Perspectives
for the Church in the 21st Century
Defining the Mission Field
• “The ‘mission field’ is any place on earth where the three-fold
mission of the Church is being
implemented. In other words, the
mission field is any place where
there is a single soul yet to be baptized, or yet to be brought back into full fellowship
or full activity in the Church
of Jesus Christ. Or any place where there is a single soul yet to receive his or her own ordinances in the
House of the Lord. …
• “With this broader perspective in
mind comes the realization that one’s
place of residence is where miracles should be expected to happen, and not only in some exotic far-off
place. It is quite possible to fail to notice the occurrence of
miracles around us because we
often expect them to happen somewhere else.”
•(M. Martins, 1998)