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Book Synopsis Life and Adventures on Mission Trips by : Dr. Spencer Meckstroth
Download or read book Life and Adventures on Mission Trips written by Dr. Spencer Meckstroth and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join an optometrist as he journeys throughout the world on short-term missionary trips, introducing people to God and sight. Dr. Spencer Meckstroth went on his first medical mission trip to Belize in 1989, and hes been traveling to Third World countries ever since. In Life and Adventures on Mission Trips, he shares stories from more than eighty trips to twenty-three countries. Ranging from exciting to sad to inspiring, these tales show what missionary work is all about. Between trips, Dr. Meckstroth collects glasses to share with the needy. It takes time and effort to clean, sort, and label them, but the look on the faces of people who can see again makes it all worth it. He also hands out Bibles to people who are excited to move closer to God. Life as a full-time optometrist and part-time missionary is enjoyable and funrarely dull. Discover what its like, learn how missionaries help others, and be inspired to make a difference yourself as you discover Life and Adventures on Mission Trips.
Book Synopsis Equipped for Adventure by : Scott Kirby
Download or read book Equipped for Adventure written by Scott Kirby and published by New Hope Publishers (AL). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equipped for Adventure is a guide for churches wanting to establish a short-term missions ministry. This book is unique in that it goes beyond simply equipping the individual for short-term missions by helping the church develop a short-term missions ministry. After briefly discussing philosophies and considerations for developing a missional ministry, the author provides detailed steps for planning, participating, and following up on mission trips. Since there are more details to international travel, the author primarily focuses on international missions trips.
Book Synopsis Mission Trip Prep Kit Leader's Guide by : Kevin Johnson
Download or read book Mission Trip Prep Kit Leader's Guide written by Kevin Johnson and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You work hard planning mission trips. Now make mission trips work for you and your group.Headed to inner-city America? Appalachia? A border shantytown? Overseas? Wherever your destination, the MISSION TRIP PREP KIT contains all you need to prepare your students for an unforgettable cross-cultural experience—and tools to debrief them after they’ve returned to their worlds.Use this kit—To get on-site impact as well as long-term spiritual change in your kids.Whether you’re a mission-trip novice or a savvy traveler outside your comfort zones.Whether your group’s trip is geared toward reaching others with the gospel or to disciple your young missionaries.In several sessions spread over a month or two—or in an intensive, two-day training session or retreat.IN THIS LEADER’S GUIDE: You’ll receive not only the rationale, the how, and the logistics of planning and pulling off a missions trip, but—and this is the genius of the leader’s guide—4 PRE-TRIP TEACHING SESSIONS that will help your students—·Assess their EXPECTATIONS, their fears, their motivations.·Adjust their PERCEPTIONS of the culture they’ll be working in.·Improve their emotional and spiritual STAMINA for living for a week or a month in a very different world from their own.·Practice the skills and ATTITUDES (teamwork, servanthood, Christ-centeredness) they’ll need for a missions trip.And to make sure your trip’s goals are accomplished and the benefits stick around for the long haul, you’ll also receive 2 POST-TRIP SESSIONS that will help you DEBRIEF your students, ease them back into their own worlds, CELEBRATE with them, and make missions and ministry part of their EVERYDAY LIVES WITH JESUS.What’s more, in these pre- and post-trip teaching sessions are a variety of ACTIVITIES...processing points...creative PRAYER IDEAS...take-home applications...BIBLE STUDIES relevant to mission tripping...TALK OUTLINES that both instruct and inspire...and lots of sessions options you can tailor to your own HIGH SCHOOLERS OR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS.
Book Synopsis An Adventure in Missions by : Stanley R Foster
Download or read book An Adventure in Missions written by Stanley R Foster and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Adventure in Missions is a personal and exciting adventure in life. -Discover a roadmap and guide to your adventure. -Discover many experiences you can learn from. -Discover things you can expect to happen. -Read about choices and results. This is a basic resource manual for anyone interested in missions. It traces a missionary experience, beginning with the call, preparation, service and the dazzling experiences of missionary life. Its an adventurous, humorous, tumultuous, and exciting road map to missions. Youll laugh and cry. There are important lessons in each experience and theyll help you in your life adventure. There are ways to recognize your call, preparations that need to be made, things youll need to work on and why they are important, plus how to recognize key people in your life and develop a ministry support team. You will also learn about things to avoid.
Book Synopsis There’S a Frog in My Toilet by : Pamela Browne Miles
Download or read book There’S a Frog in My Toilet written by Pamela Browne Miles and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theres a Frog in My Toilet recounts the sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant adventures of a couple living in Tanzania, Africa through emails sent home to friends and family. It details what daily life is like when you are sent out to a remote location as a missionary. It takes you through the highs and lows of dealing with sporadic utilities, dangerous living conditions, and almost daily encounters with all sorts of creepy critters. It also contains up-to-date commentary remembering the events discussed in each email. With a sense of humor about things over which they had no control, Theres a Frog in My Toilet shows how God can bring glory to all situations and circumstances.
Download or read book Missional U written by Jacob Youmans and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever been on a mission trip, then you know what a powerful impact selfless service in the name of Christ can have on people - including yourself! Trips to the mission field always bring new spiritual growth and insight to our lives. And when God uses us to share the Good News of life and forgiveness in His Son, it's an experience that can't be matched. But in our quest to be missional, do we really need to hop in a van or get on a plane in order to leave an imprint of the Gospel on someone's life? What if, instead of checking mileage charts and looking at maps, we changed our mind-set? What if we could learn to see mission not as an event to take part in, but as a lifestyle to embrace? In Missional U: Life As a Mission Trip, that's exactly what Dr. Jacob Youmans teaches us as he shows, through Scripture and by personal example, what missional living is all about! If you're looking for a new way to travel, then come along. Missional U is your ticket to an exciting and fulfilling spiritual adventure - one that's sure to last a lifetime!
Download or read book The 2 AM Principle written by Jon Levy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's another Saturday night at your local pub. The lights flicker on and off. 2:00 AM again. Time to slink home, or time to get started on a new adventure? The 2 AM Principle will be your inspiration and guide to living life to the fullest. Adventures don't happen by accident - just ask Levy. Once a high school geek, Jon is now a world-traveling behaviour expert and creator of the EPIC Model of Adventure, a breakthrough four-step process for creating an unforgettable night. The 2 AM Principle is stocked with amazing stories, both outrageous and touching.
Book Synopsis In His Majesty's Service by : Ben Manthei
Download or read book In His Majesty's Service written by Ben Manthei and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So you've achieved a measure of success. Is that all there is? Or could there be something more? Everybody has a LIFE (Labor, Influence, Finances, Expertise), but how do you live it to the fullest? This improbable special agent may not drop into snake pits or run before a barrage of boulders in his quest for true significance, but like Indiana Jones, this adventurer loves action. From being stranded in Mongolia to influencing a Russian general at the Moscow nuclear missile base, from searching for a lost family treasure in China to running the gauntlet at the Columbia airport, the assignments of this improbable special agent may challenge you to take a whole new look at your own life of significance. Come along as he discovers secrets to the great adventure called life. Ben Manthei was born in 1955 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Spring Arbor University in 1977. Ben is the Founder of Redi-Rock International, a retaining-wall licensing company with manufacturers across the world. His involvement in overseas missions has included leading two evangelistic basketball teams to El Salvador. In addition, Ben has served on several international ministry boards, including the Military Ministry Executive Committee of Campus Crusade for Christ. Ruth Manthei-Wilkey was born in 1956, the youngest of seven children. Her interest in missions led her to work with a missionary in Peru for a year, as well as helping to lead mission trips to Mexico, El Salvador, and Montreal. Ruth earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from Concordia University in Irvine, California, and taught English, Spanish, music, and drama at Harbor Light Christian School. Ruth taught piano for thirty years. She now nurtures the souls of children through writing books.
Book Synopsis Life Is a Mission Trip--TAKE IT! by : Alvin Reid
Download or read book Life Is a Mission Trip--TAKE IT! written by Alvin Reid and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been on a mission trip? Mission trips thrill us: the prayer, planning, camaraderie, and travel all stir us. Most importantly, our trip is focused on sharing Jesus and loving people! But when we return, we fall back into mundane, church-attending, risk-averse Christianity. What if I told you that you could wake up every day and live your life from the perspective of being on a mission trip? What if I told you the key to living for Jesus may be less a passport and a faraway place and more a latte at your local coffee shop? What if the most important place for you to live on mission is not the church house but your house? And what if I told you that no matter your journey or how inadequate, uncertain, or broken your life may seem, that you are just the person God wants to use for His glory and the good of others?Life is a mission trip--TAKE IT! I will show you how.
Download or read book It's Your Call written by David P. Jacob and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most believers, several factors influence their missions call. Some are called to stay in their hometown and support missions at their local church, others are called to short-term mission trips, while others are called to spend a lifetime overseas as career missionaries. This SNAPSHOT book will highlight three things that can help you discover the adventure God has for you in his mission: prayer and Bible study, missionary mentorship, and short-term mission trips. If you need to understand your call or if you know someone who does, get them to walk with David through "It's Your Call: To a Missional or Missionary Life".
Download or read book All the Day Long written by Millie Dawson and published by Faithfulmoms. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Day Long shares the joys, trials, and adventures of an ordinary family used in extraordinary ways in the lives of an unreached people group -- the primitive Yanomamo Indians of southern Venezuela. After returning from military service in World War II, Joe and Millie Dawson meet, marry, and settle down for what they think will be an ordinary life. But when God transforms their lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the trajectory of their lives changes forever, and they give their lives to sharing the Gospel with people who have never before heard it. God sends this family to the remote Amazon rainforest to serve the Yanomamo people. From their harrowing first encounter with the Yanomamo to daily life and ministry, you will laugh, cry, and pray with the Dawsons as you read All the Day Long. This true story of how God used Joe and Millie Dawson will challenge your faith, remind you of God's faithfulness, and open your eyes in new ways to the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Book Synopsis Chosen with a Mission by : Nancy M. Wilson
Download or read book Chosen with a Mission written by Nancy M. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, practical, and inspirational, Chosen With a Mission sizzles with Nancy's personal adventures as she presents a biblical blueprint for fulfilling the unique mission God has for each of us. You'll begin to share Nancy's contagious zest for life and passion for outreach as you read of God's dealings in her life: her time behind bars, experiencing God's grace...her job as a dolphin trainer, learning God's innovative plan...her battle with an eating disorder, applying God's power...and her world travels, sharing God's love.
Download or read book God, My Rock written by Carol Nordman and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through her poems, letters and journal excerpts, author Carol Nordman tells the true story of living abroad as she steps into God’s calling and gives up “the good life” to become a missionary. In God, My Rock, she illustrates God’s promises, goodness, and faithfulness and tells how she; her husband, Vance; and eventually their children encounter and overcome the secret police, political instability, economic collapse, events of the last days of the Cold War, illness, and giving birth in a foreign hospital among other challenges. Nordman provides glimpses of her day-to-day life raising and traveling with three children on the mission field in Turkey, Egypt, the Philippines, Russia, Europe, and Japan. This memoir chronicles the family’s surprising cultural adjustments, both abroad and upon returning to the United States. The stories span Nordman’s life from finding God in her teenage years, being a UCLA student and serving as a single missionary for five years before marrying at the age of twenty-six. She shares the great adventure of following God’s call and watching him work powerfully to bring people into his kingdom by personally knowing his son, Jesus.
Book Synopsis Reaching the Uttermost Part by : Andrea Colson
Download or read book Reaching the Uttermost Part written by Andrea Colson and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Colson's family went to Hawaii as missionaries when she was a little girl. There they met people from Chuuk, Micronesia, an island nation in the Western Pacific. After several years of ministering to the Chuukese in Hawaii, Andrea's family moved to Chuuk where they are still serving the Lord today.Andrea has had many adventures as a missionary living in the islands, a beautiful and exciting (but dangerous!) place. In her book "Reaching the Uttermost Part" Andrea shares the story of her first trip across the open ocean to visit one of Chuuk's remote outer islands. After that first trip, the Lord opened doors and Andrea and her brother Matthew made many mission trips to different outer islands, taking the Gospel to the Chuukese people living in such hard-to-reach parts of the world.Andrea is in Chuuk now and would love to hear from you. You can find her contact information in her book, and also learn how to have a part in her ministry to the island people. If you have ever considered being a missionary yourself, or thought about supporting a missionary, then Andrea's book is a must-read for you.
Book Synopsis The Art of Listening Prayer by : Seth Barnes
Download or read book The Art of Listening Prayer written by Seth Barnes and published by Praxis PressInc. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interactive devotional is for the person who isn't satisfied with a dry faith. If you're dying to hear God's voice, the good news is that you can! Jesus is the door, and He has opened Himself up to you. He wants to put the "personal" back in the personal relationship that we tell others we have.
Book Synopsis God, Missions, And A Man by : Kristine Akana
Download or read book God, Missions, And A Man written by Kristine Akana and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it look like to wait on God while continuing to live on a mission for him? Young missionary Kristine Akana knows what it is to live all out for Jesus while waiting on Him to fulfill a desire. In God, Missions, and a Man, Kristine paints a picture of her devotion to God and missions while persevering through life's mountains and valleys. At seventeen years old, Kristine made the countercultural decision to save herself for marriage. Through bouts of loneliness and temptations, she holds on to her promise while earning her nursing degree and embarking on several mission trips. Traveling to Africa and Haiti, Kristine witnessed voodoo ceremonies, disease, and death but found her calling in spreading God's truth and love to the people, and especially to the children, of these developing nations. While living out her faith, Kristine eventually found love only to discover it wasn't the fairy tale she'd dreamed. Kristine wrote God, Missions, and a Man as a memoir of her life and adventures in missions and as a devotional tool to encourage teens and adults alike to live a life set apart for Christ, to love Him more, and to trust Him through all circumstances.
Book Synopsis A Trip around the Sun by : Mark Batterson
Download or read book A Trip around the Sun written by Mark Batterson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we take Jesus at his word when he says, "I have come that you might have life and have it to the full?" New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson and his mentor Richard Foth have done just that with their lives--and in A Trip around the Sun, they show readers how they too can experience their life and faith as the ultimate adventure. In a fun, storytelling style, Mark and Dick challenge readers to shake off fear, dream big, and quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. The accumulated wisdom from their combined 117 trips around the sun radiates from every heartfelt page, invigorating those of us who have found ourselves stuck in a rut dug by our sense of duty and our fear of the unknown. Anyone who wants to grab life and squeeze every ounce of joy out of it will be inspired by this unapologetic celebration of the life Jesus died to give us.
