Reason #2 for Taking a GDMMissions Field Team Trip

Reason #2 in our series on 8 Reasons to Take a GDMMissions Field Team Trip makes GDMMissions different from other cross-cultural mission organizations because of one important word: evangelism.

#2 – Experience Cross-cultural Evangelism
You can find plenty of other organizations that sponsor short-term mission trips that will give you a cross-cultural experience. Many of these fine groups have projects that focus on accomplishing useful tasks like construction or repairs that are a help to churches and missionaries. As Americans, we are mostly task-driven; we want to schedule, organize, and manage so we see projects accomplished. But most of the world’s cultures, in underdeveloped countries in particular, are more relationship-driven which is difficult for Americans to appreciate.
When task-driven projects form the central reason for short-term missions we miss out on experiencing new cultures that are different from ours. Moreover, we miss out on developing the relationships needed for evangelism to take place.
Because GDMMissions has evangelism as its primary purpose you will have meaningful cross-cultural evangelism experiences every day. We work with national local churches and missionaries who likewise place great emphasis on sharing the Gospel and leading people to Christ. You will work alongside national believers as they share the Gospel in their own language, partner with a bi-lingual national or missionary to share your testimony of salvation to patients and visitors, and compassionately minister to the health care needs of unsaved individuals in the name of our Savior. The context of our ministry revolves around winning souls to Christ by demonstrating the love and compassion of Christ every day in health care clinics. You will have many opportunities to answer the question, “Why have you come here to do this for us?” You will be able to sit with someone and explain that Christ loved them so much that He died for their sins and that they can have eternal life through faith in Him alone. Cross-cultural evangelism is at the heart of every GDMMissions experience. “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” I Peter 3:15

Item of Prayer: That God would give you a burden for the lost; that you would be prepared spiritually, emotionally, and physically to minister in a different culture.

For more information about GDMMissions and our short-term field team trips contact our home office at http://www.gdmmissions.org/contact.html or call 1-978-454-6710 or visit our web site http://www.gdmmissions.org