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Does America need missionaries? Salvation Army believes we must help people physically before they start opening-up spiritually. Which organizations do you trust or support or help out in? I want to be a missionary. Where should I go, who should I go with, why, how, & what should be the objectives?
This thread contains questions about making the world a better place. Which countries needs missionaries? Or what do they need? I want to hear from you, even if you're not Christian, etc. Feel free to talk trash about God. I want options, solutions, opinions, facts, pie, cake, or anything related or not.
Dump it all here, I dare you.
The eight-year-old missionary drew a man holding balloons on a wheeled platform.
The wheels symbolizes mobility, flexibility, outreach. The platform represents ministry, evangelism, preaching, encouraging, sharing, opportunities. The balloons illustrates marketability: Christ's ability to attract people unto Himself. The man stands for who the boy was, is & who I'm still becoming. I was that boy who drew that picture when I was eight.
Picture Symbolizes the following four things:
1. The wheels symbolizes mobility, flexibility, outreach.
2. The platform represents ministry, evangelism, preaching, encouraging, sharing, opportunities.
3. The balloons illustrates marketability: Christ's ability to attract people unto Himself.
4. The man stands for who the boy was, is & who I'm still becoming.
Age ten I told my children church teacher that I would grow up, get my own apartment, & donate as much as I could to TBN or missionaries.
I was born & raised in Forest Grove, Oregon of the United States: 1985 February 11th: grew up in a trailer with my dad, mom, an older sister, a brother, & later a younger sister. I was homeschooled until high-school: then did two years of New York Word of Life Bible Institute, one year at West Virginia's Appalachian Bible College.
Grew up going to Bible clubs such as AWANA & Word of Life Olympians. At age fifteen, me & our Baptist church's youth group did an eight day mission trip to Idaho. Age 21, in 2006, me & a group from my first college did a mission trip to Quebec for ten days. When I was 22, I did Revolution Hawaii, a nine-month mission trip funded by The Salvation Army.
Age 19, I worked kitchen at the New York Word of Life Ranch Camp. The next two summers & winters I returned as a camp counselor. When I was twenty, was a camp counselor at California's Word of Life West Coast Camp for two weeks. Age 22, I was a camp counselor at Oregon's Salvation Army's Camp Kuratli's Wilderness Camp. I returned the next summer. Age 25, I was a Relief Counselor at California's Salvation Army's Camp Redwood Glen. Age 23, in 2008, I was an elementary after-school assistant & a Kells Irish Restaurant dishwasher.
I was born partly deaf & had ear tubes until about age ten. I have Treacher Collins Syndrome, dyslexia, down syndrome, learning disabilities. Yet, my mother, by the help of Christ, never gave up on me.
Age ten, in 1996, I produced my first full feature hour-long film, the Power Ranger Kids, which was the first of many video projects that are currently not finished. Around that time I also started writing. Since age six I was drawing turtles, Indians, trees, houses, mazes, blueprints, castle designs, stories, comics, daily reviews, monsters.
I say all of this to ask for wisdom about my destiny.
Two different countries on my mind:
1. The Philippines
2. Australia
Pray for me as I contemplate missions versus education versus careers versus starting a family first versus finishing projects first.
I didn't even get an AA in college, it's not my kind of thing, & I'd rather go off & do lifelong missions anyhow.
I might be able to take online courses while deployed in a foreign country. I want to reach out where people really need physical & spiritual help. I favor the spiritual needs over the physical.
Which countries or places need Christ the most?
I'm 27 years old & I drew that missionary picture of me 19 years ago. I'm contemplating church planting & Bible translating. Those are two follow-up questions:
1. Which places needs church planters the most?
2. Which places need Bible translators the most?
I love basketball, making movies, building computers, writing, drawing, playing guitar & piano, song-writing, story-writing, encouraging, preaching, helping, inventing, biking, hiking, adventures, comedy, being a comedian, making people laugh, listening, talking, being there for people, trying to reach out to people online, making up things, eating oatmeal, being silly, travelling.
I pray that God aligns the path of me & my future wife. I desire having children &/or adopting. I believe in lifestyle evangelism. I believe in Baptist theology but am not totally against charismatic or pentecostal Word of Faith doctrines: I don't believe that tongues is necessary for salvation but I'm not against the possibilities.
I currently live with my dad right now. I'm currently unemployed. I would rather be an Apostle Paul tent-making self-supporting missionary as oppose to one dependant on the support of the local church.
I'm afraid that if I become a missionary too soon that I may never meet my wife & live the rest of my life as a single missionary out there somewhere.
My strongest desire is in film, art, writing, & other creative ministries. I've always wanted to penetrate Hollywood as an actor, director, producer, writer, crew, musician, etc, & influence them for Christ.
I currently only have less than a hundred bucks & am paying off a student loan: I have around two thousand dollars that I still owe.
Part of my plan includes researching ministries, mission organizations, churches, church plants, Bible translators, etc.
I also need to research countries, peoples, world needs, etc. Where does God need me in this world? In the United States or Australia or the Philippines or where & when & why & how & for how long?
Pray for me & feel free to give me feedback, questions, concerns, criticism, or feel free to turn this thread into a debate between pie versus cake if you wish.
OPEN!!!!!!
This thread is open to everybody, Christian or not.
I invite you to comment here. If you don't believe in God then you can tell me that I shouldn't be a missionary. Yet the alternative might be the Red Cross or Green Peace or some kind of non-religious relief efforts like they have for Japan, China, Africa, etc.
How can we make this world better? Do we need more missionaries? Do we need a one world government or religion? Do we just need more disaster relief & emergency teams & volunteers?
Who needs the most help & what do they need?
This thread contains questions about making the world a better place. Which countries needs missionaries? Or what do they need? I want to hear from you, even if you're not Christian, etc. Feel free to talk trash about God. I want options, solutions, opinions, facts, pie, cake, or anything related or not.
Dump it all here, I dare you.
The eight-year-old missionary drew a man holding balloons on a wheeled platform.
The wheels symbolizes mobility, flexibility, outreach. The platform represents ministry, evangelism, preaching, encouraging, sharing, opportunities. The balloons illustrates marketability: Christ's ability to attract people unto Himself. The man stands for who the boy was, is & who I'm still becoming. I was that boy who drew that picture when I was eight.
Picture Symbolizes the following four things:
1. The wheels symbolizes mobility, flexibility, outreach.
2. The platform represents ministry, evangelism, preaching, encouraging, sharing, opportunities.
3. The balloons illustrates marketability: Christ's ability to attract people unto Himself.
4. The man stands for who the boy was, is & who I'm still becoming.
Age ten I told my children church teacher that I would grow up, get my own apartment, & donate as much as I could to TBN or missionaries.
I was born & raised in Forest Grove, Oregon of the United States: 1985 February 11th: grew up in a trailer with my dad, mom, an older sister, a brother, & later a younger sister. I was homeschooled until high-school: then did two years of New York Word of Life Bible Institute, one year at West Virginia's Appalachian Bible College.
Grew up going to Bible clubs such as AWANA & Word of Life Olympians. At age fifteen, me & our Baptist church's youth group did an eight day mission trip to Idaho. Age 21, in 2006, me & a group from my first college did a mission trip to Quebec for ten days. When I was 22, I did Revolution Hawaii, a nine-month mission trip funded by The Salvation Army.
Age 19, I worked kitchen at the New York Word of Life Ranch Camp. The next two summers & winters I returned as a camp counselor. When I was twenty, was a camp counselor at California's Word of Life West Coast Camp for two weeks. Age 22, I was a camp counselor at Oregon's Salvation Army's Camp Kuratli's Wilderness Camp. I returned the next summer. Age 25, I was a Relief Counselor at California's Salvation Army's Camp Redwood Glen. Age 23, in 2008, I was an elementary after-school assistant & a Kells Irish Restaurant dishwasher.
I was born partly deaf & had ear tubes until about age ten. I have Treacher Collins Syndrome, dyslexia, down syndrome, learning disabilities. Yet, my mother, by the help of Christ, never gave up on me.
Age ten, in 1996, I produced my first full feature hour-long film, the Power Ranger Kids, which was the first of many video projects that are currently not finished. Around that time I also started writing. Since age six I was drawing turtles, Indians, trees, houses, mazes, blueprints, castle designs, stories, comics, daily reviews, monsters.
I say all of this to ask for wisdom about my destiny.
Two different countries on my mind:
1. The Philippines
2. Australia
Pray for me as I contemplate missions versus education versus careers versus starting a family first versus finishing projects first.
I didn't even get an AA in college, it's not my kind of thing, & I'd rather go off & do lifelong missions anyhow.
I might be able to take online courses while deployed in a foreign country. I want to reach out where people really need physical & spiritual help. I favor the spiritual needs over the physical.
Which countries or places need Christ the most?
I'm 27 years old & I drew that missionary picture of me 19 years ago. I'm contemplating church planting & Bible translating. Those are two follow-up questions:
1. Which places needs church planters the most?
2. Which places need Bible translators the most?
I love basketball, making movies, building computers, writing, drawing, playing guitar & piano, song-writing, story-writing, encouraging, preaching, helping, inventing, biking, hiking, adventures, comedy, being a comedian, making people laugh, listening, talking, being there for people, trying to reach out to people online, making up things, eating oatmeal, being silly, travelling.
I pray that God aligns the path of me & my future wife. I desire having children &/or adopting. I believe in lifestyle evangelism. I believe in Baptist theology but am not totally against charismatic or pentecostal Word of Faith doctrines: I don't believe that tongues is necessary for salvation but I'm not against the possibilities.
I currently live with my dad right now. I'm currently unemployed. I would rather be an Apostle Paul tent-making self-supporting missionary as oppose to one dependant on the support of the local church.
I'm afraid that if I become a missionary too soon that I may never meet my wife & live the rest of my life as a single missionary out there somewhere.
My strongest desire is in film, art, writing, & other creative ministries. I've always wanted to penetrate Hollywood as an actor, director, producer, writer, crew, musician, etc, & influence them for Christ.
I currently only have less than a hundred bucks & am paying off a student loan: I have around two thousand dollars that I still owe.
Part of my plan includes researching ministries, mission organizations, churches, church plants, Bible translators, etc.
I also need to research countries, peoples, world needs, etc. Where does God need me in this world? In the United States or Australia or the Philippines or where & when & why & how & for how long?
Pray for me & feel free to give me feedback, questions, concerns, criticism, or feel free to turn this thread into a debate between pie versus cake if you wish.
OPEN!!!!!!
This thread is open to everybody, Christian or not.
I invite you to comment here. If you don't believe in God then you can tell me that I shouldn't be a missionary. Yet the alternative might be the Red Cross or Green Peace or some kind of non-religious relief efforts like they have for Japan, China, Africa, etc.
How can we make this world better? Do we need more missionaries? Do we need a one world government or religion? Do we just need more disaster relief & emergency teams & volunteers?
Who needs the most help & what do they need?
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