God's passion for His people crosses boundaries of all dimensions, including cultural and geographical. We are honored and excited about how He is using our own NorthCreek Church family to display His passion around the world!

The purpose of the Global Outreach Ministry of NorthCreek Church is to strategically deploy people and resources in targeted regions around the world so as to proclaim the gospel and make disciples across language and/or ethnic boundaries. This is termed "missions." In short, missions is advancing Christ's kingdom cross-culturally.

So how does missions work? In an over simplification, here is how I see it.

• Goal - God receives glory when lost people come to know Him and live for Him.
• Missions - Where the church is non-existent or weak, disciples from other places and cultures are sent to live among the people, get to know them, love them, help them, witness to them and/or train and assist the local believers.
• Sending - Christians are sent to do the above when local churches, such as NorthCreek, disciple, recruit, train, send, support, encourage, and pray for them.

As we are involved in missions at NorthCreek Church, we strive to keep the goal in view and remember the above pattern. Each step is valuable as it contributes to the top line goal of God receiving the glory.

We want to stay in step with what God is doing globally. We want our financial and human resources to be used strategically. You can plan your part as you pray, give, and go.

(For a fuller expansion of the Global Outreach Ministry, see the sections on Mission, Vision, Strategy; Biblical support for Global Outreach; Missions defined.)

Yours for the Harvest,

Hal Kemp
Director of Global Outreach