Adventures in Missions

Costa Rica: Building a Stronger Relationship

We send out thousands of young missionaries across the the world every year. Summertime is our busiest season and typically comes with a powerful batch of testimonies. Arnold Lee shares his testimony from his trip to Costa Rica this summer. The original article, pre-translation, can be found here: Korean UMC website: Hello, my name is Arnold Lee and I recently returned from a 2 weeks missions trip to Costa Rica. I’d like to share some of my experiences as well as some of my new found feelings coming back from an international missions trip. Prior to...

Gwapa Ka: You are Beautiful

August 25, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

Cora Healey traveled to the Philippines this summer, with AIM’s Ambassador program. They got the opportunity to work in slums of Manila and she shares some of her experience below. Our team had the opportunity to go with Cebu City Alliance Church (CCAC) to feed and teach a Bible story to a group of children in a village in the city. Once we were done teaching, the kids lined up to be served food and I stood off to the side to watch. There was a little girl kneeling down in the dirt next to me and I knelt down and attempted to ask her what her name was....

The Sex Trade in the United States

At AIM, we talk a lot about the sex trade. With trips regularly going to India, Thailand, and other locations in Southeast Asia, it’s an issue we encounter quite regularly. So, we try to prepare our participants for the heart-breaking situations they’ll encounter — how to minister to young girls and boys who have been sold into prostitution, how to bring healing to little ones who have been forced to perform unspeakable acts. Just this last week, our friend Tom Davis, president of Children’s HopeChest and author of the book Priceless, visited a...

AIM July 2010 Newsletter

AIM June 2010 Newsletter Word from the Director Featured Story Upcoming Trips Stories from the Field :: Word from our Director – Seth Barnes :: The Amazing Luke 10 Journey For the last 20 years or so, I’ve been challenged by a Scripture that’s so incredible, I’m tempted to discount it as being utterly impractical for our modern times. But I can’t help myself – I keep coming back to the account of Jesus sending out his disciples to places they’d never been with a message they’d only recently heard, and authority...

Missionaries = Flashlights

No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. – Luke 8:16-17a (NIV), 17b (ESV) Kyampisi, Uganda – Katie Threet, a Real Life participant, lost a little bit of innocence last week. She met a seven year old boy named Allan, who captured her heart. A year ago, Allan had been attacked as an attempted child sacrifice. Child sacrifice is...

Changing Contexts: Translating Stories from the Mission Field to Home

“You wouldn’t understand. You just had to be there.” Words such as these are often rooted in ignorance or insecurities that destroy conversations before they’ve started. In truth, we’re all guilty of such rhetoric at some time or another. Our youth return from short-term mission trips and aren’t quite sure how to put their experiences into words, or maybe they (and we?) are tempted to exercise some sort of experiential superiority over their peers who were not on the trip. Whatever their reasons for not properly communicating the...

Why Wasn’t I Born in a Slum in Kenya?

This week, a group of young adults went into the Kenyan slums during their Real Life mission trip. To say the very least, it was a life-changing experience for them. On the Kenya blog, you can read their in-depth reports, but we’ll highlight just a few here. Amy Johnson remarked on the unimaginable sights she saw in Kibera: Imagine: smelling burning trash, food cooking from little shacks, and trash dumps. Imagine: feeling the rough, dirty hands of children all over your skin because they have never seen a white person before. Imagine: seeing shack after...

A Summer of Firsts in Missions

Sixteen year old Erika Disney went to Tennessee with AIM and is her very first missions trip. In a short period of time, young Erika has grown tremendously. This week of roughing it in Appalachia mountains, where the showers are cold and the air is hot, prayer walking, house painting and worshiping the Lord, has transformed her. I’m feeling God just like I did when I first accepted Jesus as my Savior. Crazy isn’t it? I honestly didn’t think I’d feel that God-high ever again. I was completely wrong. How I’ve been going on without this God-high is...

College Missions Opportunities in the Fall

We currently have teams of short-term missionaries all over the world this summer. Here are just a few highlighted stories from college-age mission trips, as well as some upcoming opportunities to go. Israel: “The Foolish Things” by Christina Appelgate As I played with the children throughout the night I started thinking about the children: Who prays for the forgotten refugee children in the middle of a barren desert? Who cares about them? Who wipes the snot from their runny noses? Who teaches them the “ten little monkeys” song? Who spends $4,400 to travel across...

AIM June 2010 Newsletter

AIM June 2010 Newsletter • Word from our director • Upcoming Trips – From youth to adults • Stories from the Field – Hear what others have to say :: Word from our Director – Seth Barnes :: A healing in Haiti Evansbord was taken to a witch doctor at two months old. He lays knees to his chest, feet crossed flat against himself-fifteen years in the same position, immobile and mute. Evansbord is being healed. This video shows more of the story. Here are some update from an earlier...

What Can Happen When You Give Three Days to Jesus

What can Happen in Three Days? Check out what Jimmy Hutson has to say about it! This is a question that I am sure many of you have asked when looking at the 3-day trips that AIM has started offering this year. Well, I am here to share with you a story that shows with God 3 days can be a lifetime. Recently, Westside Church from Omaha Nebraska partnered with Cornerstone Baptist Church and Our Calling in South Dallas and below is summary of what happened. Day 1 God revealed to Westside church how he wanted them to pray for Dallas. It began with Isaiah 62:1-6 and a...

Thailand: The Land of Smiles

Come and be a part of what God is doing in Thailand! While in Thailand, Adventures in Missions is partnering with some local ministries familiar with the area. Working together, the ministries will provide a comprehensive view of human trafficking and ministry related to trafficking. Teams will travel to villages and do ministry to impoverished families at risk of having children trafficked or driven into the sex trade in Thailand. There will also be opportunity to visit homes for children who have been trafficked, teens who were in high-risk, and women who have come out of...

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