Our Strategy GPS

GPS is a modern day term that stands for Global Positioning System, and it is the only system in the world today that is able to show you your exact position on the Earth anytime, anywhere, and in any weather.

Using GPS we are able to help ships avoid disaster by zeroing in on the position of large icebergs from outer space and notifying ship captains of their locations, and perhaps averting disaster.

GPS satellites, 24 in all, orbit at 11,000 nautical miles above the Earth. These satellites transmit signals that can be detected by anyone with a GPS receiver, which can determine your location with great precision.

Borrowing the term GPS for our acrostic, We at BPEFC, Using our Holy Spirit GPS (Global Partnership Strategy) system are on the lookout to see what God is doing in and around the world and seek to follow His direction in Missions both locally and to the ends of the Earth. That is why we have developed the Global Partnership Strategy!

At BPEFC we want our whole church family on the same journey, helping people and nations understand God's saving power and eternal plan for all mankind.

Participating in Missions is an exciting adventure, and we can all be part of it. Regardless of your skills and abilities, there are ways all of us can plot a course to carry out the Great Commission.

Global

Full-time and Short-term missionaries, Pastoral Leadership Training Centers and numerous other opportunities have put us on the path of discipling many believers around the world.

We prayerfully and financially support over 24 full-time missionaries at different points on the globe.

India and Africa pinpoint two different T-Net pastoral discipleship Training Centers. Facilitated by Pastors Rick, Jeff, David Durey and other leaders from our Church, they train and disciple many national leaders. We also facilitate regional and overseas short-term missions trips each year to Chicago where we come alongside Circle Urban Ministry there to work in the inner city, to Louisiana to work with churches in the area where Katrina, to India and Africa to work alongside our partners there, and in our own neighborhood doing community outreach events.

Partnership

We believe in working through the local indigenous churches of any areas. One of the most exciting strategies that we have been involved with to get people involved in missions at BPEFC is our partnership with HBI (Hindustan Bible Institute) and New Calvary Church in India.

Starting in January of 2002, the HBI Partnership is a vision God gave Pastor Jeff to help mobilize our whole church for missions. After visiting the Hindustan Bible Institute the first time in July of 2000, He realized that the vision to mobilize our church could become a reality by getting people from our church involved with people of another culture and local indigenous churches partnering together to fulfill the Great Commission.

The partnership with the Hindustan Bible Institute allows our whole congregation to be informed and involved regarding specific projects. This includes participation from our children, youth and adults. People on people and life on life! Partnerships with local, indigenous churches, allows our whole congregation to participate in the same project, one that we can all 'touch' in some way.

BPEFC annually sends teams to The Hindustan Bible Institute/New Calvary Church in Chennai, India. We offer training in ministry, support several church planters, a children's home and much more!

We believe that one of the greatest revivals of all time could come out of India. With over one billion people and a caste system that promotes hopelessness, the Good News of Jesus Christ can very well turn this Nation upside down, and we want to be a part of it!

Strategy

In order to be effectively and fruitfully involved in the Great Commission you need a healthy sending church and many willing and equipped disciples. It takes disciples to make disciples.

Over the past several years, we have learned that if we want to be effective in mobilizing our church for missions, we needed to take on a more focused, holistic and church-wide approach. An approach that is hands on, people touching people, and allows our whole congregation to be informed and involved regarding specific projects that would include participation from everyone, including our children, our youth and our adults.

That's why almost 8 years ago we set out to mobilize our whole congregation for Missions, not just the "mission groupies" like lots of churches, but to move toward having an all church involvement approach, Children, Youth and Adults. We have gone to great lengths to accomplish this, and it is working, Praise God!

We have many strategies in place to mobilize our congregation for missions, and many vehicles by which individuals can be involved in world missions at our church.

1. Full Time Missionaries: Globally, we are blessed to prayerfully and financially support over 25 full-time missionaries, that ALL us can come along side of by way of GPS - Giving, Praying, or Supporting. These men, women and children serve faithfully, impacting their area of the world for Christ.  Our Missionaries
   
   
2. Un-reached People Offering: On the first Sunday of each month, we take an offering that helps to support two un-reached people groups. One, goes for a special needs Children's school in Uzbekistan, and the other for the purchasing and distribution of Christian literature to Muslims in Belgium.
   
   
3. Short-Term Missions: You can get involved by going on a short-term mission trip. STM teams have traveled to countries in Europe, India, Central Asia, several small Islands in the Caribbean, Mexico, Africa, and several inner City locations in the USA including Chicago and Louisiana. We have partnered with and come along side of missionaries and church's to help them fulfill the great commission in their cities and nations.
   
   
4. Faith Based Initiative Programs: We are involved in a local community faith-based initiative program with Life Coaches, a group dedicated to provide a big brother/father figure to young boys without a father.
   
   
5. T-Net International Pastoral Training: We are also involved in a cutting edge ministry to train pastors in developing nations that don't have the luxury of schools and seminaries. Pastors Rick, Jeff, David Durey and others are involved in training pastors in Africa and India the T-Net Discipleship philosophy that we use at out church to fulfill the great commission of disciple making. These Pastors are then challenged to develop centers across their nations and beyond, to continue the training and equipping of leaders in the context of their own countries and cultures. We are always looking for a few good men in our church to join us on one of these trips.  (For more information click here)
   
   
6. HBI & Africa Partnerships: Through our HBI and Africa partnerships we continue to look for different opportunities and ways that we can partner with our friends in India and also with our T-Net friends in Africa.
   
   

Our adult ABF's support four Indian Church Planters monthly to help them with their expenses and continued pastoral training as they lead and pastor the Churches they have planted in the remote areas of India. These pastors keep in touch with us through bi-monthly letters.

Our Children's Ministry has adopted and partner with children in the three HBI orphanages. They exchange prayer cards, help with special needs issues, and we visit the orphanages and do vacation bible school through our STM teams yearly. We also support "The Kuvi Boy's Home Project."

This project is a strategy that a missionary to the Kuvi's, a mountain tribal group, came up with to bring a select group of young boys to a home closer to Chennai. These boys, temporally separated from their families and home, were chosen to be educated, trained and equipped to go back to their villages when they get older as educators, missionaries, and to raise the standard of living and the spiritual environment in their culture.

Contact: Jeff Gagnon, Exec. Ministries/Missions
763-391-6140 x22 • jgagnon@bpefc.org