July 27, 2008 Why do you go to foreign mission trips when there are so many needs at home?

^· Matthew 28: 19"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,  20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you

· Luke 24:47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

· Mark 16:15-16, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation

·  Acts 1:8, ". . . you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth

· Luke 24:46-47, ". . . Christ will suffer and rise . . . preached in his name to all nations

· Acts 1:8, ". . . you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."