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October 28, 2005
Missions
Minute - Web Links
During this Missions Month at Christ UMC, we have
heard and read about a number of the ministries and missionaries that we
support. Has this focus left you with questions about missions like
what is the church doing and what can you do? If so, here are some
resources on the Web that may help shed some light on various aspects of
missions.
www.askamissionary.com
-- Focused on long-term missions, this site offers 300 answers to 50
different common questions on mission agencies, raising support, training,
professional skills, and more.
www.christianmissions.net
-- Sponsored by SIM
USA
and SIM International, this site lists other Christian missions Web sites,
links to mission agencies, colleges and universities that offer missions
courses, and live mission chats.
www.gmi.org/ow
-- The primary purpose of the Operation World site is enlisting Christians
to pray. Each day, the site highlights the prayer needs of a different
country.
www.joshuaproject.net
-- This site largely focuses on people groups, highlighting the groups of
the world that have the least Christian presence.
www.missionaryresources.org
-- The
Missionary
Resources
Center
is a site provided by Emercy where missionaries and other users can find
articles, links, books, videos, and discussions for a wide variety of
missions resources, supplies, and gear.
www.missionfinder.org
-- This site offers listings of resources for missions, particularly
focusing on the areas of housing, retreats, medical equipment, health
care, finances and support, and other topics.
www.mnnonline.org
-- The site of Mission Network News is dedicated to keeping Christians
informed of mission activity around the world.
www.shorttermmissions.com
-- This site provides details on more than 560 short-term mission trips
(ranging from one week to three years), offered by 62 organizations.
www.urbana.org
-- This extensive site featuring InterVarsity's Urbana mission conferences
for college students and young adults is a great place to learn about
global missions and to be challenged by the world's needs.
www.uscwm.org
-- The U.S. Center for World Mission also focuses on ensuring that
distinct people groups of the world are "reached."
www.gbgm-umc.org
-- If you would like to learn more about the worldwide missions
efforts of the
United
Methodist
Church
this website (of the General Board of Global Ministries) has detailed
information on a wide variety of outreach, relief, and justice ministries.
Did you know . . .?
In a survey of more than 3,000 teenagers about
short-term mission service
-- 29% have served
on a religious missions team or done a religious service project at least
once.
-- 18% have
completed two or more missions trips or service projects.
-- 10% have done
three or more mission trips or service projects.
These references are taken from Rev. Magazine, November/December 2005,
page 36
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