One and All,

I have posted two questions that have to do with evangelism directly.

1.Has Direct-Support Missions Died? 2.A Church Plant in Arizona

Neither has had much response. The second of the two has not received any whatsoever. I thought that were supposed to be a people of the Book! Well, I believe that we need to start putting our money where our mouth is and get on with the work of the Lord. Do you agree?

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2001

Answers

Scott....

African Americans??? You mean blacks.

Most Christian blacks I have worked with preferred the term...."American"....period.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2001

Philip,

1. Direct support missions has not died. If it has, my ministry would as well. I am in the process of planting a church in St. Louis City. It is partly through the support of area churches that this is possible. However, there are times I wish we had a centralized system that would just dole out the missions money to the ministries in need so that we would not have to go from church to church to raise the necessary funds for mission works, both domestic and overseas.

2. My guess is that you're not getting a response to this one because no one on the forum lives in those areas. I've had a similar response in challenging nearby churches to send people into the city a few miles away.

God bless, Scott Jewell

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2001

Dear Scott, I am from St. Louis (originally) and am keenly interested in your church planting efforts there. What location are you going to focus on? My cousin, Walter Short, headed up an inner city mission for over 30 years there. I will be relocating from Hawaii to rural Missouri in February, so our paths might cross.

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2001

Patrick,

I worked full-time with Walter back in '95-96. At one point, I thought I would be taking his place. Apparently the Lord had other plans because differences of philosophy between the board and I became quite evident shortly before that was to take place. The new director is a friend of mine from college, so it is my hope that we will be able to partner our ministries in the future. Currently, we are the fourth Christian Church in St. Louis. In a city of 300,000, our total attendance in the city is under 50. Many churches that once served the city fled as African Americans moved into their neighborhoods. It is our goal to reverse that trend.

God bless, Scott

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2001

Thanks for the input, but I think it's a regional thing.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2001