[ Core Values ] - [ Goals ] - [ Statement of Faith ]

Providing Humanitarian Aid for Those in Need

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Building Up the Body of Christ

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Saturating Communities through Festivals

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Utilizing Teams for Missions

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Equipping Believers for Evangelism

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Targeting Unreached People Groups

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Proclaiming the Unchanging Message in Changing Times

Providing Humanitarian Aid for Those in Need

RSA seeks to show and share the love of Christ in word and deed by meeting physical needs through medical clinics and acts of service. Demonstrating God’s love in a tangible way, RSA mission teams are providing dental hygiene, vision assessments, eyeglasses, triage, medical treatment, clothing, food, clean water, and medications. Team members serving with RSA mission teams serve the disadvantaged with empathy and respect and share the Good News of Jesus Christ and pray with each person receiving care. The humanitarian aspect of RSA’s ministry opens doors to sharing the Good News; local governing officials are often more friendly toward a festival once the team has served the needs of their people.

“Whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for m.,”

Matthew 25:40

Building up the Body of Christ

RSA works with, for, and through local churches to reach a community for Jesus Christ. Followers of Christ are equipped to share the Good News with their friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family. RSA helps the body of Christ and its members to become mission-minded by providing evangelism training, counselor training, and messages for churches and related groups. Both locally and internationally, RSA prepares churches for the important work of discipleship by providing trainings and materials. Local churches members are encouraged to develop a relationship with those who make decisions to follow Christ at festivals and help them grow in that new relationship. Overseas, pastors are given Bible, teaching, and leadership training as part of a long-term strategy to impact a community for Christ.

“It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up . . .”

Ephesians 4:11-12

Saturating Communities through Festivals

The power of God comes on a city when its people pray and unite to reach the lost. RSA partners with church, business, and community leaders to mobilize the body of Christ for a season of evangelism. For a period of one or more years in a US city, the RSA team works in an area to prepare for a two-day public festival which includes great music (like Jars of Clay, Salvador, Big Daddy Weave), Good News (presented throughout the days in multiple areas and from the main stage), and family fun (extreme sports, performances and activities for kids, sports zone, food court, and more). Local churches and Christian business leaders are empowered to unite and publicly share their faith. An RSA festival has lasting impact on a city, is recognized by the press, and opens doors of opportunity for the secular community to reach out and touch the faith community. International festivals utilize music, drama, and the Good News and incorporate a local coordinator, preparation trips from RSA team leaders, or a combination of both.

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,"

Acts 1:8

Utilizing Teams for Missions

RSA recruits and trains team members during a several-month period precluding a mission trip. Each member is equipped and called on to share their testimony and the Good News of Jesus on a personal and public level during a mission. There is no passive observer on an RSA mission – every member is challenged to become more like Christ as he serves people in a variety of ways and boldly shares how Christ has changed his life.

“ . . . do the work of an evangelist . . . ” 2 Timothy 4:5

Equipping Believers for Evangelism

Through mission teams, festival preparation, and local training and mentoring opportunities, RSA is helping followers of Christ to understand the importance and methods of evangelism. In festival cities, the RSA team partners with local churches to provide friendship evangelism and counselor training. Locally, RSA staff members Reid Saunders and Brett Butcher teach a credited course on evangelism at Corban College. On international mission trips, selected team members are given opportunities to proclaim the Good News on stage. RSA is developing printed materials that can be used in festival cities to train believers in evangelism.

“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.”

2 Timothy 2:2

Targeting Unreached People Groups

RSA’s vision is to seek out lost sheep. The team specifically targets areas where there is a low percentage of evangelical Christians, no or very few evangelistic events have been held within the area, there is a presence of body of Christ extending an invitation to RSA. One example of an unreached area where RSA has served is Red Hills India (February 2007). Local church leaders had been praying for over twenty years for an evangelist to come to their area and proclaim the Good News. Dozens of churches in Red Hills united in prayer and inviting the lost. In an area where less than 5% of the people are Christians, the RSA team showed and shared the love of Christ to over 16,000 people through medical clinics, service projects, and festivals and saw over 2,600 lost sheep begin a relationship with Jesus Christ.

“Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent,”

Luke 15:6-7

Proclaiming the Unchanging Message in Changing Times

The Word of God is steadfast and eternal although culture is ever-changing. RSA seeks to be culturally-relevant without compromising the Good News of Jesus Christ. At US festivals, young people are drawn to see freestyle motocross and BMX athletes perform demonstrations and are given the opportunity to hear testimonies of how the athletes came into relationship with Christ. Biblically-based messages of the Good News are presented on the ramps and a call is made for listeners to give their lives to Jesus Christ. This is one of the many methods that RSA uses to reach people at their interest level and share the most important message they’ll ever hear.

“Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction,”

2 Timothy 4:2

 

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Committed to Integrity

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Innovative / Progressive Evangelism

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Reaching the Next Generation

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Evangelistic Partnership

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Equipping the Body

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Uncompromised Biblical Values

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Disciples Not Decisions

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Prayer

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Over the next seven years, RSA’s goals are to . . .

Organize 7 US Festivals, Partnering with local churches to reach their cities for Christ

Serve 50,000 people in medical clinics

Train 25,000 people in friendship evangelism, counselor training, and/or pastoral training

Mobilize teams for 45 international trips

Produce 10 training manuals on various faith topics

Reach 100 million people with the Good News through media (radio, TV, podcasts, website, YouTube, GodTube)

Develop prayer ministry and recruit 10,000 new prayer partners

Take the Good News to 7 unreached people groups

 

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Reid Saunders Association believes . . .

The Bible is the infallible Word of God, without error in the original writings, and it has supreme and final authority.

In one God, eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit

In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life and performed miracles. We believe that Christ died to atone humanity's sins through His shed blood and that He was bodily resurrected. We believe that Jesus ascended and is seated at the right hand of the Father as our mediator and advocate; and we believe that one day He will return to earth in power and glory.

That all men everywhere are lost and will face God's judgment and need to come to a saving knowledge of His Son Jesus Christ through His shed blood on the cross.

In the spiritual unity of the Church, which is the Body of Christ composed of all who come to salvation by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

In holy Christian living and that we must have compassion for the hurts and social needs of our fellowmen.

In using available modern means of media to spread the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ through all the world.