Missions

Guadalajara Multiple Church Planting

The Guadalajara Multiple Church Planting project provides some of the needed funds to support a quality Mexican church planter to begin new works in areas of Guadalajara. Gerardo and Carola Garcia have been working with the new church plants in Jardines del Valle that grew out of the original La Estancia congregation. This congregation is now planting other congregations. We enjoyed having Gerardo with us at Sunset this past year. Gerardo and Carola have started a Youth Diabetes Association to minister to youth facing the challenge of living with diabetes. The original Guadalajara Multiple Church Planting strategy calls for an increase in Mexican support and a decrease in Sunset’s support. Pray that God will raise up more Mexican workers.

Doug and Sandy Holcomb Cuernavaca, Mexico

Doug and Sandy Holcomb are into the third year of their second term as missionaries in Cuernavaca. They have been joined by two families who are graduates of SIBI: Ben and Karen Jenkins and Paul and Sharita Nash. The Jenkins and the Nash families have made Cuernavaca their home and are making significant contributions to the mission effort. The original church planting in Cuernavaca is completely self-supporting and Mexican led. The new church planting is growing and nearing 50 in attendance. The Cuernavaca mission team will be receiving an AIM team this May. The Holcombs are supported by the 10th and Broad congregation in Wichita Falls, Texas. Pray for the fruit that the Lord brings from the Holcomb’s efforts.

Email: wdougsandy2@aol.com

Adventures in Missions Students

We are currently supporting Sunset AIM students. Pray that God will lead more of our young men and women to make it their "aim" to preach the gospel.

World Bible School

We have approximately 50 Sunset members actively involved in the World Bible School program. Gary Havenhill is the deacon who has been assigned to work with the World Bible School program here at Sunset. They are continually recruiting new WBS teachers from our own members. Pray that the Lord will raise up others from our number to share the good news through this amazing correspondence opportunity.

Sunset Youth Mission Work

These funds are allotted to the Youth Ministry to supplement the funds used to send the Sunset youth on summer mission trips. We believe that these mission trips are one of the contributing factors to the number of Sunset supported AIM students we have this year. Please pray that the Lord not only uses these mission opportunities to touch the lost but also to train our youth to become world Christians.

Sunset University Mission Work

This contribution supplements funds provided by students and the Cross Campus ministry to send our students on mission trips throughout the year. Pray that God will raise up mission leaders among our university ministry.

Family Mission Work

These funds help to send our Sunset families to Mexico to minister at the House of Hope Children’s Home in Anahuac, Mexico. This is a great experience for our families as they minister to the children but also reach out to the local communities with the message of Jesus. Pray for our families to develop the heart of Jesus.

Congregational Mission Travel

We have many elders, ministers, mission committee members and several of our members to become personally involved in mission works through evangelistic campaigns and travel to mission fields. These funds help many of our own members to be personally involved in mission work around the world. From these funds we will make a contribution to help some of our members join the India City Evangelism’s yearly travel to India.

Sunset Mission Sunday and Mission Seminar

In congunction with the Mission Sunday contribution that is collected every year, Sunset conducts a Mission Seminar to help educate and motivate us with our mission efforts both here and abroad.

New Opportunities

Mission work provides new and unexpected opportunities each year. We receive more requests than we will ever be able to respond to with the funds available. This fund enables us to respond to emergency situations which arise unexpectedly on our mission fields. This fund also gives us the opportunity to respond to worthy mission works with one-time contributions.

2009 Goal: $261,350

2008 Actual: $272,978.19

God has blessed the Sunset congregation to enable us to exceed our Mission Goal. We give glory to God for His generous mission work through the Sunset Church. Please continue to pray and "Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field." Luke 10:2b.