A Heart for Missions…

Missionaries have been a great concern of Fellowship Bible Church from its very beginning. Mission work had begun even before the formation of our church when Harry and Rachael Powell were our own full-time missionaries to Chile. The church’s first Missions Conference brought Lou and Jan Felo to us. At this conference an even greater burden was placed on our hearts and eventually led to our first short term missions trip. This trip to Hungary by Warren Spence and Phil Sica took place in October of 1997 and was the beginning of reevaluation of our approach to missions work at Fellowship Bible. In large part through the ministry of Lou and Jan, headquartered here in our midst for a time, our congregation came to realize that it was not enough to simply subsidize missionaries in the field, but that our calling was to go out into the world personally and profess the name of Christ with our own voices. With Lou and Jan’s help, members from within our congregation have conducted numerous trips to both Bosnia and Afghanistan on short term assignments. Although delivering food and supplies to those in need, the real purpose of these trips was to put forth the gospel of Christ to people who hunger for answers. Whether the trip was a large undertaking to foreign soil or a family’s sacrifice of a vacation week spent refurbishing the facilities of a state side ministry, Fellowship Bible has been drawn closer to the heart of Jesus by submitting to the call-to-service on behalf of those in need.