Comments on: Mission Sunday

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:45:25 +0000

What a neat missions dinner. I love the idea of experiencing the different cultures. As cute as your parents are, I don’t think they are quite convincing as Goths! ) Great missions site. I bookmarked it and am passing it on to my cousins who are ‘field workers’ in Thailand.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:24:23 +0000

Lindsay,

Check out this website. I truly believe this will be a blessing to you. I personally know this woman, and she is powerful. SHe has a deep passion for missions, and has traveled the world. I was involved in the Jamaica outreach (back in the day), and I went to “YUGO”. I was the only white person in the group, and was not even aware of this until she mentioned it, in a good way of course.

http://www.mtmintl.org/

If you get a minute check it out, and let me know what you think. My hubby and I are regular contributers to her.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:14:56 +0000

Andrea, To answer your questions, the main goal of this event was to increase mission awareness. We just encouraged the church to study a particular culture as a family and dress accordingly and bring a dish from that culture. Some families did this. Others just dressed in cultural attire that they had purchased on a mission trip or received from a missionary friend. Others, like us, simply looked through pictures on Joshua Project of unreached people groups and found items that matched their attire from our local goodwill or thrift stores. It is definitely possible to make this a fundraising event, but that was not our focus this time around. We just try to have a special missional focus twice a year. We publish a monthly bulletin that includes prayer requests from our missionaries and article on missions as well that helps keep people aware of specific needs. You can view the archives at our other blog, Extending Our Reach. This might help give you some ideas to get you started! God bless your endeavors! It is a wonderful thing to help mobilize and increase awareness!

By: Andrea in Alaska

Andrea in Alaska — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:57:58 +0000

How neat! I’d love to hear more about how this was organized. Was the focus on raising money or awareness or both? How did people choose their culture? Did the “teams” do other things than dress up and make food? It looks like a lot of fun.

My husband and I have felt a strong need to help keep the focus, prayers, and support of our congregation on our long term missionaries. Local work and outreach is wonderful and needed, but I know how hard it is for the people our church supports in Africa, Far East Russia, and Papau New Gunea to come back to America and raise more support if we stop supporting them. Recently I’ve been asking for the names of our missionaries to be lifted up in prayer in our assemblies and for extra funds to be allocated towards one time support to continue to help them out. I’ve recently come to realize that this focus of ours might be a gift from God that we can help others focus too.

Thanks for this great post and the pictures (your parents must be really good natured people!).

By: Candice

Candice — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:20:02 +0000

Wonderful Pictures, thanks for sharing:)