What do you do?

From the D.O.M.: Glenn Davis
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

"So, What do you do?" I hear it at the Barber Shop, at the Y, or in my neighborhood. Any place I meet new people the question comes up.

That question has been more difficult for me to answer since moving to HOK and beginning to serve as your Director of Missions. For all of my adult life the answer came easy. "What do you do?" "I am a pastor." But now the answer is a little more complicated.

To give a clear answer to the question of what I do, there first must be a clear understanding of what we do as an association. What is the mission of Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Association? As I have thought about how that question should be answered there some things I am coming to understand.

The association is not the church. We are not to do ministry in the place of the church. We are to create a culture of trust and cooperation among the pastors and churches so that we invest our lives together in partnership for the purpose of making disciples of all peoples for the glory of God.

Our vision is to see churches developing and implementing strategies which result in the health and growth of existing churches and the planting of new churches, and doing this in community with one another.

"So, what do I do?" I get to work with pastors and churches across this association and assist them in doing all that God has called them to do in reaching our world with the gospel for the glory of our King. "I serve Southern Baptist pastors and churches in Wichita and surrounding communities."