Tears, 17 -year -old Julia confessed to the team that he lived in a “deep sin” and noticed that he needed a Christ. Julia’s family was part of a family mission trip with family life to the Mexican state town. They went together with the intention of serving a poor community, but God did something special for his family.
When Julia witnessed his parents and other team members share the truth of the gospel, he began to understand the freedom of Christ of Christ and his blessings. She began to process what God was doing in her heart with her mother. By the end of the week, she was passionate about the gospel.
In many cases, teenage young people go to these types of missions without their parents. After that, they came back and their experience was separated from other family members. This was different. Julia not only processed what God was doing with her parents, but now described from the experience of returning home with a plan to continue investing in her daughter and shared to nurture the religion for Christ.
Questions to be considered before going on a family mission trip
1. What are you hindering from participating in your family’s mission trip?
2. What are the concerns you might have?
3. How do you know if the Lord asks you to trust him like this?
In many cases, there are common reasons that families do not participate in missions.
Safety
At the most basic level, our job as a parent is to protect children. The essence of our family’s mission travel is to go to a country with some risk, but we are very careful to keep what is happening in the visited country and implement it. Paying a safety protocol and emergency response are planning to protect the team.
Fee
It may be difficult to find the finances to participate in mission trips, depending on the cost of support for travel and the cost of today’s travel. One of the biggest goals of Familylife is to keep the mission at a reasonable price as possible. Maintain the mission for about a week, visit a nearby country, and hold some missions in the United States to reduce costs.
time
We recognize that most families are taking vacation to engage in missions. I believe this is the use of valuable time, but I want to maximize the time to share the gospel with people, invest in the growth of each family, and process that God is in life. I’m thinking.
Level of discomfort
Especially as you get older, it may be difficult to deal with discomfort. We understand that everyone has different abilities due to discomfort, but we have worked hard to find a range called “the right amount of discomfort” for American families. 。 Our accommodations may not be resort quality, but their families do not sleep in dirty places. Yes, the participants can be uncomfortable, but it is a great opportunity for God to allow them to meet them with that discomfort.
Three reasons to go on a family mission trip
Our vision is to see each family beyond themselves, trust God together, and realize that the family is intended to be more than before.
Explore the three reasons for going on a family mission trip.
Reason # 1: My family has fallen.
In Genesis 1: 27-28, “God created humanity with his own image, he created him in the image of God. Men and women created them. God blesss them and to them. “Please increase the number of fruitful and rich. Please fill the earth and conquer …”
As soon as God created a man and a woman, the first family, he gave them a mission. It grows, grows, fills the earth, and suppresses it. This means not only physically but also mentally.
Later, at the Genesis 12: 3, God promises to Abraham. “All families on the earth will be blessed through you” (NLT). He repeats this at Genesis 22:18. When God tells him a similar thing, “And all countries on the earth will be blessed through your offspring …”
Again, God wants to work through his family to bless all other family members. God has a mission in Abraham’s family, raising animals, raising crops, making money, and enjoying all the other families on the earth.
From the beginning of the Bible, God uses two of the first two most important families and sets the patterns of the rest of the Bible. There are also many other examples in the Bible of the family mobilized to affect the world.
At the apostle 16: 1-9, we later meet Timothy, a pastor, under the guidance of the apostle Paul. We know from the two Timothy 1: 5 that the religion of Timothy’s mother and grandmother is well known as a real and exemplary one with missionaries. Timothy was not just a man like a wonderful boy’s Destadore, but he lived his life in a way that focuses on others. He lived in the ministry.
Timothy’s family was in the mission. You also intend to do so.
These stories are not here to show that there are “special” families called to participate in the mission together, but we encourage them to follow this pattern. Of course, this is a lifestyle that should be the center of the family’s rhythm, as well as going on a family mission trip. Family mission trips are the best ways to learn some new tools, achieve non -normal focus and intentional growth, and foster your mind by challenging.
Reason # 2: As the best disciple of your child, the mission provides a wonderful context to invest in their lives.
My wife and I have four children. If your family is like us, it’s easy to be sucked into a standard American routine of school, homework, work, sports, after -school activities, and social activities. There are so many spinning time, energy and resources. As all of these are progressing, it is possible to find time to read the Bible and pray. world!
It seems to be a noble goal, but God passes us over the fog of the grinding powder every day, trusts his Holy Spirit, and has a larger vision for our family. Invite us to give everything you need to meet. By having this out -of -positive mission, he is a place where he can do his best work in our marriage and children.
Looking at many teens who often leave religion when going to college, the Gospel article, which references Pew Research, says, “The house that models a slimy religion is not surprising. This is not a good -looking house in the first place, as it does not produce a permanent religion. It is a crisis for raising children.
Through family mission trips, parents give their parents a intentional and concentrated time to make their children a disciple in real time. Just signing up to a mission trip, parents tell children that we are not the most important people on the earth, and our resources and comfort are what we love and worship. Not.
In addition, parents are nervous and scary to share the gospel with their children, spend their intentional concentrated time, or join the unknown community, but they are doing it anyway. Jesus’ name. It is very good to see the children modeling them for them. In addition, the children gave their children a meaningful conversation with their parents, and instead of the leaders of youth and other adults (very valuable, the following ultimate points), they these. We are processing a wonderful, forming moment. The people who love them most.
Teaching our children must be a way of life for parents, but family mission travel is like a “arm shot” that provides a strong dose of disciples.
Reason # 3: It gives children the opportunity to see other families living in the mission
Another major contributor to influence young people is friends and friends. That’s why it is very important to help us encourage their religion and create a friendship that is trying to build them. Another major advantage of a family mission trip is that our children grow up with love and obedience to Jesus, and are friendship with other young people who do not trust him in the place he led. You can build and build. This has an additional advantage of making our family a little more normal (but which family is normal? I am right?). A bigger vision for family.
The Familylife Mission Trips shows that these travel children have become fast friends and often have been friendship after the mission. Immediately, they love and respect great spiritual experiences, and link to friends who can learn other ways to believe in Jesus and trust Jesus.
Your family was to be a mission with God
Family mission travel is the best way to strengthen that way of thinking and start kicking. Hope, whether you are already actively involved in your local community in some kind of gospel, or whether you are processing the meaning of getting out of American daily grind. You will be able to do it.
Your family had been taken for mission. Probably, you can consider investing on a short -term family mission trip at least a part of that time for your next family vacation. It may be an investment that gets dividends for generations.
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Oscar Abaros grew up in Elpaso, West Texas, and is currently a family life mission trip coordinator in Orlando, Florida. He and his wife, Candice, have four teenage children. Oscar and Candice have been staff at CRU/Familylife for 20 years. They are currently living in Florida, but they live in New Mexico, Arizona and Massachusetts. Abaros loves mission travel, play games, watch movies, and eat delicious food together.
