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Women on Mission - January 2021

Cooperative Program
Working Together toward a Common Goal: Rescuing Souls

More than 90 years ago, Southern Baptists realized the challenge of reaching a lost world was too great for the approach to missions they were taking.  Small congregations couldn’t adequately train leaders and send missionaries on their own.  A host of societies competed for funding, and missions efforts were badly fragmented.  A few leaders realized the churches needed to link up in a focused partnership. Together they could accomplish what chaotic competition was preventing. 

In 1925, Southern Baptists forged the Cooperative Program.  Individuals, churches, state conventions, and Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) entities began working together toward a common goal:  rescuing souls in danger by showing and sharing the gospel all around the world.  The unified budget mitigated competition and provided long-term stability for missions boards.

Even though we number more than 47,000 congregations, our churches working alone could not register the gains we see each year through our Cooperative Program efforts: 16,000 students trained in six seminaries, more than 1,100 congregations started in North America, 886 people groups and 236 urban centers engaged overseas, and almost 1.4  million people in 53 countries helped with basic life essentials like food and clean water. 

When we join hands through the Cooperative Program, we are better able to obey Jesus’ command to “go and make disciples of all nations.”

Women on Mission will not meet in January.

Spiritual Development - January 2021

Dear Church Family,

It has been one of the greatest privileges of my life to serve as one of the pastors of Oakhill Baptist Church. You have loved, encouraged, and blessed me and my family in ways that you’ll never fully know. The sweet spirit of our church has made the last five years some of the most enjoyable and beneficial years of my life.

As our family transitions to this new season of life in Japan, we hope that you will know that much of our love and affection will still remain for you all. We count it an incredible blessing to be sent out by our church to a country that has very little exposure to the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Even though we must leave, we know that God is sending us out with His Spirit and with your support and prayers. We are so excited to see the ways that God will work things  together for His glory over the next few years.

My prayer is that Oakhill Baptist Church would remain focused on its mission. We must never forget that Jesus has given the church this purpose: “go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” There are many people in Japan who need to know about Jesus and his gospel, but there are also so many people in and around Evansville that are   equally in need of Jesus. We must tell people about Jesus. We must make disciples of Jesus. And we must persevere in our own faith in Jesus. Paul states in Galatians 6, “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

Church family, the days ahead of us all are going to be challenging. But don’t give up, especially when its hard. Continue fighting forward. Know that you have the victory in Christ. And know that Jesus is “with you always, to the end of the age.” I love you and will be praying for you. I’m so happy to know that this goodbye will only last a little while until we are all united together again for eternity in worship to our God.

Pastor Nick Scott