Adventures in Missions

There Are Too Many Superstars

Many of us want to be superstars, to be in the limelight and be acknowledged for our astounding abilities. But are any of us really all that astounding? As director of Adventures in Missions, Seth Barnes sees this phenomenon daily and reminds us that we are not all that astounding, but it is God who is astounding. Josh had a very vivid dream while we were out hiking that he later recounted to me: It seemed like we were in the upstairs of a house. There was a handful of guys standing around, when all of a sudden, you said, “Now i...

Young Haitian Delivered from the Hands of a Witch Doctor

I don’t know exactly what we expected walking into his home, but I know that it wasn’t what we found. The tent seemed to exhale as we opened its door, and it expelled a torrent of heat. I could not begin to imagine staying inside these tarpaulin walls all day as sweat instantly formed against my skin; yet, this is Evansbord’s life everyday. Evansbord was taken to a witch doctor at two months old. Before me was the result of this choice by his parents. He was lying on the tent floor, knees to his chest, feet crossed flat against himself; he has spent 15...

Discipleship on the Mission Field

At Adventures In Missions, we believe that the best way to make a disciple is to give them solid, biblical teaching and then an opportunity to practically apply it. This happens through service opportunities that will challenge you to grow and force you to depend on God. Here is what past participants have said: I don’t think that I will ever have such an opportunity to give up all of myself and all of my expectations as I do here. Every day I am reminded that yes, I am different and yes, I cannot hold my standards to the people… around me. (Emily Tissot,...

Building a Roof for Pastor Enoch’s Home

Stephanie Pridgen is currently serving in Haiti as a writing correspondent. Teams are coming through to help with the rebuilding process after the massive January earthquake. What if God asked you to turn your home into a church? Would you be willing? Pastor Enoch is one of the pastors we are working with in Port-Au-Prince, and he felt called to do just that. Eventually, he moved into another home just above his first one, but for a while, his home – housing himself, his wife and the eight children they care for – was also a church. During the earthquake, the...

Becoming a Child Like Jenny

April 28, 2010
Adventures
Haiti Missions

Stephanie Pridgen is serving in Haiti as a writing correspondent. She is reminded of the faith and innocence of a child as she holds a precious little girl during a church service. She met me at the door of the church. A simple smile was her greeting as she reached up, curled a tiny hand around two of my fingers and led me to the front. We had never met. We had no history together. There was seemingly no reason she should come to me so willingly. Jenny danced, worshiped and shouted with the best of them – a beautiful picture of coming before God with childlike...

AIM: April 2010 Newsletter

AIM April 2010 Newsletter • Word from our director • Upcoming Trips – World Race / Ambassadors/ Adult and Family Groups • Stories from the Field – Hear what others have to say :: Word from our Director – Seth Barnes :: “It wasn’t my fault.” “I didn’t mean for it to turn out like this.” How often we hear words like those in our everyday life. And my response is, “So what?” Actions have consequences and intentions may have little to do with them. In our...

ATL: Ask the Lord and Hear Him Speak

Anna shares her experience at the BE conference in preparation for her mission trip with AIM this summer. This past Friday my youth pastor drove a car full of 5 students and one other adult to the BE conference. After a short breakfast they had there for us, and some fellowship and worship time, our first speaker, Clint Bokelman, came out to speak to us. We did some things that I had never done before. At one point Clint had us all stand up and spread apart from each other. He proceeded to tell us that we were all going to pray and that if God led us to go over and pray for one...

Kenya: Photo Blog of the People of Africa

Jenna Ghizas is currently a Real Life participant in Kenya. She has a gift for photography and shares some of her pictures below… Baby Damarus! I want to take this baby home with me. Her parents said that she was too young 🙁 Denise with this beautiful child at IDP. I just love her face! Our group after our 3 hour hike up the mountain! The most beautiful sunset ever. The light was raining down on every camp at IDP! God is awesome! ...

Turn your $10 into a vehicle

March 26, 2010
Adventures
Haiti Missions

“We were able to give 5,000 bottles of water and 350 lbs of rice and beans to a church that can distribute them…There was a meeting for pastors from Port-au-Prince who were able to tell us what they needed. We’re now able to partner with them and help them meet the needs of those in their community…” —Ashley Musick We want to serve the Haitian church as it follows God’s leading in the years to come. We are preparing to make a long-term investment, and one need is for a vehicle to help transport supplies and volunteers into the places where...

College Students Are Changing the World

Kelly Chadwick recently posted the following to her blog: On a Saturday afternoon in 1806, five college students from New England met to pray for the people living in Asia. People who didn’t know Jesus. And when it started to rain, they simply moved behind a haystack and continued praying. They asked the Lord for direction and vision; they cried out on behalf of people who had never heard his name. And so “The Haystack Prayer Meeting” began the modern mission movement. It was the first documented time anyone in America ever made a...

AIM March 2010 Newsletter

AIM March 2010 Newsletter • Word from our director • Be Conference • Upcoming Trips (Haiti, Ambassadors, and more) • Stories from the Mission Field • Videos from the Mission Field :: Word from our Director – Seth Barnes :: Losing Everything Except Your Faith by Seth Barnes, AIM Director Adam Mclane went on our last trip to Haiti. He met a young man who lost everything except his faith. You can read more about his story here :: Be Conference :: This free...

God Sent the Rain

Kelly Chadwick, the Director of our Real Life ministries, and recently returned from Kenya. While there, she heard an amazing story of a man who said he would only believe in God if God would end the drought. And so God sent rain… Two days after our Real Life Kenya team hit African soil, they were given a few tents and sent into the bush with the Maasai tribe for a week. Their assignment? Door to door evangelism. (Well, maybe hut to hut is more accurate!) So they headed out, confident in the Lord if not in themselves. But for several...

Author: Adventures

There Are Too Many Superstars

Young Haitian Delivered from the Hands of a Witch Doctor

Discipleship on the Mission Field

Building a Roof for Pastor Enoch’s Home

Becoming a Child Like Jenny

AIM: April 2010 Newsletter

ATL: Ask the Lord and Hear Him Speak

Kenya: Photo Blog of the People of Africa

Turn your $10 into a vehicle

College Students Are Changing the World

AIM March 2010 Newsletter

God Sent the Rain

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