Under Valued gifts (3)

3. The Gift of Supporting World Mission

World Mission is something most of us put into the ‘too hard’ basket. We admire missionaries who go off to other side of the world but actually what they do makes little connection with our lives.

Instead let’s learn to think of PBC as a family where we all have the same purpose, to “... make Jesus known to people in the Inner West of Sydney and throughout the World.”

Mark and Rochelle are simply carrying out that purpose in a different country but they are just like you and me. (Well, Mark is not just like anyone, but you get my point.) They are a normal family with normal needs and normal hopes and fears. They miss family and find evangelism hard work just as much as you do.

Therefore simple things like sending them an email / card just saying “G’Day” really encourages them. Gifts for the kids say a lot. Most of all they crave our prayers. Pray for them regularly and tell them that you are praying for them when you pray.

They need financial support to stay in Slovenia so consider either giving to PBC or supporting CMS directly. Although it is a sacrifice to give money it is not particularly hard, in the sense that once you’ve set up the bank transfer it happens automatically and you don’t even have to remember - easy as!

However, if we are a united family at PBC then we should also consider going ourselves. What about a holiday to Europe? Visit Slovenia on a short-term mission trip and you might love it so much that you want to stay. Scary, yes, but exciting too!

• Encourage - what can you do this week to encourage a PBC misho?
• Pray - buy a copy of Operation World, and then use it!
• Give - nuff said.
• Go - short term mission trip to one of our mishos? Long term mission?

“⁴ In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy ⁵ because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, ⁶ being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.“ (Philippians 1: 4-6)