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God is Good, Even When Life is Hard
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02.14.2017
When Passporter Morgan Hill and her team went to the dump in Mae Sot, Thailand, she didn’t expect to find entire families living there. Her heart broke for those she saw literally living amongst…
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3 Ways God Uses Disaster for His Glory
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02.10.2017
It’s a huge, eternal, proven fact that God uses disaster to bring people to Him. There are more stories in the Bible of people coming to the Lord through the disaster than through success. In…
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Why Send High School Students on Missions Trips?
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02.10.2017
Every morning when my alarm goes off and I turn on the lights, the brightness and noise shocks me awake. It’s uncomfortable, but highly effective. There’s no going back to sleep once that happens. Bu…
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The Secret to Long Term Impact on Short Term Mission Trips
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02.10.2017
We’ve heard it asked a lot: is it really possible to have a long term impact on short term mission trips? The short answer is: “Yes.” The long answer is: “Yes, because long term impact comes throug…
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Why You Can’t Measure the Impact of a Short Term Mission Trip
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02.10.2017
The first rule of the harvest is simple: you reap what you sow. If you plant corn, you’ll reap corn, not pumpkins. The second rule is just as important, but much more overlooked: you can’t fully cou…
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The Refugee Crisis: Where Great Brokenness Meets God’s Love
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02.10.2017
In the spring of 2016, I spent three months coordinating relief efforts for Adventures short term teams and World Race Squads in Greece. During that time, God challenged me in ways I never could have…
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God Doesn’t Need Me. He Chose Me.
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02.07.2017
Before leading an Ambassador trip to Guatemala last summer, Adventures Staff Deb Jones was struggling. Exhausted and full of grief, she needed restoration. Then she entered her busy season, and…
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“She Used to Be Beautiful. The World Has Done a Lot to Her.”
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01.31.2017
Cindy’s* life has been difficult. She’s been living on the streets of Atlanta with multiple addictions and abusive relationships—and it’s obvious just by looking at her. But one night in July…
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God Used Her Obedience to Change a Man’s Life
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01.24.2017
While she was on the World Race, Rachel Martin didn’t want to teach English in Romania. She begged God to change her ministry. When He didn’t, she knew she had to obey. So she taught English the enti…
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Asking God Questions Doesn’t Change Who He Is
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01.17.2017
Kristy Odom didn’t think she had any expectations of her Passport trip to India. Then she got there, and asked God questions about personal pain and why He sent her to India in the first place…
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This Team Prayed, and God Healed a Man of Cancer
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01.10.2017
One of Adventures Core Values is Listening Prayer—the belief that God does speak to us and we can hear what He is saying. Many of our trips have set-aside times of listening prayer ministry, ca…
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God Asked Me to be Brave
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01.03.2017
High school student Liz Willson went on a two week mission trip to Guatemala last summer, and when people ask her how it was, she says it was amazing. But the truth is, when it came time to…
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