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Coming Soon: Honduras LT!!!

The long anticipated dream of Honduras Leadership Training is getting closer and closer to reality. An evaluation at the Leadership Training Summit in late October is the next step. Rock pastor, John Drage, sent out the following recently, asking campus pastors to consider promoting the program, pending final approval, in hopes we can launch in Summer . . . → Read More: Coming Soon: Honduras LT!!!

Out of Africa

I came across this post on Twitter yesterday, and felt it did a good job of expressing the thoughts of someone returning from a 3rd world country…

Out of Africa
from We Are That Family
by Kristen

I don’t know who I am.

It’s a startling realization to not recognize yourself: My own voice sounds hollow. My eyes hold a distant stare, remembering all I’ve seen in Africa this past week. My thoughts keep me awake at night.

Just days after I returned, I found my husband carefully watching me. "I don’t feel like I know you," he said softly, beckoning.

"I don’t feel like I know me either," I said.

And I cried.

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March 2009 Team – Important Info

Important Dates

* Jan. 30 – $100 non-refundable deposit due
* Feb. 13 – $625 first installment
* Mar. 6 – $805 remaining balance of the trip due
* Mar. 20 – Leave for Choluteca, Honduras

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Why Go? (3)

From the GCLA Missions site, here is the missions video . . . → Read More: Why Go? (3)

Why Go? (2)

Here is the video from our trip in 2007. Lots of reasons to go! . . . → Read More: Why Go? (2)

Why Go?

Experiences from foreign mission trips that every Christian should have:

  • Step out in faith to trust God to raise support
  • See their gifts and talents used
  • Experience the spiritual bond with Christians from another culture
  • See how God is worshiped in another culture
  • See the poverty, and feel the compassion
  • See the spiritual darkness, and feel the drive to share the gospel
  • See fruit of their labor
  • Come to understand the similarities and differences between the U.S.and another culture
  • Learn flexibility and the feeling of having your life not in your own control, and trusting God with it.
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