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Missions
Our Purpose: To educate, enlist, and engage persons in mission ministry.
Definition of Missions: Missions is considered to be any local, national, or worldwide endeavor designed to fulfill the Great Commission by making disciples, and meeting the whole need of mankind - spiritual, emotional, physical, and/or financial.
How Can You Be Involved?
1. Intercession - Realizing the great power of prayer, we trust that each person will pray for the spiritual needs of our world.
2. Investment - We encourage you to financially invest in reaching our world for Christ through giving.
3. Involvement - We also plan annual opportunities for you to go on short term mission trips to experience a cross-cultural field for yourself. Mission work teams are scheduled at various times.
Mission Fields: First Church has missionaries in the countries of Haiti and the Philippines, colleges and camps in the USA. We support work through the Churches of God in:
- Brazil
- Haiti
- India
- Eastern Europe
- Bangladesh
- Navajo Missions in the Southwest USA
- Hatian Ministries in the eastern USA
- Involvement in hurricane reconstruction from 2006 - 2008 in Biloxi Mississippi
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