PBCC Missions

Ps. 67:3-4    "Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let ALL  the peoples praise thee!  Let the nations be glad and sing for joy!" 

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is.  Missions exists because worship doesn’t...When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more.  It is a temporary necessity.  But worship abides forever...In missions we simply aim to bring the nations into white hot enjoyment of God’s glory."*

*John Piper: Let the Nations be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions
PBCC Missionaries

Information about PBCC missionaries can be found at the bulletin board at the rear of the Auditorium. There is a file holder for each missionary with their picture and folders containing a one-page bio and their latest newsletter. We encourage you to read these letters to keep informed about our missionaries and to pray for them. If any folder is empty and you'd like the most recent copy of a missionary's letter, please contact David Jones (or call 408.366.6690). PBCC missionaries are also listed in the PBCC Directory.

PBCC missionaries arre not listed on our website for various security reasons.
Short-term Missions

Benefits of Short-term Missions: The cross-cultural short-term experience develops world Christians as it allows the team members to see another culture as it really is--allowing God to experientially teach them more about himself and his heart for reaching the nations. Returning team members can help increase the church's outward focus. Properly trained, adequately supervised teams with an attitude of humility and servanthood can be a tremendous blessing and provide important relational benefits.

PBCC and short-term missions: The PBCC Missions council encourages short-term mission participation and desires to help those going have the best possible experience and maximum impact. We encourage all PBCC members interested in short-term missions to contact the Missions Council as early as possible in the process so that we can walk with you through the experience.

Forms and information:
PBCC Short-term Missions Guidelines
PBCC Short-term Questionnaire/Application:PDF DOC
PBCC Short-term Debrief Form: PDF DOC

Short-term mission opportunities: Following are a few links to mission provides organizations that sponsor short-term missions trips:

The Navigators
ShortTermMissions.com
Operation Mobilization

Perspectives

Perspectives is a dynamic, internationally respected 15-week study program developed by the U.S. Center for World Mission. It provides a single, comprehensive source of information on the unfinished task of world evangelization. Each week a different speaker will challenge you to examine your perspective on God's mission.

Perspectives Campbell Spring 2008: Enroll in the Perspectives seminar that will be held at The Home Church, 1711 Winchester Blvd. in Campbell from January 28 to June 2, 2008. Click on the title for more information and to download a brochure.

s Policy
Getting Involved

Serving as Senders: It is the conviction of PBCC that every Christian can be involved in God's mission to bring the redemptive blessing of God to every nation, tribe, people and language.  Not everyone can go, or should go.  Those who stay can become “senders.”  The goal of missions at PBCC is for each missionary to have a Sending Team that is as committed to the missionary’s enterprise as the missionary.  To learn more about being a sender, see Serving as Senders.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV)

God with a Mission: "Though the phrase missio dei has been misused in some theology virtually to exclude evangelism, it does express a major biblical truth. The God revealed in the Scriptures is personal, purposeful and goal orientated...And from the great promise of God to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 we know this God to be totally, covenantally, eternally committed to the mission of blessing the nations through the agency of the people of Abraham...This is the mission of the biblical God."**

"It is not so much, as someone has said, that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world...Mission, from the point of view of our human endeavor, means the committed participation of God's people in the purposes of God for the redemption of the whole creation. Mission, like salvation, belongs to our God and to the Lamb. We are those who are called to share in its accomplishment."**

**Christopher Wright in Truth with a Mission: Reading Scripture Missiologically.
Links

Missions: Who Me?? For an answer to this question, read or listen to the message preached by guest speaker Jonathan Lamb on November 5, 2006, entitled "Heaven in us before we are in Heaven."

Mission organizations our missionaries serve with:

CityTeam Ministries

Partners International

Mission to Unreached Peoples

Parakaleo

Wycliffe Bible Translators

Local missions endorsed by PBCC:

CityTeam Ministries

Community Pregnancy Centers

Green Pastures, Inc.

Help One Child

Mission mobilization and information:

Mission Links

Misssion mobilization

Unreached People: A people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group.

Progress of the Gospel by People Group

Intercristo: Search for mission agencies that need your skills and gifts.
Missions Policy

Please read the PBCC Missions Guidelines to learn about how we do mission at PBCC.
Last Updated July 06, 2008.