Mission Statement

Our Mission at Fields of Zion International is to create positive change by building effective and sustainable communities from the ground up.

Thriving communities begin with meeting the essential needs of their members… access to healthy food, clean water, adequate shelter and meaningful work opportunities. By promoting local strategies to meet those needs, a community becomes more sustainable and resilient, fostering an environment where all it’s members can thrive.

Recognizing that the need for food is a commonality we all share, we focus our efforts around creating communities having a close relationship to the land which provides for those needs. We strengthen food security and promote a healthy local economy through the development of agriculturally focused networks of individuals, businesses and public organizations. Thus, creating opportunities for community growth and success through building farming infrastructure and educational facilities.

Through targeted action, we address the essential needs of the regions we serve. Bringing vision, organization and implementation through leaders who uphold our core values and key principles. Displaying the power of God through an effectual body of believers, working together to achieve a common purpose.

Community:

A.) a unified body of individuals, B.) a social state or condition

Picture for a moment the community in which you live? It features a clearly defined location and a municipality which governs that area. The duty of that local, regional or federal government is to ensure the needs of its individual members are met.

Government:

A.) the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization,

B.) the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it,

C.) the act or process of governing

Are all those needs being met?

Now picture the community of Christians living in that same location. They share a commonality that they are all members of the Body of Christ, an assembly, all working together for a common purpose… To bring the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth. Is that purpose not also to meet the needs of the community?

Is the Church meeting all the needs? Why not?

Kingdom:

A.) a politically organized community or major territorial unit having a monarchical form of government headed by a king or queen,

B.) the eternal kingship of God, the realm in which God’s will is fulfilled.

Could it be that the great assembly of Christians is not working together the way God intended?

Let’s change focus again for a moment… Picture a brand-new bicycle… you’re excited to ride it right away, but… to your dismay it is not yet fully assembled. You have wheels, a frame, handle bars and a whole lot of loose nuts and bolts. If you look hard, you see the wheels are made of individual parts, the wheel assembly.

One wheel is like the local church you attend. The other might be an online ministry you follow. The handle bars like the other church denomination in your town. The frame, pedals, etc. are all other aspects of the Body of Christ in like manner. All of which are partially assembled, carrying out specific tasks, albeit separate from the others.  

As much as you want to ride this new bike, it can not perform effectively in the role for which it is intended until it is fully assembled.

Assembly:

B.) the fitting together of manufactured parts into a complete machine, structure, or unit of a machine.

Looking back to the Body of Christ… can we really expect it to function correctly if it is not fully assembled? If you still think so, try riding the bicycle frame without the wheels attached. For years now the members of the Body of Christ, the Church, have been deceived into believing that it’s fun to ride something that isn’t working.

Assembly:

C.) a company of persons gathered for deliberation and legislation, worship, or entertainment

God never intended for the Body to have separation and division. There must be something which holds these individual parts together as one working unit… the nuts and bolts.

Like the bicycle, for the Body of Christ to function properly it must have restraints. Nuts and bolts which hold the right things together and others apart. The nuts and bolts are equivalent to government. Government not as we first saw in a municipality sense, but in terms of church government.

Every assembly needs structure to function properly. The Body of Christ as we see it today is lacking structure. Structure comes out of vision, and vision comes from leadership.

Field of Zion International seeks to strengthen the bonds of community within the Body of Christ, through leadership, vision and restraint. Not defining doctrine or creed, but instead presenting a set of Biblical core values which our leaders and member choose to live by.  In this way we are a help to the Body, not a hindrance. Making the Body, or Community of Christ a more effective vessel for the bringing forth of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

Click here to read about our core values.

All definitions quoted from Merriam-Webster.com