Missional Living

Besides Sunday services, the center also provides a weekday program for young adults featuring recreational and leisure classes.

“We need to build relational capital. These guys need to enjoy gathering together. They need to love one another. They need to really practice the ‘one anothers’ that we see in Scripture. So, that was our primary goal for that fall season.” The groups took off and thrived.

We didn’t know it at the time but it turns out we were training our leaders right there. It was an opportunity for discipleship through serving we hadn’t anticipated, and we ended up serving 3,000 meals per day after that.

Once cleared by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the adult migrants the ministry serves arrive at a nearby bus station where they can catch a ride to their destination city. It is there that Navarro and his church greet the weary travelers.

“Christ gives leaders to his people for their joy, which turns the world’s paradigm and suspicions about leadership upside down.”

Being a lay missionary is not always helping the ones you want to help but helping all those who have fallen short of the glory of the Lord.

In their early years, should a team of missionaries focus less on language learning in order to provide humanitarian services to the poor?

Evaluated by Robert Gallagher