In This Issue: Stuff for Doing Mission Trips, Women of the Harvest, and More
- CD – Documents for Doing Mission Trips
- EVENT – 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting
- FREE ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS – Women of the Harvest
- PRAYER RESOURCES – Ethne
Missions Catalyst is a free, weekly electronic digest of mission news and resources designed to inspire and equip Christians worldwide for global ministry. Use it to fuel your prayers, find tips and opportunities, and stay in touch with how God is building his kingdom all over the world. Please forward it freely!
Resource Reviews, edited by Marti Smith, are published once a month.
CD – Documents for Doing Mission Trips
From: David Mays
“Trip Stuff: Stuff You Need to Know about Doing Mission Trips in Your Church – A Handbook of Important Documents” Compiled by David Mays. Published 2006.
Going on a mission trip, leading or hosting one, or overseeing a mission trip program? Have you wanted to look at a sample trip application, or release of liability, or medical information form, or packing list? See how others do their trip planning or team preparation. Find guidelines on writing support-raising letters. Leverage the trip in the lives of those who go through effective debriefing and follow-through.
This CD includes 229 forms, samples, policies, procedures, tips, guidelines, and outlines developed or used by churches for short-term mission trips – all Microsoft Word documents which you can print out, copy, modify, and use for your mission trips.
Learn more or purchase from David Mays for US$24.00 plus shipping and handling.
SEE ALSO: The CD, Stuff IV – Yet More Stuff You Need to Know about Doing Missions in your Church, and the booklet, Becoming a World Changing Church.
EDITOR’S NOTE: By the way, if you still want to sign up for the National Short-Term Mission Conference in Los Angeles (January 2007), sign up by November 30 and get a discount on your registration.
EVENT – 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting
From: SVM2
What: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting
When: January 22 through February 12, 2007
SVM2 (Student Volunteer Movement 2) is calling for a corporate 21 days of prayer and fasting in January and February.
“Together, we are seeking revival among the emerging generation that will thrust the supremacy of Christ to the forefront of every college ministry and cause multitudes to respond to his supremacy by giving themselves in full surrender to his role for their lives among the forgotten.”
Join others in asking God to:
• Move in power on college campuses with biblical revival,
• Cause multitudes of believers in the emerging generation to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus,
• Raise up biblical unity and common goals and purposes among the emerging generation,
• Compel thousands of new laborers to make faith-filled, Spirit-led decisions to serve God among the forgotten,
• Initiate thriving campus mission initiatives on hundreds of campuses, and
• Break down strongholds in forgotten areas and soften hearts to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
For detailed information about this season of focused prayer and how an individual, campus ministry fellowship, or local church can participate, please go to SVM2.
SEE ALSO:
Urbana Student Missions Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, December 27-31
Passion conference in Atlanta, Georgia, January 1-4
Missions Catalyst’s missions events calendar [Note: Links removed July 2009]
FREE ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS – Women of the Harvest
From: Women of the Harvest
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve written before about Women of the Harvest, a ministry to women in missions, but it is worth highlighting again. The publishers recently wrote:
“We would love to double our ‘subscribers’ by the end of 2006. Would you please remind all of your missionary women about our publications and retreat ministry? Our resources make a wonderful free gift to provide encouragement for them!”
All of the following publications are available by subscription from Women of the Harvest. Let them know you heard about them here!
• Women of the Harvest On-line Magazine: This bi-monthly electronic publication offers articles of encouragement for women living overseas. The articles are all written by women who are serving or have served cross-culturally. A number of formats [from reading on-line, to full-color downloadable PDFs and a text-only version] can be accessed to fit your unique situation.
• Weekly Word: This in-depth study of the most important lessons will keep your soul nourished. Use it with your favorite stateside friend, incorporate it into your team time, or use it with the women with whom you work.
• Harvest Legacy: This quarterly e-newsletter is distributed to parents of people who live overseas. This publication offers many resources to keep parents/grandparents connected to their family members.
• Archive Library: Now contains all the past articles from “Women of the Harvest Magazine” (1998 to 2005).
Additionally, Women of the Harvest would like to encourage you to consider submitting an article for the on-line magazine. Writer’s guidelines are posted on the site.
Please note: For security reasons access is limited to “registered users.” Therefore, you will need to enter a username and password to preview any of the above publications or to download the on-line magazine.
SEE ALSO:
Voices of the Faithful
Through Her Eyes
Pray for Missionary Women [Note: Links removed July 2009]
PRAYER RESOURCES – Ethne
From: Ethne
Ethne is facilitating a global, 12-month prayer initiative from June 2006 through May 2007, focusing on the least-reached peoples of 12 geographic regions, month-by-month, beginning in the east and moving westward.
December will be the month of prayer for the least-reached peoples of East and South Africa. A brand-new DVD has been prepared with a set of six testimony stories (in 18 languages). Each testimony is 5-7 minutes long and highlights what God has already done in the lives of formerly unreached peoples, now involved in reaching others. You can order your own copy from your nearest distributor. A donation to cover expenses is requested. You are welcome to duplicate and distribute it once you obtain a copy.
Many other resources are available for free download from Ethne’s Resources page.
SEE ALSO:
Joshua Project – provides statistics and information about the people groups in each month’s Ethne focus region.
Prayer Guard – provides a daily 3-minute on-line prayer session for a people group in the Ethne region for each month.
Global Prayer Digest – provides a daily 3-minute on-line prayer session for a people group in the Ethne region for each month.
Questions? Problems? Submissions? Contact publisher/managing editor Marti Smith.