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Hi and thank you for visiting our website. We hope that you find it useful. At Scofield, our heart’s desire is to know God through the study of His special revelation to us - the Bible. We seek to worship Him, honor Him and to make His name known above all things! We believe that we are called to embrace the life of redemption and celebration that He has called us to through, and in, Jesus Christ. Please feel free to call or email.
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We want you to feel welcome and know that our door is always open to you. Many people every Sunday find Scofield to be a warm, dynamic group of people committed to following Jesus. We seek to follow Jesus by connecting with God and others, growing in Biblical maturity, and impacting our world through service in ministry.
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Page 7 of 11 The Scofield Missions Ministry
Scofield Memorial Church is itself a mission church, and it has been involved in missions since the earliest days. The first missionary was Eva Swift, who went to India in the 1880's when C. I. Scofield was pastor.
The church has been very aggressive in expanding missionary budgets and supporting missionaries. Historically, every missionary supported by Scofield has some direct connection to the Scofield family. Scofield is very caring for the missionary family, and keeps them informed about the folks back home with regular letters, tapes of services, Scocaster articles, and special gifts.
The annual missions conference is a time to bring as many missionaries as feasible back home to hear their reports and fellowship with them. This conference is as much a ministry to the missionaries as it is a ministry to the church family.
At the current time, Scofield Memorial Church is supporting more than ninety missionaries and ministries with a budget of over $300,000. Many of our missionaries have retired at this church, and have prominent ministries in the body.
How Has Scofield Reached Out to the Lost?
Many and diverse are the ways in which Scofield has tried to reach the lost in the community.
When the church was smaller, C. I. Scofield would do aggressive personal evangelism visits to the homes of the members. When Scofield arrived, he found that most of the church members — even the Sunday school teachers — were not converted believers. He evangelized from the pulpit and from house to house, as the apostle Paul had done before him. Dr. Scofield was purposely evangelistic from the pulpit. The church has always tried to maintain some program of personal visitation for evangelism, though this program has had ups and downs over the decades.
At this church the communities of Bible study, or Sunday Schools, have been a major means of evangelizing our own community, with the limitation being that only people who come can be reached through Sunday school.
To reach out beyond Sunday school, C. I. Scofield also started Cottage Bible Studies, where Bible studies of an evangelistic nature were held in area homes. This was very well received and the church grew rapidly. In the 50's and 60's Dr. Roper extensively used evangelistic home Bible studies, and at one time Scofield Memorial Church had sixty such studies going on. Mrs. Roper held a very popular business women's Bible Class, and many have reported that she was a truly exceptional Bible teacher in her own right.
Scofield Memorial Church started the Children's Home Bible Clubs organization in 1939, and a key element of this ministry was home Bible clubs for children. Eventually, "Aunt Kate" moved into a school and fair ministry as well. In 1964, her annual report to the church showed that 16,000 children had been reached with the gospel, and hundreds of children saved.
For thirty years Scofield Memorial Church did a Wednesday night program with children with evangelistic intentions. From the fifties through the mid-eighties, the Wednesday evening program drew from 35 to 80 children each Wednesday night. Pastor Bill Rodenberg started the AWANA program in 1986, and the outreach rapidly grew. The AWANA program now regularly averages 180-200 children, and reaching many children who do not regularly attend church here.
For many years, though this is not clearly documented, Scofield Memorial Church has had a summer Vacation Bible School for the children. For two decades this ministry was directed by Aunt Kate Oliver Millet, and in the 80's was turned over to the children's department. Several years the attendance at the VBS has exceeded 400 children.
Scofield Memorial Church in the 80's and 90's used its unique musical talents to evangelize the community with special dramatic Christmas and Easter programs. In addition, the church has held several "Road to Bethlehem" outdoor pageants, an ambitious program that requires nearly 400 volunteers to orchestrate. These have been well received by the community.
In the early 1990's Scofield Memorial Church sponsored a series of special evangelistic events, such as Andre Kole the Christian magician. Some of these were held on the church property, but others were held at local school auditoriums. Some attempts were made with limited success to get other churches to work with Scofield to jointly sponsor these events.
In the last decade, Scofield Memorial Church members have been very actively involved in the Dallas Pregnancy Resource Center ministry, which not only tries to prevent abortions, but actively witnesses to the usually lost girls and women who are facing a problem pregnancy. Each year hundreds are won to Christ through this outreach, which is staffed with Scofield Memorial Church vocational workers as well as volunteers.
One of the most creative and ambitious evangelism projects in our church's history was led by Bill Rodenberg as every home within a one-mile radius of the church was personally visited and given a Jesus video from Campus Crusade. It took over a year to complete this project.
The Women's Ministry has been very active at Scofield for many years, and in the last 10 years began a MOPS program (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) specifically to reach mothers of young children. This has become a rather large ministry at the church, and has not only reached the mothers, but many sessions have helped Christian mothers learn how to share the gospel with their own children.
In the last five years, the missions committee at Scofield has been encouraging missions trips for the adults and young adults of the church. Pastor Don Holliday has led several of these trips, and they have been very rewarding for the participants as well as the ministries that have been the host.
The Youth Department at Scofield has been involved in many creative projects, including annual summer missionary projects for both junior-high and high school age members. These projects are often life changing experiences for the young people, and many former young people from the church are now in the mission field because of very touching summer missionary projects.
One of the most popular evangelistic outreaches done by Scofield has been the Fifth Quarter program. This is a combination social/evangelistic event held for junior high students at the church after home football games of the local public high school. Numbers of conversions are not available, but often more than 600 teens are on campus during this event.
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