3 Ways We Make Everyday Missionaries

These are the three things we "do" to equip people to live out the everyday missionary life:

1. Immersive Worship. With each of our three worship offerings, we seek to enter God's presence and participate with our whole selves: heart, mind, and soul. People use their musical, spoken, and creative gifts to assist in leading worship. We have two worship expressions: worship in English at 11 a.m. in the main sanctuary and a blended service in Spanish at 11 a.m. in the chapel. Contact Minister of Worship Tom Tillman to learn more about worship involvement.

2. Disciplemaking. To make disciples, one must be a disciple. Discipleship is whole life and involves three key relationships: God, other believers, and those outside the faith. Cliff Temple offers opportunities for all ages to grow, preschoolers to senior adults. We seek to be equipped to live out the disciple life by engaging people in three settings, each with an increased expectation of time and participation: 

Worship space (listening to the Word, opening oneself in worship)

Sunday School group space (fellowship, teaching, and mission encouragement from 10 a.m.-11 a.m. each Sunday morning for all ages)

Neighborhood/network group space (focused on a neighborhood to reach or a network of people, meeting during the week typically for 2 hours at a time, with childcare worked out by each group)

Contact Pastor Trevor Jamieson to learn more about disciple life and joining a group or mentoring relationship.

3. City Impact. Cliff Temple has a long history of serving our community through practical needs. Through Mission Oak Cliff, we feed between 30,000 and 50,000 people with basic food and fresh produce each year. We also provide ESL classes, job skills learning opportunities, resources for homeless adults, a specific outreach to homeless teens, and many other caring ministries. We have partnered with such groups as Promise House, a local shelter for homeless youth, Gateway of Grace, a Dallas-based refugee ministry, and James Bowie Elementary School, to assist with literacy and cognitive development. We support the Dallas Baptist Association to minister to families throughout Dallas and start new churches.