Mission Statement
Our Church Mission:
written by Ben Bussewitz
Actualizing
Ideas and Communities (the name of our
Christian mission)
At seventeen years of age, I flew just a
short distance from the Gulf Coast of the United States to Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, from where I travelled up to Port-de-Paix, in the northwest of the
country (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, only an inch more than
1,000 kilometers from the richest and most affluent nation, the U.S.), where I
was to be engaged my hardest in missionary service, commissioned by God to function
to carry forth the noble and deeply meaningful work of the church. Together as a church family, we reaped a
harvest in which we engaged productively in both humanitarian and selfless,
loving, ecumenically-evangelical efforts and noblest offerings.
While we filled up church
patios with bags of rice and beans and greens for-the-taking, the locals who
were interested in it, and felt called to, engaged with us in our church
services and ministry. We worshipped as
one, filling up the pews alongside the Haitians, and the dais, and we preached,
instructed, taught, and proffered in our humblest manners God’s Word, attesting
to His wonderful free gift of faith, which the many of natives were enlightened
and enlivened to take up and offer conviction for, converting to the Christian persuasion
upon hearing the message of Jesus Christ and responding with open hearts, taking
heart, his body and blood, his suffering, death, and resurrection as the
atoning sacrifice in which we walk according to belief and Jesus’ ways, filled
with faith, in community with the faithful.
The Haitian peoples’
neighborhoods that we entered were all-too-often squelched and suppressed of
the true Christian religion from reaching, healing, and transforming people, due
to political violence, invidious sectarian rifts, oppression, and poverty that
afflicted the communities and homes from all sides and angles.
We aimed to give our best
to all people we met in Haiti, and all people we have met ever since, lowering ourselves,
our statures, and our attitudes to grow from, look up on, and listen to others,
positioning ourselves as lowly and subservient and yielding to the wisdom and realizations
of our neighbors: building up, offering nourishment, magnifying our fellow
neighbors’ good deeds and good ideas.
This ethos of service is built into the community of missionaries that
spans throughout the globe.
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Now, for a message from
the Gospels:
“He came to Simon Peter,
who said to him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’ Jesus replied, ‘You do
not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’ ‘No,’ said Peter, ‘you shall never wash my
feet.’ Jesus answered, ‘Unless I wash
you, you have no part with me.’” (John 13:6-8).
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Wherever you are,
whatever your lot is in life, people are interconnected with you and are calling
out to see your gifts and share their own.
Jesus, who is first, came to serve his children and suffer for them, and
at that, by death on the cross, that you might have eternal life. He placed
himself as last, the Lamb of God who served and paid the price of sin in
substitution to you, that you might know, love, and live in him, forever
growing in spiritual strengths and earthly and heavenly harmonies and abilities
and gifts.
We are all made
completely unique, in the image of God.
We are all called to worship the one true God of the monotheistic
religions, Jesus Christ. By putting
others before us, while also sharing the fruits of our labors and efforts, we
enact a church-community that is concerned with each other’s shared fate in the
world. We do not walk alone, but rather,
we walk as The Human Family in one kaleidoscope of harmony and interconnection.
To work together as a
world’s people, of differing nationalities, political views, educational calibers,
religious identifications, ethnicities, and more— to work together all of us—
that is a mission and goal of this mission, Actualizing Ideas and Communities.
You may ask, where does
spirituality come into play?
We are a Christian
mission that understands that practitioners of all Great World Religions walk
according to the faith to which they respond, in all lights and colors, and they
are devoted to their walk of faith while on earth and proceeding unto the
hereafter;
I see that all the Great Religions of the world provide a different river to the same ocean, a different means to the same end. I observe that all the Great Religions of the World have the same goal.
Likewise, when we talk
together as a people, in organized forums representing the Global Community, we
will, of course, share our respective systems-of-faith and stories about our communities
of believers, as this is front and central in who we are. And we will be open-hearted, open-minded,
compassionate, and serve our neighbor as we learn about the ways God leads her
or him.
We believe by opening up
conversation, talking to people of all different backgrounds, walks in life,
and callings, by engaging in discourse with them in empathy, patiently, and in
peaceful harmony, Christian faith will spread by means of the Spirit, like
lighting rows and an archway of multitudinous candles with an already-glowing candlestick—the
cornerstone—the new and unquenching flames that are risen, the power and love
in every heart of every person transformed anew into Jesus Christ’s own having
figurately participated in his death and resurrection, whereby the new
believers came to be justified by his sacrifice, Born Again, a newly created
lamp that shines out bright, a castle on a hill to show its colossal maker’s
heights and its staunch, brilliant, and unwavering light and saltiness that is
so savory and sweet and kind.
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Now we turn to the Holy
Word:
Philippians 1:3-6— “I
thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I
always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first
day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you
will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
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Moreover, our ideas and
visions. We want to hear from people all
over the world to see what their best ideas are to see how we can put to use
our best ideas with people from around the world.
I see from the summer I
spent in Haiti that the best way to offer oneself to another person is through
meekness, poor-in-spirit, as a peacemaker, just like Jesus tells us to in the
Gospels as he addressed his disciples on a mountainside, a teaching that came
to be known as The Beatitudes, which introduced his exhortations for faith as a
way-of-life, his unfettering ethical call, that is expounded upon in the Sermon
on the Mount, Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6, the two sections of
the Gospel which can be said to give a full, holistic summary of Jesus
explaining what it means to walk as a disciple of him and the ethical framework
for all transactional give-and-take with people and community and nature and
the whole lifeworld one finds herself entirely embedded within and suffused in
the totality of the environment that she is over-swept, hopefully captivated,
encountering moments of awe and reflections and realizations central to her
understanding of the Lord her God and what her company throughout her walk in
the earth means, from the most loving memories to walking briskly amidst crowds
in the street. Always in earth and on
earth, the person is being watched over and loved by God, on a shared path with
the world’s people, be it earthly and heavenly realms both, of course.
We want to see and
understand the World People’s ideas, work together on developing those ideas
better, and carry out the scaffoldings and envisioning for our world projects unto
manifestations to fruition to a beautiful structure, architecture, artwork, compounded
with strength of underpinnings, thematic array, framework, and complete,
adorning finish.
Our goal as this church mission is to bring about dialogue amongst a sizeable and overall-representative-rendering population of the Global Polity: in regards to meaningful and profound ideas of central importance, from which we can fathom a universal, collective makeshift and transformative ongoing conversation about everything that matters while we work with expanding on those spiritual and philosophical ideas and deepening and extending the practical ones with movement toward their implementation, as The Human Family, who will go above and beyond simply sharing the two common ancestors, and thus bloodline, of Adam and Eve, but also we act in collaboration, largely, in togetherness, in corporation, with love and compassion and empathy for each other and ourselves, as we work on the project of world democracy through and alongside— The World Monitor: overarching, with a sweeping reach across the world wide of the wide-world, in guiding, framing and leading authority, policy, global decision-making, and global rules and regulations, in and of the formulation and emergence and iteration and distinctive, everlasting presence of a World Oversight Table, in which this carefully structured entity manifests as The World Democratic Theocratic Reaches, of the one-world mission (which respects, acknowledges, manages, and oversees individual nation-states’ sovereignty claims and rights)— the one-world mission, besprinkled with the good name Our Home, in good sight and good mentality of the entire beautiful earth that we share and harvest upon, the first implementation of a full world mission, of all time, and, at that, in this precious time in the first-quarter of the twenty-first century, within a globalized, noble-eyed, ever-present imparted ways of culture, the Humanities, art, and religion being understood, along with peoples’ lives, in both pragmatic and idealist visions for the world’s currents, where the world is currently heading, in the world’s future— throughout the global stage.
(We will
discuss and extrapolate upon this platform for global governance later this decade,
the Lord’s Year of 2027, as we release The Central Mission of the Church
documents that explain our blueprint of the twenty-first century.)
In this opening-up, we
will invest in, harness, hone, develop, and create into living-structures greater ideas, implementations of such, and beloved communities throughout the Global
Sphere.
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There are three main branches to this church mission:
the World As One
The
World as One is our initiative as Actualizing Ideas and Communities in churchly order by which we aim to create a more harmonious community among the
world's people.
We aim
to work together as the earnest, urgent missionaries that we are, along with the help of the
world’s people to bring about The Triple Es: ECUMENICAL harmony of all
major world religions in a pluralistic culture, an END of hunger and EVERLASTING
world peace.
On the
way to get there, we hope to bring about The Three Ws. Through our good talents in the word both written and spoken and in media and citizenship we will engage the national polities of the earth, to come to, in great happiness and great bliss, the place in which we aim to help bring about by our sacred and good mission enacted and
vested in God: WORLD harmony, WORLD peace, WORLD evangelism. We aim to especially operate with the entertainment
industry and the multi-media networks, which we call in their preemptive operative planning as such, to help bring about the urgency of this guided
carrying out of priorities. With world
peace, we stop fighting. In light of The
Triple Es, we make it everlasting. With world
harmony, we can pursue greater and more awesome ends, as we care deeper and
harder about our neighbors, family, and friends. With this edifice, we can manage how to fit
the puzzle-pieces together that no one is having to be hungry, ever again. And in light of the truth that all religions
teach true knowledge regarding the Lord, by treating all people with love and
discussing seats of meaning and the way in which the beautiful or eager or heartfelt
or loving Picture Show goes, when we put together the slide-shows of our lives
in memory and conversation with our loved ones and the ones with whom we are close,
then, in reflection, introspection, and recollection, we take loving notice, we
see, we believe, that in each of the moments down the river, along the wooded
path in the everglades where we share in love of the beauty of nature, and across the forest glade, spanning the welling and peaks of mountain terrains,
from Senegal to the Desert of Arabia, to the Grand Tetons, to the foothills of the Himalaya meadows, plains,
and rolling hills, and all throughout our entire lives, God has been shining on
us, greater than the sun, the everlasting mightiness of the Lion and the Lamb—
through this, we talk (in World Harmony). We listen (in World Harmony) and it is this Christian
mission’s conviction that all Great Living World Religions bring about a
drawing from Jesus, our Father in Heaven, and thus, we aim to create as overlapping
slideshows and Venn diagrams our call to carry out World Evangelism of the Great World Religions with the project
to pursue Ecumenical understanding and interconnection and mutual appreciation
among the World’s Great Religions. We
can learn about God from Buddhist brothers and sisters, Muslim comrades in
faith, Hindus of all backgrounds, Zoroastrians who
join in the fight for the god of humanity over the forces of the evil one— in which all together, The People of the Book, we carry about in our shared will and greatest hopes for the best of all people, our collective family of earth's people, and the reversal of the effects of global warming, which we are still assured through our earth science and academic literature we, if we work together as a world's peoples, are more than capable of carrying about, this latter calling of which is truly our generational challenge.
In the
meantime, we shall engage in robust, meaningful ‘talk’ amongst regular
civilians pushing forth in collectivity this sacred ongoing project of global
democracy. It will happen when everyone starts talking, the project of global
democracy, complete.
The
Three Ts are the closing part of this argument.
The Triple Ts are how we put it all in place. TALK, TURN, TELL, this plan we have been working on in our mission rightly as Actualizing Ideas and Communities.
When
people talk with care and kindness and patience with each other, while looking
at the object of their dialogue on an equal level and an equal playing field, without
judgement or passing-askance sizing-up or disregard, but instead, look at the
individual in whole light of her fullness of humanity, as a person who is an
end in herself, who has a lifeworld of dire and deep meaning to her, who has a
world behind her in terms of a lifespan and a life history, who has unlimited
potential and who is made completely unique by the Lord, the person who is loved
by God, known by God, in need of God, who is fashioned out of her belonging in
the world and her all-important relationship with Christ— well, when this kind
of shutter and direct of the camera’s motion goes, then, one will hear and properly
and carefully listen and take hold and take up in compassion the views of the
person who is sharing. With empathy— by putting
oneself in the others’ shoes in a way in which she reflects on her situation,
what she has experienced, what she must be feeling, and also by being open to
tone, diction, body-signs, countenance markings and expressions— also with the
feeling that this is an important person in the world who you are talking (as
all people are, undeniably, endlessly important)— in this way, people talk and
listen. And when they talk and listen
and learn like this, then they make a turn.
Their lives change. They change
because of each other. They change due
to taking part in the noble democratic tool of ‘talk.’ And they can reflect and make adjustments to
their walk, forward with their family, with their community, with their stances
that are political, value-based, theological, philosophical, sociological,
aesthetic, etc. We ‘talk,’ from that we
learn, which makes us TURN and then we can, through caring and loving, through
being transformed by our neighbors, friends, family, TELL what we have
learned in regard to universal truth, contingent truths, and the human
condition.
The scaffolding will be erected on the dialectical exchanges of the many; the Global Oversight Table will function with esteemed work and good effort to help fortify and usher in the very best times and the very best conditions of the very core of our very essence of collective being, as we all find ourselves appear in a democracy mold in the whole, in the world Our Home, in this coming-together-of and future global governance, in which each individual person's values and ethical sentimentalities are valued and upholstered in their uprightness, while we appreciate and call all people to try to understand and empathize and learn from differences of kind, taste, and degree.
Live Updates of the World Events
This part of our mission is to bring vital content to a wide populace by creating accessible
news articles that pose important and meaningful questions and that also take
into account in timely fashions the book of myths and the mystery of God.
We strive to communicate current events in a productive, constructive, pragmatic fashion. We will go to any height to make sure human rights are protected and granted. We will utilize the democratic tool of ‘talk’ to enter into engagement with all aspects of the political sphere, marginalized, suppressed, downtrodden, all people, giving voice to the abnegated, giving rights to those who are not free, in which we will aim to carry out the global will of all people's full freedom in our diplomacy through individual nation-states, that freedom that is offered in our will through God to carry out God's will in us by his enabling us the great gift of free will and free thought, and we will, regardless of where they are or who they are-- aim to liberate shackles and deepen the happiness and fulfillment of the entire lived experiences in which all people deserve to be respected, understood, and offered the totality of their human rights.
Ephesians 6:12, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
We will use the tools of direct democracy. We will always utilize compassion, patience, thoughtfulness and love in our mission while we act as good stewards of Creation and upright, diligent followers of Christ in this Christian mission, which will come, in light of being upright in our deep and forward-thinking understanding of the present times to help liberate peoples and to ensure human rights are upheld and the whole spectrum of the world's people have the capacity to think freely, worship freely, act freely, and enjoy the beautiful and good time they have on this beautiful and good earth with family, friends, and neighbors.
According to Time
According to Time is a ground-up, World People’s Publication (bottom-up) that functions in cohesion, planning, organization, and good harmony with the (top-down) Establishment— entities such as nongovernmental organizations and university forums, and soon we will carry out through structures of media platforms, digital tools, the entertainment industry, filling up both fringe and mainstream news sources, multimedia providers, digital outlets, print journals, print news sources, while we empower good, uplifting in nature and virtue, initiatives, never overlooking the needs of the meek, while providing spiritual nutriment and nourishment for the poor-in-spirit.
We are in the globalized, digital, technological, information, industrialized age. It is in this nexus of societal and global transformation we find ourselves, which can thus be labelled as The Evolution Age, in light of our having come to a civilizational crossroads as humanity-- whether we want to compete and race up through the sociological chain, with lack of compassion for our neighbor (a ethos that is void of merit or bringing about of happiness or fulfillment in one's lived experiences), or if we will take these great accomplishments in terms of what enables us to have a higher interconnection as a shared understanding or our shared carrying out of shared role in which would embody the nominal light of which we all can share are greatness in gratitude and happiness in light of our coming to as the world's people: World Civilization.
This is our hope in Actualizing Ideas and Communities a greater time of greater peace and harmony among the earth's people, to help all people, in togetherness and oneness of a shared human family.
Here, we aim to help everyone!
full Mission Statement, written by Ben Yosaf Aperitif
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