Shakyra Posted August 6, 2019 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 13 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/06/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted August 6, 2019 I have recently publicly made a declaration of my call to follow God’s command and go on the mission field. Where,when and how will be when God tells me. But interested in reading, discussion on going into the mission field 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Hartono Posted August 7, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 771 Topics Per Day: 0.34 Content Count: 6,937 Content Per Day: 3.07 Reputation: 1,979 Days Won: 1 Joined: 02/15/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted August 7, 2019 Are u gonna preach to strangers on the street ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jayne Posted August 7, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,820 Content Per Day: 1.30 Reputation: 4,806 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted August 7, 2019 30 minutes ago, Shakyra said: I have recently publicly made a declaration of my call to follow God’s command and go on the mission field. Where,when and how will be when God tells me. But interested in reading, discussion on going into the mission field Let go of preconceived notions of what being on mission looks like. More than likely it may look very different from what you think. I had an acquaintance who once who went on mission for a few weeks in a Latin American country. She said the call was so powerful that she had could not NOT go. She was worried because had this idea of what a missionary looked like, acted like, and did. She said she was none of those things, in her mind. She said, "I'm just a beauty shop lady." She said the whole way there on multiple flights she was so depressed because she felt like failure before she even began. Well, when they got there, they all took a tour of the town to look for mission opportunities. They visited a Christian woman in her home who told the lady that she had such beautiful nails. The lady told her that she worked in a beauty shop in America. The woman just so happened to be a beautician in that city and invited her to come to her shop every day and help [1] learn to paint nail so beautifully and [2] help her with her customers and paint their nails. You get the picture. She went to the local beauty shop every single day except the two Sundays they were there and did an enormous amount of fingernails and shared Jesus and her Christian faith and testimony with every SINGLE customer. She was able give Christian counsel some women about their marriages [women tend to tell their beauticians everything!} A few of the women wanted their husbands to hear about Christ and they came to the beauty shop and a few of the women and couples starting going to church. She came back on cloud nine at what God had done and how he used her just like she was. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted August 7, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,020 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,310 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,366 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted August 7, 2019 9 hours ago, Shakyra said: I have recently publicly made a declaration of my call to follow God’s command and go on the mission field. Where,when and how will be when God tells me. But interested in reading, discussion on going into the mission field What about your neighbors you currently have? Are you friendly towards them? As you have an opportunity, do you share with them of the Lord? If they are of a different religion or from a different country, do you show the love of Christ towards them? Do you invite them for dinner and maybe later on, invite them to church? The USA is becoming a mission field. Hopefully Christians won't isolate themselves but reach out to those right in our own country. I know of a young lady in college....she was raised in a different religion and although born here, she looks foreign. I always hoped and prayed that some kind Christians would reach out to her at the college. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GandalfTheWise Posted August 7, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 24 Topic Count: 40 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,459 Content Per Day: 0.60 Reputation: 2,377 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/23/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted August 7, 2019 10 hours ago, Shakyra said: I have recently publicly made a declaration of my call to follow God’s command and go on the mission field. Where,when and how will be when God tells me. But interested in reading, discussion on going into the mission field The most important thing will be your spiritual walk with God and your spiritual growth and maturity. We minister to others out of the abundance of spiritual life that flows out from our hearts to those around us. It is from the depth and quality of our own spiritual life that we can minister to others. A common mistake many Christians make is getting so focused on figuring out God's to-do list for our lives that we neglect becoming the person He intends for us to be. To the extent that our ministry comes from God's Spirit changing us so that this is a natural outflow of who He has made us to be, our ministry will be anointed and effective. To the extent our ministry is through our own efforts, we'll see a few results and burn ourselves out. Many Christians minister from a position of labor and diligence and throwing themselves into it with passion and effort and exhaust themselves because the ministry is coming from our resources and strength. True effective anointed spiritual ministry comes from God's Spirit overflowing through us toward others. It is a natural result of God transforming us into the unique person He intends for us to be. The first step toward any missions work is cultivating our own spiritual growth and maturity and our own walk with God. I've been a Christian a long time and have seen the whole gamut of people in ministry as well as those declaring their calling. I've seen how the story turns out years and decades later. Without spiritual depth, maturity, and close intimate knowledge, friendship, and trust in God from a consistent walk over years and decades, people simply are not effective in ministry for any extended period of time. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted August 7, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,020 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,310 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,366 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted August 7, 2019 11 hours ago, Shakyra said: I have recently publicly made a declaration of my call to follow God’s command and go on the mission field. Where,when and how will be when God tells me. But interested in reading, discussion on going into the mission field You might be interested in reading some of these stories (see Mission Insider section) from the mission field. These are native missionaries. http://www.christianaid.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who me Posted August 8, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,300 Content Per Day: 1.72 Reputation: 1,685 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted August 8, 2019 On 07 August 2019 at 12:45 AM, Shakyra said: I have recently publicly made a declaration of my call to follow God’s command and go on the mission field. Where,when and how will be when God tells me. But interested in reading, discussion on going into the mission field And what are the views of your pastor, of the sunday school leader who will need to replace you and of the other posistions you fill in your church? I ask this for two reasons. 1. your church will support you financialy, prayerfully and emotionally. If they are not behind you you will struggle. 2nd. If you are not already active in serving Jesus, how will you start serving Jesus in a culture and language you don't know. Your church will already have an interest in several mission organisations. Start by subscribing to there prayer letters/emails. Use google to find others and ditto. Start attending regularly your churches missionary prayer meetings and find out about other churches meetings and attend. Have you been to a theological college? Most missionary agencies want you to have been, partly so you know what and why you believe, but also for the cross cultural lectures. If you are serious about missionary work, I will have insulted you because you are already doing all I've suggested. If you are not, think again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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