PASSION:  GRACE:  Everyone.  Everywhere.  Every Time.

 

DREAMS:  (1) To make God look good; and (2) To make as many friends for God as possible!

 

GOALS:

1)  To partner with Quiet Hour Ministries to take teams of evangelists, medical personnel, children's ministry people, construction workers, musicians, and others on several mission trips a year, and by preaching the Adventist message through the unique emphasis on the gracious character of God..

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2)  To help raise substantial resources to help build churches and schools, orphanages and clinics, and to help provide pastors with the tools they need to do their ministry, in places where that need the most help, with total transparency, accountability, and with the least amount of overhead possible!

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3)  To create GraceFORCE UNIVERSITY, a free online resource to train bible workers, lay pastors, and church officers using video, powerpoint, audio, and print lessons to take classes from an available curriculum of over 20 classes.

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4)  To use media, such as the GodTalk program on Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN), and the GODTALK podcast, and other materials to spread the good news about our amazing God.

 

VALUES:

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WHOLISTIC--Many ministries do one thing--do medical missions, or build churches, or do evangelism, or do children's ministry.  Our "brand" is to try to do it all--to go into a place, and do our best to lift the whole mission.  During the day we hold clinics and do construction, at night we do evangelism and hold Vacation Bible Schools.  if the teachers haven't been paid for two months we raise the money to help.  If the pastors need motorcycles or a video projector, we try to help with that.  Whatever the Holy Spirit burns into our hearts, we try to listen and follow.

 

FOLLOW-THROUGH--if there is anything we hate is another unfinished church!  We do our best to finish what we start.  We want to keep the people we baptize.  We want to get the churches finished until they have pews, sound systems, a sign, a driveway, and they are ready to be a powerful beacon of light to their community and be a church that will make their members proud, and draw the community to check them out.

 

CONTEXTUAL:  We have a high value for mixing in with the people where we are going.  We try to learn ten new words a day.  We ask a thousand questions to get to know them.  We want them to eat with us, and we become lifelong friends.  We defer to them in every way that we can--they stay there, they know their place, and we want to work in their context.

 

THICK not THIN:  Millions of people live life thin--"pass the butter," "How the Lakers do last night?"  "Think it's going to rain?"  There's nothing wrong with that--but it's not enough!  We only have one life to live, and we want to live it thick!  Take some chances, get to another religion, another culture, try their food, wear some of their clothes, get into their houses, and embrace the craziness that can happen on a mission trip.  If it rains, deal with it.  For us it is worth it to fly for 15 hours, eat soe different food, deal with the heat and bugs and long hours--and then have friends who Messenger you from all over the world, walk the beaches of Tonga and El Nido and Phuket, shop at the Night Bazaar, and do a safari in South Africa.  Those moments when you see 300 people surge down the aisle during an appeal, watching a mass baptism in the ocean, taking hundreds of selfies after the last meeting--makes it all worthwhile.  THICK!