Summer 2020: Student Center Gospel Spreading Team

IMB Job #: 13220
Location:  Philippines
Team size:  3 (at least 1 guy)
Field expense:  $1133 plus round trip airfare, immunizations, required travel insurance, passport & visa costs, etc.

Job Description:  Come, work near a college campus & see what God can do through you! Students are open to hearing the Good News, especially if they can practice their English. Make a difference in their lives this summer. Team will work near a college in Daet where less than 2% know Jesus Christ. The only public college in the area, many students come from outlying areas to study. The goal? For them to become Christ followers, taking the Gospel back to their hometown. Spend time with small groups of believers that you could disciple & mentor as they grow in their faith. Students must commit to the entire program from orientation through debrief. Your first stop will be a joint orientation with other Nehemiah Teams. Learning the skills needed to carry out your assignment as well as team building will fill these first few days. Your team will fly to your final destination for the summer. Following your ministry time you will return to the US for a joint debrief... sharing all God has done over the summer.

You & Missions??

To someone who has never gone on missions or is wondering what it is all about, let me tell you how missions has changed my life. It’s about being able to hold a baby while the wind and sand blows in your face. It’s about hearing the sweetest giggle. It’s about being able to physically change a building. It’s about prayer walking. It’s about doing the little things and serving any way you can. The Lord has given us all abilities to use for His glory. You don’t have to be anyone special! Being able to serve on 11 mission trips from serving in Mexico to NYC, to the Philippines and Thailand. The Lord has been faithful to provide for it all. Despite my fears and worries, He was [and still is] in control of it all. Do not be scared to take that step out of your comfort zone. He calls us all to serve.

Philippines 2019

-Kerstin N
Thailand 2018 & Philippines 2019

He is THE WAY

This picture is one that will always stick out to me from this summer. We looked not for our own way, but THE Way for guidance, peace, and at times, sanity. We’d literally scramble through the pages sometimes to try and remember scripture to help answer questions!
God is so much bigger than I can ever image.
My eyes have been opened to the spread of Jesus’ name to all the nations. 
His grace is sufficient. 
The cross was enough, and His word gives life. 
Seek Him today. 
Thank you Jesus for the grace you so freely give. 

“And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God,

that you may know that you have eternal life.”  

-1 John‬ ‭5:11-13‬

-Amelia

Stand in the Gap Team

Philippines 2019

How many stranger's homes did you stay in??

Finally getting to share some of the faces I got to encounter and love over my 2 months in Southeast Asia. We backpacked from village to village, stayed the night in over 20 stranger's homes, and used the same 4 shirts and 3 pants all summer joyfully. :)  SO blessed with joyful and flexible and loving friends to do it with that passionately poured into everyone we met!

-Kimberly
Explorer & Evangelist Team 2019