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OUTREACH		 Derek & Sarah

Derek Hiley, OUTREACH
Derek accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in 1983 and received the baptism in the Holy Spirit in 1987. While attending college at the University of Toledo, Derek was involved in Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship where he lead small discipleship groups and participated in numerous outreaches to the campus. Derek was a director of small group ministry for the UT Intervarsity fellowship from 1990-1991. During this time he began to attend Westside Community Church. At WCC, Derek has been involved in prophetic ministry, small group leadership, short-term mission trips to Peru and China, dance and drama. Derek and his wife Sarah currently lead the team that oversees outreach at WCC. Sarah has been involved in dance ministry, small group leadership, and short-term missions trips to Haiti, Grenada, and Peru. Derek and Sarah 's vision is to see God's people active and effective at sharing the gospel and making disciples.

Ministry of Outreach

OUTREACH speaks of the direction to which we are stretching or extending our efforts. Here, we begin to communicate with those outside the faith. We are interacting with the lost, unchurched, and backslidden Christian. Though it is third in order of our three-fold purpose, it is not third in the sense of its importance. We are to be like Jesus who came to seek and save the lost. It was God’s great love for the world that caused Him to sacrifice and give so much.

The Ministry of Outreach has three major objectives:

    1. Our first objective in evangelism is to reach our sphere of influence. This speaks of those people who we have the opportunity to be around often. This includes family, relatives, neighbors, work acquaintances, etc. We must spend time with those God has placed in our lives. This provides us with the emotional and spiritual benefit of caring. While we can impress people from a distance?we can influence them only by getting close.
    2. Our second objective of outreach is reaching out to our local community. A current trend is what is referred to as “servant evangelism.” This could be serving in the inner city or serving our westside community. This can be ministry in nursing homes, rescue missions, March for Jesus, programs for the poor, and etc
    3. Our third objective, outreach to the world, is already in place. We are presently reaching the nations through our support of ATM and specifically Albania and Kosovo. The emotional and spiritual benefit is in knowing we are fulfilling the Great Commission through our obedience. We could, and certainly should, increase our giving when we are able.

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