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What are you doing this summer?
"It is easy to find professionals who are Christians, but harder to get Christian professionals, who have thought through what they do from a Biblical standpoint, and can articulate that clearly." Dr. Michael Schluter - Jubilee Center, Cambridge The SMC is a small international network fostering a global movement of university students who are serving Christ's Great Commission through their life-work. We believe this generation is ready for new ways, new paradigms, and a new heart to make a difference in a world that cries out for mercy, for hope, and for healing. We see student volunteers and mobilizers everywhere. They are the new international community of students and young adults seeking God for justice, for revelation, and for real transformation. The gospel of Christ is not a private matter. This generation knows that when you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness. (Isaiah 58:10) By serving projects with Field Ministry Internships in the field of your studies on a summer team, you are going deeper into the call of God. You are offering more than a career, you are offering your life-work as worship. Field Ministry Internships summer outreach teams, are for students and professionals to integrate studies with a service project abroad. Participants form small teams (4 to7 people)for these 8-week internships, while young adult graduates may join teams for just 2 weeks or more weeks. Teams are forming now! Come prepared...more
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Field Ministry Internships
Field Ministry Internships (FMI), a ministry of Youth With A Mission, facilitates practical learning/serving field project opportunities for Christian university students and young adults to re-interpret their course of study/career in the light of Biblical revelation of calling to grasp God's vision for their career and how it relates to the needs of the world, especially issues of global human need. FMI has mobilized Christian student teams (typically teams of 4 to 7 students) from 107 colleges and universities in eight countries to 33 nations since 1986.
The FMI student projects to Asia in 2008 will be to confront the “giants” of impure water, illiteracy, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and material and spiritual poverty with prayer, training, service, evangelism, and mercy ministries. FMI teams are designed for Agriculture, Business, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Art, Journalism, International Affairs, Medical, IT & Social Work.
Your decide your most appropriate contribution. You will pray, serve, and build relationships with the host community and project staff. You will collaborate with the long-term field project leaders to assess the needs of the community through interviews, probing questions, surveys, and maps. Your key contribution is the final written project report in which you research and present a proposal to complement or supplement the existing field project in the host community.
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Pathway to romantic love
Song of Songs 3:5
Patty longed to be happily married, but she went from heartbreak to heartbreak in romance. Whenever she got into a promising relationship, she’d scare the guy away by pushing too fast or too hard for a commitment.
Although there is no guarantee against getting hurt in a relationship, we can minimize the odds with some basic principles. As soon as we recognize that our feelings are romantic, we should ask the Lord whether to proceed with the relationship and how. Remember, he always wants the best for us.
No matter how mature we are, clear thinking can go out the door when romantic emotions start churning. It is crucial that we submit these feelings to Jesus, and perhaps seek counsel from a trusted friend as well, before communicating them to the other person. The worst thing to do is manipulate by saying something like, “God has told me that we . . .” Our friend needs the freedom not to feel that same way and the time and distance to carefully consider it.
Above all else, we must keep our security in God and not the relationship no matter what happens.
How do you need to apply these principles in your life?
Looking at the truth: Prov. 4:23; Romans 8:38-39; 1 Cor. 13.
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Leadership Shift Pt. 2
by Loren Cunningham
However, the greatest Chilean resource is the Church. While no one was watching, God has been quietly investing in Latin America, particularly in Chile. Some 30.4% of Chileans are evangelical. Their church is growing at three times the rate of the population. As a result, their economy has also been blessed. A Fortune article in October of 1991 linked the evangelical revival in Latin America to new growth in their economy. In Chile, unemployment is below 5% and they have one of the lowest inflation rates in the world.
I went to Chile to challenge them to go out as missionaries. This is the paradigm shift of the 90s: countries which previously only received missionaries are now sending out missionaries. Their numbers will soon dwarf those from North America and Europe.
Four years ago, there were no Chilean evangelical missionaries working overseas. Now there are 39 from YWAM working in Africa, India and the Middle East, as well as six out with Operation Mobilisation, two with the Baptists, and one with the Anglicans. Yet this is only a trickle of the flood we are praying for. I told hundreds of Chilean pastors of the early Moravians who "tithed" their people, sending one missionary for every ten church members. That would mean 400,000 Chilean missionaries! Their present goal is to send out 1,000 missionaries in the next seven years.
What about money? Even though Chileans are relatively better off than much of the Third World, they still think of themselves as poor. Yet they have more wealth now than either the U.S. or Britain did in the 19th century when the first waves of Protestant missionaries went out. Our prosperity is the result of our obedience to the Great Commission. If we want to see financial blessings in the Third World, we have to challenge them to obey God and send out missionaries.
(to be continued)
[Reprinted with permission from Ministries Today July/August 1993. Copyright Strang Communications Co., USA. All rights reserved. www.ministriestoday.com]
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