Get Involved in SBC Crossover 2009!
Southern Baptist volunteers from throughout North America will converge on Louisville for Crossover '09 immediately prior to the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting.
Crossover is a series of evangelistic events designed to reach people in the host city for Christ. Opportunities are available for individuals, church groups and entire families!
Crossover is a great opportunity for individuals and families attending the SBC to participate in a Kingdom-impacting evangelistic event.
For information about Crossover '09 or to sign up, go to the Crossover '09 website.
Each Samaria Update highlights key Acts 1:8 Challenge Kingdom-growing responses to assist your church in fulfilling its Acts 1:8 Challenge commitment.
Multiply - Plant a Church in Toronto, Canada!
Lead your church to get involved in planting churches in Toronto, Canada!
God is at work in amazing ways in the Greater Toronto area. Your church can be a partner in this work through the Toronto Church Planting HUB and the Canadian National Baptist Convention. The vision of the convention is to plant 250 churches by the year 2010.
More information is available by contacting Jeff Christopherson, NAMB Urban Church Planting strategist, at jchristopherson@namb.net.
Learn/Send - Attend KALEO Southwest 2009
Do you have high school, college, or seminary student pursuing ministry? Then KALEO is for them!
KALEO events are specialized conferences designed to guide students to discover, embrace and pursue God's call to a Christian-related vocation and become the leader God called them to be. The next KALEO event is scheduled for Oct. 9-10 at the Glorieta Baptist Convention Center, Glorieta, NM.
KALEO events give students the opportunity to meet men and women who are currently serving in a variety of ministry roles. Students will hear from Southern Baptist missionaries who serve throughout North America and around the world.
More information about KALEO is available at www.KaleoConference.com.
Go - 'Faith in Action Xtreme' San Diego
How can churches determine the biggest needs in their communities? The easiest answer: "Ask the people who know best."
In San Diego, pastors and leaders met with government officials over a period of several months, asking them two key questions:
1. What is your vision for a healthy city?
2. What are three impossible problems that keep you from fulfilling that vision?
After each leader spoke, we prayed for them in the specific areas they shared. We also continued an ongoing dialogue about how churches in San Diego can come alongside our leaders to meet needs in our city. The outcome: Faith in Action Xtreme, an effort to tackle five of those needs: Foster Care, Mentoring, Tutoring, Military and Elder Care.
For more information on each of the areas of impact, and how you and your church can help, contact Vision San Diego at (877) 817-4777 or go to www.visionsandiego.com/xtreme. While you’re there, check out the brand new Faith in Action Xtreme video.
Tell - God's Plan for Sharing in Your Church
With an estimated 250-plus million people in North America lost without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, wouldn't it be wonderful for Southern Baptists to share Christ with every person by the year 2020?
That's the goal of the new evangelism initiative of the North American Mission Board. Called simply "God's Plan for Sharing" (GPS), it encourages every believer to share the gospel to every person in North America by the year 2020.
GPS is designed to provide the tools to assist every believer and every church in fulfilling the Great Commission in North America. GPS is being launched in four languages—English, Korean, Chinese and Spanish. The initiative concentrates on four biblical markers: praying, engaging, sowing and harvesting.
Make plans now to lead your church in this Kingdom-impacting strategy today! Visit the official GPS website today for more information and resources.
More Resources - OneMission.tv and Acts 1:8
OneMission.tv is a fantastic resource for the on mission church. This new web site distributes missions videos free of charge to assist churches in communicating the Southern Baptist missions message to their congregations.
OneMission.tv has numerous missions videos from Acts 1:8, as well as the Cooperative Program, International Mission Board, North American Mission Board, and several state Baptist conventions. These videos are great for promoting missions giving, involvement and prayer.
In addition to these free missions videos, OneMission.tv also offers creative sermon illustrations, countdowns, and motion backgrounds ideal for use in worship services. Churches can additionally download broadcast-quality television and radio commercials and personalize them to promote their church in their community.
OneMission.tv is a “one-stop video shop” for almost every church video need. It is truly an Acts 1:8 resource for the local church. Visit www.OneMission.tv today.
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ActsOne8.com - Your Acts 1:8 Resource Center!
We're always in the process of adding new tools and resources to ActsOne8.com. If you haven't visited it lately, do so today and sign up for the Acts 1:8 Challenge Facebook Group and to follow the Acts 1:8 Challenge on Twitter.
Explore Other 'Kingdom-Growing' Commitments
Be sure to check out other Acts 1:8 Challenge Kingdom-Growing commitments here. Additional information about your church's Samaria response is available here. For questions or comments about the Acts 1:8 Challenge, email Tim Yarbrough at tyarbrough@namb.net or call 1 800 4 ACTS 18 (800-422-8718).
