The Acts 1:8 Challenge:

Front Street Baptist Church has accepted the Acts 1:8 Challenge

The Acts 1:8 Challenge is an opportunity for our church to declare our commitment to a comprehensive missions strategy in our community (Jerusalem), state (Judea), continent (Samaria) and world (ends of the earth). In doing so, we invite our denominational Acts 1:8 partners – the South Yadkin Baptist Association, the Baptist State Convention of NC, the North American Mission Board, and the International Mission Board – to assist us.  Further, we develop relationships with missionaries and ministries in each of these areas, covenanting to partner with them in praying, giving, and going.

The 8 "Kingdom-Growing" Responses of the Acts 1:8 Challenge

The eight Kingdom-Growing Responses of the Acts 1:8 Challenge (below) are designed to encourage our church to be intentional in areas of missions involvement under the leadership and power of the Holy Spirit.

Prepare:
empowering a designated leader of missions and developing mission teams, strategies, and plans to take the gospel to our community, state, continent and world.

 

Learn:
bringing mission awareness and interaction to the entire church body, training members for service and connecting them to missionaries and mission needs.

 

Pray:
asking God for kingdom perspective and worldwide vision, interceding for Christian workers and unevangelized peoples.


 

Give:
increasing the financial support of the Cooperative Program and other SBC cooperative missions.


 

Go:
enabling a growing number of members to directly participate in short-term, long-term and marketplace opportunities to minister and spread the gospel beyond our church’s walls.

 

Tell:
involving an increasing number of members in intentional, culturally-relevant evangelism.


 

Send:
providing members with opportunities to hear and respond to God’s call to vocational mission service.


 

Multiply:
participating in church planting and facilitating church planting movements.