How Can We Help Your Church

HOW CAN WE HELP YOUR CHURCH?  We help by …

 Taking the load off of church staff and lay leaders (we do all the time-consuming work)

 Motivating and mobilizing your church through Spirit led orientations, sermons, training and testimony

 Raising the awareness of the need for participation in short-term, direct missions through going and sending

 Providing a variety of dates and venues so your church members have flexibility

 Facilitating participation by one or two church members or an entire team

 Keeping our costs, and therefore mission prices as low as possible

 Giving your members the opportunity to participate in exciting, cutting-edge, point of the spear missions

 Returning church members to you with a new excitement and motivation for other Christian service

WHAT IS THE RESULT FOR YOUR CHURCH?  The result is …

 Church members are moved to deeper spiritual understanding of how they can be used in Kingdom work

 Church members are motivated to other forms of service

 Church members give testimony of how God is using ordinary people in extraordinary ways

 More church members are motivated to go on short-term, direct missions

 More church members are motivated to give toward sending people on missions

WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT OUR MISSIONS?  Our missions …

 Are all about evangelism and the follow-up that results in new Christians in fellowship with a local church

 Put the volunteer in the position to succeed and be a vital part of the team

 Put the volunteer at the “point of the spear” as the point of contact with the lost

 Do not waste the volunteers’ time or money with excessive tourism and other non-mission related activities

 Make wise and efficient use of time, materials, money, volunteers and other resources

 Are not enamored with the latest fads in missions, but we use proven methods of evangelism while being open to the Holy Spirit to respond to new situations and opportunities

 Are frontline evangelism opportunities, not tourism opportunities

WHO ARE WE?  We are…

 Called by God into full-time service in 2000

 Southern Baptist faith missionaries

 Ordinary people who came out of professional careers

 Equipping lay people in short-term, direct missions (since 1992)

WHAT IS OUR MISSION?  Our mission is …

 Leading volunteer teams in point of the spear evangelism through Practically Speaking English adult, teen and children’s events, medical and clinical events, conferences, discipleship, and public school events

 Motivating and mobilizing ordinary Christians, with a wide variety of backgrounds, to short-term missions

 Providing excellent pre-trip, comprehensive training, orientation and preparation

 Personally supervising the preparation of the mission venue in the host country

 Enabling the volunteer to be successful and to grow spiritually while in the field

 Maintain the focus of evangelism (not distracted by “good” works or site seeing, and thereby missing opportunities to do the “greater” work)

 Managing and executing turn-key mission events (training, travel, logistics, materials, insurance, etc.)