Mission Arlington

1. Mission Arlington Summer 2014 Sessions

2. Mission Statement • Things to consider • Why are you going on the mission trip? • What purpose do you see our group accomplishing? • How can we accomplish those goals • Are they’re any sub goals? • Our Statement • We desire to build a deeper sense of community within our group while meeting the physical needs of others in order to share the Gospel. We desire to….

3. To Say or not to say • Things not to say (true or not) • Anything at all that implies that you are better or know better than they do. • Do not only be ready to speak but be ready to listen.(don’t over talk) • Do not talk highly of yourself • I would like to see you in heaven, or this is why you should believe in Jesus. • Things to say • You are loved • How can I help you today • Ask people about what they like to do? • Ask people about their favorite things • Treat everyone you encounter as better than yourself. • Invest time in each person you talk to. Show them with questions that you think they are important. • Ask people if you can pray for them • Pray for their situation • Pray for their families • Pray for comfort • Pray encouragement into their lives • When people ask why you are here this is you chance to spread the Gospel. • I am here because I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. And because he saved my life and I just want to show people more about this Jesus. • Because someone di this for me once. • Or testimony • Or some mix of all of them.

4. Prayer • Things to Pray For • Ourselves • Pray for a servants heart • Pray for a lesser view of oneself • Pray for confidence in Christ • Pray for the Love of God to overcome all you • Each Other • Pray for our groups unity in Christ • Pray that we are God focused • Pray that we serve communally as a group rather than only as an individual • Pray for any issues others in the community may have • Share with each other your burdens. • Pray for Mission Arlington • Pray that everything they need is supplied • Pray that they are ready for us when we come • Pray that our servant hood is a blessing to them • Pray Communally • That means that we need to pray together.

5. Testimony • Begin thinking about testimonials • What is a testimonial? • Why is my personal testimony or faith story important • How can my testimony be a witness to other people • It is the reason that we do what we do • Begin writing your testimony

6. Testimony Rough Draft • Hi, I’m Scott Edward Townsend. I would like to take the time to tell you how Jesus Christ changed my life. I grew up in a Christian home, the youngest of four. The beginnings of my faith didn’t really start till I was about 13 years old. I don’t have a specific time nor day that I became a follower of Jesus. Sometime in between 7th grade and my freshman year of High School I began to follow Jesus. My dad has always been a huge influence in my life. He is an extremely knowledgeable man is his relationship to Christ was always something that I envied. He always taught a message of Jesus not me. His teachings sent me through depression around 7th grade about my identity and the value of life. I did not think that I was valuable. I always thought that I was stupid. School was very difficult for me, both academically and socially. Sometime during my depression my thoughts had turned suicidal due to my lack of intelligence and in one of my darkest moments I remember telling God that if He was real then “make me not stupid anymore.” This was my challenge to God, and for some reason God answered my prayer. Quite suddenly it was like a fog was lifted from my mind and things began becoming clearer over the course of the summer. I new where this new clarity came from. It was from God. During that summer God built up a confidence in my new found study of His word. My confidence was found in Him, and He continued to nurture and grow me in my relationship to him through Christ through out my high school career. By my senior year I new that God was calling me to be in His ministry. To serve the people he loved. It was the summer of my senior year that God gave me my wife Alicia, and she has been nothing but a blessing to me in my life. I will not say that life has always been easy or that my faith has always been unyielding and strong, but I can tell you that I have encountered Jesus Christ and have formed a relationship with Him. Now He affects everything that I do.

7. To say or not to say cont.. • Not to say • Arguing • Combative language. • (in other words don‘t start verbal sparring matches • Things to say • Confrontational words • The key here is to phrase the statements o that the confrontation is with their selves

8. Things to do and things not to do • Things to Do • Always be willing to work. We need to have the idea that we are on mission to be servants. • Be ready to listen. • Things not to do • Do not help people that are not apart of Mission Arlington by yourself. Always ask one of the adults. • Do not throw students down on their air matresse while on mission trip.

9. Prayer • Things to Pray For • Ourselves • Pray for a servants heart • Pray for a lesser view of oneself • Pray for confidence in Christ • Pray for the Love of God to overcome all you • Each Other • Pray for our groups unity in Christ • Pray that we are God focused • Pray that we serve communally as a group rather than only as an individual • Pray for any issues others in the community may have • Share with each other your burdens. • Pray for Mission Arlington • Pray that everything they need is supplied • Pray that they are ready for us when we come • Pray that our servant hood is a blessing to them • Pray Communally • That means that we need to pray together.