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PRE-LAUNCH UPDATE AND SCOPE OF THE MISSION

Currently, we are building the infrastructure to open a comprehensive system of interconnected ministries starting in Walton, Gwinnett, and Rockdale Counties- located about 45 minutes East of Atlanta. As of Summer 2024, we have located a small office property to open the "Walton County Mission," an amazing 100 Acre+ location (partially pictured above) for multiple ministries, and several other properties (mostly the Foster Homes) for the supporting and ancillary ministries. 

 This site, as seen right now is simply intended to relay the general scope of The IsaYah 61 Mission to people I (Gabriel) meet and for other ministers in the area who hear of this work. 

In short, the mission is to unite God's people in this mission field to reach people for Jesus in order to destroy the works of the devil in our community, bring people in to fulfilling fellowship with God and others, and to stand against the carnal culture of religious "Christianity" by installing a harmonious network of interrelated ministries and not-for-profit businesses to comprehensively meet and exceed the physical, emotional, spiritual, and recreational needs of local residents while simultaneously bringing church bodies together to work as one body in Christ, thereby reaching ever expanding communities around Georgia for the Gospel.
The problem: A Lukewarm, divided, & un-discipled populace who believes that God is an accessory to life rather than the very fabric, purpose, and destiny of life itself. These "cultural" christians have a "form of godliness but deny its power." Additionally, a culturally flawed paradigm in "christian leadership" where we segregate from one another based on preferred niche doctrines; some of which are intentionally "hyped up" doctrines being used by God's enemies to keep the Church in a state of powerlessness, hypocrisy, and often blasphemy against the Holy Spirit -Acts 5:38-39... Jesus Himself criticized the religious leaders face to face for passing down their pet traditions as if they were indeed God's Word -Mark 7. Pastors are falling into temptation or are being outed as predators because the sway of our christian sub-culture produces a lonely, isolated, and toxic environment for church leaders. Leaders seldom have true friends who can ask the hard questions.

 The solution: Be the Church that Jesus intended us to be as laid out in Isayah 61:1-3 (which Jesus proclaimed at the very inception of His public ministry as His mission -Luke 4:18). In all things, this points to fulfilling the Great Commission with no personal agendas. We specifically aim to collaborate with all people who believe in Jesus the Christ as their Lord and Savior and install Gospel-Centric businesses, outreaches, social events, and assistance programs among bodies of Faith. This means that volunteers and employees can be from a variety of denominational backgrounds and join together as The Church body to reach and serve our community! Romans 12 clearly teaches that we (born again believers) are all members of ONE body (in Jesus) and have DIFFERENT gifts, talents, & assignments. God Almighty has purposefully placed us individually into our communities in order to do a complete work for His purposes in that community. If there was a perfect church model for all humans... wouldn't we all have gravitated to that one by now?!? Exactly; God meets emotive people in their emotions, intellectuals in their mind, stoics in their pragmatism, dreamers in their creativity, the traumatized in their need for refuge, "hippies" in their desire for non-conformity, and so on.
So, we endeavor to create holy atmospheres of service to God and the community where believers from all walks of life (leaders & laity) can take part in the Great Commission using their specific style of operation and gifting. Our work will also endeavor to help inter-connect two or more church ministries who have the same outreach plan/assignment in an area but are not working together yet. More fruit comes from more workers in the field.
This is MISSIONARY WORK. Missions exists where true worship does not. Missionaries don't go into a foreign nation where cannibalism and perversions are in the culture and speak against those specific sins. They simply introduce people to Jesus (after learning the culture/customs/language), teach the village leaders, and let the Bible and Spirit of God take care of those cultural practices that The Holy One desires to prune of the entire people group. This method has proven successful worldwide for decades; why alter it for our hometowns! Missionary work also considers denominationalism irrelevant to the work. The mission is Salvation. If one denomination or another supports the work or adopts it, it makes no difference (not cults of course) what name is then associated so long as they continue the work biblically. It's never about more "butts in the pews" but aims to put more "spiritual butts in those chairs at that Great Feast in Heaven." Preach the Gospel, Baptize (as a public declaration), and Make Disciples, who make disciples, who make disciples... Again, we never leave a new system of believers without support and care so that is where the local churches in Georgia communities that we plant outreaches in come in to play. We want to get all the butts of all the citizenry into all the local churches where they can grow and thrive and help everyone else grow and thrive as well. We want to see the nefarious establishments, movements, cults, secret societies, and sources of sin pack it all up and move out. And when we find where they moved to, we'll start another outpost of prayerful church leaders there and begin again; never giving up any ground we've already taken for Jesus! 
We will start with some good church leaders who will help foster a Kingdom-minded fellowship for church leaders and local ministries. We'll agree to ignore our non-essential doctrinal preferences and join with each other fighting for the salvation of our local community! As those leaders unite to reflect the true Gospel & accurately teach those things that Jesus taught, lives will be transformed as the community encounters the real Jesus. 
So, we're not setting all this up to cause any divisions but simply work with every bit of common ground we have with everyone; and that is discipleship lesson number 7 or 12 or... it's somewhere after baptism and communion and before tithing. We all can agree Jesus is Lord & God, His sacrifice on the cross as God in human flesh is sufficient (as intended), and we all need God's grace while we are being sanctified which will be completed right about the moment we lock eyes with Jesus on the other side of eternity. While we are here we study the Bible, pray, give, sacrifice, forgive, and literally seek to live lives that reflect the sentiment, "What Would Jesus Do if He were in my shoes right now?" We will find ways to meet the needs of those around us and use every bit of ground as a means of being the hands and feet of Jesus to a lost and hurting world. Whether it is invisibly ordering a pallet of canned meat for the FISH or Shepherd's Staff food pantries because we heard they ran out or funding wasn't there, finding a local church body to look in on an elderly widow and be her advocate & surrogate family/fellowship, or walking around the Mall of Georgia with a prayer team asking strangers if they need prayer; this is what it looks like to be the Great Commission Church in 2024!

We will prayerfully add more details to this site as the plan is advanced. The greatest part of all of this plan is that it is 100% rooted in and worked out through the Bible. It will not lead to financial gain, fame, or ego for any individuals involved because the work is so comprehensive, multi-faceted, and God-dependent that ONLY God gets the glory. This isn't even one of those "follow me as I follow Christ" situations. It is more simply, some guy yelling "LOOK WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS TO DO... LET'S GO DO IT, I've got some resources and a working knowledge of business and ministry techniques we can apply."  The local ministries are being set up to eventually pass on to local groups of elders with failsafe clauses, so that I can move to the next area and replicate with the same successes, learning from any challenges and miss-steps. That being said, through unselfish evangelism, discipleship, and helping each other accomplish God's Great Commission, we expect to see all Christian church bodies expand greatly, becoming more healthy and on-fire for God and less full of whiney carnal christians...

That's the goal. Lets go be fishers of men and let God's Holy Spirit transform each one's life while having a great time doing it. I am looking forward to revealing the actual details soon. For now, please be in prayer with me for God's provision for the initial costs of launching.