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Gospel Perspective
We believe the Christian life starts with faith in God's grace revealed in the person and work of Jesus and that new life continues with daily faith in His grace for growth and service. Our call is to bring grace to both the believer and unbeliever. Though God has worked to change our hearts, we still have a continuing need for Him each day. That place of daily need gives us a felt common ground with unbelievers and with other believers who have lost touch with the love of God.
Gospel Practice
Grace looks to support local missions in our area, national level works, nearby mission with internationals here or nearby nations, and far away nations as well. The church as a whole is to reach 'Jerusalem, Samaria, Judea, and the uttermost parts...'. We believe that mission work can best be done when each kind of effort cooperates with each other and has some functional supportive relationship. Missions are done in many ways with many strategies. Often mission workers, national pastors, and boards, etc. tend to 'compete' for affection and money by claiming that their way is best, exclusive or is what God is currently doing. Grace is committed to a unified rather than a competitive approach.
- Because Christ's mercy to us was free and came before we knew him, we act on the truth that his mercy through us is free to all, even those who don't yet believe.
- Because relationships are central to our calling and express in tangible ways the love that comes from faith, our work in missions will keep works of mercy and the gospel message together as one inseparable whole.
- Because we believe we are one in Christ and that all are equally valuable before God, our mission work represents Christ and his kingdom, not America or evangelical western sub-culture.
- Because we believe in partnering with others to do missions, Grace supports short-term workers, missionaries, boards, and national pastors/workers.
- Because we believe we cannot compromise the core message of the gospel, we are called to translate the truth of the scripture into the new cultures God calls us.
Honduras
Grace encourages you to participate in one of the upcoming missions trips - not only to help Hondurans, but to equip you to better love others in your own back yard. Here is the schedule for upcoming trips:
October 31-November 6
December 27 - January 3 (Family Trip)
January 26-February 2 (2009)
More information about Honduras
Uganda
More information and stories from our mission field in Uganda.
Prayer Support Community
Our desire is to view all we do at Grace Community Church as missions,
and to see each member as a missionary. Our primary mission
is to the Asheville-Hendersonville region. However, we also
wish to be involved in God's work throughout the world.
Czech Republic
Pastors Work with Student Movement
Scott Stewart's Blog
Christian Life and Education (KVZ) Website
Ministry Links
- Single Parents Ministry
We believe our world-mission vision ought to flow out of our overall vision: visionary, grace-centered, outward focus and contemporary.
Bob & Keren Heppe
The Heppes have been serving in London with World Harvest Mission for the past nine years. God has given Bob and Keren a special love for the South Asian population which lives in London. Bob, Keren and the other members of the team spend their days building relationships with Hindus and Muslims. Through relationships they have seen a church Masih Ghar start to grow to over 50 members. Bob and Keren recognize that they are recovering Pharisees and are learning to better rest in the Father's love for them. Please pray for their encouragement as Bob is recovering from Hepatitis and as they seek to reach others with the Good News of Jesus.
Serving with World Harvest Mission
E-mail: 100423,3253@compuserve.com
Web: www.whm.org
John & Elizabeth Sexton
Currently, Elizabeth and John Sexton serve with Equip International in Marion, NC. Their ministry is to train missionaries from several denominations for the mission field. They train in the areas of emergency medicine, agriculture, well draining and a grace-based spiritual emphasis. They have two children, Rachel and Hannah.
Serving with Mission to the World
E-mail: 74152.1064@compuserve.com
Web: www.whm.org
Ed Germann
Never in the history of the Church has a generation of Christians had a greater opportunity to reach the world than we in America today.
America hosts the largest number of international students studying at the university level (over 650,000) of any other country. Over 60% of these internationals are from the least-evangelized countries of the world. Many of them desire to make American friends while here and to understand the USA culture. Most return home when they graduate and excel in business, military, science, and education.
As Christians, they can be missionaries in their own homelands. Ed Germann is the Southeast Regional Director of International Students, Inc, a missions organization dedicated to reaching these internationals with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Ed directs a staff of missionaries who cast the vision to evangelical churches to be involved in “foreign missions” right in their own homes through friendship with these students and sharing the Gospel through their lives. Ed raises his own support for his mission career and would appreciate your involvement.
For more information, e-mail him at edvic@mchsi.com.
Elizabeth Pennock
Elizabeth Pennock has been serving in the former-Yugoslavia with PIONEERS (www.pioneers.org) since 2002. In November 2006, she relocated from Sarajevo, Bosnia to Montenegro. In Montenegro, she works with a church-planting team that is working in the coastal area of Boka Kotorska. There are less than 20 evangelical believers in this large geographic area. Elizabeth travels around the area encouraging the local believers through discipleship, Bible studies and music. She also teaches English classes to teenagers and adults at a small English language center that her team operates.
To access recent news, click here.
Rachel
and Juan Valencia
Currently, we work for Here's Life Inner City and are now living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Life is going well for us. We are enjoying our first year of marriage and we're adjusting to living together and doing ministry together in Wisconsin!
Rachel is the Youth Development Coordinator for Here's Life Milwaukee, and Juan is the Compassionate Products and IT guy. Both of these jobs are pushing us and helping us learn how to work together and rely on God more.
The Hylton Family
Serving with World Harvest Mission in Ireland
www.whm.org
Recent prayer letter.
The Jones Family
Serving with World Harvest Mission in Chile
E-mail address: gospeljunkie@yahoo.com
More information on their ministry can be found here:
http://www.whm.org/missionary?ID=51646
Georgia Sams and Beth Robinson
Extending grace in Japan.
Watch Beth and Georgia's Video Testimony.
Recent letter from Beth.
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