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| How
To Pray |
- Pray your way through a list of
our missionaries and mission organizations.
- Check at church or the missionary
web pages for recent correspondence. Read this carefully
and be sure to note any prayer requests.
- Keep a record of prayer requests
(jot them in a journal) and update it when a request
is answered.
- Locate their country, city, or
place of service on a map of your own.
- Plan a dinner that features food
from that nation or region.
- Research the culture of the people
a missionary serves through other web sites, encyclopedias,
library books, or missions books such as You Can Change
the World by Jill Johnson. Discuss ways in which their
culture differs from ours, but God's love is the same.
- Ask the church librarian or search
on the web for books about other missionaries who
have worked in that nation.
- Scan the newspaper or search the
web for news articles that mention that country and
think about the impact those events may have on the
people of that nation and the missionaries who live
there.
- Think about the many things you
have learned and see if there is a Bible verse that
relates to that particular missionary. Read that verse
at your devotions and try to memorize it.
- When you finish your time focusing on that family
or group, send them an email (or a card or letter)
telling them that you have been praying for them.
- Hang a copy of the missionary's
picture on your refrigerator, bulletin board, or world
map.
- Start a small photo album of pictures
of missionaries for whom you are praying.
- Become a pen pal with a missionary's
child close to you in age. Send photos of you and
your family, letters, and homemade greeting cards
for their birthday and holidays. Become prayer partners.
- Send a birthday card to the missionary
whose birthday is closest to yours.
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| How
To Help |
- Join a Habitat
for Humanity work crew building homes in Paterson.
- Go with a group to help sort clothes at Star
of Hope Ministries or serve meals at a food kitchen,
such as Eva's Kitchen in Paterson.?
- Join a short-term missions project sponsored by
OM,
Touch
The World Ministries, or Grace Church.
- Collect baby items or throw a baby shower for residents
of the Florence
Christian Home, a home for unwed pregnant girls,
in Wayne.?
- Offer to help with Christian
Overcomers, a ministry to the physically disabled.
Volunteer to help with their summer camp ministry.?
- Participate in a 30
Hour Famine sponsored by World
Vision to raise money for hunger relief.
- Plan to be at the InterVarsity
triennial missions convention at the University of
Illinois at Urbana.
- Check the website of a particular mission which
serves an area that interests you. See if they offer
short term opportunities, or look for stateside volunteers.
You can see a list of agencies on the Global
page.
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| Read
Some Books |
You
Can Change The World - Jill Johnstone
Out
of the Saltshaker and Into the World: Evangelism as a
Way of Life - Rebecca Manley Pippert
Stepping
Out: A Guide to Short Term Missions - YWAM
Serving
as Senders: How to Care for Your Missionaries While They
Are Preparing to Go, While They are on the Field, When
They Return.
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| Missions
Organizations |
• Chosen
People Ministries Mitch & Zhava Glaser
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Christian
Mission for the United Nations Community Dr. and Mrs.
Gary Allen
• Concerts
of Prayer - Greater New York McKenzie "Mac"
Pier
• Mendenhall
Ministries Dariel Thigpen
• Star
of Hope Ministries |
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