YOU SHALL BE MY WITNESSES

October 25, 2026

     WHAT IS GLOBAL    

OUTREACH SUNDAY?

GO Sunday is a one-day event designed to mobilize and equip the SWBIBLE community to be supporters and workers in our global outreach mission. Our mission is to know Jesus and make Him known—starting with our own community and extending throughout the world so all nations may know and praise Him!

LEARN

We will spend time digging into God’s word and be captured by His heart for all the nations.

PRAY

We will devote time in prayer for the nations and for our brothers and sisters across the globe who are preaching the gospel and making disciples.

RESPOND

We will respond by taking action to partner with our GO Workers through care, prayer, and financial support or by taking steps to move toward going to the nations.

CONFERENCE

   SCHEDULE   

  • 8:00 am | Global Outreach Prayer Room Opens (Room 121)*

  • 8:30 am | Session One - Pastor Scott Gilchrist

  • 10:00 am | Session Two - Breakout Sessions

  • 11:00 am | Session One - Pastor Scott Gilchrist (Repeat)

  • 5:30 pm | Light refreshments

  • 6:00 pm | Session Three - “I am the Light of the World” - Gary Dozier

    The GO Sunday lobby exhibits will be on display all day. Please take a tour of the variety of interactive exhibits designed to help you connect and participate in SWBIBLE global outreach.

    *See Below

GLOBAL OUTREACH PRAYER ROOM (Room 121)

Room 121 will be available 8 AM to 1 PM and 5 PM to 7:45PM to pray for a number of nations we are focusing on this GO Sunday. Sit and pray quietly as a multimedia video tours you through the scenes of these countries. Hear the audio of our brothers and sisters praying for their own country (captioning provided). Enjoy tea during your immersive time. Walk away with a prayer resource listing specific requests for each country.  Special thanks to Prayercast for their ministry which provided much of the content of this video. 

10 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS

GO Workers Q&A

Location: Main Auditorium

Led by: Gary Dozier

Description: At our last GO Sunday in March 2025, many attendees had questions for the GO workers who joined us in person onstage. Due to time constraints, we weren’t able to address many of the great questions that were submitted. In this video session, several GO workers respond to those questions and share their insights and experiences.

GO Short, GO Long

How SWBIBLE does Global Outreach, Pastor Carl

Location: Room 222

Description: What biblical priorities and principles drive how Global Outreach is done at SWBIBLE? What should I know to be a good home-based sending member of our GO Workforce? How does someone become a long-term GO worker of SWBIBLE? How can I learn what God is doing with and through them? How do I support them in prayer, financially, and/or administratively from back here on the home front? How are SWBIBLE GO Short teams strategic? How might I join a future team?

Teacher Bio: Carl serves as the Global Outreach pastor at SWBIBLE. He became interested in global outreach at a Campus Crusade for Christ Christmas conference when he realized that the gospel was for the whole world.

Bible Translation

Challenges and Progress, Paul Williams

Location: Room 224

Description: Paul will present typical issues in translating the Scriptures and ways to overcome them along with a brief progress report on providing the Scriptures for all languages.

Teacher Bio: Paul Williams has served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 49 years. He and his wife, Linda, helped provide a New Testament translation for the Bribri people of Costa Rica. Since 2007 he has been part of a team providing verse-by-verse translation guides in Spanish for indigenous translation committees in Latin America.

Taste of Perspectives

Location: Room 221

Description: This session is designed as a "try before you buy" opportunity. Perspectives (perspectives.org) is a discipleship course rooted in the Scriptures.  This multi-faceted learning experience has impacted over 250,000 alumni worldwide.  The 15-lesson course will be hosted here Monday evenings starting January 18.

Teacher Bio: This session will be conducted by members of Perspectives Coordinating Team.  The Coordinator, Gordon Krenn, spent 44 years in IT and was transformed by this course back in 2017.

Persecution & Proclamation

How Persecution is Creating a New Wave of Evangelism, Samuel Hakim

Location: Room 223

Description: Across the Middle East, Christians are facing increasing pressure, opposition, and persecution because of their faith. Churches are being restricted, believers are being watched. Political conflicts are making Christians a target, and traditional avenues for sharing the Gospel are becoming increasingly difficult.

The Gospel cannot be imprisoned. Let's learn how to recognize the new doors God is opening and faithfully walk through them.

Teacher Bio: Samuel Hakim heads up Redeeming the Nations Ministries, a digital media ministry that shares the Gospel in Arabic. We strive to evangelize the Middle East, mobilize the church, and disciple believers to continue the spread of the Good News throughout the ends of the earth.

SWKIDS

SW Kids classes meet in their usual locations

SWYOUTH

SW Youth are encouraged to join in the breakout times offered