I haven't seen many Christian threads and none about missions. I am new to the site however.
What missions do you support? Do you collect daily or a certain times of the year? I have incorporated it into our schooling. We focus on 2 mission projects each year. This year is was basically collecting pennies, loose change and boxtops for schools that need them.
This fall I want our missions to be more hands on, like volunteering at a local ministry-With Love From Jesus. Sorting and helping in any way that we can.
What missions do you support? Do you collect daily or a certain times of the year? I have incorporated it into our schooling. We focus on 2 mission projects each year. This year is was basically collecting pennies, loose change and boxtops for schools that need them.
This fall I want our missions to be more hands on, like volunteering at a local ministry-With Love From Jesus. Sorting and helping in any way that we can.
However, their emphasis is on training native Christians in ministry rather than bringing in costly Western missionaries who have no sensitivity to the culture at all (this is a big plus in dh's eyes as he is Ethiopian and had horrible experiences with Western missionaries and their superiority complexes 
. They also do things like dig wells for Christians who have been harassed and kept away from village wells, help families who have lost husbands and fathers due to persecution, and safehouses and vocational training for girls who either have no economic future at all (so they don't have to be put into "service" where they may be abused) or girls who have converted to Christianity and had their lives threatened by their families or villages. VOM provides many similar services to Christians in persecuted nations, advocacy for Christians who have been jailed unjustly, rebuilding churches and Christian homes that have been destroyed, safehouses and schools for children who are at risk of abduction and abuse (for instance children who are targeted by rebel groups like FARC or some of the African rebel armies), Bibles for those who cannot obtain them in their country or who's Bibles have been removed or destroyed, help for those fleeing North Korea,, medical services for those who have been tortured, beaten, and otherwise physically abused, etc. Both organizations also provide relief services to anyone they can, regardless of religion, and both were highly active in the disaster relief during the tsunami a few years ago, again, regardless of the religion of the people they were helping.
: I think it's awesome that they spent the rest of their lives advocating for and assisting people who were put in similar horrific circumstances.
