By Phoebe Doroty Larida-Bacayana
Mission is first and foremost an activity of God in the world. The God who is love is a missionary God who seeks to save the world. God’s loving reign as sovereign over the creation aims at love, peace and justice. In the sinfulness of mankind calls for the saving grace of God which requires judgement and reconciliation, both between God and humanity and within the human community.
Missio dei or God’s mission is God’s act of redemption of the world sin and accomplishing God’s purposes. God’s mission to be accomplished, God uses all resources at God’s disposal and He called the church to participate in God’s mission.
The church where the Lord has send me to serve Him is a mission and worshiping congregation, that is an off spring of my home church. The congregation has membership of 12 families. I observed that members attend and participate in the Sunday worship activities alternately or by schedule attendance and at their preferred time schedules. Despite this, the members are thankful and sincerely appreciate whenever they are visited at their own homes. For other implemented church programs, only few would participate due to some reasons or another.
The church really needs deepening of faith, revival and nurture geared towards maturity, growth in spiritual and Christian life activities to address the church needs. But who shall take the tasks? The challenge of the task is still the concern laid upon the Pastor and church leaders/officials send forth to mission fields like these which is in statement of the United Methodist Church.
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