Church of God Accepts GO FINISH 2020 Challenge
General Overseer Timothy Hill and members of the International Executive Committee are joining together with a worldwide movement that focuses on all believers sharing their faith on May 23, 2020.
By Leonard Albert
This Kingdom initiative is called “GO FINISH 2020” and will involve all state and territorial offices and all local churches both home and abroad. Dr. Hill says, “We are making Global Outreach Day part of our FINISH Commitment, and it is truly a Kingdom opportunity where our denomination will join with multiple worldwide denominations, church networks, and para-church ministries with the idea of every believer sharing the gospel with at least one person on one day. This is the Great Commissions in action!” The goal is for every person, in every church represented by the 185 countries where the Church of God has a presence to share the gospel with someone. The BIG idea is that everyone can reach someone, and together we can reach the world.
“This challenge should be in the heart of every believer as the Holy Spirit stirs us to actively engage in witnessing,” Hill continued. “This is a huge, God-sized challenge where our denomination is joining a Global Outreach Day, which can be the biggest evangelistic outreach effort ever undertaken in the history of the church.”
The initiative seeks to mobilize 100 million people to reach one billion people, with the goal of 50 million salvations and to see one million churches planted.
The Global Outreach Day endeavor has already seen awesome results with 140 nations coming together to train nearly seven million believers who have already won close to six million people to Christ. This is only the beginning.
The Church of God will provide inspirational resources and materials tailor-made for this effort. It is a proven fact that many evangelical believers never share their testimony, and as a result, many believers have never won a soul to Christ. GO FINISH 2020 is an opportunity to change that statistic. With just a simple click of the website, believers will be able to find easy ways to share their faith through a Facebook post, tract distribution, friendship, and invitational evangelism, as well as local church efforts. The denomination will be providing training booklets, teaching DVDs, prayer guides, plus many other ideas that will make this one day of witnessing a great success.
To learn more about the 2020 Challenge, visit www.churchofgod.org/gofinish2020.
