Bethel Apostolic Church - TO

“Bless me to bless you: Realizing God’s creative intent for our lives!”

For Bethel our vision is a clear, challenging picture of the future of our ministry that can and must be. Our actions will be intentional and keep us pointing in the right direction. Our vision is drawn from an understanding of God’s will for our church and our vision must be aligned with the vision which God Himself has for our church. A vision has been described as a mental picture of the future, which finds its realization in the hands of the one who owns the vision. It is therefore our desire that Bethel’s vision becomes our vision; something each individual owns and takes great pride in seeing fulfilled.

“So why does Bethel Apostolic Church exist? Does it exist for us? Does it exist for others? Does it exist for both? Who will be served first?” These are important fundamental questions, and certainly debatable, yet we do know the balance for “why does a church exists”, between “us” and “others” cannot be equal. Therefore we are mindful of our human nature and that the default path is inward but taking this path will only result in answering this question as, we will only exist for ourselves – and that’s not being obedient to God’s Word. We are fully inclined and our desire and passion for Bethel Apostolic Church is that we are more outwardly focused and that we will be strengthened in our focus to reach out to our neighbourhood.

What does this mean for us? It means that we are intentionally pointing our ministry outward as we get excited about our Mission and formulate plans to accomplish the great things God has planned for us. It means that we are working together, serving and using our spiritual gifts to build a strong community of Christian believers and that we will continue to reach out to help to fulfill the Great Commission in individual lives.

In order to intentionally point our ministry outward it may mean that we need to alter familiar habits and redeploy our focus. This is of great value and should be the constant, passionate core belief that drives our ministry.

So why does our church exist? It exists to glorify God and that of allowing His kingdom to be established in each of us upon earth. God has and will intentionally bless us so that we are of blessing to someone else. It is only then that we will be able to realize God’s creative intent for each of our lives.