From the Pulpit...

Missionary David Wears challenged us about being a strong, committed local church. He told us: You cannot have strong foreign missions until you have a strong local church. If you had a plethora of local churches, but were faltering at any moment, and they took on a plethora of foreign missionaries. If those churches fell apart, the support of the missionaries would fall apart and they would have to come home. You lose both the church and missionaries if you lose the strong local church.