Where in the World is FBC

Dear Church Family,

Have you ever tracked a moving dot on a map? Perhaps in your car’s GPS, or on the little screen in an airplane?

Last Friday I was tracking my husband’s little “dot” on Google Maps to see where he—and 49 other team mates from FBC and UCC—were as they made their way back over the border from Mexico where they had spent a week partnering with churches there. An hour later, I switched to another App on my phone where I got messages from FBC global workers in North Africa and the Middle East. My mental “google earth” map plotted their dots, too. FBC has people all over the world.

Fun GO Word #1:

Global workers is our preferred term for missionaries, if you’re curious. It is both safer for those who work in sensitive countries and hopefully also reflects a move away from culturally insensitive, icky, colonialist meanings.

FBC Davis is a local church, but we have always had a global heart: God loves this world and wants to reach it. If our loves and wants are aligned with his, that means we pray, give, send and go accordingly. Those little “dots” on the map represent the places we get to partner with what God is doing! Our FBC Global Outreach (GO) Team supports and stays connected with FBC global workers, as well as advising and supporting our more local, short term trips. This coming weekend, two of our Global Workers will be at FBC to say hello and to help debrief our team returning from Mexico. Make sure to say Hi!

Fun GO word #2:

Debriefing is intentionally processing through life experiences to discover and keep the valuable while also releasing the unhelpful or hurtful to the LORD.

So, in addition to the fun new words, what’s this post about?

• To introduce the GO team to you: to pray, cheer on, and maybe even join? Curious to know more? Send a message to our office: info@fbcdavis.org

• To thank you for the ways you prayed for the Mexico team.

• To let you know about opportunities to partner with some of our GO team locally and abroad in supporting work. Want to know more? Email our office about getting in contact with the GO team (info@fbcdavis.org).

These are just a few ways to celebrate and support FBC’s “dots” on the map. Thank you. Join us? And… let’s GO!

Bronwyn (the #1 fan of the FBC GO team)