Launch Out Ministries International
Launch Out’s vision, simplified, is this: to send people into different parts of the earth to preach the gospel. It is to equip Christians for missions, empowering them with Launch Out’s equipment, opportunities, and global contacts. We are revolutionizing mission trips, providing christians with trips that are edgy and challenging while giving them the chance to simultaneously have the time of their lives and make a difference in other’s, sharing the knowledge of the Good News that they can so easily access in America and the so called first world.
OUR MOTTO
Our motto, "Whenever…Wherever…However ®" is indicative of our passion to win souls for the Lord. As a team member of Launch Out Ministries’ mission trips, you must have this mindset. You must be willing to go wherever God sends us, however he makes it possible for us to get there, and whenever he tells us to go. Our prayer is that every trip participant catches this vision and runs with it.
Launch Out Ministries Int'l exists to take the gospel to the unreached
Statement of Faith Acknowledgement
LAUNCH OUT MINISTRIES understands that true Christians can come from many different denominational backgrounds. We attempt to create teams that are well rounded with members that vary in giftings and backgrounds in order to create fully functional "body" of believers (as outlined in reference here) to accomplish each mission. Though this is our inclination we value unity and sound doctrine above it.
The programs and activities governing the form of worship of LAUNCH OUT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. shall be based upon and at all times be consistent with the following creed and beliefs:
1. We believe that all that repent of their sins and receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
2. We believe in one God, externally existing in three Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe that God created man in his own image; that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin which is death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues (in the case of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgressions involving personal guilt.
4. We believe the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until the consummation of salvation.
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, a substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
6. The ministry is open to and further truth, which the Holy Spirit may illuminate from scripture.
7. We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character from this conception of the Church spiritual and therefore, that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are essentials of Church membership.
8. We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
9. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the divinely ordained ministries of Apostle, Evangelist, Prophet, Pastor and Teacher.
10. We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
11. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed to ordinances- Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper- to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith; that Baptism is the immersion of the believer as a confession of identification with Christ in burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the Savior’s broken body and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, till He comes .
12. We believe that divine healing was provided for in the Old Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
13. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired of God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
