Legacy in Missions

LEGACY IN MISSIONS

Revival Temple has long been a missions sending and resourcing force in the Church.

WRITTEN BY JAVIER MENDOZA

W.S. McMasters received a specific call and vision for missions in 1963 after hearing an anointed message from Don Price.

After feeling the need to lay down his promising career in baseball Brother McMasters started pastoring in 1958.

He and Sister Esther were married a year after their call to build a missions sending church and the missions conference was founded the same time and has been a part of the church's history and legacy ever since.

Sister Esther has said it was simplybeing obedient and faithfulness inplanting seeds into missions." thatcarried them through these 58years since her and her husbandbegan this missions emphasis atRevival Temple.

"The discipleship of that missions heart is what has made the culture here—We have seen what it produces and it continues in a perpetual way." —Daryl Courtney, grand son of W.S. and Esther McMasters and one of the pastors of Revival Temple today.

Pastor Kemp and Carol Holden were the first missionaries sent out from Revival Temple to Jamaica and they are still serving the lord almost 6 decades later as they travel, share the word of God, and oversee many churches and missions programs.

"I wish that every believer could goon a mission's trip and not not just adomestic mission trip. I wish theycould go on on an international trip.

You cannot even begin tounderstand the the the length andthe the depth and the width of God'slove until you go on the other side ofthe world and you see a completedifferent culture.

You hear people praying in anentirely different language.

And you come to the realization thatJesus laid down his life for them too."

—DARYL COURTNEY

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Pastor Wes Courtney is the son in law of Pastors W.S. and Esther, as well as current pastor of Revival Temple and describes his appointment with tremendous gratitude for the McMasters and their vision as well as a "making of room at the table" which allowed him to learn and grow his own heart for missions so he could continue this legacy of missions that was started so long ago.

This October we had the opportunity to once again gather at Revival Temple to celebrate and be a part of this year's annual Mission Conference and it was a blessing.

We had the privilege to hear directly from Pastor Wes, Kemp and Carol Holden, and Sister Esther about their love of missions and their heart to pursue others in the completion of the Great Commission.

Each time we have the honor to be at a table with or listen to these amazing servants in ministry I am reminded of how many different people have forge ahead of us and laid groundwork for the journey we are on. None of us truly have pioneered alone, many times it is only because of what others have done and the sacrifices they made that we can then stand tip toed on their shoulders and achieve anything great within our ministry.

Thank You to the McMasters, Courtneys, Holdens and the many others who have gone before us. I hope to leave a trail as well trodden as the one left for me by these faith heroes.