Recently, I was asked why I am passionate about Roanoke. Specifically, why am I committed to praying for a tidal wave of gospel impact to overtake the Roanoke Valley, and why do I want to see our church make a positive and even measurable impact in the Roanoke Valley for the glory of Christ? Below, I do my best to try and answer these questions. I trust you will agree that it is a blessing to live in the Roanoke Valley and to have the opportunity to magnify Jesus here!

We are dedicated to making a positive impact in the greater Roanoke Valley because that is where God has placed us. Our campus is conveniently-situated within a 15ish-minute drive from just about anywhere in our community --
​Cloverdale, Daleville, Downtown, Hollins, Glenvar, Grandin, Melrose, Salem, Southeast, Southwest, Westwood, and all the places in between. Our church family lives and works in nearly all of these communities. What unites us is our new and everlasting life in Jesus who compels us to share this good news with others throughout the Roanoke Valley.

The Roanoke Valley has so much to offer — beautiful mountains, wonderful outdoor activities, a revitalized downtown, great local, high-school sports, a rapidly-changing economy with new opportunities for growth, and flourishing towns throughout the Valley. Yet, there is one thing the people of Roanoke need today as much as ever — to discover the joy and transformation that comes to those who find true life in Jesus.

Roanoke is such a beautiful place. When Stacie and I moved away to Raleigh, I immediately missed the mountains and the incredible sunrises and sunsets that can be enjoyed here. Of all the places God has allowed me to see, Roanoke remains among the most beautiful places I have ever seen on this earth.

When we lived in Raleigh, God began to place a burden and dream in my heart for our hometown to be filled up to overflowing with the gospel - to see lives and entire families changed by Jesus. On trips back "home" to see our parents, there is a particular point in the drive where I would look out and see the Valley and its surrounding mountains on the horizon, and I would think, "what would it look like for the gospel to go forth in power in this beautiful place?"

You see, below the surface of the natural beauty in the Roanoke Valley, there are things that are not as beautiful.

• There are marriages that are about to break apart, and Jesus is the answer. Indeed, Roanoke has one of the highest divorce rates in the Commonwealth.
• There are people earning enough to live and save, but they are still living paycheck-to-paycheck. Only the discipline and self control that comes from the Holy Spirit who makes us new in Jesus can give them answers.
• There are children, thousands of children, being raised in poverty. Just across the street from our church building, there is an elementary school that is a Title 1 school. Approximately 53 percent of the students receive a free or reduced lunch. North Roanoke is blessed to assist these students, but what the students need even more than someone to help them afford food is a family that comes to know Jesus who is the Bread of Life.
• While many good things are happening in the Valley economically, some major employers have also left or significantly reduced their presence here -- Advance Auto, Norfolk Southern, the United States Postal Service, Home Shopping Network, and more. Roanoke is a city in transition, and wherever there is transition, there will be people who are hurting and who are open to hear the gospel.

These are just some examples of how much the Roanoke Valley needs Jesus. In every neighborhood, in every workplace, in every school, and in every community, there is gospel opportunity in this Valley. At North Roanoke, we we want to love Jesus and one another so well that the world must see that there is a better way -- the way of Jesus. We also want to equip you to be an ambassador for King Jesus in this Valley, boldly announcing to others by what you share and how you live, love, and serve them that Jesus saves sinners and gives them a new life, a new purpose, and a new power to live on mission with Him and His people. If you would like to join us on our King's mission as we endeavor to impact the Roanoke Valley, we would love to meet you soon!

For Christ and the gospel,
-Pastor Daniel

Before we dive into this little essay, one I've titled ​“Why and How We Reach the World: A Brief Theology of Missions," I want to begin with this reminder: evangelism and missions are not the same thing. Evangelism is sharing the gospel with those around you – at work, at play, in your neighborhood, on a cross-country flight…in your family. Missions, however, is when you cross cultural and linguistic barriers to establish a gospel presence among a people with inadequate or non-existent access to the gospel.

Both evangelism and missions are the responsibility of every Christian. As an example, in Acts 8, when persecution scatters the church in Jerusalem, every Christian flees sharing the gospel. And, as we have seen often in Ps 67, we have the privilege of knowing God’s presence so that others may know God’s salvation.

While every Christian has a responsibility to share the gospel locally (evangelism), every Christian also has a responsibility to be part of fulfilling God’s mission in the world – by praying, giving, and going. The God who saved us has a global mission. He is saving a people for Himself out of every tribe, tongue, language, and nation.

We do missions because Jesus has saved us to send us. Now, we cannot all physically go, but we all have a part in going. As Jesus says in John 20:21, “As the Father has sent me, I also send you.” He sends us for the same purpose for which He came, “to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10), so that God might be glorified, worshipped, known, and enjoyed in all the earth. As John Piper has now famously said, “missions exists b/c [there are places and people] where worship does not.”

The Joshua Project says, “A people group is the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance.” Of the nearly 11,500 people groups in the world, approximately 6,700 of them have little to no gospel witness. That is more than 3 billion people spread across 6,700 different people groups with little to no access to the gospel. Can you think of a problem in the world that remotely compares to this problem?
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In Acts 1:8, Jesus says, while we do not know when He will return, we do not have to wait to experience His power. He promises, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

Christians are lacking God’s power today because so many Christians have forgotten what God’s power is for.

Christians have been told God gives us power for us, because He wants us to be comfortable, to have everything we’ve always wanted… Now, I just returned from a vacation, and it was very nice (thank you), but if I think Jesus saved me so my entire life can be a vacation where I eat too many Oreos and drink too many Cokes, I’ve missed it, and I will miss out on the power of God in my life. God gives us His power to mortify sin in our lives and stay united in hot pursuit of His mission in the world (if you marriage is stale, your work life is blah, your parenting is off – recalibrate it to the mission of God, and watch God work).

We are meant to live in God’s power and that happens when we pursue God’s mission.

As a reminder, God’s mission for us is encapsulated in the Great Commission which is Christ’s command to the church in every generation to make disciples of all nations. In Matt 28:19–20, Jesus says, “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 that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Now, I need to offer a quick caveat: consistency in missions flows from a desire to worship God. All of life – our work life, married life, parenting life, coaching life, social life, and church life -- is to be lived to the glory of God. To do missions, we must do it for His glory.

So, our mission is not just missions. It is first and foremost worship. But if we are really worshiping and encountering God, we will have to be involved in His mission of making disciples and equipping others for the work of the ministry (Eph 4), and the work of the ministry that Paul has in view is the work of making disciples.

Now, I want you to notice something very important. According to Matt 28, to make disciples, there must be baptism, and there must be teaching. For there to be ongoing authoritative teaching, there must be leaders identified and trained who can communicate the gospel among their own people. For there to be biblical accountability and mutual encouragement to fulfill the “one-anothers” of the Christian life, there must be other people with whom to do life together.

In other words, disciples are made in local churches. You cannot become a disciple without a local church. That is where you live in accountability to other Christians, serve one another, confess sins to one another, forgive one another, forebear with one another, pray together, sing together...

So, how do you make disciples in places where few or no churches exist? To answer this, I want you to recall what Paul says at the close of his 3rd missionary journey in Rom 15:19. He writes these words, “From Jerusalem to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.”

This is astounding. In a territory approximately the size of New England, Paul, traveling by foot and boat, has fully preached the gospel?! He does not mean every human in the region had heard the gospel but that enough churches had been established to cover the entire territory with the message of the gospel.

Paul did not measure his success by the number of decisions made for Christ but by the accessibility of the gospel to people throughout the region. Once Paul had “fully preached” in one region, he was ready to move to the next.

This means success in missions is planting faithful local churches in places and among peoples where few exist.

For churches that exist where the gospel is readily available, a Biblical missions strategy will prioritize planting churches in places where lost people have few opportunities to hear the gospel. As Akin writes, “Those who are committed to the Great Commission rightly focus on the ‘outer edges’ of lostness where the gospel witness is faith or nonexistent. And, we understand that our divine assignment is not to make converts but to make disciples” (Akin, I Am Going, 37).

At North Roanoke, we long to see the whole world filled with enough biblically-faithful churches to get the gospel shared among the 3+ billion people in the 6,700 people groups who have little to no access to the gospel so Christ will have the worship He is due from “every tribe and tongue and people and nation” (Rev 5:9).

In my conversations with Pastor Andres in Puerto Rico, he estimated there are 25 doctrinally-sound churches on the entire island. That is 25 churches to share the gospel and reach 3 million people. Helping plant a church in Carolina, Puerto Rico is a part of a biblically-faithful missions strategy.

This is why we strongly support the International Mission Board. Every Sunday, a portion of our church’s giving goes directly to support trained, international-church planters serving among some of the least-reached people groups in the world. These people are learning new languages, new customs, new musical styles, new climates, and new foods because Christ has made them new and given them a burden to take the light of Christ into the darkest darkness. As missionary Jon Falconer wrote, “I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.”

Now, not all of us will be called to go as international church planters (although many more of us should be), but we all have a responsibility to be senders. We all should long for the day when Isaiah’s vision is fulfilled and it is declared in all the earth, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory” (Isa 6:3). This is why we give. It is why we pray, it is why we send, and it is why I am asking God to raise up some from this church to go not just on a short term trip but to a desperately lost people group for a lifetime.

All of this is, of course, costly. For the people that God raises up to go, it will likely require a sacrifice in your comforts. For the people who remain, sending is also costly. God sent His only begotten Son and calls us all reflect His generosity toward us by give generously for the sake of His mission in the world. We may call it a sacrifice, but I agree with C. T. Studd (1860–1931), a missionary to China, India, Sudan, and the Belgian Congo who said, “If Jesus Christ be God, and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”

If we meet our budget this year, the IMB will receive either directly or through our support of the CP, a little more than $36,000. Also, this year, we developed a way to help members of our church go on short-term trips and be directly involved in the work of helping to plant thriving churches where few exist. This is an exciting time to be at North Roanoke - we just saw 17 people take their first-ever cross-cultural missions trip!

Sustained progress in pursuing a Biblical-missions strategy requires generous giving. I am grateful for a church that seeks to treasure Christ before and above all other treasurers. This is why we give, by the way; Christ is infinitely greater than what we give, and when we give, we remind our hearts of this truth.

Now, you may be wondering (no one has said this to me…but, perhaps the thought has crossed your mind), “Why don’t we just keep that missions money for ourselves?” Wouldn’t that solve a lot of problems? We could hire an executive pastor, or we could eliminate the debt, renovate the sanctuary, or… The list is never-ending. And, that is partly the point. If we delay pursuing the Great Commission because of our immediate needs, we will never get meaningfully involved in God’s mission, and God's mission, the building of Christ's Kingdom through the progress of the gospel deep into our lives and out into the world is why we are here!

When I was growing up, I was told there were 6 billion people on the planet. Today, there are 7.7 billion; soon there will be 8 billion. According to Paul, we owe them the gospel. Paul says in Rom 1:14, “I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.” If you belong to Christ, you owe your life to the lost by striving to get them the gospel – Greeks and barbarians, patriots and punks, Muslims and Mormons, Ivy League and blue collar, Middle Eastern and Middle American.

As those who have received the gospel we are under divine obligation to give our lives to the cause of getting the gospel to others.

Our needs always seem greater to us than the ones we do not have to confront. But what the world desperately needs is the gospel because people in the world are lost, enemies of God, dead in their trespasses and sins, glorying in what God says in shameful and headed for the eternal fire unless they hear the gospel.

While I was serving at Southeastern Seminary, President Danny Akin returned from a mission trip in Southeast Asia and shared the following story:

“One evening my driver turned down a street that I was totally unprepared for. Suddenly, on both sides of the road, for at least a half of a mile, hundreds and hundreds of prostitutes lined the sidewalks. Some could not have been more than 11 or 12. They were dressed in seductive uniforms similar to what you would see in a private junior high or high school. The faces of these little girls and women I will never forget. Sadness, emptiness, and hopelessness were etched across their countenance. Smiles, if there was one, seemed forced, lacking any sense of genuineness. Later, I was informed that most of these girls and women had been deceived and basically kidnapped. Sex-slave traders prey on ignorant and unsuspecting parents, especially in rural areas, promising a better life for their children in the big cities. As I looked into these tragic faces, it hit me. Somewhere they have a mom and a dad. Do they have any idea what has happened to their precious daughters? I was overcome with a sense of sorrow and despair I have seldom experienced.” 

That moment changed our President, our seminary, and me. There is only one thing that can radically, fundamentally change the reality I just described and the pain it has produced – the gospel.

There is only one salvation that will cleanse, heal, and restore in all the ways that are needed. We must not be ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God unto salvation (Rom 1:16). We must get the gospel to the world because the world so desperately needs to hear God’s good news and to be saved. Salvation is becoming spiritually alive. Ephesians 2 tells us that without the Holy Spirit changing us at the root, making us alive through the death and resurrection of Jesus, we are “dead in our trespasses and sins.” But, there is power, Paul says, in the message of the gospel that leads to salvation, because it is the message of the cross of Christ, as foolish as it sounds to spiritually-dead ears, that God uses to awaken dead hearts and make them new.

People will not come to Christ unless someone proclaims to them, with words they can understand, the gospel. So, at North Roanoke, we are committed to reaching the world by supporting the work of planting thriving local churches in places where few exist because:

• Jesus commanded us to make disciples, and disciples are made in churches.
• Jesus saves us to send us so that others might be saved.
• We have the message the world needs, the message that God uses to make the dead alive; to make friends of His enemies, to make those who would otherwise be ashamed at His coming those who delight to see His face.
• As recipients of salvation through the message of the gospel, we owe to all people, not just ones like us or ones we like, our lives lived for the gospel.
• God saved us to know His power, and His power is known when we are working to build His kingdom.
• Jesus is worthy of and will have praise from people from all nations in all the earth. As John records in Revelation 7:9–10, “Behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

It is a blessing to serve Christ as your pastor as we give our all to the work of getting the gospel to the the ends of the earth. May God bless us and cause His face to shine upon us as we endeavor to reach the world all for the glory of King Jesus!

*Based upon  a message given July 28, 2019.

Tomorrow morning (6/1/19), 28 people from the North Roanoke family of faith will set out for Carolina, Puerto Rico. Our mission is to support Metro Bible Church in reaching their community. We will support them in delivering VBS in a school, teaching sports, encouraging the pastor and church leadership, and good, old-fashioned door-to-door as we pray and distribute literature about the church in the city.

There are several key reasons we have selected this mission as worthy of the investment of our family of faith.
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-We have been commissioned by King Jesus to make disciples of all nations (Matt 28:18–20; Acts 1:8).

-Puerto Rico is in great need of healthy local churches.

-The North American Mission Board has adopted the greater metro area of San Juan as a “Send City.” This means Carolina and Metro Bible Churchhave a pastor who is supported, in part, through our offerings each week. In other words, the mission board has examined the pastor we are supporting and has confidence in his work. Now, we will be adding some manpower to their efforts to reach Carolina for Christ!

-Another key reason is that planting healthy churches where few (or none) exist is THE biblical strategy for reaching peoples from all nations. Service projects are good. Disaster relief is good. Crusades are good, but the long-term work of making disciples requires thriving, Christ-exalting, self-denying local churches. God has given us an opportunity to be a part of His harvest among the people of Puerto Rico by helping a church that is dedicated to declaring the glory of Christ in Carolina and who, herself, is committed to starting new churches one day!

As we leave for Puerto Rico, I want to share with you specifically how you can support the team this week.

1. Do not miss church this Sunday! Pastor Darryl (our former pastor of 29 years) will be back preaching a special message. I know he will be encouraged to see you, and his message looks amazing. Also, as you are gathering for Sunday School and worship, the team in Puerto Rico will be getting up and going on limited rest. I am asking for you to gather for a special time of prayer in each class to ask God to protect the team and use us for His glory.

2. Give generously. This is the first year we have planned for at least one, church-wide mission trip funded through the budget rather than special fundraising efforts. When you give,  you are supporting the trip to Puerto Rico and many other things — helping families at Burlington Elementary with overdue lunch accounts, supporting church planters in North America and around the world, and funding the ongoing work and ministries of North Roanoke. The best way to financially support the overall mission effort this week is to generously support the budget on this and every Sunday. If you cannot be there Sunday, you may still take part in starting the month off well at nrbc.org/give.

3. Get ready! While we are taking more people than initially anticipated on this trip, we will still take additional trips to support the work of church planting and church strengthening in the months and years to come. Many have shared you want to go on a future trip. Begin praying now, and wait for what God will do next.

4. Pray. Pray for safe travel. Pray for no injuries or sickness. Pray for our translators. Pray that the church would have an opportunity to minister to more people and see more people trust Christ not only while we are there but for years to come because of this trip. Pray that we would be filled with the Spirit, selfless, and always pointing people to Christ our Savior and King.
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5. Get ready #2! What inevitably happens after a missions trip, is that someone will ask, “Why don’t we do that here?” The answer is that we do have some great opportunities coming up to serve our community with WinShape and VBS. And, in the last year, we have also done prayer walking and distributed door hangers in a nearby neighborhood. However, we want to do more. Pastor Job has begun to think about a possible week of missions where we can take time off as we would for an international trip and serve together right here in the Roanoke Valley — possibly even staying at the church together for those intensive times of growth together for the glory of Christ. Stay tuned!  

As your pastor, I want to thank you for allowing us to serve by being sent out. There is something so special about being on mission together that it defies explanation. I shared with one sweet sister that these trips provide times of “intense discipleship.” Most of the leadership team will be serving on the ground together,  and we will have great opportunities to get to know students, adults, couples and families in deeper ways. Questions and challenges will arise that otherwise would not. We will have an entire week together for the sake of the Name of Jesus! Pray for God to work in us even as He works through us in Puerto Rico, and thank you for allowing us to #reachtheworld in Jesus’ Name! 

Cannot wait to see you again next week!

For Christ and the gospel,
Daniel

(En español a continuación)
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Last Sunday, February 11, we formally installed Job Marquez as the Missions and Community Pastor at North Roanoke Baptist Church.
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The Lord opened this door in some unusual ways. For the past 13 years, Job has served Christ as the Church Planter/Pastor of the Hispanic Mission Church which was funded primarily by North Roanoke along with a few other partners along the way.

In 2005, Job immigrated here with his family to help plant a Spanish-speaking church to serve the rapidly-growing Hispanic population in the Roanoke Valley. God used Job and his wife Patty to make a tremendous impact in the lives of many.
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Though the church impacted many lives, she also faced many challenges and was unable to attain financial viability as an independent local church. In 2008, the Great Recession dramatically slowed the growth of the Hispanic population in our Valley. Many people who attended the church and whose lives were forever changed had to return to their home country or move to another city for work. Finally, as the children entered the public schools here in the Valley, they learned English. They made friends who speak English, and, over time, they wanted to worship in a setting that was more like the rest of their lives — lives lived beside all types of people who mostly speak English.
After 13 years of trying to plant an independent church serving Spanish-speaking people and not reaching the goal, we began to ask some questions.

​1. What if we could put Job’s passion for reaching people with the gospel to work among the 105+ nations represented by the people living in the Roanoke Valley right now?

​2. What if we could help first-generation immigrants learn English and serve their children who already know or are quickly learning English in the process?

3. How could we do it?

We are at the beginning of something new. For the Spanish-speaking worshipers who join us each week, Job is providing a live translation of the sermon into Spanish. For those who do not yet know English and want to learn and worship alongside of their children, we will be launching an English as a Second Language (ESL) class later this year.

As we enter some unknown territory and try some new approaches, we do so knowing assuredly and believing wholeheartedly that Jesus is worthy of a church that strives to reach the nations among us and the people among the nations.

The installation of Job represents many things. It represents the closing of one chapter and the beginning of another. It represents the truth that we will not allow adversity to alter our ultimate aim - to make disciples of all nations. It represents our willingness to serve anyone who wants to worship with us to the best of our ability, and it represents our willingness to learn about new people and new cultures because Christ is greater and the gospel sweeter than any other thing we may hold dear. It represent our confidence that Jesus wins, and He will have the worship of people from all nations, and He uses His church in achieving His mission.

So, how now can we pray? Please pray that God would send us the people He wants us to serve through ESL classes. Please pray the people who have joined us from the Hispanic Church would feel welcomed and be able to benefit from the sermon translation as they gradually learn English while also taking care of all their other responsibilities in a place that sometimes does not feel like home. And, pray for Job as he strives to help us reach all kinds of people for the glory of King Jesus — people living in the Roanoke Valley and the peoples of the world.

Christ is King of the nations!

-Pastor Daniel
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El domingo pasado, 11 de febrero, formalmente instalamos a Job Márquez como  Pastor de Misiones y la Comunidad en la Iglesia Bautista del Norte de Roanoke.

El Señor abrió esta puerta de una manera inusual. Durante los últimos 13 años, Job ha servido a Cristo como el sembrador / pastor de iglesias de la Iglesia Hispana, que  a sido financiado principalmente por Iglesia Bautista del Norte de  Roanoke junto con algunos otros ministerios a traves de estos años.

En 2005, Job emigró aquí con su familia para ayudar a plantar una iglesia de habla hispana para servir a la población hispana de rápido crecimiento en el Valle de Roanoke. Dios usó a Job y su esposa Paty para impactar tremendamente en la vida de muchas personas.

Aunque la iglesia impactó en muchas vidas, también enfrentó muchos desafíos y finalmente no pudo alcanzar la estabilidad financiera como una iglesia local independiente. En 2008, la Gran Recesión disminuyó drásticamente el crecimiento de la población hispana en nuestro Valle. Muchas personas que asistian a la iglesia y cuyas vidas cambiaron para siempre tuvieron que regresar a su país de origen o mudarse a otra ciudad para trabajar. Finalmente, cuando los niños ingresaron a las escuelas públicas aquí en el Valle, aprendieron inglés. Hicieron amigos que hablaban inglés y, con el tiempo, quisieron adorar en un entorno que era más parecido al resto de sus vidas: vidas vividas al lado de todo tipo de personas que en su mayoría hablan inglés.

Entonces, después de 13 años de tratar de plantar una iglesia independiente sirviendo a las personas de habla hispana y no alcanzar la meta, comenzamos a hacer algunas preguntas.

1. ¿Qué pasaría si pudiéramos poner la pasión de Job por llegar a las personas con el evangelio para trabajar entre las más de 105 naciones representadas por las personas que viven en el Valle de Roanoke en este momento?

2. ¿Qué pasaría si pudiéramos ayudar a los inmigrantes de primera generación a aprender inglés y servir a sus hijos que ya saben o están aprendiendo inglés rápidamente en el proceso?

3. ¿Cómo podríamos hacerlo?

Entonces, estamos en el comienzo de algo nuevo. Para los adoradores de habla hispana que se unen a nosotros cada semana, Job ofrece una traducción en vivo del sermón al español. Para aquellos que aún no saben inglés y quieren aprender y adorar al lado de sus hijos, estaremos lanzando una clase de inglés como segundo idioma (ESL) más adelante este año.

Al entrar en un territorio desconocido y probar algunos enfoques nuevos, lo hacemos sabiendo con toda seguridad y creyendo de todo corazón que Jesús es digno de una iglesia que se esfuerza por alcanzar a las naciones entre nosotros y a nuestra comunidad entre las naciones.

La instalación de Job representa muchas cosas. Representa el final de un capítulo y el comienzo de otro. Representa la verdad de que no permitiremos que la adversidad altere nuestro objetivo final: hacer discípulos de todas las naciones. Representa nuestra voluntad de servir a cualquier persona que quiera adorarnos lo mejor que podamos, y representa nuestra disposición a aprender sobre personas nuevas y culturas nuevas porque Cristo es más grande y el Evangelio más dulce que cualquier otra cosa que podamos apreciar. Representa nuestra confianza en que Jesús gana, y tendrá la adoración de personas de todas las naciones, y usa a su iglesia para lograr su misión.

Entonces, ¿cómo podemos orar? Por favor ore para que Dios nos envíe a las personas que quiere que sirvamos a través de clases de ESL. Por favor, ore para que las personas que se unieron a nosotros de la Iglesia Hispana se sientan bienvenidas y puedan beneficiarse de la traducción del sermón a medida que aprenden inglés gradualmente mientras se ocupan de todas sus otras responsabilidades en un lugar que a veces no se siente como en casa. Y ore por Job mientras se esfuerza por ayudarnos a llegar a todo tipo de personas para la gloria del Rey Jesús: las personas que viven en el Valle de Roanoke y los pueblos del mundo.

¡Cristo es el Rey de las naciones!

-Pastor Daniel