Prayer
Points for
the Kyrgyz of Batkin oblast
- Pray for the recording that has begun of
35 stories and 15 songs from the Word in the Chronological Storying
Project. Lift up the storytellers that they will let God speak
through them and that the project will be finished in His timing.
- Pray that a local believer would be able
to begin traveling to this month’s focus area to share
and that a medical group would be raised up to partner with
him this coming year to open doors.
- Pray that people’s response to joblessness
would be to seek God rather than illegal means to earning a
living.
- Lift up the villages that they have access
to clean drinking water and to the Living Water.
- Pray that this country would soon celebrate
Christmas in the true sense and that the numbers that worship
on Christmas would grow more than those that party for New Year’s.
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10
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In 2003, there are more than 10,000.
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COST: $495 plus airfare
Reach out to the high school and college students of Moscow with
the love of Jesus! Spend the best Spring Break of your life building
relationships with them and introducing them to Jesus. You will
be stretched, challenged and used by God beyond anything you could
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Penang,
Malaysia
Project
65346
6/19/04 - 7/3/04
Cost: $800 plus airfare
Come to this tropical island where less than 5% of people
know Jesus. Lead sports projects, kid's camp, construction
and home visits. For adventurous students ready to be on
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ACTS
Central
Asia
Project
66402
4/20/04
- 6/24/04
Cost:
$1017 plus airfare
Reach out to Central Asian students through English conversation
programs at a local university. You will work along side
field personnel and can earn six university credit hours.
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World Changers
Beirut, Lebanon
June 19 - July 3 Job # 67452
COST: $800 plus airfare
Reach acommunity in Beirut with the Gospel. Prayerwalk,
teach English, hold children's camps, play sports and visit
in homes. Be on the front lines of this new work, by coming
to this beautiful city on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Latvia
Summer 2004
Latvia,
Eastern Europe
Project
68350
6/1/04
- 8/15/04
Cost:
$1260 plus airfare
Build cross-cultural relationships with Russian speakers
to develop friendship, discipleship, and mentoring. Assist
with youth and children in camps, Bible clubs, sports, and
research.
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World Changers
Draganesti,
Romania
7/17/04
- 7/24/04 and
7/24/04
- 7/31/04
Cost: $495 plus airfare
Be God's hands and feet in an area of extreme physical and
spiritual poverty in Southern Romania.Partner with Romanian
students and minister through Bible clubs, sports, light
construction and VBS.
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Hiking
Researcher
Kosovo,
Eastern Europe
Project
68188
5/25/04
- 7/31/04
Cost:
$3315 plus airfare
Hike the mountains of northern Albania to interview villagers.
Find open doors for future work. Be a part of changing lives
in the summer of 2004 and in the future.
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World Changers
Guadalajara, Mexico
June 19 - 26 Job # 66327
June 26 - July 3 Job #68103
COST: $495 plus airfare
Saturate the city of Guadalajara with the Gospel by prayerwalking
the city and then distributing Gospel materials to every
home in certain communities. You will have many chances
to give a personal witness to children, teens and adults.
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English
Guide/True Love Waits/Researcher
Macedonia,
Eastern Europe
Project
68189
5/25/04
- 7/31/04
Cost:
$2523 plus airfare
Work with one of three teams in Skopje, Macedonia: (1) teach
ESL, (2) share "True Love Waits", or (3) survey and research
unengaged areas. There is a place for your talents and gifts
in Macedonia!
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Challenge from the Field
Merry Christmas! I want
to thank those of you who have given to the Lottie
Moon Christmas Offering during this Christmas season.
Without that support, my wife and I would not be on the
field along with thousands of other personnel in unreached
areas. Without LMCO, there would be no volunteer
mission projects reaching
millions of people who were not as privileged as you and
I to be born in a land with access to the Gospel.
For
those of you who have not given, or gave so little that
you’re feeling a little guilty, then let me give you
a little bit of motivation.
For
the first time since the Great Depression (the 1930s), about
600 otherwise qualified people had to be turned away from
being IMB missionaries because funds to send them have not
increased at the same rate as the numbers of people wanting
to serve have increased (or at the same rate as normal inflation
for that matter). But in our region alone, there are still
87 people groups of over 100,000 in population who are untouched
by the Gospel, so we need these new missionaries- and that
is only in our small region of the world!
Motivated
yet? This year, the LMCO goal is $133
million. Every penny goes directly overseas and for
ministry throughout the world. And guess what? You don’t
have to be Southern Baptist in order to give. You can go
online at www.imb.org/giving to make a contribution or to
simply learn more about the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
Thanks again for your support in this way from someone on
the field who appreciates you!
-From a worker in the Pacific Rim |
College
Search
As
you consider the institution of higher education that will
make or break your future, consider attending a college
that will give you good training for a missionary career:
Tips for preparing
for a career in missions:
1.
Befriend the nations on your campus
and in your community. The nations are around you
- reach them where you are.
2.
Be cautious about getting into debt.
Too much debt will make you ineligible to be a missionary.
Use credit cards sparingly and do your best to go through
college with a minimum of student loans, if any.
3. Give to international
missions through the Lottie
Moon Christmas Offering. This offering supports missionaries
on the field and will support you as a missionary in the
future. If you want others to give to you, make it a habit
to give to them.
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Persecuted
Church: North
Africa
From
a Christian worker
I
have seen in my North Africa brothers here a kind of faith of
which I am not familiar.
For three days now at hours-long meetings several times a day,
the brothers have been taken before a huge group at the Imam's
(Muslim leader's) place. They have been threatened and ridiculed.
Still they have stood firm.
Several
have spoken up on behalf of their faith before over a hundred
hostile people. One cried afterward for joy, saying that he had
never spoken out before a crowd about anything. Today, he spoke
before dozens with boldness and afterward acknowledged that it
was only because of the Holy Spirit that he could have done that.
Another brother has said that as difficult as the trial has been,
he hopes it could go on for 30 more days because of the opportunity
it has given to proclaim the message before dozens of influential
religious leaders.
In
all my life I have not experienced a more faith building and intense
trial as this has been. It is still not over. But there is an
incredible opportunity here to see the truth illuminate a very
dark place. Please continue to pray for our Father's glory.
2
Thess. 1:4 Therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among
the churches of
God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions
and afflictions which you endure.
Missionary
Heroes Bio Byte: Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Using his position
of power and influence, Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf and the Moravians
pioneered the Protestant global mission movement, even influencing
the faith of Charles Wesley. Read
more . . .
"I have but
one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field
and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall
be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ."
- Count von Zinzendorf
Bible
Study: Advocating His Mission
By
Shane Tucker
For the last few
months we've been discussing what it takes to be an on mission
Christian by looking at the four A's. We've learned that its deeper
than just going on a mission trip or praying for an unreached
people group. On the other hand, these activities can and should
be a natural outcome of becoming more of an on mission Christian.
But being an on mission Christian means having some personal,
spiritual characteristics. Those are what we have been looking
into lately and this month we'll look at the final "A".
Read
more . . .
Let
us not forget that to God each of us is a special case. The is
no category labeled "miscellaneous." The God who guided
the great apostle in his great work is the God who carries lambs
in his arms.
-
Elisabeth Elliot in A Slow and Certain Light.
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