How Beautiful. It's the song I sang at my parents church this weekend.
I'm sorry to say I just enjoyed the whole weekend and kept forgetting to pull out my camera to snap pictures. Friday night we got a visit from a long time friend of mine Ron Hoffman. Ron came from Chicago to Kalamazoo to visit his parents, but he also wanted to get a fuller understanding of what we were doing.
We spent considerable time going over Why the Czech, Why us, What we'll be doing when we get there, and What steps we'll have to take to get there. It was heart warming when Ron asked to be on the Prayer Squad. The Prayer Squad is something that I want to set up in any church that shows an interest in supporting us. I also now that individuals from non-supporting churches may also share the same commitment.
An individual in the "Squad" commits to receiving a prayer update each week, and taking time at least once each week to pray for us. A member of the "Squad" considers this prayer support his or her ministry, and is part of our team. While my family and I will be the only part of the team physically going into the Czech the whole prayer and financial support team enters into ministry and shares in both the burden and the joy of that ministry.
Saturday, we spent the day at my parents house. Some friends joined us and I had the opportunity to share our extended presentation with them. Today I sang at my parents church and spoke briefly with their pastor. Doing this is a lot of work, but it energises me. I grow more and more eager to get to the field, but I'm most eager to be serving and encouraging others in this Pre-Field process.
Adam
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Pre-Field Beginning
It's amazing the mass of details to attend to while we are getting our self ready to raise support and be prepared for the field. Part of the effort is to take the information and materials from Candidate Seminar and start to sift back through them.
I haven't started that yet. What I have been doing is starting to write some letters and work on a presentation that I'll be giving to our home church's missions committee. I'll then give a similar presentation to our whole church.
We are also starting to meeting in homes with various friends and family to share what God has called us to do. I have a lap top, but don't yet have a projector, so I'm going to do what ABWE calls "down-teching", and bringing handouts.
In the meantime, we will be making arrangements with a photographer for a family photo so that we can get our prayer card made, and start pulling together an informational package that will be sent to churches. It's a fair amount of work, but it's actually enjoyable. It's important that we present our selves well, and that we present ourselves clearly. Doing all of this work of presenting helps us clarify the what and why of our missionary call.
I firmly believe that when God calls some one to do something, that He provides what is needed to do the work. In our case then, I can only assume that he has prepared churches and individuals who will feel called to support us through prayer and monthly financial giving. It's not our job to convince people to give, but our job is to mobilize the ones God has called.
A big effort, but an enjoyable one.
Adam
I haven't started that yet. What I have been doing is starting to write some letters and work on a presentation that I'll be giving to our home church's missions committee. I'll then give a similar presentation to our whole church.
We are also starting to meeting in homes with various friends and family to share what God has called us to do. I have a lap top, but don't yet have a projector, so I'm going to do what ABWE calls "down-teching", and bringing handouts.
In the meantime, we will be making arrangements with a photographer for a family photo so that we can get our prayer card made, and start pulling together an informational package that will be sent to churches. It's a fair amount of work, but it's actually enjoyable. It's important that we present our selves well, and that we present ourselves clearly. Doing all of this work of presenting helps us clarify the what and why of our missionary call.
I firmly believe that when God calls some one to do something, that He provides what is needed to do the work. In our case then, I can only assume that he has prepared churches and individuals who will feel called to support us through prayer and monthly financial giving. It's not our job to convince people to give, but our job is to mobilize the ones God has called.
A big effort, but an enjoyable one.
Adam
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