Mission Team

We have a team here from Third Presbyterian Church visiting and helping in the ministry for the next week. They will be helping to hold a retreat for about 15 Christian refugees. Later this week, we’ll go to Rome together to visit the ministry situation there that is just beginning. The team arrived on Sunday morning after a short night on the plane.

After settling into their rooms, we had them over for an orientation. One of my goals for both the team and the refugees is to build the awareness that God intentionally directs our lives in order to shape our identity. What are these things that we have received from God? At what point are we in this process of becoming more like Christ?

For example, as a team we discussed what God has used to make us more aware of mission in the world. Some of our answers included:
Someone asked me to go.
My own crisis
Open doors
Seeing that ministry is doable
Being encouraged by previous experiences
Seeing the world beyond my own eyes

Here we are during our orientation time. We met outside where it was really cool and rainy. It kept us awake through jet lag.