Monday, 13 October 2008
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QOTD: Overseas Mission Trip, Which Country?
If you could go on a foreign mission trip tomorrow, which country would you go to?
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I would love to go back to Merida, Venezuela.
Um, according to the Barna group if current trends hold true then when those who were born between 1984-2000 are in power then the Christian population in the U.S. will be somewhere around 4%!!! I think we need to worry about our own background first. Why save the whole world but lose your family? Let's remember the directions for the great commision; Jerusalem first, and then finally the whole world. Let's start locally before we ever begin globally.
We may not realize it but tons of countries from Europe and Asia send missionaries over here to win us back to God.
@TheBereanLife - I agree that we should evangelize America, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't go into all the world. It's an amazing experience to go on a foreign missions trip with a heart open to God. We live here all the time, and we always have opportunities here if we will take them. Going on a foreign trip can give us a new perspective on evangelism in the US.
I would love to go to either London, England or Switzerland. I hear there are a lot of youth that need help.
south africa
great britain...the statistics for christianity are abysmal there...
Tokyo... Japan... less than 1% are professing followers of Jesus... the nation has not one clue about Christ... but are mildly open save for missionaries who are hording welfare from the nation...
Japan is still a part of the 10/40 window so... yea...
Mormonism is huge there... a false Christ is being preached so the right one needs to be inserted into the conversation...
I'd be there in a heartbeat...
@leadworshipper82 - I'm so glad you said Japan! I'm here right now and it's completely true, there is so much darkness here, and it's one of the most difficult countries for missionaries to work. It's open, and people can come easily for religious purposes, but to actually see people come to know Jesus...that's another story. Most missionaries get discouraged and leave before they see any real results.
There are more believers in China than in Japan. Not just by population (which, of course, is a huge difference) but also by percentage.
@TheBereanLife - Many people aren't called to foreign mission work. it takes a special kind of person. Not saying that it doesn't take a special kind of person to do home missions, but both are equally unique and gifted by God for that specific ministry. It's important for us not to discredit one field for the other. People are the important thing. Go where the people are. Yes, Jerusalem is listed first, but the list is not sequential, it's comprehensive. We are to go everywhere and anywhere that there are people who do not believe. If your heart is more for those in your hometown/state/country...then by all means, do the good work there. But if your heart is called to those outside your familiar grounds and to people who are not the same as you, then by all means, go there and do the work. Just make sure you are doing the work!
I don't think I could choose a country to go to. I have had countries in my mind before. Since I felt God call me to foreign mission work, that COUNTRY has changed often, not just in where I want to go, but in where God took me. I've learned that I just need to be obedient to Him and go wherever He wants me to go. I am willing to go anywhere...I just want to be where He wants me. That's the safest and most effective place to be, in the middle of His will. :)
Gosh, it's tough. There are a lot of countries I want to go to. England, Ireland, Turkey, Greece, Italy, India, Australia. Sheesh. There are lots of places here in the States I'd love to go to, as well.
@xapatotheworld - very good point!
@xapatotheworld - I've lived there fore 3 months... i absolutely fell in love with the country. My dad has said one thing which holds no ground where Tokyo is a pleasure zone and a place of fun... to which i would say sure... BUT... at the same time i would be hard-pressed not to say that the work though hard would be in fact HARD... but the worth of it seeing a place where Shintoism and the newest form of religion: Materialism and seeing the new generation come to know Jesus through any means necessary that would be deemed Biblically feasible would be worth the hardships...
like i said... i'd be there in a heartbeat...
I would go to Ireland. That country needs God, it's religious background has made it's potential faith today dry and coarse. People rarely think of it as a country that needs a mission field, because of it's very religious past and current wealth, but only 1% of people there claim to be a Christian. I probably have the statistic wrong, so someone please correct me if they know :)!
Pakistan or Germany
wherever God wanted me to go but I'd like to go to a Spanish speaking country because Spanish is my second language.
@xapatotheworld - amen!! I love that you stressed the importance of being in God's will, going where He wants you to go. God bless and don't lose that mindset!!
Oh gosh! I have no idea... I'd go where ever God calls me, I suppose! But, if I really had to pick... I think I'd go to Afghanistan.
@leadworshipper82 - @xapatotheworld - I'm planning on being a missionary over there. What do you think has been the most successful mission in Japan?
thts easy i would go to Chile' because tht is where my two very best friends are... they are living there for 1yr helping build a church,teaching @ the school,working in the children's ministry ect.. i miss them a lot so if God let me go i would be there in a heart beat !!! i would like to go back to Venezuela or Ecuador we had some awsome times & really got to blessed a lot of people. oh did i mention i hate flying
I have a passion for Spanish, Spanish Language, hispanics, etc... so...anywhere in Latin/South America or to Spain. :)
@theycallmecrazy7@xanga - HIGH FIVE! me too, ireland is where i would go. that's where i know God has called me to be a missionary.
and you did have that statistic right. it's really sad. there are more redheads in ireland than there are Christians. (4% vs 1%)
@FOXHOUND_HQ@xanga - the term successful can be loaded. Do you mean in the largest amount of converts in the least amount of time. I'd say the Mormons probably have that "successful" mission going for them.
I think Japan is characterized by the seed that fell among the thorns. Society is such a rigid thing here in Japan, and family structure and tradition. Even though many of the younger generation do not share the beliefs of their parents, they are obligated to carry on and care for the family idols, hwich have been around for generations. There's a lot of openness within educational ministries (i.e. English Kindergarten, and EFL classes). Education is just as much an idol as the ones they offer rice and water to every week. If you can get into the education circuit, they are hungry for native English speakers for their children (and as a fun outlet for the adults) and then focus it on Christ in a non-threatening way, then you will get people to come. But it is a long process. Some have said that it takes 5x longer to reach someone in Japan than in America...which is saying something. They just don't see the need for it, and the cost, when first counted, is too great.
@leadworshipper82 - I never would have thought about Japan before coming here. I had no idea what the country was about at all. I have always been the person among my friends who could tell you about another country in detail, but with Japan, Icouldn't. But that's where God wanted me to go. I can see how someone would think it a cushy mission field...but when you take into account that almost everyone around you is worshipping another god (honestly, demons) then you really feel the oppression and working and working in someone's life and not seeing any fruit, that's really hard. Plus, they have the whole "tatamai" which is where they will tell you what you want to hear so they don't shame you, or themselves, but they don't mean it at all. So, people regularly agree to come to church events, but seldom actually come. It's really tough.
If i could go anywhere, on a mission trip.. I'd choose Haiti, I have recently saw videos from there of a girl i know through a friend, of a mission trip she just went on in August, and it tonged at my heart. They said, that every three days, kids over there have one meal a day... every three days. Parents gave up their children so they can live. That is very heartbreaking. But I'd love to go there on a mission trip, to even just help on child, if i could at least help one.. i'd know that i was making a difference in one life.