International Missions

Tuba City Mission Trip

missions — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:15:46 +0000

Tuba City, Arizona, is the Navajo Nation’s largest community. Most of the residents are Navajo, with a small population of Hopi. It is located within the Painted Desert on the western side of the Navajo Nation.

Northpoint has 25 people who will be ministering to and with the Navajo and Hopi Christians February 17^th through 20^th, 2012. They will be conducting an adult conference along with teaching and training on a number of different topics. Some of the topics will include, “What is a Christian?”, “How to study the Bible”, “Parenting Issues”, and “Glorifying God in our work”. They will also be leading two worship services.

Their primary goal is to build relationships so that we can have an ongoing ministry to adults and children in Tuba City.

Pray the Lord will bless this ministry to His glory, and the furtherance of His Kingdom.

Celestin Reports from Juba, South Sudan

missions — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:46:15 +0000

Greetings from Juba, South Sudan!

I have been here for the last few days attending the International Ecumenical Conference on the Republic of South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan. On Saturday I was invited to attend a meeting of the Sudan Ecumenical Forum which is mainly composed of international organizations that parter with the Sudan Council of Churches in both South Sudan and Sudan.

Read the complete blog post here.

ALARM focuses on developing leaders, reconciling tribal relationships and transforming communities through holistic ministry in Africa. Learn more about ALARM.

Doug & Cynthia Peters: August Update!

missions — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:31:31 +0000

Doug has a new position this year with World Impact: he is now the coordinator for the Short-term Missions Program in Los Angeles. The purpose of our program is:

To provide volunteer groups with an effective urban ministry experience that transforms lives, serves local churches, contributes to the well-being of World Impact missionaries, and ultimately glorifies God.

Doug’s Prayer request: We ask for your prayers that we will continue to be directed by God to know how to mobilize people of all ages and nationalities to be involved with God’s work in our urban communities.

Peters August Newsletter

Doug and Cynthia Peters
Ministry Name: World Impact
Ministry Focus: Los Angeles, CA
Website: worldimpactla.org/peters
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

E3 Update from Equador: A Healthier Summer!

missions — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:40:34 +0000

Morning from Quito,

It’s Friday morning…we finished our 5th & final clinic yesterday and drove 5 hours through the Andres back to Quito. By every accounting, our trip was a great success and we’re thankful to our Lord for His grace over all that we did.

Each day people received medical care, had teeth pulled, received reading glasses, got community health instruction, had a new water filtration system installed for their community and heard the gospel through both personal testimony & sharing of an evangelistic film. I don’t have any final numbers, but there were many who professed faith in Christ. As always, I asked people I talked to if they’d ever heard this message before…almost all of them said, “no, they’d never heard it!”

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We did return to one village where we’d worked 4-5 years earlier. Our national leader didn’t think that the church plant from that trip “took” and so we were going to try again. Much to our surprise, a flourishing church with 40 adults and 60 children were there (this is a community of 300 people)…SOME OF THEM REMEMBERED US! And, we remembered some of them. I wonder if what we felt was similar to how Paul felt when he returned to churches that he’d started?

Well, thanks for your prayers…please pray us home now! We’ll be tired, but anxious to share our stories when we see you…and, of course, hear how you’ve done while we were gone.

Blessings,
Rick

Rick and Brenda Eisemann
Ministry Name: E3
Web Site: click here
Area of Ministry: Ethiopia
Hometown: Temecula, CA

“Free at last!”

missions — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:34:35 +0000

“Free at last!” The words of the famous song were sung by many today as people gathered to celebrate the birth of a new nation- the Republic of South Sudan. I met three ladies early this morning on their way to the celebration who told me, “Today is a great day for our nation! It makes our troubles worthwhile. We are free! We are a people and we are a nation.”

The neighbors in the north have told the Southern Sudan black and christian alike, that they were not human, but worst than slaves. But today the sentiments and feelings of the majority of the new nation were made clear through signs, songs, tears, joy, and celebration. Today their dignity is defended. Today, the people of Southern Sudan are free. What a joy to witness such a historic moment in the life of a nation whose people have suffered so much.

See more photos and read the complete blogpost here.

Northpoint was honored to have Celestin visit us in May. Press on!

Mount Sinai Baptist Church

Administrator — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:06:20 +0000

Carranza is the name of a neighborhood community, or colonia, in Mexicali, Mexico. Our church began a relationship, a partnership really, with the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church congregation in 1992. Dale Payne, who was youth pastor of our church from 1991 to 2002, established this partnership with the church in order to involve the youth of our church in evangelistic outreach. Pastor Antonio Camarillo has been the pastor of Mt. Sinai since 1989 and continues to welcome our involvement in evangelism, training and service. Northpoint takes a team of volunteers twice a year to do door to door visitation in the community. We also work together with the church to invite the community to an outreach event, sometimes at the church and sometimes in a local park. We encourage their AWANA Club and rejoice with them as it continues to grow and reach boys, girls and families with the gospel. The goal always is to share the gospel and strengthen relationships that glorify God and build His kingdom.

Let Freedom Ring?

missions — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:25:22 +0000

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Meredith

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Remarkable changes are taking place in the Arab world. The Tunisian uprising seems to have unleashed pent up anger and frustration. There has been overwhelming support for the revolution in Egypt in the toppling of its dictator (though difficult days lie ahead). The Arab world appears to be largely unified in the rejection of authoritarian leaders and rule by a handful of political and financial elite. There seems to be a yearning for freedom, for a voice in one’s government, and for respect for human dignity and human rights. There is a groundswell for emancipation from repressive regimes and from the grip of poverty.

Please pray for peaceful solutions. Pray for courage on the part of world leaders to speak to atrocities. Pray for Christians in these deeply difficult areas. The vacuum in power could result in positive changes or could result in opportunity for radicalism.

Read the full story here.

ALARM focuses on developing leaders, reconciling tribal relationships and transforming communities through holistic ministry in Africa. Learn more about ALARM.

Alaska Gospel Adventure: Tanalian Bible Camp

missions — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:51:57 +0000

Tanalian Bible Camp ministers to the youth and families in rugged, rural Alaska. Northpoint supports the camp and several teams go to camp to volunteer as counselors, work in the kitchen and be there for the campers. In 2010 Tanalian Bible Camp had 305 campers for summer camp, and 28 for winter camp. 19 campers were drawn to give their lives to Christ through faithful proclaiming of the Gospel!

Maybe you are looking for anadventurous way to serve Christ this summer? This camp is great for first a first time mission trip. Alaska is beautiful, activities are non-stop and there is not much of a language barrier. Check back here for more details and check out Tanalian Bible Camp’s website here.

Not Called?

Administrator — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:38:05 +0000

“Not called!” did you say?
“Not heard the call,” I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face – whose mercy you have professed to obey – and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.

–William Booth

A Call to Die

Administrator — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:23:08 +0000

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Who shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’ He said, ‘Go and tell this people…’ Isaiah 6:8-9

“God’s questions were not only for Isaiah. His call is for everybody who will listen and respond. The prophet heard and instantly responded, so God sent him to tell everybody who would listen about the greatness and healing power of God. Isaiah was eager to respond because all of his excuses had been burned away by that hot coal. When our sins are exposed in the light of God’s presence, we feel ruined; but when we experience forgiveness in the depths of our souls, we become fresh, clean and new. We are eager to please God in any way we can. When He calls, we hear and go.”

–David Nammer