October Newsletter 2026 Copy

What interesting times we live in. Wars and rumors of wars, drought, pestilence, earthquakes, famine… “but the end is not yet.” Read this passage of Jesus in Matt. 24:6-8.

We greet you this cool November morning in that majestic name that Heaven has never failed to honor nor Hell has ever failed to tremble at… the name of Jesus! What a God we serve.
In last month’s letter, I talked to you about the great missions conference we were about to minister at in Ohio. Well, we are now back from that wonderful, life-changing meeting. I know many times a preacher will say a meeting will be life-changing and will be something like you have never seen before, but that is exactly the truth about this conference. It is life-changing, and you have not seen anything like it!

Reneé and I talk about it everywhere we go each year and encourage pastors to attend. Occasionally, one actually does come, and they are blown away. This year I had four wonderful pastor friends come, and they agreed it was life-changing and they had never seen anything like it. In all, I had 15 guests come. Made me so happy.

We raised some $400,000.00 for missions around the world. Praise God! I always say this convention is the one God really cares about. It is His heart, His dream, His vision.
Nothing wrong with big preachers’ meetings. I speak at them and attend them, but they are nothing like this. This is grassroots, where the rubber meets the road, missionaries around the globe actually reaching the people. The boots on the ground, the combat troops laying their lives on the line for the Gospel. Precious men and women and their families that you have never heard of, that you will probably never see on TV or speaking at a conference, but in Heaven, you will know them, and they will have stars in their crowns. They are real heroes of the Kingdom!

When I first came there to minister a couple of decades ago, Pastor Harbaum said they would add my ministry to raise money for, and I said, “NO! I will raise money for other missionaries there, but I don’t want to raise money for us.” What an honor and a thrill to do that. Although several people did give offerings to us anyway. One young missionary family from Durango, Mexico, Jerry and Rachael Witt and their children, were there. Jerry’s step-grandfather was the man who took Renee and a youth group to Durango, Mexico, on their first missions trip when she was a teenager. LEGACY!

Every year Reneé and I believe God for funds, and we come prepared to financially help and bless these missionaries, we are able to give a lot, and each year even more.  We give through our ministry, Terry Mize Ministries, (TMM) through our foundation, Jackie Mize International Children’s Foundation (JMICF) and just the two of us personally.  What a blessing, we love it and thank our partners for helping us do it.

We all know the church today doesn’t do what she should for missions, which bothers both me and the Holy Spirit, and the church and the world suffer for it. I really think the reason she doesn’t is because she doesn’t know why she (the church) is here. I think that is because she doesn’t really know why Jesus came! That’s why there is so much confusion about what the church does and is supposed to do.

After all, Jesus is the Christ, and we are the Christians, the Christ-like ones. His purpose, our purpose; His vision, our vision; His job, our job; His orders, our orders. We are not here to do our own thing. We don’t get a vote or an opinion; we are soldiers under command as He was! He said, “I didn’t come to do my own will but the will of Him that sent me. I don’t say what I want, I say what my Father says. I don’t do what I want, I do what I see my Father do!”

Jesus and the disciples were on purpose. The church needs to get back to our purpose. Why we are here.

Paul knew why Jesus came; he wrote to Timothy and told him. 1 Tim. 1:15, “Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.”

John knew why He came; 1 John 3:5, “He was manifest to take away our sins.” 1 John 3:8, “For this purpose was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
The writer of Hebrews knew; Heb. 9:26, “He appeared to put away sin.”
John the Baptist knew why his cousin came; John 1:29, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

Jesus Himself knew why He came; John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Luke 19:10, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Luke 4:43 (Jesus had preached so well at one meeting, they wanted Him to come back for more, but He knew His purpose and said), “I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.”

He knew He was a soldier under command, and He wasn’t willing to saturate one area with the Gospel at the expense of another. He had to GO. Paul had the same orders. He said, “I must go, I am ready, I’m not ashamed,” Rom. 1. It cost them both their lives… His purpose is our purpose! We must pray for and give to missions. Pray, Give, and Go!

Our Christmas Orphan Project has kicked off! Through our foundation, JMICF, we are working to make Christmas happen for thousands of orphans around the globe again this year. Visit JMICF.com or Orphan1.com to help us make it happen!

Be sure to check out our TV broadcast every Thursday. We cover much more like this. November is Partner Month… Please Join Us on Purpose!

Your Partner in World Missions on Purpose,
Terry L. Mize