Open Door Missions, Inc.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
A Southern Baptist Outreach
 Welcome to Open Door Missions!

Are you looking for an opportunity to serve the Lord Jesus Christ on a mission trip?  Maybe you need someone to speak to your church about missions opportunities around the world?  Would you like someone to come help plan a mission trip for your church?  Would missions training be a benefit to you or your church missions group? 

Open Door Missions may be just who you are looking for.  This missions ministry is made up of pastors and laymen from across the southeastern United States and our calling is to train and equip churches to carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.  We believe God is calling us to help churches plant new churches in America and around the world. 

Love of Christ - A Bar of Soap

 

    In May we will go to Kenya to establish Open Door Missions Kenya and seek to secure property or a building for a soap factory, a needed commodity. This will provide needed jobs and help pay for a ministry for children and youth, planting churches and training church leaders.

   
 The apostle Paul was a tent maker, we can produce soap to support the proclamation of the Gospel in Kenya.
 
   The report from those who have been working in Kenya for years speaks of expanding the ministry there. They have a vision of what our Lord wants to accomplish and have asked us to join them. Our trip in May will include talking with local church leaders to hear their vision for the work and partner with them to see their God given vision fulfilled.
   
 This is a new opportunity for ministry and more details will be coming after the May trip. Pray for us, that we may see through the eyes of our Lord where He wants us involved specifically. 
     If the Lord has your attention concerning this project: email anahuacfbc@windstream.net Attention Gary Hillyard
 

Love of Christ - Unity

 
     We have, for several years, partnered with Blake Coffee of Christian Unity Ministries to equip churches with biblical principles so the leadership may recognize attitudes and actions that could result in conflict in the church. Our Lord has done some amazing things as a result of seminars and follow-up with churches from Texas to Florida, Australia, Ukraine and South Africa.
     We are willing to come to your church for a six hour seminar and retreat with your deacons and or Sunday School teachers. The goal is for the "Five Principles of Unity" to become a life style not simply a cirriculum.
     If you are interested in this aspect of our ministry; email anahuacfbc@windstream.net attention Gary Hillyard 
You can find Christian Unity Ministries at www.christianunityministries.org
 

Executive Director,

Gary Hillyard

 

         Recently I have talked with the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ukraine and plan to meet with him in July. We have been working in Ukraine since 1991 and we will be going to evaluate our present involvement and to discuss our future involvement with a renewed vision and expectation.

     We have through discussion and prayer, assumed responsibility for a ministry in Kenya, Africa. This ministry has been primarily a work in an orphanage, but the expanded vision is for a children and youth ministry and working with the Kenyan Baptist Association for evangelism, planting new churches and training church leaders. We will go to Kenya in May to establish an NGO with the Kenyan government.

     We have been contacted by the government of Guinea, West Africa to establish a farming project. This is an old invitation that we assumed had died, but five years later has been resurrected. There is a need for further discussions and mush prayer for this project.

 
     There is before us the established ministries that we love and for which evaluation and a renewed vision is needed. There is the new ministry that excited us with new possibilities for reaching people for Christ. Then there is the potential ministry opportunities that continually come out way. These demand much prayer and discussion while we wait upon our Lord.

     These are exciting days of opportunity! Where and when do we move forward to claim these opportunities? We wait upon our Lord to open the doors. 
       
 

Love of Christ - A Back Pack

 

     How do you demonstrate the love of Christ? "For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me. Truely I say to you, to the extent that you did it for one of these brothers of Mine, ... you did it to Me." (Matt 25:35,40)

     What does the love of Christ look like? Why it looks like a back pack filled with school supplies given to those in need. Jesus said, to the extent that you meet the needs of others, "you are ministering to Me." We minister to Jesus because He ministered to us at the point of our greatest need - salvation. We minister to Jesus and demonstrate the love of Jesus by meeting the needs of others. 

     The first year the Lord led Open Door Missions to take back packs and school supplies to the Navajo children in New Mexico, we were blessed with 100 back packs. Last year our Lord blessed us with 213 and this year 325. Thank you for your ministry unto the Lord in meeting the needs of others.  

Email Brother Lavelle now! or call 318-355-5743