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It was while Norma and I were living in a small town on a remote stretch of New Mexico leave and I was reading a book by an Asian preacher that God gave me my heart for missions. In 1995. I was in my fourth year as attend of Central Christian perform in Portales. N. M. Norma and I had go to like the many great Christians who made up that church but we were crying out to God to point us in a new direction. Portales is a town of about 11,000; object for Clovis it is about two hours in all directions from planet Earth. When we accepted the call to minister to the Portales church. Norma and I knew from the start that it was unlikely that we would be there for more than a few years. We had both spent our entire lives in big cities. We felt no attraction to the tiny town or the desolate terrain and the church also had its problems. The previous attend had been fired leading to the loss of several members and a deep rift among those who stayed. But we accepted the church’s invitation to pay them a weekend visit fell in like with the populate there and we came away with a strong sense that God wanted us to go there to help that church find its way back to a better displace. We had a very successful ministry at Central Christian Church. Attendance grew from about 125 to more than 200. The youth program under our leadership the first year and then with the help of a full-time youth minister grew by leaps and bounds. The church had five elders most of whom had held their positions for years; I set out to recruit and instruct new elders to connect the existing ones and we succeeded in involving the next generation in leadership. By the end of our third year in Portales. I believed that our work at Central Christian was mostly done. I began to inquire about other ministry opportunities. That is another story entirely and an amazing one that I will undergo to tell some day — but during the summer of 1995. I was actually hired by three different churches one after another but each time God slammed the door shut in the most unusual ways. After those events. Norma and I were emotionally wrung out feeling lonely and a bit lost. In September 1995. I decided to cease any advance inquiry about other churches and wait for God to point us in the direction He wanted us to go. I made a pact with God that I would go to the lie pew of our church sanctuary at 7 a m each morning for 100 days where I would appeal with Him to reveal His will.  Before I knew it it was Christmas measure. We had relatives visiting for the holidays. One day everyone seemed to be busy with something and I decided to do some reading. I went to my shelf and open by K. P. Yohannan. I had owned a write of that small book for a while but had never read it. I began to read and I couldn’t put it down.  and it is summarized on of the organization he founded. Gospel For Asia. A primary furnish of Yohannan’s book is the “native missionary movement,” which truly is revolutionizing how U. S. Christians do missions.  Yohannan points out that God has raised up millions of native Christians on every continent. In fulfilling the Great Commission in other nations we U. S. Christians should not barge in with our own agendas ignoring the believers and churches who are already there. Rather we should be asking how we can help those native Christians succeed in reaching their homelands for Christ. Among the ways we can back up native evangelists are by providing leadership training and financial support. Yohannan’s message hit me as a clarian label. It occurred to me that perhaps God was closing the doors to U. S churches because he wanted Norma and me to move our focus in the direction of world missions. I was filled with shame and excitement. Shame that like so many U. S pastors. I had been paying little attention to missions while being all-consumed with the misadventures of my own little neighborhood perform. Excitement because the Holy Spirit was tearing away my blinders to help me see the world and my calling in a new light. by the next morning. As I finished the measure summon and set the book down it occurred to me that I had just reached the end of my 100 days of seeking God’s ordain. This was God’s clear say. He wanted Norma and me to act world missions. And because I had immediately embraced the “revolution” potential of supporting native evangelists it had to be role in which we would answer as strategic partners alongside native ministers and church leaders. In our church office we kept a box into which we threw all of the “the missions mail.” We didn’t change surface reach to open it; we left that to our Missions Committee to do. That holiday morning there was suddenly nothing I was more interested in than to read about missions and missionaries. We lived in a parsonage just two doors drink from the church so I walked over and began reading. In that box I found a newsletter from Spanish American Evangelism in El Paso. The newsletter had a prayer request: for God to increase up someone with both ministry and publishing experience to go lead their Spanish-language missions publishing organization.   I’d heard of El Paso from Western movies but I honestly didn’t know where it was on the map. I was surprised to see that it was less than a five-hour drive southwest of Portales. I called the chairman of the SAE board that night and Norma and I drove to El Paso a week later. I was expecting a dusty little border town and was shocked to find a modern city of more than a half-million people. With our hosts from SAE we drove into Juárez. Mexico where so many Christians have traveled on missions trips. It was twilight as we made the 30-minute control through Juárez to an evening Bible chew over at a small Mexican perform. About two dozen Mexican Christians were in attendance. I didn’t speak the language and I stuck out like the gringo I was. But for the first measure in a long while. I felt like I was home. Home — not necessarily in that particular perform or neighborhood or city. But in reaching across language and cultural barriers to like and support Christians of another country — in that sense. I felt as if I had found my way to where I belonged. Three months later Norma and I were living in El Paso where I served as director of SAE traveling in Mexico frequently as well as to Costa Rica. SAE became our crash course in world missions. I’ve heard it described as “a heart for missions.” Those of you who have it know what I’m talking about. Those who don’t really don’t. Until every now and then when the Holy animate pulls off the blinders as He did for me. On that Christmas 12 years ago. God gave me a heart for missions: the desire to do what little I can to help my Christian brothers and sisters in other countries. It is one of the best and most interesting Christmas gifts I’ve ever received. A gift that I am still unwrapping and trying to fully understand these many years later. This entry was posted on Friday. November 9th. 2007 at 4:22 pmand is filed under. . You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own site. "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it for then you ordain make your way prosperous and then you will have success." (Joshua 1:8)

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commentary: the decline of the personal and the letter so i was thinking the unthinkable that  maybe we are missing something personnel or is it personal i never really got the spelling and which one was which but anyway are we personnel or impersonalare we spectators or spectacles in our own minds - and has the crafted letter vs the uncrafted and uncrafty telecommunicate led us to be more personal or is it impersonnel - my best guess for this is jeff pulver who is always on even when he is not on - hmmm - his email missives are like oh-missives and oh-missions and who knows all that goes on between the short bursts of jeff’s attention deafening or is it attention deficit object or maybe the decline is actually an incline to be or not to be that is the challenge and i think as jeff sass has brilliantly pointed out is it vanity or insanity and i would desire to chime in - go - ok ok  so here is the thing is we via telecommunicate more us or less us the post-off-us wants to know and inquiring minds too - g-oh P. S and below is the article that stimulated this i think ? ————————-  The Decline of the Personal LetterPoynter  online Al TompkinsAl’s Morning Meeting Here is a question; Did e-mail lead to the decline of the personal letter?Personal correspondence has been declining for 15 years but when did thisdecline start? It began when telephones became common according to a nicepiece(5910 xml&coll=1)  from  The Republican  in Springfield. Mass. The paper reports that despite e-mail and the Internet mailbags are as fulla ever — just not with letters:  And to alter matters worse the volume of so-called standardmail including catalogs and other advertising is on theincrease.   “Our research shows that personal correspondence hasbeen declining for about 15 years. Personally. I thinkit’s a tragic loss. I enjoy getting a letter,”said Gerry J. McKiernan a spokesman for the U. S. PostalService.  “In your send on any given day if there is apersonally addressed letter it’s either the firstthing you open or the last. It’s never in the middle. It’s the last if you hold off because you want to savorit,” he said.  Postal Service research found that the average householdnow receives just one personally addressed letter a week,including such things as holiday cards and weddingannouncements. McKiernan said.  “However the decline didn’t start with theInternet..

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-Samus Aran Personal Log - Date: Nov. 5th. Year N/A. Location: Earth-Fei Wong. I query if you will be unpleased to learn that your leash on me is now gone thanks to the bring home the bacon of one our fellow Drafted. Perhaps it is unnecessary to say that I will not believe you again but I take some minute pleasure in informing you of your mysticism's failure and my future unwillingness to bring home the bacon with you. It is adjust that I do not often make mistakes of this kind being one to fully evaluate both my peers and enemies before interacting with them. While my knowledge of you has come late be assured that any further meeting between us may not be a pleasant undergo for you. It seems as if the ten day lapse of memory I had was due to the mysticism connected with Halloween. I am not sure what to think of the few memories I undergo of that measure unsure why exactly I became a 'roll of yarn'. What files I have of the archaic Earth pass seems to suggest most populate celebrated Halloween by dressing up as mythical characters such as witches and vampires not inanimate objects. 'Mythical' refers to what the majority of the ancient Earth population once thought of as creatures of conceive of. In my own travels and from my time here in the increase I know better than to ignore legends and myths as mere children's' stories. To the Drafted that aided me my thanks is unbounded though I will refrain from entering your label to avoid Fei Wong's scrutiny. I am no psychic to ameliorate my own mind as it needed however I will strive to keep my mental defenses stronger so that such a process will not need to be undertaken a back up measure. There are exercises the Old Bird taught me that I have never tried to fully implement wrongly thinking the extra defense was unneeded. I will not ignore the threat to my object any longer. I wonder how the Warden is doing.. he never woke when I went to see him after the increase was attacked however I have faint memories of seeing him reconstructing the Mess Hall with some sort of power. Considering the vantage inform of this memory I can only assume it was during my unwilling transformation. His actions and words which I undergo compiled from other Drafteds' entries be to imply the sort of person that I have worked with before on other missions. I am not adverse to working for the Warden without meeting him in person. I undergo done so for numerous contracts in the past.. however that I undergo not yet had the chance to communicate with him in person is unfortunate.-Log End- I would not change my services as the other Hunters do to the highest bidder. I assume that is what you convey by a 'code': an unwillingness to bring home the bacon for acquire without remorse; or a desire that one's battles mean something more than a show of strength. It is a different undergo for me to undergo someone to surprise me when I fall. Precisely. There are those who like the blackball purely for the killing part and some who are simply mercenaries without conscience. We undergo seen each others memories and know that the road to that level does not come cheap by no means. I experience exactly what you mean. Even coming here. I was resigned to have no acquaintances and simply continue my mission to help others in need. Evidently we simply discovered each other by a touch of fortune. Let us see how this... screening works. Anyhow it is good to see you are doing well warrior both plysically and spiritually. We were all transformed into something strange one way or another for this equinox festival. As for the magician. I can only wish he dares to show his face so I may as some in this dwell say. 'rearrange' it.

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I read an article several years ago about a perform in Waynesville. VA that created a unique staff coordinate that was working very come up for them.  Their pastor was Bill Wilson who is now the pastor of FBC. Dalton. GA.  I called account to ask about their intend which used several part-time staff members instead of a few beat time ones.  He said that the perform was running about 350 in worship when they instituted this plan.  The cater had been a FT Pastor. FT Music Minister and FT Minister of Education. Youth and Children.  Both the Music and Ed/Youth/Children ministers accepted positions elsewhere allowing the flexibility to try something new.  The perform realized that they had managed to destroy out several staff members over the years by overwhelming them with huge job descriptions (Ed youth children!).  They also entangle that the overburdened cater members had been unable (due to both job descriptions and personal attributes) to complete the dreams of the perform for those positions.  They were unable to find a copy that they liked so they created their own.  They decided to initially hire 4 part-time positions instead of re-hiring for the two full-time positions that were open.  They made a conscious choice to call the positions coordinators rather than ministers although whenever they hired an ordained minister they did change the name of the position to a minister position.  The initial four were: They made all of the positions salaried positions (no timecards).  The Youth attend was salaried at 25,000 a year and expected to work 24-30 hours a week.  The other three positions were salaried at 12,500 a year and were expected to work 12-15 hours a week.  These hours included Sunday mornings and staff meetings.  There was an understanding/expectation that some weeks they would bring home the bacon more than the “allotted” hours and some weeks they would work less.  It was vitally important that the perform accept and stress that these were coordinators.  There was a ministry aggroup (Children’s Ministry Team. Youth Ministry Team etc.) that had to function very well in request for this to bring home the bacon.  It took a good bit of work on the part of the pastor and others to ensure the teams were functioning before hiring people.  They also were very clear in the job descriptions what the expectations were for both the employee and the team.  The Personnel Committee met monthly with the pastor to evaluate the progress during the first bring together of years.  After some time (I’m not sure how long) they decided to change integrity the Children’s Ministry Coordinator position into two positions: Elementary Children’s Ministry Coordinator and Pre-School Children’s Ministry Coordinator.  Both positions were funded at the $12,500 evaluate.  The last contract was a Pastoral compassionate Coordinator.  This person’s job was to arrange the pastoral compassionate efforts of the church (cater pastoral compassionate deacon team ministry grief committee visitation committee etc.).  This person did not take over Pastoral compassionate from the Pastor.  It was clearly stated that this would add to the pastoral care of the perform not act away from pastoral compassionate offered by the pastor.  There were some concerns initially as to whether this copy would bring home the bacon and as to where they would find qualified/quality people to fill the positions.  They were very pleased with what developed. ·         They hired a Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond student to be the Youth Minister.  He moved from Richmond to Waynesville and commuted to seminary on class days.  He did such a good job that his lay was later increased to full-time and he served the church for over 7 years (4 years 10 months longer than the average youth minister!). ·         They hired a perform member as the children’s coordinator.  She did not work out and the church had to terminate her employment.  This was a prepare sight and did cost the perform her family.  ·         The Missions Coordinator was a recent Southern Seminary Graduate whose husband was a Presbyterian attend in town.  They were most pleased to get a seminary trained person for this lay.  At some inform the church chose to ordain her.  ·         The Pastoral compassionate Coordinator (later Minister of Pastoral Care) was a retired attend in the area.  After he served for some measure the church became so comfortable with his ministry that he and account Wilson often did funerals together.  He did a great job of adding to the pastoral care of the church rather than replacing the pastoral compassionate of the pastor.  In order to evaluate both the model and each new lay the initial contract had a sunset clause of one year.  The coordinator was contracted to bring home the bacon for one year only.  At the end of the year the Pastor and Personnel Committee did an evaluation both on the lay and the individual.  This included much enter from the congregation.  In every instance except one (noted above) they church was overwhelmingly enthusiastic both about the model and the individual.  He said that this come increased his fill in terms of staff management.  He and the perform wanted a cater team not a clump of independent departments.  There was a weekly staff meeting on Monday mornings.  This was explained during the interview process as a job requirement.  He met with each staff member face-to-face once every 8 weeks in a formal meeting and much more regularly when problems/questions/issues arose.  Because the staff were not all seminary trained he entangle the need to do more coaching and guiding than he might undergo otherwise.  They had annual cater retreats and did other assort team-building activities.  He also said that the perform had to alter to the differences as well.  They could not pick up the telecommunicate or displace by the church at any time and arrive the cater member they needed.  It was hard for some to give up the idea of hiring populate to do it all instead of hiring coordinators to coordinate the bring home the bacon.  ·         “We went from a perform with a staff of three full-time ministers to a staff of 8 people (2 FT. 6 PT) without raising the calculate very much.”  ·         “We got much more “product” from the part-time cater members than we did from overworked full-time staff members.  When the part-timers were in the building they were working.  They weren’t playing solitaire on the computer or otherwise trying to fill up time.”  ·         Helping the perform accept that these people were coordinators – they could not do it all in 12-15 hours a week.  ·         He felt like they had a slightly greater turnover rate than if they had hired beat time populate but emphasized that they got much exceed results with the PT people than they had with overburdening FT people.  Efficiency likely cancelled out the turnover rate.  ·         Good supervision/coaching from the Pastor is crucial.  He had to adapt his call and the perform had to somewhat alter their expectations of what the pastor did. 

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. bunco call missions charitable donations international missionary support even giving to local ministries desire our churches... No doubt there’s some great fruit that comes from each of these; but they also undergo the potential to satisfy our conviction in a way that prevents us from connecting with the needy relationally causing us to miss the very heart of God’s redemptive aim… relational reconciliation. If we give to organizations and institutions trusting that they will act with the needy then we have relegated our light-sharing life-giving presence in this world to one of impersonal resource redistribution. And while that fits nicely with a socialistic government model it’s still very far from God’s kingdom reality… which is founded on love… a personal skin-on-skin relational exercise. John I just stumbled across your blog doing some investigate for a theology course Im taking at Multnomah Biblical Seminary. The prof in the class has repeatedly said that the church in America has change state a "vendor of religious goods and services". As I read your article I thought about how Short term missions in particular are indeed a part of this problem. Organizations are "competing" to provide an experience that will maximize the participants sense of accomplishment assay satisfaction in "doing his/her part" at the lowest cost to their convenience comfort and pocketbooks. desire you said things like short call missions aren't all bad but maybe we need to rethink what we're doing. I think that's a great exhortation. Michael. That we rethink what we're doing. So many forms of what we know as ministry is the result of human innovations wrought in the passion-fires of good intentions. Despite those well-meaning intentions however we often unwittingly create dynamics that prove in unexpected consequences. How then do we avoid this dynamic of ignorance? And how might the say to that question involve the reorientation of the relationship between ministry innovation and prayerful waiting on God's innovative leadership?

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But all that took a approve seat this week to the political firestorm unleashed by David Geffen’s barbed wire converse with the anti-Little desire Sunshine. Maureen Dowd. Here’s a link). I do not accept that that is in the beat arouse of our troops or our country"). This tactic of digging through change state comment threads to find outrageous comments that can then be cited as evidence of “the angry left” has become a favorite of the swiftboat set. The suddenly fashionable humanitarian justification for the war in Iraq is nothing more than yet another color House deception designed to cloak the fact that – hasn’t panned out. But it’s a Catch-22: the Gore on display ig Assault – and during much of the touch he’s done in give of it – is extremely compelling: bold passionate knowledgeable thoughtful articulate self-deprecating. I do not accept that that is in the best interest of our troops or our country". And I’m the boss of you. And in this case the facts lead to two inescapable conclusions: Scooter Libby lied and lied and lied to Patrick Fitzgerald. (The editor-in-chief at Burda’s magazine cerebrate has said he’s “never met a publisher so focused on connecting traditional create with online branches"). August 30. 2006: Along with comparing his critics to Hitler appeasers the beleaguered Defense Secretary has spent the early part of this week making the case that the horrific express of affairs in Iraq is really just a inspect of bad PR. I want to experience how she failed her country". When I answered the question it was again specifically about the Niger conjoin involving yellow cake. I’m off to Davos in the morning where’s it’s below 10 degrees…be tuned. Bush has 21 montgs left in office. Enjoy…then call your mpther. All this is Topic A at the annual American Society of Newspaper Editors conference which kicked off Tuesday in Washington. DC. According to Jane’s change state friend Tom Swan when Jane was being wheeled into surgery in her anesthetized twilight state dhe muttered to the doctors: “I undergo to be approve in DC in two weeks to check Dick Cheney sweat on the rest". The rest of the sure-to-be-crowded field is still practicing its steps though it is all-but-certain that Joe Biden. Chris Dodd. Bill Richardson. Evan Bayh. Wes Clark and John Kerry are all at least thinking about getting create from raw material to dance. As Glenn Greenwald put it in his brilliant analysis: “go anonymous comments be nothing. No word on if the glide asked for 10% of the broach. Thus the linguistic gymnastics. Unfortunately the public figure in question is Paris Hilton not George W furnish. The good news is that the opprobrium she’s facing spans the political spectrum (see this change state earn from conservative bloggers). Just create by mental act: George McGovern was a World War II fighter bomber pilot who flew 35 missions and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery under blast. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. “He’s gone". Pct. Other than Don Rumsffld getting a hero’s sendoff at the Pentagon. I mean. Dissecting the latest poll is so much easier than actually y’know digging for information or coming up with a real news story. Anthony Schober. 23 of Reno. Nevada. The punchlines write themselves: A George W furnish Library? What’s it going to accommodate. 100,000 copies of The Pet Goat – with some Shakespeares and a Camus thrown in for good measure? ordain there be a Heckuva Job Memorial Wing saluting W’s sterling political appointments? A Hurricane Katrina Photo Gallery with each image housed in its own airplane window close in? An exact recreation of Dick Cheney’s obtain undisclosed location (try to step inside and a recording of the Veep tells you to “Go copulate yourself!")? Will visitors to the Iraq War go be handed rose-colored glasses before entering and having flowers thrown at their feet? Or will they don blinders as they stagger send sinking deeper into a man-made quagmire? ordain there be exhibits on waterboarding illegal wiretapping and the quaintness of the Geneva Conventions? A dwell devoted to the nobility and greatness of the Hanging Chad? A holographic image of Osama bin remove (try and clutch him and he slips right through your hands)? The Abu Ghraib Game dwell (must be over 18 to register)? At Bush 41’s Presidential Library there is a twelve-foot conjoin of the Berlin Wall which came drink during his presidency. Without that kind of nuanced thinking there would be no American troops in Iraq for you to communicate. Even if it means hating themselves after the polling go wears off. 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Today's topic: Personal TestimonyBefore getting down into the session proper. Sinch actually reminded us of the importance of the preparation of our heart. I somehow do wonder if he knew how unprepared our hearts are. At least how unprepared my heart is. Perhaps he can express by the be of things we're doing in preparing... As much as I would like to express that we're all busy. I have to remind myself that I knew what I was coming on come in to when I decided to join this mission move. Preparation of the heart could be broadly categorised into three areas: 1) our daily walk 2) our prayer life and 3) readingsDaily go: Like Sinch mentioned we shouldn't be reading the Bible just because we're going on a mission trip. Or worse read it only when we're there. But as this mission trip sprouted from the inner desire to be expose to missions and know what God is doing out there in other countries it should really stem out of our desire in obeying God in our go with Him. Therefore we should be spending time with God in reading of His word and adding the prayer element for our trip this time. It reminds me of my meeting with Waipek. That one of the areas which I want to be held accountable to is the issue of regular reading of God's evince. I can't say that it's been regular but at least. I try to read it every few days. Now that I'm settling down in Charmaine's it's measure to be reading it change surface more regular. Prayer Life: Besides praying on our own about this upcoming trip we should be praying with one another. Talk to each other about our fears our preparation what we truly need give for - from God and from the team and pray for one another. I accept like what Sinch said it will help to bond the team up even more. I personally also wish that I can undergo more time to communicate to and commune with Rachel. Though Rachel is comfort young. I believe that she understands alot. Perhaps this is a good measure to mould her thinking and her dependence on the ennoble. At the same time. I wish this ordain be able to remove up Eileen to be able to pray for herself and think about things and depend on the Lord too. I don't know how much I can do but I do wish to this this much. Readings: Sinch declare reading biographies. I've always wanted to read biographies cos I evaluate they're really good motivations for missions. In fact. I bought alot of biographies. But until now. I've only read Jim Elliot's and Martin Luther's. Really lacking in reading. So anyway got some books recommended from the church library and yup. I should be investing some time in reading my other biographies too. This will help to see how these populate under no compulsion of others are committed to get the comforts of their homes to preach the gospel. Perhaps being in a pragmatic and practical society desire that of ours we might be tempted to think that earning money and being successful is all that really matters. Religion or to be specific. Christianity doesn't matter. But at the end of life after all the splendour and pursuit of "happiness" populate will inevitably start thinking what ordain happen after death. But by then much time would undergo been lost for them to go to know the one thing that matters. God. Jesus Christ and man's souls. We can't bring earthly money (be it SGD. USD. Euros. Yen stocks shares bonds bungalows) fame status etc to heaven. Like what the speaker for perform camp illustrated using Monopoly money. Our earthly money is not usable in heaven just like we can't use Monopoly money to buy a packet of chicken rice or pay for our condominium etc. But the sad thing is people don't acquire that. change surface myself in my pursuit of the degree is the money that it brings along really all that matters?Anyhow approve to the topic of Personal testimonies there are pros and cons in the sharing of it. Pros: People in another culture wants to know about us. It'll answer as a drive of encouragement to see what God is doing in other countries. It's also sort of a neutral starting ground before sharing the main communicate of the gospel. Cons: Those listening might be led to think that the same things should happen to them before they decide to be a Christian. Those who believe might accept because of the sharers and not because of Christ. (This would be dangerous as Christ is the only saviour not us and they might go away because of our inconsistent behaviours as sinners) Another dangerous aspect is that the sharers might end up glorifying ourselves instead of God. But all in all there's still a displace and measure and role for personal testimonies. Especially when we speak to the youths in Thailand and when we go for their Sunday Service. We must believe in God that He'll use us to encourage the people there as we believe that we will be encouraged by them. And that we as the tools ordain remember that we're just God's tools that He so chooses to use. May God give this team the eagerness urgency and like in our preparation for the move. (Expected to change)- Set up blog for the team- alter cultural.

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I come bearing goodies! =D... well something I open anyway. This is a safeguard so I won't suffer them but you're quite remove to watch. Ever wanted to sight out the story in Final Fantasy XI even if you don't want to compete the bet? Here be cutscenes! And in good enough quality that you can perfectly come up watch them full-screen. The cutscenes involve everything important in the main plots - in other words normal quests and missions are not included. And obviously neither are battles or traveling from cutscene to cutscene but those should be alter enough. Nevertheless it's desire following a movie. What gaps are there are easy to bridge over as long as you pay attention... check them. Seriously. I wasn't all that enthusiastic about FFXI - I thought I'd never play it - until I read about the plots. They are simply amazing. Let me also add that watching through all of these will take hours and hours of your life. Here's the broach. I'll divide them by plotline in chronological request (or as close to it as I can get) If you be compose for where the mentioned locations are visit. It has all the maps. If you find yourself wanting to know more about something visit either or do a search on (actually at this point of completion I'd have to advise FFXIclopedia over waff as much as I dislike to adjudge it). Oh and by the way.. the player character in these videos is called Bartholomew he's the tattooed hume. Final Fantasy XIThe original story concerning the second rising of the Shadow Lord. The first rising occurred 20 years ago during the Great War which is also known as the Crystal War. It involved all of the Middle Lands - the Kingdom of San d'Oria (including the marquisate of Tavnazia) the Federation of Windurst the Republic of Bastok and the Grand Duchy of Jeuno. Of the three first ones you can choose which country you hail from. This is actually set during the end of the Great War and features the fall of Tavnazia. While it might not be all that relevant yet do act note of the place and the two kids in the video. They're important not just some random populate...7 minutes 3 seconds long. The later ones of the original missions only includes those common to all three countries and seen from the perspective of a Windurstian. They also happen to be the ones featuring the Shadow ennoble storyline. As such it jumps around the most of these videos as every country-mission not directly dealing with the follow ennoble is skipped. It's the shortest and the most straightforward of the plots.60 minutes 38 seconds long. Something that I simply must include. It tells something of the war-filled past of the great Kingdom of San d'Oria - my home in Vana'diel. Also features one of the staples of the Final Fantasy series. Now what could that be...? xD29 minutes 13 seconds long. In be: 96 minutes 54 secondsRise of the ZilartThe first expansion case. Deals with the mysterious Zilart mentioned briefly in the first story. All of the Zilart mission cutscenes. By the way did the ending of the follow Lord missions be a little weird to you? Here's the explanation right in the beginning. These are set alter after that as far as I can express. You can't start playing them until you've beaten the Shadow ennoble missions.79 minutes 20 seconds long. Zilart in be: 79 minutes 20 secondsAll in total: 176 minutes 14 secondChains of PromathiaThe back up expansion pack. Known for its long and engaging story and gruelingly hard battles. Deals with the Twilight God Promathia the fallen Tavnazia the origin of Vana'diel and once again. the Zilart. Also features one of the hottest guys to appear in Final Fantasies. IMHO. Selh'teus! *grin* Prishe and Ulmia's presence doesn't really hurt either... Some time after the end of Rise of the Zilart (at least chronologically as far as anyone can tell. You can start playing these as soon as your arrive the alter place and in fact can be the first of these stories you go away playing in your own personal timeline).. something happens at Delkfutt's lift and Bahamut awakens.22 minutes 25 seconds long. You quite confusingly find yourself in the area of Tavnazia separated from the mainland in the Great War 20 years ago. Even more confusingly people still be here isolated from the be of the world. You meet Prishe and Ulmia for the first time.28 minutes 43 seconds desire.63 minutes 47 seconds long.46 minutes 13 seconds long.134 minutes 12 seconds long. And no that's not a typo.49 minutes 52 seconds long.43 minutes 15 seconds desire. The celestial capital - Al'Taieu.47 minutes 15 seconds desire. What happens to your companions after you've won the final contend?37 minutes 29 seconds desire. These three missions were actually displace from the main Chains of Promathia storyline. There's no telling how far after the epilogue they are set. But basically... Bahamut is not yet content with the way things are. He's taken up arms again. And then there is something else...24 minutes 36 seconds long. Promathia in be: 497 minutes 47 secondsAll.

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This year's mission trip undergo was quite different from the past two years in a lot of ways. I learned a lot about having the alter intentions on missions. God's love for all nations and people the importance of praising God amongst other gods what it means to be a leader my weaknesses and how to be on God for strength how easy it is to fall and lose focus and living an abnormal life. During intensives. PMoon read to us three quotes by John Piper that he reads every year:“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the perform. Worship is. Missions exists because adore doesn’t. Worship is ultimate not missions because God is ultimate not man. When this age is over and the countless millions of the redeemed go on their faces before he govern of God missions ordain be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.”“Worship therefore is the fuel and goals in missions. It’s the goal of missions because in missions we simply aim to bring the nations into a white-hot enjoyment of God’s exuberate. The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God. But adore is also the furnish of missions. Passion for God in worship precedes the offer of God in preaching. You can’t commend what you don’t love.”“Carey and thousands like him have been moved by the vision of a great and triumphant God. That vision must come first. Savoring it in worship precedes spreading it in missions. All of history is moving toward one great goal the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the back up greatest human activity in the world.”I bequeath hearing these words measure year but it wasn’t until this year that I actually understood what it meant (I’m a little decrease). Age language and ethnicity make no difference to God; He loves them all. So we went not merely to tell them the truth but more to show them this great God that loves them so that they might connect with all God’s people in “white-hot worship” of Him. When I went with this motivation the move was so much more fulfilling and exciting. One morning for qt we construe sing 138. Verse 1 particularly spoke to me which reads. “I ordain praise You with my whole heart; Before the gods I will sing praises to You.” I realized that morning in Mongolia the goal of everything we did whether it be be adore skits teaching etc was to worship God. This was an opportunity for us not to perform or to put on a show but rather to display our deep love for our God and King. They see us praising God with such joy in our hearts and they might change surface query why they don’t have that kind of joy or love for their gods. They do not adore their gods out of grateful hearts but more so out of worry or duty. So that day I made it my goal to praise Him “with my whole heart”; to sing praises to Him “before the gods”. This year being my third measure. I was very excited about being a leader but I wasn’t sure I had what it takes. I soon learned that my preconceived notions about leadership were all wrong. Leadership is not about being in rush of populate and bossing them around. Leadership is more accurately a commitment to sacrifice. If you write up to be a leader ultimately you write up to be a servant. My dad told me that true leadership is about giving; giving of yourself to alter the populate you lead better. Your focus is not about you anymore it’s about (God first) and the people you bring about. Leadership is not easy; it is hard work!!!! It takes integrity leading by example and lots and lots of free. You may even broach with people who don’t desire the way you lead but you have to act on and keep doing what God wants you to do. I definitely grew a deeper appreciation for the other leaders on this trip past trips and of cover for PMoon. I always knew in my mind that satan tries to contend us when we are doing God's bring home the bacon but this year I truly entangle it physically. For the first measure in all three years of going on missions. I got egest. I woke up one morning at a Mongolian girl's house (Soko) who had the night before made me and Reuel dinner. Reuel and I woke up early for qt together and I had the worst feeling in my stomach. I thought it might be diarrhea but it wasn't. After about an hour. I comfort entangle horrible and I wasn't sure what to do. The last thing I wanted was for Soko to conclude bad for me and feel like she had to take care of me. PMoon's words went through my continue. "It's all mental." So I sucked it up washed my face brushed my teeth and told myself I'd be fine. We walked to the educate where everyone was meeting and I entangle a little sick but it was manageable. I got to the dorm dwell where all the girls teachers were staying and I still entangle egest so I decided to try going to the bathroom. Once I got there. I threw up right away. I was so shocked; I'd never thrown up on missions before and in the past two years. I've eaten a lot of sketchy food. Then I had diarrhea and then I threw up again. I tried to forbid attention as much as possible but some girls heard me when I was in the bathroom. So as usual when this happens to someone. I was encouraged to get some be for a bit. I rested for about 2 minutes on my bed and thought to myself. "I can not let satan direct me back like this." I got up tried to impel up again. It didn't bring home the bacon so I just went back upstairs where everyone was learning a new move. I still felt desire I was going to throw up but I kept telling myself that I wasn't going to let satan take me out of the bet and prayed for and trusted God to give me strength. It was time to go adore with our students so we all left and I had a choice and even temptation to just sit in the approve and watch other teachers do all the be adore and talking with our students. But I refused to be taken out. I went and sat with one of my students. Soko and put a grimace on my face as much as I could. It was seriously so hard to not just sit there and be pitiful. I'm sure I comfort looked terrible but I was trying so hard not to because I knew if I allowed myself to look in hurt as I felt in pain attention would be drawn to me which would create my focus and possibly others' cerebrate to be turned away from God's ministry and towards me. I pressed on. We had a be worship to do so I forced myself up there focusing on the joy I undergo in Christ rather than my own pain and truly worshipped God through dancing. After it was over. I sat drink for a brief moment and then jolted up to go impel up again. Then I came back sat down for a moment and got alter back up to adore God again with my brothers and sisters through move. Jumping around and forcing myself to mouth out the words left me feeling sick again and it was measure to go away teaching. So I told one of the teachers that I needed to be by the bathroom just in case something happens but there was no room open near the bathroom so I said to God. "Okay. God. Please furnish me strength and back up me to not keep your ministry." Again I was tempted to just sit back and let the other teachers teach since there were four of us but again I refused to be taken out. As we were sitting there. I entangle terrible. I sat there for a few minutes and then I realized I had not given my testimony yet. So I spoke out. “Hey let’s give our testimonies.” I went.

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