TESTIMONIAL: Sharing Family History and Announcing a New Book Release
In September 2025, I felt a strong urge to share testimonials about my family’s history, heritage, and legacy, accompanied by photographs. This urge arose as I was receiving negative feedback from certain family members regarding our past. These criticisms created an atmosphere of negativity that affected not only our family but also outsiders who were unfamiliar with our story. Encouraged by both the comments and the connections made with previously unknown family members, I have decided to release my latest book earlier than planned. The book, titled “Memoirs & Critiques of Family & Church Dynamics (Pathway to Wholeness),” will be available in early December 2025. The primary goal of this publication is not financial gain—though reaching thousands of readers would certainly be rewarding. More importantly, the book is intended to serve a greater purpose: to provide concern, care, moral support, and valuable resource development for families, particularly those within communities struggling with ongoing economic challenges affected by historical segregation and economic hardship. The current generation, observing from a distance, often underestimates the enduring impact of segregation and economic scarcity on our communities. Nevertheless, there is hope—awareness is growing, and new opportunities are emerging for families to prosper spiritually, economically, and collectively. My website, www.middlemission.org, is the platform from which these initiatives will be launched.
This is the whole story of my legacy: two hundred pages loaded and power-packed with thoughtful, inspired real-life stories common to human experience with an upward trajectory toward higher truth for higher living!
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Middle Mission is an affiliate sole proprietorship of JJ Planter focused on mission and ministry development.
The People's Pastor
Building Community within Communities (Matthew 25:25-40). Reaching beyond the four walls of the church.
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MIDDLE MISSION SUMMARY
Middle Mission is a para-church mission initiative focused on outreach, discipleship, and business development. Middle Mission is not a church and does not compete for members. It operates as a networking platform where participants share resource development and referrals to grow their ministries or small businesses. There is no obligation, joining, or membership involved. Our mantra is "Moving Products & Services from Producers to the People," emphasizing the growth of businesses or ministries with an evangelistic thrust.
- A Proactive Business-Ministry Focus: The focus is on spiritual opportunities from God that differ from secular offers because they require faith and taking initial steps into the unknown, reflecting the concept of “Walking in Faith.” Proactively, they inspire, encourage, and prepare participants for what they will face when following their heart to achieve their goals.
- Open Doors & Risk in Faith: God provides open doors as opportunities, but individuals must choose to walk through those doors by faith, accepting the risk and trusting in God's provision for their needs. Its purpose emphasizes networking, resource development, and referrals. It aims to grow businesses or ministries with an evangelistic thrust by offering opportunities that come from Kingdom Concepts.
Unity in Diversity: The mission aims to build spiritual unity among diverse believers, reflecting the Early Church’s example. The achievable goal is reaching a variety of people with “good news.” The objectives throughout the process are to build spiritual unity among the participants by emphasizing the diversity within the Body of Christ that stands above institutionalized Christianity. Unity, in the secular sense, becomes failed integration from the human standpoint because of ethnic and cultural differences that become barriers. But spiritual unity is the “Call” of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) and it enables, by grace, the acceptance of neutral ethnic and cultural differences without being absorbed or assimilated into a dominant cultural norm. In other words, Unity Is Not Uniformity.
When diverse people unify, they do more and make more. It takes diversity to reach diverse people with the gospel. Homogeneous, or one kind of people, cannot effectively reach heterogeneous people, different kinds of people ... The Early Church was diverse, made up of Jews and Gentiles, and their commission was to reach the world at large (Acts 1:8). God Did Not commission the World to come to Church, but the Church was commissioned to go to the World!
Psalms 133:1-3, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.”
It means that the anointing of God’s Spirit (enablement) “gifts” those in unity and proactive involvement with success in their calling (I Corinthians 12:1-31).
MIDDLE MISSION PURPOSE & OBJECTIVE
To “Enable” Home Mission Cell Groups with Funding for Nonprofit Purposes
To "Empower Groups" to Reach Their Families and Friends and Reach Out to Their Respective Communities At Large.
The Concept of MIDDLE MISSION Comes from Spiritual Mobilization in Communities of Need. There is no membership or financial obligation for those who are willing to “Participate.” The participants are people of all faiths from all places across the globe who are “uninvolved” and “unobligated” with any religious organization or church.
A Global Network of People Who Care
Who Can Participate?
- Middle Mission is open to people of all faiths, from all backgrounds, across the globe.
- It is designed for those who feel uninvolved or unobligated with any religious organization or church but still want to make an impact.
Vision Background
I had a twofold dream early, in the morning of Friday, October 21, 2016. When I woke up, the dreams continued to resonate in my spirit. In the first dream, my wife and I were sailing along the coast, and the captain at the helm was an indigenous leader. There was a storm at sea. Quickly, the storm was upon us, and the captain navigated to safety to wait for the storm to subside. While waiting for the storm to subside, I told my wife that God did not want us to continue to the mountains, but return and rescue those underwater.
Immediately, I then had the second dream. Several people were wrapped in blankets, and four very tiny baby snakes were crawling outside of the blankets, and the people were trying to keep them from getting inside the blankets. Then suddenly a large hole appeared in a puff of smoke, and a large impregnated snake made its way out of the hole and immediately went into another hole. Before the snake could reach the other hole, I threw a rock, but it missed. When the snake entered the second hole, I threw another rock, and that rock sealed the hole. Then it resonated in my spirit that things are not as bad as they look.
The blanket represented the security of believers. The snake represented trouble in our country in the form of politics, religion, and racial conflict. The four small baby snakes described outbursts of concern threatening the security of believers. The impregnated snake could not have all the babies it wanted, so it crawled back into a hole to make another plan, but I sealed the hole with a rock, and the Rock was Christ!
MIDDLE MISSION HISTORY
The historical roots of MIDDLE MISSION go back to the previous vision in 2016 that led to the start-up of Church In The Middle. While serving as a professor of Urban Theology, the Founder, Jarvis “Jimmy” Ross was enlightened about the disparaging effects of politics on the Christian faith. To him, it seemed as though the line between the separation of church and state was being erased. Consequently, his inner “conviction” was to develop an online church that would keep politics out of the Christian faith. Thus, the idea of the “Church In The Middle” (CITM) was born. The founder then began the process of putting together documents for their nonprofit status, recruiting a core group, and meeting out of his home to begin the process. After several months of meetings, the founder didn’t think the core group was ready for an online church. They opted for a physical church plant with a physical presence. Therefore, the founder suspended the meetings and put CITM on the back burner.
Eight years later (2024) with a heightening effect of politics on Christianity, which he saw as causing some to question Christianity and others to walk away from the faith—leaving churches—he came up with the idea to modify CITM as a mission ministry to reach seekers and the unchurched. Thus, MIDDLE MISSION was born with a similar vision as the Church In The Middle to change the narrative about current times by taking politics, political figures, social values, and policies out of the conversation by focusing on what he terms, “Kingdom Concepts.” Kingdom Concepts would empower believers to follow the ways of the Lord by reaching their families and friends and those they encounter in the real world, where they live, work, and play—WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD!
MIDDLE MISSION LOGO
MIDDLE MISSION’s Logo comes from an earlier prototype of CITM and MIDDLE MISSION that the founder, Jarvis “Jimmy” Ross developed while serving as a professor to help students develop their church and ministries. It was called “Acts Thirteen Ministries.” The concept comes from the Greek word for “Apostle,” which is “Apostolos.” It means to send off on a mission. The gift of apostleship is a primary gift for launching out to plant churches that begin with navigating the course; guided by the Lord. The helm wheel is for steering the ship and the navigation device around the wheel guides the ship in all directions to reach all people in fulfillment of Acts 1:8.
Serving Your Community
Middle Mission serves the vibrant and diverse community of Greater Charlotte community and beyond, from its base. As a non-profit organization, it focuses on empowering local home mission cell groups, providing them with the necessary funding and support to enhance their community outreach and spiritual engagements.
Through services like Spiritual Warriors and Cell Groups, Middle Mission extends its reach throughout Charlotte, fostering a network of support and spiritual growth. Their efforts are crucial in mobilizing communities in need, helping them to connect and uplift each other in meaningful ways.
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The concept of Middle Mission is revolutionary in the way it mobilizes resources and people. Thanks to them, our group has been able to reach so many in need right here in Charlotte.
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