November is Missions Month at Fielder!
Each Sunday in November, we’ll explore different aspects of missions—from Serve the City, to foster care and adoption, sending to the nations, and reaching the unreached.
This year, our overarching theme is ‘Greater.’ It comes from the verses John 5:20 & John 14:12. We see these greater works when we abide with Christ. We’ll explore how living with the expectation of these greater works should move us to action – and live on mission.
November 1st – The Insanity of God Movie Showing, Nik Ripken. This movie is based on the true story of missionaries Nik and Ruth Ripken and their bestselling book The Insanity of God. After the death of their son, this ordinary couple embarks on a journey into the depths of the persecuted church, asking the question: Is Jesus worth it? Hear the challenging, beautiful, and heart-wrenching story of the Ripkens and be encouraged that, even through difficult circumstances, God is still moving.
November 3rd – Serve the City. We are partnering with Children’s Hunger Fund to pack 15,000 Food Paks for children & families that live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Children’s Hunger Fund is an organization that equips churches with Food Paks so church volunteers can reach out to those in their community and build meaningful relationships. All campuses will meet at 9:30am at the Pioneer Campus for a brief message, worship, and then to pack food boxes together.
November 10th – Stand Sunday. On Stand Sunday, we will be hearing God’s heart for all the ways His people are to stand for, with, together, and by the fatherless, vulnerable, birth, unborn, the adoptive, the foster, and the kinship families. Our prayer is that we will all be challenged to walk in new ways of obedience both as individuals and a church body as we seek to live out His commands.
November 17th – Sending Sunday. Just as a deep breath naturally leads to an exhale, when we inhale the gospel message, the Spirit creates a compulsion to go and make disciples of all nations. Acts 1:8 emphasizes that the Spirit empowers us to be His witnesses. Our motivation to reach the nations isn’t based in amusement, adventure, or fun. In fact, there are many risks and costs to going. Yet, we still go because we have been transformed by the gospel and empowered by the Holy Spirit to reach those who have not yet heard. There are so many ways for you to go and different people groups to engage with. God uses every ‘yes,’ so would you be open to putting your ‘yes’ on the table despite the costs to wherever God calls you?
November 22nd-23rd – The Insanity Encounter, Nik Ripken Conference. Nik and Ruth were just an ordinary couple who were called to go to the unreached and stood against impossible circumstances causing them to ask the question — “Is Jesus worth it?” Come hear their story and some of the hard questions we must ask the American church in light of how God is moving through His church in the world.
November 24th – Unreached People Groups Sunday. Don’t miss author and missiologist Nik Ripken as we host him for an emphasis on Unreached Unengaged People Groups (UUPG) and wrestles with the question of why following Jesus into the unknown to difficult places is not only worth it, but worth pursuing.