Over the summer, around 500 participants working across 18 different GoStudents projects helped advance the Gospel around the world. This was the first year that GoStudents operated as a network of Certified Sending Partners, where local churches adopted specific mission projects and sent out teams here, near, and far! The projects were as close as Oklahoma City and as far as Germany. For more information about the new structure visit www.oklahomabaptists.org/gostudents/faq.
This is the full list of projects and the churches that acted as Certified Sending Partners: Belize (Pryor, First); Brazil (Clinton, First); Calgary (Perry, First): Germany (McAlester, First); Honduras (Tecumseh, Sharon); London (Tulsa, Memorial); Nebraska (McAlester, First); New York City (Kingfisher, First in June and Ponca City, NewPoint in July); Nicaragua (Carter, First during Spring Break and Luther, First in the Summer); Oklahoma City (OKC, Emmaus); Portugal (Blanchard, Open Door); Seattle (Eufaula, First); Tulsa (Tulsa, Church Inside Out for Spring Break, June and July); and Utah (Okarche, First).
“Everyone did an incredible job,” said Brian Baldwin, Oklahoma Baptists Youth Missions and Evangelism. “Several individuals made professions of faith, and the students’ lives were profoundly impacted in various ways, helping to advance the work of our partners.”
Mission trips like those offered through the GoStudents Network can serve as powerful catalysts for spiritual inspiration, sanctification and a vocational calling for those who feel drawn to full-time ministry or missions. The students demonstrated incredible compassion, worked tirelessly and shared the good news of Jesus with hundreds.
Since 2002, Oklahoma Baptists have sent thousands of students on mission trips through GoStudents. About 4,000 participants on over 150 (Updated number?) individual trips to 43 different locations were mobilized by Oklahoma Baptists over those years. In recent years God has blessed the program with exponential growth. Oklahoma Baptists have a long history of assisting churches getting their students to the mission field, which is accomplished through GoStudents.
Now operating as a network of Certified Sending Partners, GoStudents has boundless potential to advance the Gospel even further. Certified Sending Partners are “capital K” Kingdom leaders fromOklahoma Baptist churches within the GoStudents Network. They are coached, resourced and unleashed onto the mission field with individuals or small groups that need a pathway to follow.
Many more projects will be scheduled for next year. For information, www.oklahomabaptists.org/gostudents/projects. GoStudents is supported through the Cooperative Program, State MissionsOffering and the Falls Creek Missions Offering.
