Global Missions

Christmas Day of Advent: LIGHT

Light is the fifth of the Advent and Christmas features which reflect on the NMI Identity Statement and NMI’s Five Areas of Impact. 

NMI is the global missions advocate in every local church, nurturing a spirit of missions, and mobilizing into action, impacting people around the world. 

What does it mean to ‘impact people around the world’? Well, it means we do our part, both in and beyond our limited context: to give, to send, and to go into the world. With every gift we give, in every endeavor, Light continues to pierce the darkness. Lives are changed, societies are transformed. We join with the angels of Christmas, singing: “Christ, the Savior is born!” 

Advent climaxes with a long-awaited dawn, the coming of the Son, a babe. His birth is often depicted by a Nativity scene from which emanates Light from a lowly manger. On this night, Light pierced the darkness, and the Eternal took up residence among us. We who have been filled with that eternal light cannot keep it to ourselves. Everywhere we go, in everything we do, his light in us and working through us should make a difference.