This group wants to touch the lives of people in this city and in the surrounding area with the reality of Jesus. This work is also hard. There are people who take advantage of us and use us. There are times when this work is exciting. To see a person come to the point of discovery and repentance is exciting.
Nothing is more exciting than seeing someone who had no hope find hope in Jesus.
But there is the same agony in this work, the same challenges of helping people grow toward spiritual maturity. Just like the challenges of mission work, reaching out through Christ to our own society is hard, demanding, expensive work, but we are not about to abandon our society. In the name of the God who gave us Jesus, in the name of Jesus who died for us, in the name of God's Spirit who lives within us, in the name of the mercy that is saving our souls, I challenge each of us to rise to our highest level of commitment. Our society desperately needs Christians who care. It desperately needs Christians who will be lights by the way they live.