When you think about missions it is usually as something only a few people do, and it usually means crossing salt water or living in the jungle. Today in America, however, we live in a mission field.  North Carolina a mission field?  You bet.  Like the rest of America, we live at a time when there are more people who truly don't know Christ than who do.  All you have to do is go shopping, or out for a burger, and you are instantly aware that the mission field has come to us. People are coming here from Latin America, Asia and the Middle East by the thousands. We want to be a church for these people. 

The nature of the church is that we are a people gathered by the undeserved favor of Christ. He was sent by the Father, and now He sends His people --with joy-- to give away what He has given that it might be passed on to every ethnicity and culture.  (John 2:21, Luke 24:45-49). Mission is the family business.

"[God's] purpose is a grand redemptive one, the forming of a completed new people of God out of the rubble of fallen mankind. In the Scriptures this completed church is called "the bride", "the wife of the Lamb", who upon His return will be made perfectly spotless and complete. But the church herself is more than the goal.  She is also the vehicle, the instrument, for gathering in the people of God.  Christ has no other agency for accomplishing this work... It is commissioned to act as Christ's sole representative for carrying the gospel to the nations. Thus the Great Commission assigns the church a task, a missionary purpose, as the means for accomplishing Christ?s broader purpose, the ingathering of the whole people of God."

Our current partners in missions
Lian and Clara Tombing in Manipur, India (with PMI) 
Jim and Caty Tate in Guayaquil, Ecuador (with MTW) 
Bob and Keren Heppe in London, England (with World Harvest) 
Denis and Margie Haack with Ransom Fellowship