Transformational Missions Team

Consulting – Coaching – Connecting

Tomi Lee “T.L.” Grover, PhD
Director, Local Transformational Missions
214-887-5428
tomi.grover@bgct.org

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Gerald Davis, MDiv.
Development Specialist, Local Transformational Missions
214-828-5392
gerald.davis@bgct.org
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The Missions Team is very pleased to introduce our new ministry assistant, Sandra Sewell. Sandra has served the BGCT in various capacities for many years and is a very capable, gifted and competent individual.  She will be working with Local Transformational Missions (Tomi Grover and Gerald Davis) and Multi-housing and LifeCall (Lindsay Cofield). Sandra can be reached at 214-828-5375 or by email at sandra.sewell@bgct.org.

Local Transformational Missions’ focus is in the following areas:

HELPING CHURCHES – BE ON MISSION
Baptists go on mission the world over. It’s what we do. It’s what we’re known for. We can be on mission locally and globally at the same time as we are on mission for Christ in our own community. Today, God is bringing people from around the world to our communities. Our Great Commission is to be on mission in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the rest of the world (Acts 1:8).

CHANGING COMMUNITIES
Churches are constantly challenged by the changing needs of their communities. Texas Baptists can see many opportunities to follow the biblical mandate to feed the hungry, provide water for the thirsty, to clothe the naked, and to seek justice while spreading God’s Word (Matthew 25). Our challenge is thinking beyond the walls of our churches to being on mission in our neighborhoods and communities bringing God’s Shalom for the church and the community.

TRANSFORMING LIVES
Texas Baptists can look at their community’s specific needs and the church’s strengths. The church can develop a mission strategy and an action plan that is focused on transformation of the lives of people in need and in the lives of those who are serving.

A Deeper Insight

“Open our eyes Lord; we want to see Jesus” are the words to a very familiar hymn. We often exclaim, show me Jesus. We even pray the Lord’s Prayer “Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” These prayers and lyrics reveal our desire to see God at work in the lives of people and in our world. For many God’s presence and work among people and throughout this world goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Jesus’ sole mission and reason for coming to this world is to let us know that God’s Kingdom is available to us. Even though we are in a fallen state God is passionately working, even now to make our lives and our world to be as He intended it to be. As it is in heaven, so it will be here on earth. I know that seem s impossible but Jesus said it and He instructs us to pray it, to desire it and to live and work for it. The ”it” is His Shalom, as God intends it to be. In every aspect of our lives we ought to be living for God’s Shalom so that we can see the Glory of God in and around our world.

– Gerald Davis

As we look forward to 2008 we are pleased to announce “Glimpse of Glory”

As we look forward to 2008 we are pleased to announce “Glimpse of Glory” a newsletter dedicated to local Transformational Missions. Our goal is simple: to engage churches to be on mission in their local communities. This Newsletter is entitled “A Glimpse of Glory” and will highlight where God is at work by capturing moments in the ministries and lives of Texas Baptists that portray God at work and reflects “as it is in Heaven”. We pray that this medium will encourage and inform you so that together we will give praise and glory to our God. Colossians 1:19-20 says it best “For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in Heaven, by making peace (shalom) through His blood, shed on the cross.”

There are countless ways your church can encounter God’s Glory. Because each church and each community is different, we’ll help your church develop the 20/20 vision you need to start focusing on your community. Transformational Missions resources can include consultations and site visits plus everything from conferences and workshops, to printed “how-to” materials or direct coaching.

We are available to serve your church and to connect you to key resources so that you can start new ministries or enhance your current mission and ministries. Please call on us at 888-244-9400!