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Missions Trips
What is the Purpose of Mission Trips?
Jesus Christ tells us to pray for laborers because the fields are "white unto harvest." Many think the problem is we don't have enough money, or we don't have the proper strategy to fulfill the Great Commission.
Jesus Christ is telling us that the shortage for 2000 years remains the same. It is not resources, it is people. We need people who will give up their lives so others can find eternal life.
The PCA, through MTW and local churches such as ours, advances the work of the body of Christ worldwide through a wide variety of word and deed ministries by identifying, selecting, training and sending men and women on short term missions trips, as well as supporting church-planting movements. We minister among unreached people groups in world-class cities as well as remote areas, partnering with national churches and indigenous leaders whenever possible. MTW also partners with local PCA churches to glorify God through the discovery and engagement of their unique potential, purpose, and passion for cross-cultural ministry.
Reformed and Covenantal Aspect of Mission Trips: We uphold the doctrines of sovereign grace and the truth that God saves His people as described in the Westminster Standards. The Holy Scriptures are inerrant and authoritative, relating the reliable history of God’s covenantal relationship with His children. In regard to that relationship, it is clear that missions is a divine enterprise in which God commands and graciously accepts the obedience of His children. Our foundation for missions is the dual truth that God chose in eternity those who will be saved and that He also uses us as instruments in the process of saving them.
Word And Deed: By Word we mean the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ in all of its fullness. By Deed we mean the demonstration of the gospel of Jesus Christ through meeting physical, emotional, social, or cultural needs, in the context of missions trips and church planting.
TBPC Planned Mission Trips
A short term mission trip is planned for Jamaica this summer. Details are still be developed, but interested please contact Martine Extermann at martine.extermann@gmail.com or Karen Guest at karenguest35@gmail.com
Past TBPC Mission Trips
2014 TBPC Mission Trips
This year, we sent out two missions teams. One went to Cherokee, NC. and the other joined an MTW medical missions trip to Monterrey, Mexico.
2013 TBPC Mission Trip to Cherokee, North Carolina
Our Session approved the recommendation that TBPC send the 2013 TBPC Short Term Missions Team to the MTW Ministry to Native American Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, NC. TW serves the Cherokee tribe through word and deed ministries.
Our Team Leader was Doug Knox. Melissa Bayley was our Short-Term Missions Trip Coordinator, and as such, she helped our Team Leader (Doug) build the Missions Trip Team, complete all required paperwork, and assist with the administrative and organizational tasks needed to properly put a missions team into the field.
The TBPC Cherokee Missions Team totaled 27 adults, youth, and children. They departed June 22, and returned June 29.
2012 Mission Trips at TBPC
TBPC sent into the field 3 short term missions projects.
- Lauren Fritz went on a 2-week MTW teaching trip to India during their General Assembly meetings.
- Julie Welzien worked for 2 months in Cherokee, NC as part of an MTW Internship.
- Martine Extermann, Doug Knox, and James Nichols participated in a 1-week MTW Medical Mission Trip to Monterrey, Mexico.
These 3 mission trips were very successful. We are excited about these opportunities to share the Gospel, and we had a wonderful Missions Night Dinner on September 5th with over 70 in attendance to hear reports from the 3 missions efforts.
In August, missions team participants, members of the Missions Committee, and other church leaders met to discuss ways that our short term summer mission trips can be improved, increasing participation in the future.