Out of our Mission Statement flows our vision statement. Vision Statement...
Teaching...the Word of God
Preaching...the Will of God
Reaching...a Walk with God
The purpose of New Season Ministry is captured in Matthew 28:18-20 where Jesus stresses the importance of making disciples. He hints at a strategy within the verses:
(1) making contact with people and building a relationship with them ("
go and make disciples of all nations");
(2) evangelizing them ("baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit");
(3) teaching them ("and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you"). Our mission statement reflects the process of ministry by describing the key movements in ministry. We make contact with people; evangelize them; and teach them. New Season Ministry exists to nurture people as they start, develop and grow in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Our choice of signature scriptures (Song of Solomon 2:11; Deuteronomy 28:12; Ezekiel 34:26) articulates our belief that the people of God must facilitate those blessings through community. Song of Solomon 2:11 - "for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone." "The winter" -- of estrangement and sin is "past" to the believer (Isaiah 44:22; Jeremiah 50:20; 2Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:1). "The rain is over and gone" -- (Hebrews 12:18-24; 1John 2:8). The promise of a new season and period of growth is now beginning for the people of God. Deuteronomy 28:12 - "The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow." "The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure" --The seasonable supply of the early and latter rain was one of the principal means by which their land was so uncommonly fruitful. "thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow" --that is, you shall be in such affluent circumstances, as to be capable, out of thy superfluous wealth, to give aid to thy poorer neighbors. Ezekiel 34:26 - "I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing." "I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing;" --Zion, God's hill (Psalm 2:6), and all the places in close proximity to Zion become a source of blessing, not merely to the nation, but to all the surrounding nations (Isaiah 56:6, 7; Zechariah 8:13). "I will cause showers to come down in their season;" - In accord to the ancient covenant, (Leviticus 26:4; Psalm 68:9; Malachi 3:10), fertilizing showers and productive trees and lands (Ezekiel 34:27) prosper externally allowing God's people to be the source of blessings. New Season Ministry will be a transforming agent in community because we believe God is calling us to transform the nations through His Word.
