What is the Mission Trip To Your Life?

We take trips all over the world to serve those in need and draw closer to God. People return from mission trips energized, excited and transformed. We want to recognize that God has sent us everywhere in our lives and he is doing something wherever we go. This means we don’t have to go anywhere special to hear from God and join him in what he’s doing. There are many things that make a mission trip powerful and we want to take pieces of that and put it into our normal life. Students, leaders and anyone who wants to will take one week of their normal life and give it to God as an offering. This is an experiment to see what we learn and how we are changed by trying to take a mission trip to our lives.

Instead of serving at a soup kitchen you could sit by someone that everyone has left out at lunchtime. Instead of sorting clothes for the homeless you could stay after to help a teacher or a family member set something up. Instead of listening to the stories of those on the street in another city you could take the time to really listen to other people in your life. Instead of looking at the people who hurting on the outside you could look around your classroom or around the mall or wherever and pray for those who are hurting on the inside.

Next Sunday Night Jan. 28th during M2/3D (6-8) we will have a special time of praying for each other and preparing for the mission trip to your life.

Saturday Feb. 3rd from 10 AM-1:00 PM we will have a pancake breakfast to close the mission trip to your life together and reflect on it. We will not have any meetings on the Sunday Feb. 4th (enjoy the super bowl with family and friends).


Things we all will do that week:

Reading the Bible and praying daily:
There will be a devotional given out so that everyone will be reading the same scriptures and praying in the same direction each day.

Staying Connected:
This will be the most different part from a normal mission trip but we want to be in this together. We all will make a commitment to stay connected each day by calling each other, checking in or communicating somehow (e-mail, text messaging, etc..).

Challenges:
Each day there will be a different challenge of listening to God or joining him in loving the world around us.

Reflection:
One important part of any mission trip is to take the time to reflect daily on where you saw God, where he used you, what you learned and where you missed out. We also will have a blog that we would like as many people to type out their reflections each day on a special blog created for this event.

Create one other thing:
We would like everyone to create or discover one other thing to do this week to give this week to God. Different ideas are listed below to get you started. You are free to go crazy and incorporate as many ideas as you want.

Check out the next post with other ideas for the trip!