The ownership of that initiative belongs primarily to the local church, where the membership live and where the everyday dynamics of life are experienced. Through the NET programs the North American Division has given a very significant boost to world evangelism, and for that I thank the division's leadership. Through the ACTS 2000 programs currently going on, significant lay leadership in North America, in partnership with divisions, with It Is Written, and with AGCN, has carried both the vision and the purse to make those witnessing activities possible. I acknowledge that contribution and thank the mission-driven lay leadership for it. But it all points to something that has unlimited scope and potential.
Resources are probably the only human limitation.
When all is said and done, if there is any church that should have such a council with a deliberate witness agenda, it is the Seventh-day Adventist Church, because mission is why we're here. We already have a Global Mission office with its assignment primarily in unentered areas. I just want to make sure that we coordinate our planning to maximum efficiency. Witness for our Lord is the one thing that must succeed. Where that does not happen the very breathing of the church falters, and its vision of the future becomes dimmed and uncertain.