September of 2007, my husband, Larry, and I attended a conference that was put on by the West Coast Evangelical Alliance, called, Transforming the Mind; Reviving the Heart. The speakers for the conference were W. Robert Godfrey; Michael Horton; Rev. Jason Allen; Rev. Ken Jones; and Rev. Don Chalmers. Michael Horton and Rev. Ken Jones are from The White Horse Inn; Rev. Jason Allen is from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; W. Robert Godfrey, President of Westminster Seminary California, and Rev. Don Chalmers who put the conference together.

The days we spent at the conference were encouraging. To see such top notch speakers willing to come and address the local church body in the San Francisco Bay Area was heartwarming. One thing that really stuck with me was the view of the West Coast. The West Coast of the U.S.A. is considered to be a missionary field within Evangelical denominations. Through my blog reading today, I stumbled upon this map. The map confirmed that the West Coast is, indeed, a missionary field.

We are minorities, swimming in a sea of Roman Catholicism. Historically, this make sense when you consider that much of the west was discovered by Spaniards. If I drive for an hour north, south, or east of our home, we would reach a mission founded by Junipero Serra. There is a mission in the town that we live in as well, but it was not founded by Serra.

The good news is, we don’t have to travel to be on a mission field; the bad news is, we were not evangelized by our Protestant brethren. Are any Evangelical denominations waking up and sending missionaries to the west coast of the U.S.A.?

Where does your state fit in? Click on the map to enlarge it.