December 2011 Update

The people who walk in darkness will see a great light.

For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.

You will expand your Kingdom, and its people will rejoice.

They will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest

The mission pioneers and partnerships of Sugar Creek Baptist Church have proclaimed the Glory of God in word and deed with magnificent results for the Kingdom in the past year. Celebrate Church! Rejoice at the Harvest! The incredible results below are because of those that were obedient to give to the Mission of the Church, particularly in faith to the Christmas Mission Offering, and to those called to pray and to Go Forth as pioneers into these new and challenging frontiers of missions.

  • Sugar Creek funded the one year church planting training school for 10 church planters in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a state that by law restricts people to convert to Christianity. The results of this training (verified by auditors for authenticity): over 12,000 families reached with the Gospel; 23 new churches form with a total weekly average of over 560 in attendance; 463 new believers and 245 baptisms. This investment will continue to bear fruit for the Kingdom for generations.
      
  • Sugar Creek funded one year program of GenerationOne Academy in Houston’s Third Ward, a unique Christian Academy in the heart of Third ward that educates and forms a Christian worldview in the children that nobody wants. There 30+ kids in the program with a student to teacher ration of 4:1 year round with short breaks, and daily one-on-one mentoring for each child. This is the beginning of Sugar Creek’s long-term investment in this community to raise up a new generation that seeks Him and restores beauty and relationship into a community suffering from the absence of the Gospel.
      
  • The demographics of Houston have changed rapidly. The nations have come to SW Houston, home to a large refugee population, over 120,000 Muslims, and 300,000 Hindus. God has placed Sugar Creek as the most influential church in the center of this diaspora, and Sugar Creek has responded. We began the Nehemiah Tours, the most effective training we conduct to give our church a passion for God’s heart for the intensity of the lostness around us; a deep appreciation of our distinctiveness in Jesus Christ and a desire to make disciples among our neighbors trapped in false worship to false Gods. We started support groups, and more to equip people with the best in class missiological approaches to reach Muslims and Hindus in our region. We catalyze, fund, and equip several missionary teams that are living incarnationally among these diaspora peoples to share the Gospel and make disciples. We conduct short-term (weekend) mission trips and one-day Servant Saturday’s to give Sugar Creek members practical hands-on involvement in value added projects that benefit these missionary partners. More is to come, such as our first ever Urban Camp for Ethnic Kids. We have much to learn, but will continue to listen and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit as He empowers us to Go Forth and bring forth light into this frontier.
      
  • In May God used the unique spiritual gifts of Sugar Creek to catalyze an indigenous disciple-making movement among five unengaged unreached people groups in Ethiopia, each being a highly resistive Muslim group with no Gospel presence. We joined with Sugar Creek partners Keystone Project, Faith Comes By Hearing, and Rick Leatherwood of Kairos. Since May we have seen breakthroughs in each of the five people groups. Some now have their only known believers baptized and making disciples among them and penetrating the desperate and violent lostness of Somalia and Sudan. Sugar Creek now supports the network of disciple making leaders with coaching funds and ongoing training. Also, Sugar Creek led training, and currently supports the ongoing coaching in the area where militant Muslims burned churches and killed Christians. Since May in this region alone, we have realized 105 Muslims come to Christ to include one Imam. God is working powerfully through this cutting edge approach to equip and enable the indigenous church to reach the last of the unengaged unreached peoples.

As Sugar Creek hungers and thirst for the presence of God, He will continue to send us as light to the nations here at home and to the ends of the earth. This appetite for God also calls us to give and to pray. The mission is for the church and we must use all our gifting and passion to GO Forth and SO shine our light that God receives the Glory. The Christmas Mission Offering Goal of $400,000 is only possible as you respond in obedience to the call of God to GO Forth!

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