VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS)-To pursue its unchanging mission, to glorify God in all the earth, by making disciples of Jesus Christ, International Ministries is constantly adapting its methods and strategies.
So said the Rev. Charles Jones, Acting Executive Director of International Ministries, in his address to the General Board of American Baptist Churches. Jones explained that in recent years the mission agency has made significant changes to its core operations: the way it plans for mission, partners for mission, supports missionaries, and the way it celebrates and educates for mission.
Jones spoke a word of encouragement to the members of the General Board, as they face the need to make adaptive changes to existing American Baptist ways of working together, reminding them that "on the other side of all the agonizing, the Lord of mission will be waiting for us, waiting for us to set aside every encumbrance and distraction, waiting for us to press on to the high calling to which we have been called, to glorify God in all the earth, by making disciples of Jesus Christ."
Andrew C. Jayne American Baptist Churches, USA Mission Resource Development http://www.abc-usa.org/