Our Children Lead Us Into Global Missions Offering Month
The first Sunday of Advent always carries a sense of holy anticipation, but this year our worship began with a powerful and tender reminder of God’s love for the world. As our children walked down the aisle carrying the flags of many nations, we were invited to see again what Scripture teaches us so clearly — God’s heart beats for all people, in every place.
Their procession was more than a moment of beauty; it was a living picture of the global mission God has entrusted to the Church.
Why We Give During Advent
For generations, believers have joined their gifts together so that missionaries can be sent, churches can be planted, communities can be reached, and the hope of Christ can shine in places that have never heard His name. We stand in that same lineage today.
Our Global Missions Christmas Offering is one of the ways we answer God’s call.
Every gift — no matter the size — becomes part of a much larger story:
Sending missionaries into unreached communities
Supporting ministries sharing Christ where the church is small or struggling
Creating opportunities for compassion, justice, and hope
Carrying the good news farther than any one of us could go alone
Just as God provided through the generosity of believers long before us, He invites us now to give faithfully, joyfully, and prayerfully to His work around the world.
A Holy Conversation That Begins in the Heart
Missions is not only something we do — it is a response to who God is.
During Advent we remember that the very heart of Christmas is God sending His Son into the world. The call to global mission flows from that same love. When we give, pray, and support this offering, we join a conversation of grace that stretches across continents and generations.
This is the call of Christmas.
This is the call of missions.
And it begins with one willing heart that says,
“Lord, send me.”
May we listen for the Spirit’s leading.
May we give as God prompts.
And may this Advent season draw us deeper into God’s mission of hope for all nations.
