Envision Twin Cities Rick Wallace

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- Envision Twin Cities. We began in January 2018 and, that was when the official launch date was, but the actual ministry of Envision started back in 2011 when, as a youth pastor, I prayed and asked God to do something new in my life and ministry. And after that, 2012, the Lord began opening opportunities for our church to be involved in reaching out to refugees through basketball, gardening, ESL classes, a Nepali speaking worship service. And God just opened the doors for this refugee work. And so in 2018, we decided we wanted to do this full time and our purpose is to create environments and partnerships that empower and transform refugees and their communities, and we wanna do this with the local church so we're trying to raise up the local churches in the Twin Cities to begin to develop programs to reach into refugee communities. We also want to use churches that are outside the city, places like Perham, where we can come in and partner with our on sight partners giving support, prayer, volunteers, finances, and to have them come on even, on trips to help with our programs. So that's our main focus, and right now, one of our biggest challenges is that we have been given property in Minneapolis and the Seward neighborhood. And the Seward neighborhood has a lot of Muslim background people and we're trying to develop programs to reach into the community. We have a church building, we have a school, and a park nearby. And we're just trying to figure out how the Lord wants us to best use this property to reach out to people. So that's our biggest challenge right now in 2020. So my challenge of the church is that we need to begin to welcome the strangers. God has brought many least reached people groups to our country, to our cities, to our neighborhoods. A lot of the environment right now is anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, but my challenge is to all believers, is that we look at scripture and see what the Bible has to say. And look at the passage of Jesus in Luke chapter 10 where we're told to love our neighbor. We're told to welcome the stranger in Matthew 25 and we know that God is a God with purpose and intentionality, and He's very serious about His great commission. So serious that He has made it easier on us as a church. We don't have to travel around the world anymore to reach people. God is bringing them to us. And so the challenge is to just look at your scriptures and see what the Bible has to say about reaching out to people that are different than us. And also check yourself on fear. If fear is the number one thought you have when you think about refugees and immigrants, we know that fear does not come from God. We should not be influenced by fear, but by love. So I encourage you to just to look and to begin to see who God may have around you. A neighbor, a co-worker, someone at the grocery store. And begin to show them the love of Christ.

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