Reason #7 in our series on 8 Reasons to Take a GDMMissions Field Team Trip is the bonus benefit of getting to know and minister to missionary families.
The primary reason for a GDMMissions Field Team Trip is evangelism. To accomplish this we work with missionaries and national pastors to organize evangelism opportunities and take the Gospel to others. Fellowship with national believers is a cross-cultural blessing for the team. Often, we find that we can also minister to missionaries and their children as we spend time together.
A priceless benefit of a GDMMissions field team trip is getting to know missionary families in their home setting. You don’t get to know missionaries as well when they visit your church for a few hours, show pictures of their mission field, then leave for their next church presentation. When you spend a week working side-by-side with a family you get a better glimpse of what it means to be a full-time missionary. If you live for one week with a missionary family and help them in their daily service for the Lord you form lasting bonds of friendship with them. You gain an appreciation for the passion they have to see souls saved. You also have occasions to encourage them in some of the difficulties of life on the mission field. As you see them pour out their lives in service to the Lord maybe, just maybe, you will be led by God to give your live for full-time service too. Item of Prayer: That God would use you in the lives of missionaries during a short-term field team trip; that you would learn more about what it means to serve full time on the mission field.
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