Well we are ready. I’m not answering my cell phone for a while. And I’m sure people will manage. And someone is at my house just so you know. Here is the to-do list as of the past few weeks. Most of it has been quite worth it.
X DC - […]
Seth Barnes, Executive Director of Adventures in Missions, has a series of 10 posts that deal specifically with debriefing and reentry. I’ve thought for a long time that there was not a lot of material available on this subject and I think Seth’s posts are probably the most comprehensive I have seen. Some […]
The girlies are at the Madres in CT this week. She has been gracious enough to have them so that D and I could pull off this past weekend together and not have to worry about our girls. The girls are, of course, having a great time there and in no hurry for […]
Read about his heart… and let me tell you - it is real on the web like it is in person….http://urbanimpact.voxtropolis.com/
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I’m back from Mission Advance 2006. There is so much to tell, but although exhausting as it was, it was definitely worth it.
GoalsThe two big goals for the weekend was to have the teams bond together by spending time together and give the students a bit of preparation about culture, teams and their summer […]
Well, we are almost ready to go for Mission Advance. It is sort of coming along nicely.
Here are a few things we would love for you to pray about:- safety in getting 58 or so people down to the beach and back.- for good weather - some of our team stuff is going to […]
I meant to post this a few days ago, but, like I mentioned before, Sunday was a total blur. If you asked or told me about something on Sunday, you should email it again.
Anyway, besides it being Fathers Day, and me working until 6am the night before, it was Mission Sunday - the Sunday […]
So the heavens opened up and I found a worship leader for Mission Advance. I love it when a plan comes together. Of course, I know the plan will continue to hmm how shall I put it - evolve…
This is BCoe [the one without the helmet on]. He has been on a […]
In order to try and keep all our teams organized, I use Excel like it was the end of the world. Here is a quick snippet.
Names go down the rows. Teams are across the top for columns. Two more columns include attending Mission Advance and whose car they are in. An […]
A few months ago, I reached out to some experts to answer the question, “If you could give one piece of advice for people going on mission trips, what would it be?” I got some great responses and did a series of posts about their answers.
Here are the links:
#1 - PrayingMantis.#2 - Justin Long.#3 […]
This is the fifth in a series of posts entitled “Mission Trip Advice.” [Post #1, #2, #3 and #4 in the series.] So you have signed up to go on a mission trip, and maybe you don’t know exactly what to expect. And you are maybe looking for some advice. What is one piece of […]
This weeekend is moving way too fast…
Today was:- lovely time at the pool with D this afternoon- out to Reston with the fam to have dinner with an old college roommate and his family, he and his family of a wife and three girls under 5 are moving in two weeks to Bangkok, Thailand- I’m […]
So, this Mission Advance thing might actually work. Lord be with us.
Workshop Team:There will be three guests coming with us - specifically to do some mission prep sessions:JGuy - who was a student in the ministry and then became a Dteam leader. He has participated on numerous cross cultural mission trips, as well […]
I just added a linkroll on the sidebar - which lists my most recent links saved into my del.icio.us account. If you save a lot of bookmarks for future reference, you should get a del.icio.us account. Firefox has a cool extension so that you can save bookmarks to your account really easily.
I also […]
I’ve had a few people ask me lately about how to get started preparing a mission team. Here are some of my thoughts and some tools that I have used a few times that seem to work well. The two primary aspects of team preparation should center around team unity and expectations.
First - […]
Seth Barnes writes about two roles of a mission project leaders:
Spiritual Director- Provides spiritual direction for the trip- Ensures that our project mission and objectives are met- Oversees logistics coordinator- Equipped to train groups in listening prayer- Leads debriefs- Ensures learning- Ensures unity of spirit and purpose
Logistics Coordinator- Ensures safety- Keeps things on schedule- Compiles […]
Another reason why we use Excel to track financial support - Excel charts!
I love Excel charts!! This chart is the trend of the amount of support by date. [click for full size]
We are currently about 18% for all the summer teams, after about 3 weeks of donations. I think […]
Sort of typical summer Sunday morning at church:- show up for LC parents meeting, but a bit late. Have K meander around the Warehouse as long as she doesn’t leave. Meeting ran out of time - no time for SPACE. Oh well.- talk to a parent of two middle schoolers going on […]
– Hotel Safety Tips via Gadling
Immediately upon check in, get two business cards or matchbooks with the hotel name and address on them. Place one by the phone in the room so you know where you are and keep the other on you when you leave so you know where to come back to. If […]
The house is really quiet - D and Em are up north, K is at a sleepover party. I dropped in on an LA team meeting tonight and then came home and tried to finish up my little project of putting in a new phone port on the other side of our fridge. […]
If you haven’t heard already, this year is an Urbana year. Urbana is InterVarsity’s triennial student missions conference. The first conference started in 1946 and since then, Urbana has seen over 220,00 students be a part of the conference. From the Urbana website: Urbana has sought to accomplish four objectives:
1. Declare […]
I’m currently conducting a survey among Chinese Americans age 20-70+ and was wondering if you could help me pass along the link. My survey focuses on religiosity and how it is beneficial to Chinese American behavioral practices because of the support network. There has been a lot of research on other ethnic groups (African American, […]
- 35,000: Total American missionaries (down from 65,000 in 1988)- 99%: Those committing to mission service who never make it.- 7: The usual years it takes for a wannabe missionary to actually go.- 50%: Those missionaries who return before the end of their first term.- 40,000: The missionary candidates stymied from going because they can’t […]
Ok… So SPACE Mission Advance was a great idea when it was conceived in, hmm let’s say November. Now though, I’m thinking it may be one of the worst ideas I will ever try to execute.
Here were the original ideas behind why it would be so great:- teams travel together for a weekend before […]
[This post is specifically for interaction between the Cameroon team leaders. Although other readers - please please feel free to add your ideas too.]
Leaders, last Friday we had dinner as a team. It was our first real time as a whole team interacting both with ourselves as well as our guest. Additionally, we […]
- Largest Cities Through History via Kottke
- Tips to Avoid Being Kidnapped via Gadling
- Slideshow of the World’s Fastest Growing City via Steve Watson
Some things you could pray about, if you think of them:- DCtransportation logisticsteam meeting this week
- LA team meeting this weeksupport letters to get in the mail
- LCstudents to actually go on the trip
- Merge support letters
- Camvisa stuffLF to find her passport
Photo: Some of the SPACE summer lady team leaders.
- Fifty years ago five missionaries were martyred in Ecuador, an event depicted in the move End of the Spear, released last January. All five missionaries cultivated their passion for lost souls while they were college students…- Sixty years ago InterVarsity held its first student missions convention in Toronto. Two years later it was moved […]
When I first heard these two terms - sodality and modality - I had a bit of trouble understanding the concepts, much less keeping in line which was which. [I still can’t quite keep it in line.]
Sam Metcalf has a good summary of:sodalities - apostolic structuresmodalities - local church structures
If you are a frequent […]
- Secret Service confiscates tracts. Can they just keep them?
- “The church in Japan is small, and virtually irrelevant. The non church movement however, is evidence of the Mission of God being expressed in Japan and I believe deserves a second look by missiologists.” Read more about Japan here. Via Jonny […]
The Cam team met again tonight. Fun times. For those of you interested, here is what the evening looked like. [And as always, for those of you preparing your own teams, feel free to use these notes as you wish.]
- Filled out visa paperwork at my house while we all gathered. […]
My summer schedule as it stands.
June 23 - 25 - SPACE Mission Advance
July 1 - 10 - family vacation in LADoing the Disneyland thing, seeing some family, the Madre is coming with us.Hoping to go to Mosaic for church [I really want my kids to experience a Sunday there] and dropping in on Harambee but […]
So I took my StrengthsFinder test tonight. Hmm, quite interesting. Here they are. I’m sure this is going to require a bit of unpacking.
Developer: People strong in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from these improvements.
Woo: […]
