Jeff Adams

I love meeting new people and learning together how to be better students of Jesus Christ. This is our mission – to go and make disciples among all ethnic groups wherever they are found. We go in the delegated authority from our Lord Jesus Christ and by baptize into the church those whose lives are transformed by having put their faith in Jesus Christ. We teach them to live by all that Jesus taught.

The other day I used a phrase – the church as the missionary. The purpose of a church is not invent a bunch of programs to keep people busy building a bigger and better church. Our purpose is to make radical disciples of Jesus Christ, willing to offer their bodies as living sacrifices to him (Romans 12:1-2). Radical disciples make for a radical church that sees it mission as far beyond the four walls and extending to the ends of the earth. Radical disciples should normally result in a growing church and an increasing outreach that impacts the community and the world around us. Our church should see itself as the missionary with every member using his or her gifts to engage in this global process.

Last Year in Madrid

When I go through a spurt of heavy travel like this – five countries, four continents in four weeks – it is important to me to communciate that I am representing the church. The church’s investment in me multiplies our ability to carry out our mission. For whatever reason God has given me the opportunity to minister in over 50 countries and to minister effectively in various cultural settings. He has gifted to me to preach fluently in English and Spanish. Good stweardship requires that we leverage my gifts along with the gifts of the entire body to go through the doors God opens for us to make disciples. Thanks for your prayers and your partnership in this ministry. Usually, someone is going with me to learn, share and minister in partnership with others.

Here is what I will be doing for the next couple of weeks:

• October 29-30: Fly to Madrid, Spain with Tony Vasquez and meet Mexican Pastor Ricardo Zavala who arrives just minutes before we do. We spend Thursday night in Madrid. Ricardo represents that group of Mexican leaders with whom we have been ministering the past several years and that is now beginning to see significant fruit as they send out cross-cultural missionaries to other groups of people.
• October 31-November 4: The three of us fly to northern Africa to minister to a group of Latin Americans who labor there. I will be taking them through the book of Titus and discussing the same themes I mentioned above. Pray it will be a time of enlightenment and encouragement for them.
• November 5: After a few days in Madrid, Tony returns to Philadelphia where he is spending a couple of months with his family. Ricardo and I head to Amsterdam.
• November 7 – our Amsterdam seminar group arrives (Cheryl among them). We have two purposes. The first is to teach culture, history and missions. Second to encourage and network with our key contacts in Europe. This is always a great time for networking, sharing, nurturing and growing together.
• November 14 – Return to Kansas City.

I leave in the morning and have no idea when I will be able to make the next post. I will probably not be able to do so while in Africa for a number of reasons. But, who knows? When I make it Amsterdam I will let you know. So, keep checking back and I’ll let you hear something as soon as I can. On November 9 I’ll be addressing the church from Amsterdam.