Saw this ad for getting a free book. Revolution in World Missions. A free book by one of the guys on staff with Gospel for Asia. Signed up for it, and the organization looks pretty above board - native, indigenious missionaries, reaching unreached peoples. Cool.

HW for K...
Session 5.
1. finish the studies about The Story of His Glory
2. email the list of 5-7 questions to two or three missionaries you or your family
support. also send me the list and I get to send them out to two or three that
I support.
3. Do these studies based on Paul and his missionary journets.

(If you are reading this blog, somehow, and are interested in these studies,
email me and I will send them to you. However, they are based on material
covered in Perspectives.)
K leaves for college in 10 days or so, so I think the final step would be to put
together a survey to see what he found the most helpful.
That would be kind of fun.

In other developments, met a guy named Dan the other night from
a local church, who came and did a presentation about God's Mission to the
college age worship night at GCC. Very cool. And then they showed the
video for Urbana 03. I think the majority of my dteam guys are interested,
very very cool. I think Dan and I might dialogue about mobilization, which would
be great.

more HW for K:

Session 3
1. studies from Mission 1 that are short studies based on Perspectives. Specifically, The Story of His Glory. (register for download)

Session 4
1. finish the studies about The Story of Glory
2. list out between 5 and 7 questions that
you would have for real life missionaries,
questions that would probe their experiences
to help you as you think about the future.
3. Joshua Project People Group Listing of Liberia

Here is some homework I have given K.
K is a student in the small group ministry that I ran for the past 4 years. He just graduated high school and is going off to college in a few weeks. At the beginning of the summer, he told me he was seriously thinking about missions and wanted to meet with me through the summer to learn, discuss, etc.
So I've been giving him some hw.

Session 1
1. The Problem of Success
2. Summary of William Carey. He truly made disciples, not just converts.
3. Being a Tentmaker Thoughts of being a tentmaker.

Session 2 (this is also posted below)
1. God Centered Motivation for Missions - by John Piper.
2. The Essential Task - by Ralph Winter.
3. Missions, Music and Mobilization Music and mobilizing.

so K (student in the HS ministry I volunteer in) and I went to DCLA for a day yesterday to help volunteer. pretty cool. quite a setup. we saw the Big Room, which had some great visuals, worship and teaching, although we misssed other integral pieces of the event, such as Deeper Learning, which I'm sure had more depth to the teaching. One thing that kind of made me sad, 0 mission organizations in the exhibit hall. 0, none, nothing. Of course, Compassion was there, and students could pick up material on YFC's missions trips. But there was nothing in terms of strategic missions, like the 10/40 window, unreached people groups, etc. One organization even quoted their mission statement saying they were about "blah blah blah and providing students a quality mission experience." Since when did we desire to send students to missions trips to give them a quality experience? Not to be a snob, but I'm pretty convicted that we could be doing student missions better. A lot better. I'll post some pictures later maybe.

Here is a picture of great volunteer in our JH ministry - Kelly volunteering at DCLA. Kelly is on the right, an awesome youth ministry servant.

a few articles that i have been reading and discussion with one of my graduate high school small group members.
1. God Centered Motivation for Missions - by John Piper. Talks about desire, passion and the worship of God as the motivation for missions.

2. The Essential Task - by Ralph Winter. Talks about the real task of missions and the core definition. Viable, indigenous, church planting. Good framework for strategically thinking.

3. Missions, Music and Mobilization Music and mobilizing.

Missions Mobilizer Calendar - from Nate Wilson's home page, a missions mobilizer with The Caleb Project.

The Traveling Team - a college team that travels around to mobilize college students to think about missions. Great studies on the web site.

www.mission1.org mission1 - check out Operation Worldview, which includes studies that are summaries of the Perspectives class. good stuf.

Dteam 03
May 30 Extravanganza Details
==========

DEPART:
From Grace.
Friday May 30
5pm.
(Grabau, Obrien, Taliano, Dickens, Bowen - your alternate
plans are fine but I'll need your perm form
before Friday)

YOU NEED:
(Don't come without these...)
- Bible
- Notebook/journal
- Multiple writing instruments
- Blue parental permission form (write me back
if you still need one)
- $20 cash
- sturdy shoes

NICE TO HAVE:
- sleeping bag
- change of clothes
- extra spending money

EVEN MORE LUXIRIOUS:
- tent
- pillow
- other camping stuff
- extra spending money

RETURN
To Grace
Saturday May 31
5pm
===========

should i be using this more to push out info??

dteam 03 comes to an end pretty soon. cookout my house at 6pm on Tuesday the 20th.

some links to note:

is my neighborhood plowed yet?
http://snow2.co.ho.md.us/

tony blair's speech about war - look for the statistic about afghani girls now in school.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003084

junior high pastor . com
http://www.juniorhighpastor.com/

an interview with george barna
lead lead lead
http://www.ginkworld.net/current_7q/archives_7q_2002/7_questions_04012002.htm

wow. read this -


Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa and about 750,000 of its three million citizens are currently infected with HIV. The city's official death rate has increased by 35 percent in the last five years. It reached 19 per 1000 in 2002, largely due to an increase in AIDS-related deaths in young adults. "This year we will bury about 20,000 people. In 2010, unless someone develops a cure for AIDS, we expect that figure to be 70,000," says Alan Buff, who is responsible for cemeteries at City Parks.

well, the retreat was a success, i think. at least for me. the breakout was great fun, got to tell Justin what Christianity really is about. pray for him.
probably the best part was having Communion for the seniors on Sat nite. i think they really enjoyed that, and i hope they really felt appreciated, which was one of the goals.

wow. some cool pictures from the Jesus film Mel Gibson is involved with. not too pretty.
but could be great graphics to use for a talk or something.

wow this thing really works. for the time being, im still using an old account to host some of my all important files.

if you are reading this, and you know who i am, welcome. pray for the CpR retreat this weekend. i have 7 guys, so pray for significant time with them. and for my breakout session with very cool Gary Alker. its about choices and excellence. we'll see how it goes.

another try to get links to work.

so im now trying to figure out how to put info on the side of this page....
im sure it can't be that difficult....