Dayspring Mission was founded in 1999 as an evangelical ministry seeking to be obedient to the words of Christ: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations…and preach the Gospel to every creature.” (Matthew 28:19-20 & Mark 16:15). It is our conviction that this command is just as binding upon Christians today as it was upon the disciples to whom it was first spoken.

The co-founders of this work, Patrick Evans and Jeff Shelnutt, have combined mission field experience in Brazil, South America; Nigeria, West Africa; and Belize, Central America.

We believe that God is the sender of the workers into the harvest (Matthew 9:37-38; Acts 13:2). Dayspring Mission is simply the name we as a ministry operate under. The goal of the Mission is to make disciples of the Lord Jesus who are born of the Spirit unto the building up of the Body of Christ, the Church (Ephesians 2:19-22). We believe that any mission agency or church organization should only be a vehicle for this goal to be accomplished. For this reason, Dayspring Mission has no administrative board or governing body. As Jesus sent out His disciples to proclaim the Kingdom of God when He was on earth, so does He still do today from Heaven (Matthew 10:1-15; Luke 10:1-16). The missionary’s ordination is from God and his standard is the Bible.

We are currently serving in Nigeria, a west African country whose population is over 40% Islamic with over 100 unreached people groups scattered across its vast and varied landscape.

Dayspring Mission is a “by faith” ministry, meaning that we rely upon God alone to meet our financial and material needs. We believe strongly in the principle expressed by Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission: “God’s will done God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” Dayspring Mission does not fundraise or use any methods of soliciting support, and we have no yearly budget to fulfill. We simply operate on donations (free-will offerings) from individuals or churches that give as they feel led to.

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