We use the word “international” because we are focused squarely on ministry to people in Lagos who are citizens of other countries. Our mission is to expats!!
We seek to be a “church” in the fullest sense of that word—functioning as the body of Christ within Lagos engaging in the full life of the church, including fellowship, worship, discipleship, evangelism, corporate acts of service and love, etc.
We believe profoundly in “new beginnings” for all of those who join us:
Corporately, we mean that we are not seeking to continue some of the previous patterns of expatriate fellowships in Lagos, including (1) sporadic or haphazard engagement with other believers and with corporate fellowship, (2) a psychological sense of transiency, resulting in a lack of full commitment to the Lagos body of Christ, (3) a belief that we have some kind of primary church allegiance outside of our place of significant residence.
Individually, we seek personal spiritual revival to have a new personal beginning in our walk with the Lord, including renewed devotion to prayer and Bible reading and study, reaching out to others in fellowship and personal witnessing/evangelism, and commitment to regular discipleship and Bible study activities.
Collectively we seek a growing burden to reach out to unchurched expats in Lagos with love and witness. We want to achieve a deliberate goal of a weekly Sunday worshipping congregation of at least 150 within the first twelve months, and at least 500 within the first three years. |
