It is the mission of the Little Zion Baptist Church to build, develop, encourage, foster, support, and equip a community of faith that will call sinners to repentance, disciple saved sinners, and work through Christian missions to meet the spiritual and physical needs of the community, locally, nationally, and world wide.
It is also the mission of the Little Zion Baptist Church to help the church family develop a Christ-like concern for society. Jesus ministered to those who cried out the most for God's love and mercy to let them know that God cared for them! As a Body of Christ, we minister to the hungry, the lonely, the homeless, the oppressed, the depressed, and the lost in the community, and in the fulfilling of our evangelical worldwide mission.
We are one Body in Christ working, worshiping, and praying together to make a difference in our world. We are working together as a Body of Christ to get the message out to the world that each person is a "work in progress" and that God is "not through with us yet!" God loves each one of us and wants us to prosper and work toward becoming more like his Son, Jesus Christ, every day of our lives.
We will be fulfilling the mission of serving others as our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did by demonstrating self-sacrificing (agape) love in our hearts, our finances, and through our mission service to society. We will become "works in progress" by developing a daily prayer life, daily bible study, attending weekly prayer service, attending Sunday School, Pastor's bible study, and bible studies through auxiliaries, special programs and retreats of the church. We will be glorifying God through His Son Jesus Christ by becoming a loving, caring, sharing, studying, and praying church in the community.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. -Matthew 28: 19-20 (NKJV)
So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the Prophet Isaiah. And when He opened the book He found the place where it was written: "The spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because he has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord." Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on him. And He began to say to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." -Luke 4:16-21 (NKJV)
All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. - Acts 2: 44-47 (NIV)
Pastor Michael Gobert
