Perspectives for the Church in the 21st Century
 Defining the Mission Field
• “The ‘mission field’ is any place on earth where the three-fold mission of the Church is being implemented.  In other words, the mission field is any place where there is a single soul yet to be baptized, or yet to be brought back into full fellowship or full activity in the Church of Jesus Christ. Or any place where there is a single soul yet to receive his or her own ordinances in the House of the Lord. … • “With this broader perspective in mind comes the realization that one’s place of residence is where miracles should be expected to happen, and not only in some exotic far-off place.  It is quite possible to fail to notice the occurrence of miracles around us because we often expect them to happen somewhere else.”
•(M. Martins, 1998)