The Mission Adventures Insider
Tools & Inspiration for MA Leaders
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the Mission Adventures Insider:
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This section has all the info on our upcoming Mission Adventures School. This section will have all the info on the new school, and a way to request more information.
Wait, what?! You haven’t heard? Well then, you’re gonnu wanna click that hot fresh new link over there then!
The Theme Team: J.P, (Masha), Sarvia, Keila, Berrit, Steve, Levi, Craig, Anders (top), and Zhenya
All together, we were nine YWAMers from six nations. We met together for four days in beautiful Burtigny, Switzerland. We waited on the Lord, we brainstormed, we wrote on white boards and on sticky notes. And we had great food and good times exploring Burtigny, Geneva, and Nyon.
Oh, and we got a theme too! But you’re gonnu have to wait for that. We’ll keep you posted!
Of course, we took about a zillion photos. You can find the bestest ones here.
Tio Anders de Switzerway Wants YOU!
Announcing the Theme Thang!
We’re meeting in Burtigny, Switzerland for five days of amazing creativity, incredible fun, and super inspiration. And the best part is, at the end, we’ll have the brand new Theme for 2014!
October 13-17, 2013 • Burtigny Switzerland
€120 for Europeans or €100 for Anyone Else
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
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
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.
Recently we heard a guy speak in Aussie who listed some apparently very good books to help you run a snazzy M.A. program. Here is proof that we listened to that advice!
