Faith Promise
Missionaries at home and around the world
How we support them
Prayer first, then money
El Vista supports missionaries at home and around the world. Through generous giving we currently help support many works — a Bible tracts ministry, Jewish evangelism, and church-planting missionaries — in hopes of reaching others for Christ.
Frequent missionary speakers and an annual Missionary Conference each October keep our hearts concerned for the lost around the world. Please remember to pray for our missionaries.
Our responsibility
The commission has not been withdrawn
“The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.”
Matthew 9:37–38 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
Matthew 28:19 “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Mark 16:15
Why it is worth it
On a missions trip to China, Joe asked Yongni, a Chinese national, what he would do first when he got to Heaven.
“That's easy,” he replied. “I'll look for Jesus and thank Him for giving His life so I could be in Heaven. After that I'll find the missionary who told me about Jesus. I'll thank him for leaving his home country and his family and friends and coming to a strange culture to tell me the good news of the Gospel. I will find every person who ever gave to support that missionary — every man who gave his hard-earned money, every child who emptied his piggy bank, every widow who sacrificially went without, every Christian in every church who gave in any way to support the missionary who brought me the Gospel. I will search Heaven until I find every one of them.”
Our missionary friends
The boards and ministries we work alongside
- Baptist International Missions, Inc.Church-planting missionaries worldwide
- Christ Community AssociationCCA
- World Wide New Testament Baptist MissionsWWNTBM
- Cornerstone Baptist Church, CanadaBIO
- Bible Tracts, Inc.Gospel literature — including the tracts we hand out
- International Partnership MinistriesIPM
- Vision Baptist MissionsVBM
- Fundamental Baptist Home MissionsFBHM
- Baptist World Mission / FBMIFBMI
- Camp AssuranceCamp Assurance
- Camp JoyCamp Joy
- Christian Law AssociationCLA
- Joshua Lancaster — Pray America MinistriesPray America
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Matthew 9:37–38
Nearer to home
A mission field on the city bus
Take a handful of tracts
A good supply of Bible tracts will serve you well. Share them with a friendly greeting and an encouragement to read a message of hope from the Bible. There is a rack by the door — help yourself before you leave on Sunday.