipping “Senders”
• Advocating for the needs of the leaders we serve.
In the coming months we will discuss these individual strategies in greater detail so that you can better understand what we are doing for the leaders we serve. This month we’d like to explain why it is imperative that our missionaries are served and refreshed on a regular basis.
According to the Joshua Project, 98% of all U.S. Christians involved with missions are “senders”.
Senders are the ones that support missionaries through prayer, finances, care packages, letters, and emails, etc.. Less than 2% of U.S. Christians involved in missions actually “go” into a foreign nation and serve. Missionaries carry a huge workload and are out there doing the job all of us are called to do. They are an extension of us. As the senders, it is our responsibility to know how our
missionaries are doing, to find out what their needs are, and to do whatever we can to meet their needs. It is our job to refresh and encourage them; to undergird them so that they can effectively do the job God has called them to do. Their well-being must be one of our greatest priorities. When they are healthy and thriving, His Kingdom is expanding. Our missionaries represent Jesus in the nations. They represent us, as well. And until the work of world evangelization is done, our bridegroom cannot returnfor His bride. We must serve lift and connect with these leaders and take personal responsibility for encouraging, refreshing, and strengthening our missionaries as they lay down their lives to lift up the name of Jesus in the nations.
As we have ministered around the world, we have had the opportunity to serve men,women, families and organizations filled with exciting, amazing, God-birthed vision. We have watched these leaders and their families give everything they have, holding nothing back from the people,
regions, and nations they serve. They have made tremendous sacrifices to “go” and have laid their lives down so that truly every tribe, tongue, and nation will encounter Jesus. These leaders
have embraced the good and dealt with the difficult so that the name of Jesus would be lifted up in the nations. As senders, we MUST do everything within our ability to empower that 2% who are called to “go” and who are influencing and impacting the nations on our behalf.
Our purpose, as individuals and as a ministry, is to make ourselves aware of their needs and to do whatever we can do to strengthen, encourage, and refresh these HEROES as they serve us by serving Him in the serve us by serving Him in the nations.
In the coming months we will go into greater detail about the five areas the Lord has given us to develop that we hope will begin to address some needs we have become aware of through the years. We are driven by a passion to see our brothers and sisters in the nations thriving,
effectively accomplishing everything God has called them to do “...that all of the
families of the nations would worship Him.” (Psalm 22:27)
hearts:
• Encouraging Leaders through Personal Ministry
• Mobilizing and Leading Need-Specific Teams
• Empowering Individuals and Families to “Go!”
• Equipping “Senders”
• Advocating for the needs of the leaders we serve.
In the coming months we will discuss these individual strategies in greater detail so that you can better understand what we are doing for the leaders we serve. This month we’d like to explain why it is imperative that our missionaries are served and refreshed on a regular basis.
According to the Joshua Project, 98% of all U.S. Christians involved with missions are “senders”.
Senders are the ones that support missionaries through prayer, finances, care packages, letters, and emails, etc.. Less than 2% of U.S. Christians involved in missions actually “go” into a foreign nation and serve. Missionaries carry a huge workload and are out there doing the job all of us are called to do. They are an extension of us. As the senders, it is our responsibility to know how our
missionaries are doing, to find out what their needs are, and to do whatever we can to meet their needs. It is our job to refresh and encourage them; to undergird them so that they can effectively do the job God has called them to do. Their well-being must be one of our greatest priorities. When they are healthy and thriving, His Kingdom is expanding. Our missionaries represent Jesus in the nations. They represent us, as well. And until the work of world evangelization is done, our bridegroom cannot returnfor His bride. We must serve lift and connect with these leaders and take personal responsibility for encouraging, refreshing, and strengthening our missionaries as they lay down their lives to lift up the name of Jesus in the nations.
As we have ministered around the world, we have had the opportunity to serve men,women, families and organizations filled with exciting, amazing, God-birthed vision. We have watched these leaders and their families give everything they have, holding nothing back from the people,
regions, and nations they serve. They have made tremendous sacrifices to “go” and have laid their lives down so that truly every tribe, tongue, and nation will encounter Jesus. These leaders
have embraced the good and dealt with the difficult so that the name of Jesus would be lifted up in the nations. As senders, we MUST do everything within our ability to empower that 2% who are called to “go” and who are influencing and impacting the nations on our behalf.
Our purpose, as individuals and as a ministry, is to make ourselves aware of their needs and to do whatever we can do to strengthen, encourage, and refresh these HEROES as they serve us by serving Him in the serve us by serving Him in the nations.
In the coming months we will go into greater detail about the five areas the Lord has given us to develop that we hope will begin to address some needs we have become aware of through the years. We are driven by a passion to see our brothers and sisters in the nations thriving,
effectively accomplishing everything God has called them to do “...that all of the
families of the nations would worship Him.” (Psalm 22:27)
1 Corinthians 12:25-26
(The Message)
The way God designed our bodies
is a model for understanding our lives
together as a church: every part
dependent on every other part, the
parts we mention and the parts we
don't, the parts we see and the parts
we don't. If one part hurts, every
other part is involved in the hurt, and
in the healing. If one part flourishes,
every other part enters into the
exuberance.
(The Message)
The way God designed our bodies
is a model for understanding our lives
together as a church: every part
dependent on every other part, the
parts we mention and the parts we
don't, the parts we see and the parts
we don't. If one part hurts, every
other part is involved in the hurt, and
in the healing. If one part flourishes,
every other part enters into the
exuberance.
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