Missions at Wildwood

Wildwood in the World

Wildwood is dedicated to shining as light in our homes, community, and in the world. To reach the world for Christ, Wildwood has committed to several international outreach opportunities and supports many missionaries around the world. The links to the left will give you a taste of what we've been up to over the past years in Mexico, Latvia, and an area in the Muslim world. You should also check out who our missionaries are and what they are doing these days and even consider adopting one of them!

World Outreach Team

The Great Commission – Christ’s marching orders to the Church as He was returning to His place of glory at the right hand of the Father. “ .. and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth (Acts 1:8).” “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations (Mt. 28:19).” The elders have charged the World Outreach Team with helping to identify and fulfill Christ’s roll for Wildwood Community Church in helping to fulfill the Great Commission in “Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth” (ie, outside of Norman). As you can see from pages within, Wildwood Community Church is very active in World Outreach, as reflected by the significant number of people involved in stateside ministry and international World Outreach. But you might ask: what principles guide the activities of the World Outreach Team, and how can I get involved?

The goal of the World Outreach Team is to “glorify Christ by engaging every person in and mobilizing select people to world outreach and thus help fulfill the Great Commission.” We seek to engage every person in World Outreach by praying for our missionaries, both in church and in small groups, and by strategically investing church resources towards World Outreach. We seek to mobilize select people to World Outreach by enabling our members to go on short term World Outreach trips and by sending long term vocational missionaries, and by providing educational opportunities for people to learn more about World Outreach and thus be mobilized for further involvement. We also seek to welcome those internationals that God brings into our midst (e.g., international students enrolled at OU).

As you can see, we structure our World Outreach efforts around five areas: (1) Going, (2) Sending, (3) Praying, (4) Mobilizing and (5) Welcoming. As a team and through consultation with the elders we seek the Lord’s leading on what we should be doing in each of these five areas. And, in an effort to strategically invest our time, talents and treasure, we have prayerfully chosen three of our international ministries as focus areas for expanding our support and participation: (1) Mexico, (2) Latvia and (3) Another region in the Muslim world, as described further in other pages. We are also prayerfully considering if the Lord would have us add a fourth area in Asia.

It is exciting for us to see the priority that the elders place on outreach, to Norman, to OU and to the World. And it is also exciting to see God mobilizing a multitude of individuals to participate in World Outreach, through prayer, financial giving, logistical and emotional support, welcoming, and going. If you would like to find out how to get involved in any of these exciting World Outreach activities, please contact Frank Nees fjnees@aol.com .

Please join us in praying that the nations will come to know our risen Savior, that the name of Christ will be glorified, and that, as a body of believers, we will be good stewards of the opportunities Christ has given us to help fulfill the Great Commission.