Local Outreach International Missions

Our various outreach efforts at Evergreen serve to motivate, train and assist believers in the clear communication of the message of the Gospel. We organize these efforts in accord with two equally important perspectives.

Local Outreach

Ministries of local outreach at Evergreen exist to reach non-believing people with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ and to assist and equip believers in their personal efforts to reach others.

We believe that God calls us first to evangelize our immediate community and its surrounding area. To accomplish this we lean heavily upon the biblical premise that all believers share in the responsibility and joy of taking the good news of Jesus Christ to their families, friends, neighbors and co-workers and the belief that the unsaved and unchurched are most naturally and effectively reached from within the context of such relationships. Our strategy at Evergreen, then, is to equip and support our people as they seek to give witness of their faith in Christ to those within their respective spheres of influence.

Churchwide ministry initiatives to this end include personal witness training (Please see Adult Education for information on our core class, Discovering Your Mission), special equipping seminars, "bringer and includer" events at Christmas, Easter and on other occasions, and the consistent presentation of the gospel of Christ with invitation to respond in our regular worship services. Departmental initiatives in the form of "reaching" events and activities are also primary components in the ministry plans of Evergreen's Men's and Women's Ministries, Student Ministries and Children's Ministries.

International Missions

Inherent in our mission at Evergreen is a clear sense of our global responsibility to initiate and support international ministry efforts which are evangelical in nature for the purpose of making disciples of all nations. Three components characterize our missions strategy.

Missions awareness is our effort to provide up-to-date information to the Evergreen family regarding mission opportunities, progress of work on mission fields where ECF has direct interest, support and care needs of ECF missionary families and short term mission projects. A range of communication strategies are utilized, including periodic "Mission Moments" in our regular services, short-term mission team commissioning services, informational literature and an annual Missions Emphasis Week (next scheduled for March 2006).

Missionary support. Evergreen actively supports the work of missionary families currently serving in East Asia, Chile and Mexico, prayerfully, financially, through hospitality when they are "home" on furlough and through various missionary care projects. In addition, we are involved in a growing work in Nicaragua, directed by a family from right here at ECF. We desire to be a sending church, helping to prepare and commission vocational missionaries for service as they are raised-up from within our church body.

Mission projects are conducted yearly by short term mission teams sent out from Evergreen for purposes of construction, leadership training, teaching, evangelism, children's and youth ministry and encouragement of our missionaries. In addition, individuals from ECF regularly go out under the auspices of other Christian organizations with our prayerful and financial support. For information on short term mission opportunities, please contact us at our offices.