MISSIONS

What is the purpose of a strategy for doing missions?
The purpose of having a Mission’s Strategy is to guide the administration and focus of the mission’s ministry Colonial Heights Baptist Church as we seek to incorporate an Acts 1:8 model to Impact our community and the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

What is our goal for doing missions?
Our goal is to mobilize the people, prayer, financial, and other resources of our church so as to effectively impact the lostness of our community and world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We wish to use the following principals as the basis for our strategic plan:

  • Establish an Acts 1:8 missions strategy that touches people beginning in our Jerusalem (Tri-Cities and surrounding counties), extending to our Judea and Samaria (Virginia and North America), and reaching to the ends of the earth (International Missions).
  • Maintain and expand our home church base since the “light that shines the farthest shines the brightest at home.”
  • Emphasize church planting and partner with those who have been called to a particular area and have established God-given goals and strategies to reach those that they are called to and working with.
  • Employ both traditional and nontraditional missions programs as part of our overall plan.
  • Emphasize personalization of missions by keeping missionaries constantly in touch with our church family through prayer, correspondence, and annual mission conferences.
  • Involve our people in a variety of short-term mission projects and outreach events that will expand their vision for global evangelization.
  • Seek out and nurture potential missionary candidates within our congregation.
  • Partner with a variety of missions ministries, both Southern Baptist and non-SBC entities.
  • We will utilize the spiritual weapon of prayer to strategically impact our community and world by developing a prayer team that will seek God’s direction and will for our mission partnerships and opportunities
  • Pray for mission events and projects we are considering and are actively participating in.