Monday, July 23, 2012

2013 Missions Team Opportunities

2013 Missions Team Opportunities:

December 27, 2012 - January 3, 2013  (Full)

March 23, 2013 - March 30, 2013  (available up to 14 persons)

March 30, 2013 - April 6, 2013  (available up to 14 persons)

May 31, 2013 - June 7, 2013  (available up to 14 persons)

June 7, 2013 - June 14, 2013  (available up to 14 persons)

July 5, 2013 - July 12, 2013   (Full)

July 15, 2013 - July 22, 2013  (available up to 14 persons)

July 26, 2013 - August 2, 2013  (available up to 14 persons)

December 27, 2013 - January 3, 2014  (available up to 14 persons)


Above is our open schedule for missions teams for 2013.  We have limited the number of team members to 14.  This will help us with logistics in housing, transportation, and ministry.  This schedule does not include dates for any individual families that would like to visit us and the ministry.  This years cost has changed to $450 per person do to the past years expenses.  We do not make any profit on missions teams.  Every dime is spent towards transportation, housing, food, translators, and ministry expenses while your team is here.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Are You Tired For the Right Reasons?

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
                                                                                    1 Corinthians 15:58
 
How tired are you?  That is the question that I asked over and over to the ones that came to serve alongside us the past 6 weeks.  Are you tired for the right reasons?  Are you tired because you gave everything you had for Jesus the entire day or for some other unimportant reason?  This thought has constantly stayed with me during the time the summer missions teams have stayed with us.  When you put your head on your pillow at night, are you so totally exhausted from serving the Lord all day that you go fast to sleep?  That is a good kind of tired!  Take a look in chapter 4 of the Book of John.  Even when Jesus had stopped to rest from a tiring journey He shared the good news of taking a water that you will never have thirst again.  I find that the days I am tired from some other reason besides serving the King - I have no peace.  The days I go to bed and I am not exhausted - I am not happy.  Let us all strive to be tired from each day because we served the Lord.  In that He will give us peace, comfort, and rest.