October 2003

People Group: University Students of Mexico

Prayer Points for Mexican Students

Stories from the Field

Mission Projects

Persecuted Church: Vietnam

Bible Study: Spiritual Awakening

 


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People Group Focus: University Students of Mexico

The student leaders of the Guadalajara Baptist Student Center didn't take long to answer the question of what it would take to reach their fellow students at the University of Guadalajara for Christ. If they had a blank check to do whatever was needed to reach university students in Guadalajara for Christ, they were told, what would they want?

"We want American students to come down and minister with us," they replied unanimously.

"But WHY?" countered missionary Rick Jenkins, the director of the BSU at the Univeristy of Guadalajara. "If you could have ANY ministry tool to get the job done, why would you want American students?"

"American students have everything we could ever want in the world. We see that on TV and in their movies," the students replied. "If they still need Jesus, we want to know why."

Worldview

They call themselves " students." If you ask them who they are, they will tell you, "I am a student at the University of Guadalajara in Political Science (or whatever campus they are a part of)." Their dress is different, their language could be considered a dialect in that they use different words to describe emotions, and they use language that pertains to their studies and interests.

University students in Mexico are not so very different from those in the USA: they want a good education that will help them get a good job in order to have a good standard of living.  Read more. . .

 

Prayer Points for the University Students of Mexico
  1. Pray for student leaders who are starting new Bible studies and churches near their campuses and in their homes.
  2. Pray for students who have accepted Christ and are growing as Christians in non-Christian homes that don't understand what they have done.
  3. Pray for wisdom for the ministry leadership who are looking to impact Mexico with the Gospel.
  4. Pray for the campuses that have no Christians or very few. The average percentage of Christians among Mexican students is less than 2%.
  5. Pray for where the Lord to continue to work in villages that are being impacted by University Students.

For more prayer requests for university work in Mexico, email Rick at Rick@TeamWest.Info.

Other global prayer requests at CompassionNet.


Stories from the Field
Finding Jesus in Modern Israel Mob injures students in the Last Frontier (scroll to "Mob Action")

Unbelievers Share the Gospel in Taiwan (scroll to "Even Unbelievers Want to Help")

Women of Swaziland Oppressed (scroll to "Pray for the Oppressed)

Praying for Their Persecutors in Lebanon

AIDS: A Young Girl Bears the Consequences in Zambia


Mission Projects

Urgent Project Need

Cross-Country Skiing in Central Asia (project 68653)

January 2 - 11, 2004

Cross-country ski for 4-5 days in a Central Asian country. Prayerwalk and build relationships with locals in order to share the Truth with them.

Team of 6 needed

Cost: $400 plus airfare

Read more

Apply now!

High School Projects

*Qualifications to serve

Collegiate Projects

*Qualifications to serve

International World Changers

Guadalajara, Mexico

June 19 - 26, 2004

June 26 - July 3, 2004

Saturate Guadalajara with the Gospel by prayerwalking and giving Gospel materials to every home in assigned areas. You will have many chances to share a witness.

Read More

Apply now!

Sports and Drama Evangelism (project 67689)

Open doors for relationships with the youth of Guatemala using sports and going into the secondary schools to present Bible stories and dramas.

Read More

Apply Now!

International World Changers

Quito, Ecuador

June 26 - July 3, 2004

July 3 - 10, 2004

Trek the Andes Mountains near Quito to reach the Quichua people with the Gospel. Use Bible clubs, children and youth ministry, prayerwalking, and sports to make friends and share your testimony.

Read More

Apply Now!

Unreached Peoples Field Researcher (project 67492)

Travel the Andean Mtn. trails & Amazon Jungle streams of Peru to serve among unreached "pockets of lostness" investigate & identify unreached peoples. Team members need to speak intermediate high or advanced low level Spanish. Read More

Apply Now! 

Children's Ministry (project 66696)

Show God's love by sharing your testimony with Brazilian kids in the mega-city of Salvador by using "scrap books," skits, puppets, singing, VBS, crafts, distribution of literature, films, tapes. Visit the kids in their homes and do minor home repairs.

More info on this project.

Operation Go (project 67681)

Prayerwalk areas in Nicaragua that will soon after experinece total gospel saturation. Go house to house, giving each family a copy of the gospel, praying and sharing the plan of salvation as the opportunity arises. Read more

Apply Now!

More high school and IWC projects More college and seminary projects

Abandoned Devotion Prayer Gathering

Join hundreds of Christian students from around the USA to cry out to God to bring forth a mighty impartation of His heart and passion for the world and all of its peoples. www.SVM2.net  

Saturday, November 1, 2003

10am-6pm

Denver First Church of the Nazarene

3800 E. Hampden Ave.

Englewood, CO 80110

(303) 730-4170

THANK YOU from your IMB missionaries

You've prayed. You've given your money and your time. You may even have volunteered to work alongside them for a few weeks or months. How do Southern Baptist missionaries feel about your support? More than 100 missionaries have written to tell you.


Discovery Trips for Collegiate Workers

(Collegaite Workers/Ministers only)

Southeast Asia!

February 7-19, 2004

Strategize with field personnel about how your students can be involved in reaching their people groups with the Gospel around Southeast Asia. Experience Buddhist and Muslim bultures of the mega-cities, the rural settings, and the college campuses.

Contact Felicity for more information at fburrow@imb.org

Registration deadline: Nov. 7

China!

Feb. 18 - March 1, 2004

Strategize with field personnel about how your students can be involved in reaching their people groups with the Gospel around China. There is great urgency to reach this country of 1.3 billion. An unprecedented number of Chinese are coming to know Christ and many more will respond - if only laborers will come to the harvest field.

contact Alan for more information at agarnett@imb.org

Registration deadline: Nov. 14


Persecuted Church: Vietnam


Three Montagnard Christians were executed in Vietnam's Dak Lak province during a crackdown on "illegal" churches. Y-Suon Mlo, Y-Het Nie Kdam and Y-Wan Ayun reportedly were injected with a lethal drug after being convicted of participation in anti-government activities. Those "anti-government" activities included a peaceful protest by hundreds of Montagnards in favor of religious liberty and against government corruption in key Central Highlands cities. The crackdown resulted in 354 churches being forcibly disbanded and more than 50 pastors and elders were said to have "disappeared."


Missions Heroes Bio Byte: Elisabeth Elliot

When Elisabeth Elliot was four years old, Betty Stam, a missionary to China, enjoyed the hospitality of her parents' home. Four years later at the tender age of eight, little Elisabeth learned that Betty and her husband, John, had been beheaded by communist fighters in China. This brush with loss and suffering so early in life helped to prepare Elisabeth to face the murder of her husband, Jim, in the jungles of Ecuador later in life.  Read more . . .


Bible Study: Becoming an On-Mission Christian:   Continual Adjustment

By Shane Tucker

All students do is make adjustments in their lives.   You make adjustments for professors.   You probably feel like you need to do things this way for this teacher and that way for that teacher.   You may have a roommate.   You adjust your life for your roommate, some more than others, perhaps.   You make life adjustments in your spending habits because of ever-changing financial situations.   Students know adjustments! But, have you ever considered making adjustments in your life for the sake of communicating the good news of Jesus Christ? Read more about adjusting your life for the glory of God.


"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

-A Christian worker in Southeast Asia

 

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