Team of the Week: Mercy Midwives

Mercy Midwives
Spend your summer serving mothers & babies! In partnership with a local charity birthing center, you will provide quality health care for expectant mothers. Show women God's mercy & kindness in a practical way this summer.

IMB Job #: 110607  More info!!
Location: Philippines
Team size: 1 team of 4 girls. Applicants should be upper level nursing students with some clinical experience.
Field expense:  $1230 + round-trip airfare, required travel insurance, passport costs, etc.

Dates for Summer 2015:
April 1: Deadline for applications
May 28: Member orientation begins
June 2: Teams travel to the field
July 28: Teams return for debrief
July 31: Students return home

Team of the Week: SEA Adventure Trek

SEA Adventure Trek
Spend your summer locating persons of peace, staying in their homes, eating their food, & sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with them. Boldness, wisdom, and sensitivity to the Spirit will be needed as your team shares their faith. Invest your time in an area that is truly unreached and needs your presence.

Location: Southeast Asia
Field expense:  $1641 + round-trip airfare, required travel insurance, passport costs, etc.
 
IMB Job #: 110544 More info!!
Team size: 1 team of 3 guys

IMB Job #: 110545  More info!!
Team size: 1 team of 3 girls
 
Dates for Summer 2015:  
April 1: Deadline for applications  
May 28: Member orientation begins  
June 2: Teams travel to the field  
July 28: Teams return for debrief  
July 31: Students return home

P52 Team of the Week: Music City UPG Outreach

Music City UPG Outreach
The team will live & serve in Nashville at a local apartment complex sharing life with the refugees, building relationships on a daily basis, and communicating the love of Jesus in word and deed. Additional responsibilities will include connecting FHBC members with the refugee population through assisting with and coordinating efforts of the Wings Team and their various ministry programs.

Location: Nashville, TN   More Info!! Team size:  Team of 4 (2 male, 2 female) Cost: $1750 plus round-trip travel from orientation site to Nashville

Dates for Summer 2015
April 1: Deadline for applications
May 28: Member orientation begins
June 2: Teams travel to the field
July 28: Teams return for debrief
July 31: Students return home 

Coming Soon.... Advance Operations Training!

Please pray for the NT staff & participants who will be involved in the upcoming AOT, a 2 month residental training program. Although this training is mainly for Filpinos, it looks like we may have 1 or 2 other Southeast Asian participants this time around.

• Pray for the Lord to provide the finances needed for participants round-trip fare and registration fee
• Pray for facilitators as they prepare

Team of the Week: Korean Refugee

Korean Refugee

This summer you can help change the lives of refugees from an unreached people group. After escaping from their home country, these young people traveled & spent time in other Asian countries before they finally found a home in South Korea. In partnership with a GCC, your team will live with these students, teaching them English, life skills, and showing them that there really is a God who loves them. 

IMB Job #: 110487  More info!!
Location: Philippines
Team size: 1 team of 6
Field expense:  $695 + round-trip airfare, required travel insurance, passport costs, etc.

Dates for Summer 2015:
April 1: Deadline for applications
May 28: Member orientation begins
June 2: Teams travel to the field
July 28: Teams return for debrief
July 31: Students return home

Am I Being Successful?

Am I being successful? This question has haunted me at different times in my life. It has kept me awake at night. It has caused me, at times, to fill my days with frenzied human activity; that is, when I have used the wrong measuring stick. 

Mother Teresa raised millions of dollars for the poor, mobilized thousands to follow her example, stood before Kings and Presidents, and was recognized world-wide by receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.  We look at these accomplishments and seek to find the secret or key to her success. 

A poem found written on a wall at the Missionaries of Charity years ago might just help us today:

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered... Forgive them anyway. 

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives... be kind anyway. 
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies... Succeed anyway. 
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you... Be honest and frank anyway.  
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight... Build anyway. 
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous... Be happy anyway. 
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow... Do good anyway. 
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough... Give the world the best you've got anyway. 
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God... It was never between you and them anyway.

Elisabeth Elliot was asked one time about being successful.  Without hesitation, she answered, "I never thought of measuring success.  Obedience is the only measuring stick."

Let us walk in obedience today for an audience of One.  

P52 Team of the Week: Motor City UPG Outreach

Motor City UPG Outreach

Teams will seek to bring the gospel to the Arabic population of Dearborn, Michigan through personal evangelism, seek out persons of peace who are receptive to the gospel and then disciple those who come to Christ through interpersonal one to one discipleship relationships.

Location: Dearborn, MI  More Info!!
Team size:  2 teams of 4
Cost: $1555 plus round-trip travel from orientation site to Detroit 

Dates for Summer 2015:
April 1: Deadline for applications
May 28: Member orientation begins
June 2: Teams travel to the field
July 28: Teams return for debrief
July 31: Students return home

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 8

Planting seeds for planting churches

Today, Lily Llambes helps others embrace the true God. But at 25, she grappled with where to place her faith when she was invited into Santeria, whose practices are similar to voodoo.

Instead, she became a Christian.  Read more...

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 7

Scripture planting is key

When IMB missionaries Jon Gerwig* and Bradford Wotzke* moved to East Asia with their families in 2004 to share the Gospel with the Iron Peas,* the minority people group of more than 3 million had no known churches and only a handful of believers.

The Iron Pea people group speaks six dialects, and many Iron Peas — particularly women and children — do not speak even the country’s trade language.

“You’re just spinning your wheels if you’re not reaching the people in the language of their heart,” Jon says.  Read more...

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 6

Music Makes Relationships

Good values weren’t enough for Linda Hamfors of Stockholm, Sweden. Linda, who grew up in an atheist family, believed Jesus was “a really amazing guy” and learned values from her parents like forgiveness, acceptance and love.

But good values couldn’t sustain the singer/songwriter through the tumultuous years when her parents began drinking more and pursuing materialistic gain.

“I was kind of a little bit left alone with my good values and I wasn’t feeling good,” Linda says.
Struggling with addiction herself, Linda searched for God. She found a church. She began singing in church, and the Gospel songs moved her to tears.  Read more...

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 5

A New Wave of Church Planters

For Mitch Englehart,* it’s a beautiful sight that’s taking place in some very dirty water. The South Carolina native watches from the bank of a stagnant canal as six new believers are baptized outside a village in South Asia. Dhanwan is one of them.

“I want to follow Jesus!” the young man says, explaining that he became a Christian after a miraculous healing through the prayers of a local Baptist pastor. That pastor, Lalbahadur, is a fifth-generation Christian whose faith can be traced back to Mitch’s church-planting network. It’s January, and Dhanwan shivers as he strips down to his underwear and steps into the canal. 

To start the baptism chain, Lalbahadur first immerses Dhanwan, then each newly baptized believer baptizes the next. This is discipleship in action, Mitch says, and it’s what has brought him to South Asia.  Read more...

Team of the Week: Urban Rescuers

Urban Rescuers
Walk alongside transgenders (ladyboys) who have just left the sex industry. Be their friend. Through a local ministry, encourage them as they train in livelihood skills, continue their education, & reach out to their families & others in nearby slum areas. Join with other local ministries that reach out to refugees & children.

IMB Job #: 110390  More info!!
Location: Thailand
Team size: 1 team of 6 (3 male/3 female)
Field expense:  $1435 + round-trip airfare, required travel insurance, passport costs, etc.

Dates for Summer 2015:
April 1: Deadline for applications
May 28: Member orientation begins
June 2: Teams travel to the field
July 28: Teams return for debrief
July 31: Students return home

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 4

A Risk Worth Taking

Moving a family to South Sudan, a war ground made up of daily turmoil and strife, has been a major risk, even to the point that IMB missionary Robert Lane calls in several times a day to assure his supervisor his family is still alive.

Robert sees it as a risk worth taking as they follow God in obedience to reach out to the Dinka people group, numbering nearly 3 million.

“We need to be ready for those hardships, ready for those difficulties, ready to be used as a sacrifice for Christ as we try to make His name famous,” Robert explains.  Read more...

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 3

Pregnant Women Become Catalysts

Women in various stages of pregnancy or post-pregnancy surround IMB missionary Nancy Potter* and some Southeast Asian health workers. They chat excitedly about the discipleship and training classes the day before, while waiting for their weekly health class.

When Nancy and her husband, William,* started these pregnancy health classes to combat the high maternal mortality rate in this rural area, they never imagined it would be the catalyst for starting house churches. Read more...

P52 Team of the Week: Derby City UPG Outreach

Derby City UPG Outreach
Serve among the nations in most ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Louisville, KY. There are 120+ nations, 100+ languages in the school system, and over 500 international restaurants and groceries. This individual will be in charge of communicating with churches and teams to assess international communities, help coordinate and conduct programs and events, and connect with community partners. We are looking for persons who are organized, able to communicate with a variety of people, enjoys trying new things, passion to proclaim the gospel, heart for the nations, and can help mobilize the Church to bring wholistic change to bless the nations. Watch a video of local ministry!

Location: Louisville, KY  More info!!
Team size:  Team of 5 

Cost: $1555 plus round-trip travel from Atlanta, GA

Dates for Summer 2015:
April 1: Deadline for applications
May 28: Member orientation begins
June 3: Teams travel to the field
July 28: Teams return for debrief
July 31: Students return home

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 2

Churches Share the Task

Mike and Heather McAfee have plans for putting wings on their vision to reach Abidjan with the Gospel.

This sprawling West African city, getting on its feet again after a decade of war and turmoil, is not an easy fix. As the economic capital of Ivory Coast, more than 6 million people and 60 indigenous language groups live here.

“And that’s not counting the immigrants that come from other countries such as Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ghana or Mali,” Mike says. But help has come through U.S. churches committed to sharing this task. The McAfees envision partnering Southern Baptist congregations in the U.S. with local Abidjan churches.  Read more...

As a student you can partner with the McAfees.... click below to see summer opportunities to serve with them to reach the Abidjan.
110396 Abidjan Urban Kids
110397 Abidjan Urban Students

Lottie Moon Week of Prayer: Day 1

Missions Just Got Personal

Tony Mathews thought international missions wasn’t for everyone, that as a pastor his focus should be on the local church.

North Garland Baptist Fellowship, where he has served for 22 years, supported the Cooperative Program. Members of the Texas church had gone on international missions trips, which the pastor had supported — from a distance.

That changed in 2012 when he helped lead activities for children of Southern Baptist missionaries in Africa.  Read more...