Adventures in Missions

World Changer Bootcamp: It’s Getting Real, Real Fast

August 30, 2012
Adventures
Guatemala

"Welcome to training camp passporters! Here's your first assignment: You have ten minutes to return to your cabin and get THREE items. Those three items are all you will have till tomorrow morning. Choose wisely!" I don't know what I was expecting for training camp, but THAT certainly was not it. Using the boyscout skills I don't have to build a shelter out of tarp and ropes was not what I expected. Sleeping outside in the Georgia humidity and pine needles was not what I expected. (Our first night at training camp,...

The Adventures of Guat Girl: The Beginning

August 30, 2012
Adventures
Guatemala

The past week I’ve been sweating it out in the Georgia backwoods, training to become the perfect, put-together missionary that surely God intended for me to be… so I thought. I expected bugs, the humidity, and quality hammock time. And those expectations were met within the first night of training. But I didn’t expect my team of 7 girls to become inseparable within the first twenty-four hours. But my favorite time of day is meal time, because then we’re all together, laughing until we cry. I didn’t expect to spend my first night sleeping in the woods under a...

Kids’ Perspectives on Family Mission Trip

Last week over 70 people arrived to the Ranch in Dandridge Tennessee for an Adventures Encounter Family mission trip. The ages on this family trip ranged from 7-years-old to 70-years young. At the end of the trip they asked the kids what God had taught them. Here are their responses. I had a bad attitude in the morning and then we went to Lunch and I got a fortune cookie that said you will find the solution in the most unexpected place and I thought it might be my attitude when we got back to work I was working a lot more and my attitude changed. -Malachi,...

The Importance of Remembering Orphans [Video]

Even though Seth Barnes Jr. was visiting Magdala, he ended up visiting several orphans in Haiti desperate for remembrance. Seth was applying the call in James 1:27 in his walk. Adventures in Missions is happy to partner with Tyndale Publishers and their new Way Bible to help bring scripture to readers in a relevant light. For more information about it, click here. Seth told his story in a previous blog post, and now he shares in on video.

A Week in the Life of Adventures Encounter: Puerto Rico

Ever wonder what a week-long Adventures Encounter trip to Puerto Rico would look like? Check out these photos from Connie Rock for a glimpse of the kind of mission trip that you could go on with Adventures in Missions. And if you want to brainstorm ideas for your own trip, visit our website for a list of all our current trip opportunities.

The World Race Enters The World’s Newest Country

August 7, 2012
Adventures
World Race

Adventures in Missions has some exciting news… We’ve just entered the newest country in the world! The men of the January 2012 D and E World Race Squads are spending the month of August doing “manistry” in South Sudan, the world’s newest official nation. Sudan has been in the news for decades as the site of brutal military conflicts, human rights violations, drought and starvation, and underdevelopment. Its people have been ravaged by the Darfur conflict, two civil wars, and Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Fighting between the north...

Upcoming Mission Trip Opportunities

“Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.'” Therefore go. It’s a command, and it’s for all of us. All followers of Christ are commanded to go into the world and share the gospel with people who don’t know him. Going looks different for everyone, but we’re all supposed to do it. Going can mean moving to...

home is wherever I’m with You

July 31, 2012
Adventures
Guatemala

"For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere." Psalm 84:10 Home. Home is a warm embrace Home is a sweet fluffy pup Home is laughter and cuddles Home is free laundry and hot showers Home is my own bed Home is… Home is no longer one place anymore. Home is palm trees and coconuts. The smell of tortillas and sweat. The sound of passionate worship and pouring down rain. The taste of fresh guacamole, sweet bananas, and tangy pineapple. The touch of the warm Guatemalan sun and hugs from my brothers and sisters. Long...

How Can You Not Be Changed?

Ana Tallakson, a member of the Passport team that returned from two months in Nicaragua this past weekend, tells how her experience with missions changed her forever. She tells how each experience altered her perspective, and she challenges us to let God change us too. Dear Anyone and Everyone who may be expecting me to come back the same, It’s not happening. When I got to training camp, the prayer on my heart was that God would change me. I was a girl who struggled with her identity and wanted to know the joy that was in Christ. I was so scared of being out of my comfort...

The Upper Room

July 26, 2012
Adventures
Guatemala

The cool night air sweeps in through the open door as a small group of believers gather in the upper room. They have grown accustomed to drawing attention to themselves as some of the only Gringos living in that small coastal town; here, however, their presence is inconspicuous. For the first time in two months, they find themselves lost in crowds of people who look like them, some who even talk like them, in an oasis of a city known as "El Jerusalen de Guatemala". They weave in and out of cafes and gift shops, their comings and goings completely unaccounted for. Somewhere in...

This Changes Everything

Stacy Povian, a former World Racer and current Adventures staff member, attended training camp for World Race and Passport participants this past week in Toccoa, GA. She got to witness what it looks like when God transforms college students and young adults and mobilizes them to bring heaven to earth all over the world. This is Stacy’s story: Last week we had about 300 Passport and World Race participants at training camp here in Georgia. All of them are getting ready to go out onto the mission field in September. For most of us on staff, training camp is our favorite part...

The Pains of Adios…

July 25, 2012
Adventures
Guatemala

I’ve been homesick. I’ve been lonely. I’ve asked God why I’m here. I’ve been joyful. I’ve been completely numb. But nothing compares to saying goodbye. In two short months I have grown a love for Guatemalan people that I did not know was possible. A love I know only Christ could have blessed me with. I ache when they ache, I laugh when they laugh, I smile at one glimpse of their face. And yesterday I had to say goodbye to that. I had to give them one last hug. One last smile. And as I sat on the bus on the way to Antigua, I drove away from...

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