Adventures in Missions

The World Race and Real Life in Texas

February 18, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

Calling all Texas residents! The World Race and Real Life are going to be in College Station, TX this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (February 19-21) for a weekend conference at LifeChurch. It’ll be a time to come and learn more about the World Race and Real Life, talk with the staff, and more. Here is the schedule: Friday, February 19th @7:00pm Location: Buffalo Wild Wings (903 University Dr. College Station, TX 77840) Any World Race or Real Life alumni are welcome to come to dinner with Michael and the staff! It’ll be a good time to reconnect with each...

Real Life: Andhra Pradesh, India

Project Overview: The subcontinent of India lies in south Asia, between Pakistan, China and Nepal. To the north it is bordered by the world’s highest mountain chain, where foothill valleys cover the northernmost of the country’s 26 states. Further south, plateaus, tropical rain forests and sandy deserts are bordered by palm fringed beaches. Side by side with the country’s staggering topographical variations is its cultural diversity, the result of the coexistence of a number of religions as well as local tradition. Four major world religions,...

Let the Little Children Come Unto Me

February 16, 2010
Adventures
College Mission Trips

Lila Dillon is currently in Swaziland ministering with Adventures in Missions on a college mission trip. She is bringing hope and joy to a country slowly dying of AIDS. I have what Kate calls “my own little ministry” here in Nsoko. It evolved quite organically and it’s one of my favorite past times here. One day I saw little Ndu, PG’S four year old son, playing in the gravel outside our house. He’s ridiculously cute so I decided I would go outside and hang out with him. He had this old, almost used up pink marker in his hand and was using it as...

Real Life: Uganda

February 15, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

Project Overview: It was Winston Churchill, at the beginning of the century, who said “…for magnificence, for variety of form and color, for profusion of brilliant life – plant, bird, insect, reptile, beast – for the vast scale… Uganda is truly “the Pearl of Africa.” From the Source of the Nile flowing out of Lake Victoria, to the spectacular assortment of wildlife, to the incredible hearts of the Ugandan people, Uganda truly is an incredible country. It is still recovering from civil wars that threatened to destroy its spirit, but Uganda is...

The Non-Lepers Minster to the Lepers of India

February 12, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

The India Real Life team is serving in a Leper Colony for part of their ministry. Though leprosy is treatable, those in India often can’t afford it; so when someone in India contracts leprosy they are exiled to a leper colony. As a leper dies, sometimes a family member is able to help care for them in the colony; but often they are alone. The Lord has wrecked Kendra’s world and is continuing to use her to minister to the least of these. As soon as we pulled into the little colony we were greeted with immediate smiles and hand shakes. You...

How You Can Pray for the Youth Ministry Advance Team in Haiti

February 11, 2010
Adventures
Haiti Missions

Today, AIM is sending a team of ministry bloggers (along with two staff) to Haiti to capture the stories of what God is doing through AIM and the Haitian church. They will be sharing (through blogs, twitter posts, and video) how Haiti is recovering from the earthquake that struck almost exactly one month ago and how you can help. You can follow regular updates on Facebook, via email, or on our Haiti blog. For those who want to pray for the group by name, here is a little more about the team (click their names to visit their site or blog where they’ll be posting updates...

Real Life: Amazon Jungle, Peru

February 10, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

Real Life: Amazon Jungle, Peru 2 months Project Overview: Iquitos is the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest. Located on the Amazon River, the city itself can only be reached by airplane or boat. The Peruvians here are the descendants of the Incas, and many of the people of this region consider themselves separate from the rest of Peru, as they are isolated from the capital Lima by miles of jungle and the Andes Mountains. Like many Latin American areas with large indigenous populations, Peru faces high levels of poverty and inequality. Decades of political...

Real Life: Nicaragua

February 8, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

Real Life: Nicaragua 2 months, 3 months Project Overview: Nicaragua is the largest nation in Central America, and contains regions of thick rain forests, rugged highlands, and fertile farming areas. About half of Nicaragua’s territory consists of the eastern lowlands, known as the Mosquito Coast, which extend 40 miles inland from the Caribbean. Tropical rain forest covers much of the area, threaded with rivers that begin in the highlands and empty into the Caribbean. War and natural disasters, including earthquakes and hurricanes, have wreaked havoc on the area....

World Race Exposure

February 5, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

World Race Exposure 1 month Project Overview: World Race Exposure is your chance to get involved with the World Race for a month this coming summer. The idea behind this new Real Life program is to submerge you in the lifestyle of a World Racer. For one month, you will be meeting up with one of the World Race teams on the field and living life with them. You’ll do what the team does, go where the team goes, and live like they live. This isn’t for the lighthearted though. World Race Exposure is a month exactly like your average month on the World Race – so...

Do Short Term Mission Trips Really Work?

February 4, 2010
Adventures
Short Term Missions

Often people think, “I can’t do a mission trip, cause I’m not really helping in the long run.” Or, “I’m not called to the mission field.” Jeff Goins has worked for Adventures in Missions for over three years now. In those years, he’s seen a lot of good results from short-term missions. He shares some of his thoughts here. I have a meeting with a pastor this afternoon to discuss an upcoming spring break mission trip for his group. From the sound of it, many of the students haven’t had much missions experience. It got me...

An Open Letter to Parents

February 3, 2010
Adventures
Missions (General)

Dear parents, This past summer, my oldest daughter spent a month in Swaziland with the Adventures in Missions Ambassador program. At age 15, she had been to plenty of sleepovers and week-long camps. She had even been on one mission trip to Africa, but it was with me. This was her first time ever to leave the country without us and to be gone for so long. By nature, I am an over-protective, worrywart parent. I send a cell phone with my 14 year-old daughter when she goes bike riding in our neighborhood and am famous for telling everyone to wear their seat belts and lock their...

We Spent the Night on the Streets of Atlanta

Real Life training camp kicked off last week with a night spent on the streets of Atlanta with the homeless. One girl, headed to India, recounts her eye-opening and heart breaking experience below. A video of the night is posted at the bottom of the blog. Homeless in downtown Atlanta. 20 degrees and strong winds. No food, nowhere to sleep. Enough clothes to keep you from freezing to death but not enough to stay warm. Huddling in doorways and others places that block out the wind temporarily. This is the reality for so many people in Atlanta every night, and Monday it...

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