Missions
2016-2017
This year at Peniel Baptist Academy, we will putting our faith into practice. Practice that involves local community outreach as well as international outreach.
Why do missions? Because Jesus said so. Besides that fact, participating in missions will do five things:
1. Brings Students Together. "Together" is a powerful word. "Together" means we are working towards a common goal. Serving God "together" will build and strengthen the bonds of unity within our student body.
2. Broadens the Student's World. Understanding another culture, seeing and/or studying about how other people live will open their eyes to the world that God has commanded us to go in to.
3. Takes Students Out of Their Comfort Zones. Whether students are gathering items, putting things together or experiencing a new culture, their faith will step beyond the school and have to be applied to the real world.
4. Mission Activities Empowers Students. They take ownership. Something belongs to them and they feel accomplished for their task. Eyes are opened and passions are ignited, and the fact that they participated will open their hearts to what God may have for them.
5. Mission Trips Create Sacred Space. The Israelites built monuments of stone to signify times in their lives that God was faithful. Mission trips and activities for students can be points of remembrance they can look back and say, "That is a testimony of a time of God's faithfulness."
The ultimate goal of Peniel missions is to get out of the walls and shake our local, national, and global community.
Why do missions? Because Jesus said so. Besides that fact, participating in missions will do five things:
1. Brings Students Together. "Together" is a powerful word. "Together" means we are working towards a common goal. Serving God "together" will build and strengthen the bonds of unity within our student body.
2. Broadens the Student's World. Understanding another culture, seeing and/or studying about how other people live will open their eyes to the world that God has commanded us to go in to.
3. Takes Students Out of Their Comfort Zones. Whether students are gathering items, putting things together or experiencing a new culture, their faith will step beyond the school and have to be applied to the real world.
4. Mission Activities Empowers Students. They take ownership. Something belongs to them and they feel accomplished for their task. Eyes are opened and passions are ignited, and the fact that they participated will open their hearts to what God may have for them.
5. Mission Trips Create Sacred Space. The Israelites built monuments of stone to signify times in their lives that God was faithful. Mission trips and activities for students can be points of remembrance they can look back and say, "That is a testimony of a time of God's faithfulness."
The ultimate goal of Peniel missions is to get out of the walls and shake our local, national, and global community.
AFTERSHOCK
AFTERSHOCK is the title and theme for our missions teams that go out and participate in missions. Our prayer for our students and those we minister to is from Acts 4:31, "When they had prayed, they place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak God's message with boldness."
Here are a few ministries that Peniel partners and sponsors throughout the school year:
- Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan's Purse
- A Women's Resource Center, local pregnancy crisis center
- WHIF, Hope FM, local Christian radio station
- Christian Service Center, local mission for those in Putnam County
- El Shaddai Children's Home, in Dessources, Haiti
If anyone is interested in volunteering, supporting, or partnering with Peniel for mission projects, please let us know!
