Our Sending God
By John Brunton--
The impact of COVID could have easily resulted in a decrease to our giving to both the general fund and the GP fund. However, our faith community continues to be incredibly generous, and, as a result, we have been able to not only continue to support our many Global Partners (GPs) around the world, but we also added a local GP during this last year. You are amazing!
I am so thankful that GPBC is a body of Christ followers that listens to God. We are not a mega-church by any stretch of the imagination, but because of knowing and obeying Christ’s command to “go to the ends of the earth,” we are spreading the good news about Jesus around the world and across the street!
Our Global Partners have answered the call of God to go out into the field, leaving the comfort of friends and family. It is these fellow brothers and sisters, who are extensions of our local faith community, whom God has called us to support. Your Global Partner’s Team is constantly seeking God for ways to wisely use the resources you provide through your sacrificial giving. The GP budget is not a part of the general fund, but a separate budget, which we oversee and prayerfully attempt to get the most out of every dollar.
However, our support of these dear ones is not only financial! Prayer is a constant need for those out in the field. That is why we have prepared the Global Partner’s booklet listing each partner, their ministry, and their specific prayer requests. We hope you will keep them close and use them daily to strategically support our GPs. We also have a bookmark with each of the GPs to be used as a reminder to pray for them. If you do not have these tools, please check with the office, or one of the GP Team members, and we will get them to you.
Our theme this year for the GP Emphasis is “Our Sending God: Around the World and Across the Street.” We were reminded earlier this year that we are all “sent” and are all God’s ambassadors. Romans 10:14-16 says,
“How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?…How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
That’s YOU and ME, right where we live.
Let us not growing weary of well-doing! I want to challenge us to sacrifice more, give even more, and believe that our God will use our money, time and talents to reach many with the gospel. Thank you for your past generosity and in advance for your sacrificial pledges for the upcoming GP budget.
To God be the glory!