missions AT HOME... and abroad...

I'm spending this week preparing for my big trip to Nepal. This will be my third annual journey to this country where we've been teaching and training pastors and church leaders. This is my favorite kind of (overseas) mission work. Instead of showing up and doing what only we can do, and then leaving... we are instead, equipping and training the leaders of that country, (very few of them have the privilege of education)... to study their Bibles and prepare their own Bible studies. Most of these folks are geared to learn by "imitation"... so what they do, is imitate a sermon they heard, make it their own, and add it to their list of 3 or 4 other sermons. It is SOOOOO cool taking these guys through the process of building their own sermon. When the light-bulbs went on in their heads last year (Wow, I just wrote a sermon!!!)... it was incredibly exciting.

We're also kicking off our down-town outreach this Friday night. We've been down there most Friday nights (summer time) for the past few years. We make balloon animals and do face painting for the kids. (free)... -then we have a lot of opportunities to share the love of Jesus w/the kids and the parents who are stuck standing around. We wear bright orange shirts and call ourselves the "go ye project"...

We've also done Katrina relief:

http://www.calvarymagazine.org/PDF/Issue_25/hurricane_virginia.pdf

And we help out folks in the community:

All this to say… my mind is geared towards mission right now. I know we've done this in the past, but I'd like to hear again (and hear more stuff)... about your unique visions for missions.

HT: Simple Minded Preacher