International Missions

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

Carranza

Administrator — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:02:43 +0000

What do you picture in your mind when you hear the word “Carranza”? A quiet seaside resort? An Italian sports car? A new app for your Iphone?

Around Northpoint, everyone knows that Carranza is a “colonia” on the outskirts of Mexicali, Mexico. Carranza is the community that Mt. Sinai Baptist Church calls home. Carranza is where Pastor Antonio Camarillo lives and serves Jesus. As the pastor of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church he leads the church in making and nurturing disciples in Carranza. Northpoint partners with Mt. Sinai Baptist church all year long, but twice a year we send a team from Northpoint to help in neighborhood evangelism, encourage the church family, and help church members build new relationships with the Carranza community.

We are headed back on November 12-14, 2010. To join our team you will need a valid passport, a servant’s heart, and a flexible attitude. Details and sign ups will be starting October 10, 2010. We will be looking for you!

Don’t Waste Your Life

Administrator — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:23:21 +0000

“… And as God gives you wings to rise up and see the world the way He sees it, many of you, I pray, will be loosened from your present situation – job, neighborhood, state, nation, plan – and be called to a direct engagement in this great historic, global purpose of God as a goer and not only a sender. Let no one who is devoted to local ministry or to crucial secular engagement take offense at this plea. Rather rejoice. You are free to stay or free to go. Many of you must stay. Your staying is crucial for God’s purposes where you are not, but where others may go. There is no need for guilt or resentment. There is great need for joyful partnership.

Those of you who stay (the senders) should keep this remarkable fact in mind: Foreign missions is a validation of all ministries of mercy at home because it exports them abroad. Planting the church in an unreached people means planting the base of operations for all the mercy Jesus commanded for the poor. If we don’t let our light shine before the people at home ’so that they may see (our) good works and give to (our) Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:16), what kind of obedience will we export to the nations? The Great Commission includes the words, ‘teaching them to observe all that I (Jesus) have commanded you’ (Matthew 28:20). And what did He command? He told the story of the desperate wounded man and the good Samaritan who ’showed him mercy,’ and then said to all of us, ‘You go, and do likewise’ (Luke 10:37).”

Quote from John Piper – “Don’t Waste Your Life”