Why Missions?
We, the church, all of us are encouraged to go into all the world and preach the Gospel. That's you and me!
What does all the world mean? Acts 1:8 says “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Here at Calvary Knoxville we consider our Jerusalem to be the Knoxville area and we are reaching that area by:
We consider our Judea to be be outside of Knoxville and we support groups like:
We consider our Samaria to be the next ring out in places like:
And finally “to the ends of the earth”
What does all the world mean? Acts 1:8 says “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Here at Calvary Knoxville we consider our Jerusalem to be the Knoxville area and we are reaching that area by:
- Ministry we do here at the church throughout the week
- Radio ministry that reaches out in the community, Evangelism training ministry reaches throughout Knoxville. Also, through other ministries we support like Child Evangelism Fellowship and Good News Clubs, the Arabic Church of Knoxville, Hope Resource Center, Karm and Street Hope.
We consider our Judea to be be outside of Knoxville and we support groups like:
- Samaritans Purse
- Our Relief program that goes and helps clean up and rebuild after natural disaster
- Our West Virginia trip in July- This is a great family mission trip opportunity. We are going to flood a smalltown in West Virginia for a week with the love of Jesus. We will be doing VBS and door to door Evangelism and blessing people with many projects.
We consider our Samaria to be the next ring out in places like:
- Honduras which we have a trip to in June of this year where we will be putting well in a community that has no fresh water and ministering to the local church through evangelism and children's ministry and Costa Rica where we will be supporting a local Calvary Chapel
And finally “to the ends of the earth”
- This past year we have gone on trips like Egypt and Tanzania
- We had a team return from Uganda where they had the opportunity to feed many hungry families and pray for the sick, hand distribute over 400 pair of reading Glasses and see a number of people come to Christ.
- We are planning trips now to Thailand in August, Tanzania and Mozambique later this year.
Eyeglass Ministry in Costa Rica
Kids Club in Uganda, Africa