It has finally happened. We are now fully funded and on June 16th, we will board the plane for Kenya. Things have gotten very hectic. We received the formal news on April 14th and became Church of God Ministries employees on May 1st. My last day at Christian Women Connection™ (formerly Women of [...]
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Departing June 16th 
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As a missionary, over the past 18 months, my family and I have visited numerous churches to acquaint people with our ministry and missions in general. During these visits, people often ask, “I feel that God may be calling me to the mission field, but I am not sure what it will look like. How [...] The HEART program (Hunger Education and Resource Training) is a unique facility, located in central Florida, with the primary goal of preparing missionaries and community development workers for service in the third-world. The training takes place in the midst of a simulated third-world village where the students live and work as if they were living in the third-world. As you know from my last post, my family and I are currently attending pre-field training at Mission Training International in Palmer Lake, CO. This week we have been attending our final week of the PILAT (Program in Language Acquisition Techniques) program. During this week we have been learning about how to choose a language [...] Over the next several weeks (5 to be exact), my family and I are attending two training sessions that will help prepare us for the mission field. The first is a two week program called PILAT – Program in Language Acquistion Techniques. This is program not aimed at learning a specific language. Instead, it focuses [...] Lanier, Sarah A. Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot – And Cold – Climate Cultures. Hagerstown, MD: McDougal Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-58158-022-3 Someone from Ecuador visiting the United States for the first time complains that, “When I asked for a ride, I was told that there was no more room. Americans are so rude.” [...] Livermore, David A. Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Youth, Family, and Culture). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009. ISBN# 978-0-8010-3589-0. Cultural Intelligence is the second book in a Youth, Family and Culture Series edited by well known youth minister/educator Chap Clark at Fuller Theological Seminary. This second book is [...] Jesus entrusted His disciples (and that includes us) with the mission to “make disciples of all the nations (Mt. 28:19)” and to be His “witnesses (Acts 1:8)” at home and to the very ends of the earth. While this end goal may be clear, the specifics of how this is to be accomplished are less [...] Ever since I was in college at Purdue, I have been interested in missions. God started giving a me vision for what He is doing around the world at Mandate ‘86 missions conference at Northern Illinois University. The main speaker was George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization. While I do not remember what he preached [...] |
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