Virginia Tech Missions in Honduras
I just discovered this site & blog about our friends at Virginia Tech who are working with GCLA in Danli, Honduras.
http://www.missionlatinamerica.com
http://blog.missionlatinamerica.com
Mizzou Team: March 2009
Here’s the line-up. You can now pray for us by name!
John
Stevi
Austin
Brian
Caley
Joey
Max
Ben
Adam
Amanda
Elizabeth
Nathan
Matt
Drew
Brooke
Kelly
Robbie
Megan
Liz
Articles on Short-Term Missions
Boundless webzine recently ran a few articles on short-term missions. They touch on things like "why go?" and "what makes a trip successful or unsuccessful?" Worth reading if you’ve got the time. It’s always good to think about our motivations, and how we are to gauge success and failure.
Why Go? (3)
From the GCLA Missions site, here is the missions video for 2009:
GCLA New Missions Website
GCLA has a new Missions website! It’s geared toward those who have gone, plan to go, or are interested in going on a short-term mission trip to Latin America. The new site is super cool, has RSS feed, lots of pictures, and a place for you to share your story about your experience in Latin America.
Due to the change in the website, the place to apply is now http://www.gclamissions.com, click on the "Register" tab. I apologize that the address I had on the info sheet was incorrect. The week I had to print the info sheet was the very week their website was in transition, so I had to just go with the info I had at the time, even though I suspected it would be changing.
If you find that any of my links to GCLA-related sites are not working, please let me know. It’s hard for me to remember all the places I might have linked to their site, so I might have missed some.
UPDATE: The link to the Training Manual is not working yet. I’ve left a message on their site, so hopefully they’ll get that fixed soon. In the mean time, I have uploaded the pdf to my server. Here’s the link.
Why Go? (2)
Here is the video from our trip in 2007. Lots of reasons to go!
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.