As followers of Jesus, we, as a church, are committed to being involved in the mission he was and is involved in. We exist to be a church to share the hope of Jesus with those who are without hope, who are hurting and vulnerable both in our own city and right around the world.
Our call is to equip people for Jesus’ mission, and send them out as the Lord leads to serve, proclaim, and make disciples of Jesus. This call goes right back to our roots as a church. In the 19th century, DCBC sent the first Baptist missionaries to go beyond New Zealand and helped establish the Baptist Missionary Society.
The pioneering and radical mission initiatives of our founders inspires us, as a church, to keep moving out taking new, creative and bold initiatives to proclaim the wonderful hope of the message of Jesus, both within our own community and beyond our borders.
Our mission call as a church is summed up in two verses that the church adopted as its mission statement in 1989:
"For you will spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will settle the desolate towns."
- Isaiah 54:2-3
Our call is to equip people for Jesus’ mission, and send them out as the Lord leads to serve, proclaim, and make disciples of Jesus. This call goes right back to our roots as a church. In the 19th century, DCBC sent the first Baptist missionaries to go beyond New Zealand and helped establish the Baptist Missionary Society.
The pioneering and radical mission initiatives of our founders inspires us, as a church, to keep moving out taking new, creative and bold initiatives to proclaim the wonderful hope of the message of Jesus, both within our own community and beyond our borders.
Our mission call as a church is summed up in two verses that the church adopted as its mission statement in 1989:
"For you will spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will settle the desolate towns."
- Isaiah 54:2-3
Mission to our City
We recognise that the call of Jesus to share and serve him with others is to all followers of Jesus. As a church we aim to stand beside, equip and support each person do that in their daily lives, both at home and in their work situations. Outside of this there are lots of opportunities for service for ministry and mission in our own church and local community. And we are praying for new mission initiatives to our city where the love and hope of Jesus is communicated to those in need.