Missions

Christian Evangelizing Mission

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:10:00 GMT

This Month’s mission moment is about a ministry that, though you may not know, has affected you and your worship on a weekly basis. Christian Evangelizing Fellowship (CEF) exists to plant and encourage New Testament Churches all over our area. On July 7, 1987, they helped to establish a new church meeting in the Beckett Ridge Country Club. Any guesses? Yep, Lakota Christian began with the help of CEF.

Gospel For Asia

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:18:00 GMT

A majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddists live in an area of the globe extending from West Africa to East Asia. These people have little or no chance of ever hearing the Gospel. Over 80,000 people die every day in an Asian country without knowing about the love of Jesus Christ and 500,000 villages in India alone have never heard the Gospel.

Gospel For Asia, is a church-planting ministry with more then 16,000 native missionaries on the field planting churches in 10 Asian countries. A native missionary is a trained church planter who works full-time to take the Gospel to the unreached and plant churches. They risk their lives daily by sharing their faith in treacherous areas.

Gospel for Asia trains and sends these native missionaries because they have proven to be extremely effective
• They are already familiar with the language and culture,
• And they live at the same level of the people that they serve, thus removing many social barriers.
Using people from their own native lands, Gospel for Asia is effective reaching the world for Christ by planting churches in unreached areas.

LCC & Gospel For Asia
Lakota is currently supporting 9 native missionaries through our partnership with GFA. God is using their lives to change the destiny of millions through their witness to the unreached. We are also in the process of helping to build a church in an Asian country so new believers can worship God, gather for family functions, weddings, and community events etc.

One of Our Supported Native Missionaries

Missionary: Gosangi Yesuratnam
Married to: Vijayakumari
Children: Two

News from one of his recent letters to us:
“I am serving the Lord as a pastor and also involved in pioneer work. I go from house to house and distribute tracts. Here, some people responded positively to the Gospel. During my ministry, I travel to the nearby villages by bicycle to pass out tracks and organize open-air meetings. I distributed 1,500 tracks and six Bibles. Three people gave their lives to Jesus. Pray that they would remain firm in the Lord.”

Background: Gosangi was born into a Hindu family in India. In the past, one of his friends, a Christian, invited him to attend a meeting. After listening to a young man preach the Good News Gosangi accepted Jesus as his Savior and was baptized in water. After he became a new creation in Christ, he longed to work to help reach others, so he left everything and joined a Gospel For Asia Bible School. After 3 years of training he now serves God, reaching the lost for Christ, in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India,

For more information on GFA visit their website at www.gfa.org

Team Expansion – Emerald Hills, Louisville, KY

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:02:00 GMT

Team Expansion seeks to bring glory to God by partnering with local churches to send and sustain teams of interdependent missionaries to plant churches among the least reached peoples of the world. Launched in 1978 the ministry includes 300 career missionaries that have together baptized over 8,500 people in over 35 countries worldwide. In the process, they've organized nearly 200 new church plants so that these new believers can continue growing in Christ.

However, because of this solid growth, Team Expansion's current home office and training facilities in Louisville, KY, are currently overcrowded and inadequate. They can no longer serve the needs of the growing mission. They must improve their capacity to offer crucial training, services and programs to the missionaries and thousands of faithful partners. Today's missions frontiers demand a solid foundation of prayer and more strategic level of mobilization and preparation. Enter Emerald Hills.

Emerald Hills is Team Expansion's new 61-acre mission campus on the outskirts of Louisville that will include all the critical elements for sending and sustaining workers into His harvest fields for generations to come.

The fulcrum of the new base will be a 7500-square-foot Prayer Center & Atrium building that, long-term, will provide the hub of every facet of Emerald Hills and its focus on unreached people and prayer. Eventually, the campus will include a full retreat center for crowds of up to 150 people to "pray, retreat & learn" more about Christ, His Mission, and their global purpose for helping make that happen. For the immediate future, the Prayer Center & Atrium will also serve as the int'l operations center for Team Expansion's home office staff of 35 recruiters, trainers, pastor-shepherds, and others who help Team Expansion keep growing.

Lakota is participating in a special program that not only underwrites a portion of this first facility, but also creates a permanent Prayer Shelter along one of the prayer trails on the campus, named after our church. Through short-term teams sent to Emerald Hills, our congregation will be able to participate in constructing the prayer shelter while at the same time assisting in the establishment of the 7500-sq-ft building too. By doing so, Lakota is helping strengthen the foundation for world missions outreaches in 35 lands around the globe. For more information on Emerald Hills contact the LCC Mission Team at missions@lakotachristian.org