We come from a land down under!

Kia Ora M.A.

We’ve just got back from an awesome winter full of adventures… 36 young people from Narrabeen, Australia and Whangamata, NZ travelled to Vanuatu to get involved in some awesome projects. Here are our highlights:
-  Two 10,000 litre water tanks constructed in rural communities;
-  One bush dispensary built and stocked, with healthcare training giving to local mammas;
-  Home visits and prayer… we saw a deaf lady healed, a man walk for the first time in ten years after a stroke, and heaps more;
-  Our 20 foot shipping container arrived from NZ, and supplies were distributed to schools and communities in need;
-  Our lads from Whangamata performed the haka three times at Ifira Island’s independence celebrations and broke the stage!
- Naomi from the new Mission Adventures Wollongong base (Australia) came with us and did an awesome job helping us all out - watch those guys in the future!



What’s next?
-  A team from Taupo Christian School is headed to Tonga during this school term, where they will be working with a range of schools and church ministries.
-  In late September our team of young adults and not-so-young adults will be going to Cambodia. This trip is in partnership with Steps of Justice, so we’ll be getting involved in justice awareness and working with victims of injustice.

From Wade, Erica, Lance, Trista, and the rest of the Mission Adventures team

MA Boston has begun!

Hey all, I am so thrilled to now be included in the MA network! We here at YWAM Boston just spent about 2 weeks with Mike and Rebekah Gervasi. They fully passed on the vision of Mission Adventures, we are so inspired and encouraged! One day during our training we got talking about data bases and admin stuff like such and I wanted to share an online data base YWAM Boston just started using this summer that has revolutionized how we log stuff! 

 

The Website we are now using is called Batchbook.com. It is a wonderfully website that you can drag your already existing exel files into. You are able to create tags (i.e. supporters, salvations, mission adventures churches etc. )that help you group your contacts together in one place. My favorite part about the site is that it is accessible from any computer, from any person on staff, at any time. All you need is the login info. I trained about 5 of our staff in how to log on and upload contact information on the website and it has done wonders for us! 

Say you are out doing an outreach with a Mission Adventure team in the 3rd week of August this year. You pray with people to recieve salvation, get their contact information, and now you can input it on batchbook! you creat a tag for the specific week of MA, including the exact place, time and team doing the outreach. You can customize the information log on a contact to be something like a contact card, then you input the person’s information that recieved salvation (i.e. name, phone, facebook, needs a bible etc.). Say you are working with a church who now wants that follow up information, you can just export all of the info (related to that outreach) as an exel file and give the digital copy to the church that wants it. Now you both can do follow up on the people who recieve salvation! 

This site has a ton of applications and is just a huge blessing to our ministry here, and I thought some of you other MA-ers might find it useful! God Bless!

Aaron Reeves

Introducing the Mission Adventures Outcome Statement

THE PURPOSE OF MISSION ADVENTURES IS:
1) To provide opportunities to “do the Word” and therefore be blessed, (James 1:22-25).
 a) Evangelism: To give groups easy access to evangelism opportunities both locally and cross-culturally.
 b) Mercy: To serve the poor and needy by facilitating field driven projects that lead to community transformation.
2) Training: To be a first step in making more missional workers for the kingdom.

MISSION ADVENTURES AIMS TO IMPACT GROUPS:
1) That are inspired and equipped to move forward in the full expression Great Commission.
2) To provoke the wider church and community towards greater mission vision and action. 

MISSION ADVENTURES AIMS TO INSPIRE STUDENTS:
1) To obey Jesus’ teachings and help others to do the same.
2) To expand their worldview and break their misconceptions and preconceived ideas.
3) To become missionaries to all the spheres of society.

Mission Adventures School

Details are slowly emerging. Here’s what we know:

MA School | Spring 2014 | VancouverMike Davies will be leading the first ever Mission Adventures School during the Spring of 2014 in the beautiful city of Vancouver.

Other than that, we don’t know much. Some of our thoughts are as follows: 

  • 12 weeks of living and learning.
  • University of the Nations credit.
  • Extremely practical.

Keep in mind that everything is in flux—all that up there may change. Or it might not.

We do know that the next generation of youth leaders will be made here. And we know that the previous generations will impart their wisdom and drop their k-nowledge. 

Mark you calendar. 

 

 

Oh, and the swag is gonnu be off the hook.

Reflection and Goals

Hey All!

A newsletter that Craig sent out recently got me thinking. It was about reflection and goals. I thought it would be good for all of us to do something similar. I took the questions and modified them a bit. It would be cool if we can all take a moment, seek God and reply in a comment to these question. There is many resons why I think this would be great, two of them being encouragement and accountability. So let do it! SEEK GOD and REPLY! O, YEAH!

 

Reflection

  • What is one thing you learned from running MA last year?
  • What was your biggest accomplishment in 2012?
  • What is a God story from the last year that impacted someone’s life?

 

Goals

  • What is the purpose of having MA in you location?
  • How can you use MA to fulfill the vision of your base?
  • Big picture, what is God calling you to do with MA this year?
  • What are your minimum goals, primary goals, and stretching goals for the year?(name 3 for each)