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Fully Funded – Departing June 16th

Dave Baylor — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:44:58 +0000

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 [...]

Preparing and Discerning

Dave Baylor — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:03:34 +0000

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 [...]

HEART Missionary Training Institute

Dave Baylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:44:10 +0000

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.

How to Enhance Your Short Term Mission Trip

Dave Baylor — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:35:06 +0000

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 [...]

Pre-Field Training at MTI

Dave Baylor — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:49:13 +0000

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 [...]

Book Review – Foreign to Familiar

Dave Baylor — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:57:03 +0000

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.” [...]

Cultural Intelligence – A Review

Dave Baylor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:24:21 +0000

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 [...]

What is Your Role in Missions?

Dave Baylor — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:10:14 +0000

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 [...]

God’s Big Picture – Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

Dave Baylor — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:40:15 +0000

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 [...]