God Hears Our Prayers

We are a praying church and have a team of people working diligently to pray for the needs of our congregation, community and world. If you would like to have our team praying for particular needs, please fill-out the form with your information and requests.

Your message will go to a leader of our prayer team. It will be kept private within the membership of the prayer team and will not be made public to the entire congregation. Depending on the nature of the request, it could be brought to the attention of one of our pastors.

If your request requires only individual attention, please make an appointment with one of our pastors at 559-485-6460.

Mission Ministry @ First Pres

We believe growing in Christ involves finding your place in the grand adventure of seeing the gospel planted, taking root and growing in every people group God created. Taking this gospel across social, ethnic, religious, linguistic and sometimes even geographic barriers is the task Christ gave his first disciples. Since the task is not completed, we seek to do our part in our time. Revelation 7:9-10 gives us a glimpse of what it will be like when the job is done!

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count,
from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages,
standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white,
with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice saying,
“Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
Until that great day, followers of Christ have a collective job to do and it will mean that each of us needs to be seeking to do our part. Your part might be to go, it might be to give, it might to be pray, to help send or to welcome. It might be some combination of all of these throughout your life in Christ.

Through our church mission budget we support a number of people and a few organizations whose part is to GO. We call them Mission Partners. Some partners are crossing those barriers right here in Fresno. (See Local Mission Partners)  Some mission partners work in difficult region we call the 10/40 Window.  Still others are scattered about and we call them Global Mission Partners.

We invite you to consider joining or forming a support team for one of our mission partners.  It’s our goal that each of the 34 Mission Partners or Partner Families would have a support team that prays regularly for them, communicates periodically and serves to encourage these extended members of our body.  And when we’ve reached that goal, we’d like to form similar support groups for the 19 organizations with which we also partner.   We have a job description if you’d like to see what a support team does.

Our Mission Ministry Team is engaged in the task of supporting our mission partners, helping our congregation grow in what they know about mission efforts, and engaging our body meaningfully in mission endeavors.  Please consider joining us.  We currently meet the 4th Tuesday of most months.  Contact our Mission Director for more information.  Follow this link to see a job description for Mission Team Members.

We are eager to help you find your place in mission service here in Fresno or someplace between here and the ends of the earth!