Catching the Vision for Missions

This Sunday is Mother’s Day and we will focus on something a bit different this year compared to other Mother’s Day messages we may have experienced in the past.  This week we will continue in Acts 13:1-12, studying God’s work through the early church in the realm of missions.  We have already seen the church preach the Word of God to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the utter ends of the earth and be blessed by God.  But now the church in Antioch takes this latter phase of missions to a whole new level.  They are called by the Holy Spirit to send out missionaries from their own number. 

We will explore not only how we live out this call to missions, but also what it means to have a missional mindset in our own homes.  What is the mother’s Biblical call to disciple her children?  How can the mother be a “missionary” in her own home?  Have we thought of missionary work as something someone else does overseas or out of town, or do we view our own homes as mission fields?

This week, may we prayerfully prepare ourselves for what the Holy Spirit will teach us through His Word about discipleship, missions, and God’s call for us in our own homes.