Mission and Our Partners

Mission has always been a vital part of Deeside Chrisitan Fellowship's ministry.

In addition to supporting our own members who seek to serve in Mission both locally and worldwide, DCFC supports many other organisations and individuals as they seek to fulfil God's commission. The purpose of this area of the website is to keep our members and partners aware of all the organisations and missionaries who are supported by DCFC. We hope you will find this wealth of information both informative and helpful.

In this area of the website there are almost eighty entries from around the world and these have been divided so that a few can be remembered each day of the month.

As well as your prayerful support it would be of great encouragement if you were to make contact with those you are praying for by way of writing a letter or short e-mail.

To see more information on the many individuals and organisations supported financially by the Church, click on the map areas or on the links below:
UK Europe Africa Asia North America Latin America Worldwide  Phillipians 1 vv3-6 “I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

Prayer Diary

A Prayer Diary has been prepared with prayer points provided by our mission partners, along with a number, representing a day of the month. We would encourage you to use this to pray systematically for each of the mission partners throughout the month, either every month or in chosen months throughout the year.

The Prayer Diary can be found here.

These prayer points are long-term; more current prayer points from partners can be found in the Missions Scan which is provided at the Missions Prayer meeting on the first Monday of every month. 

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From the Pastoral Team

“…the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world” (1 John 4:14)

God - the missionary God! If ever anybody was a missionary, it was Jesus. Sent by God the Father on mission to our world, to us.

Some things to note about Jesus the missionary:

He spent 30 years in “ordinary secular life” - a good place to be a missionary.

 

He served where he was, in the country where he was born, brought up and lived.

 

He crossed cultural barriers:

• The Samaritan woman at the well – John 4.
• The Syro-Phoenician woman – Mark 7.
• Lepers and other “social outcasts” – e.g. Matthew 26:6.

He taught and encouraged his disciples towards world mission.

 

He had vision for global mission. Note the phrases he used: “…go to…all nations”, “into all the world”, “…to the ends of the earth”.

 

When we hear such phrases probably what comes to mind are the deepest jungles in Africa or Asia, perhaps the far-flung islands of the Pacific. However it is interesting and challenging to notice from the “Operation World” book that the neediest continent is presently our own, Europe. Statistics show that it is about 2.8% Evangelical Christian compare to Africa @ 22.2%!); a frighteningly low figure when thought about in the opposite sense i.e. 97 out of every 100 Europeans are probably not enjoying a living relationship with the Lord.

Thus when we talk about “going into all the world”, we actually mean reaching out to our next-door neighbours, the folks we meet in the supermarket; our work-place, the leisure centre, the university campus. In a word, Mission is about going to where people are at; to those whom Jesus described as “our neighbour”.

So yes, at DCFC, we are encouraged and happy to be linked to many mission organisations, to pray for them and support them. However mission is not just about Missions (with a capital ‘M’). It’s about you and me! Wherever the Lord has placed us and whatever we are involved in on a day-to-day basis our vision should be that of mission; to bring Jesus to our world.

 
Our desire as a pastoral team then is that this booklet would:

• Inspire us to be active in mission where we are.
• Inform us and keep us praying about what is going on in our world.
• Lead us to sacrificial giving of our financial resources for the furtherance of the Gospel.
• And who knows? Perhaps create in us a willingness to go, to move out beyond our own comfort zone and to cross cultural barriers for the cause of Christ.

May God help us so to do.