Come Walk in the steps of a child affected by the AIDS Crisis
The World Vision Experience is an interactive exhibit that combines stirring audio and captivating photography, transporting you into the heart of Africa. You’ll see, hear, and experience stories of tragedy and triumph lived out by real children in AIDS-affected communities. And you’ll gain a completely new perspective on the greatest humanitarian
crisis of our time.
The exhibit will be in Dallas at three locations:
February 1 – 4, 2008
Highland Park Presbyterian Church
3821 University Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75205
February 23 – 25, 2008
First Baptist Church McKinney
1615 West Louisiana St.
McKinney, TX 75069
February 29 – March 2, 2008
The Heights Church
201 West Renner Road
Richardson, TX 75080
To Get free tickets or to volunteer visit www.worldvisionexperience.org
Once a year, the missionaries from each country get together to have their own recoup time. It’s a time for prayer, spiritual healing/awakening/refreshment, and a time to get to see the whole team together. Many of them never see each other but for this one time every year because they work in such remote areas.
The team is extremely diverse with missionaries from Ethiopia, Wales, New Zealand, England, Kenya, Canada and America. This creates such a unique experience while doing God’s work for his kingdom.
James Blunt was in the British military at one point. He was apparently the first officer to enter the capital of Bosnia, Prishtina, in 1999. He wrote a song called “No Bravery” talking about his experiences of entering this place while setting it free of the ethnic cleansing that had been going on. He shot some video of his experience and some of it was incorporated into his music video for the song.
Did you know that the highest rate of dying languages is right here in the US? It’s Oklahoma. This is due to the increasing assimilation of the Native American population into ‘modern’ American culture. These ‘indian’ languages are dying off fast. One such language was highlighted recently by the Dallas Morning News. Click the image below to find out more about it. Only one person in the whole world can speak fluent Wichita, she is 80 years old.
It is so cool to see a modern media news paper realize the important link between language and ‘worldview.’ It’s rare for people to make that connection. Each time a tribal language in Africa is suppressed, that worldview is also suppressed and lost forever.
There are basically two companies doing sat phones. One of them is Thuraya. They are the way to go for North Africa and the Middle East, but yesterday they expanded into more of Asia with the launch of a new satellite. Check out the official announcement from the company that put it into orbit at Sealaunch.com.
I was recently asked to write a few words about how I came to find myself desiring to enter the mission field. I’m sure not all of you have heard this much background. It’s pretty tight and concise. I hope it will let you see a little more into our world of how we could be so crazy to do something like move to one of the most inhospitable places in the world… well, in a word, God.
I had always pictured myself making lots of money and being able to actively be a ‘sender.’ My father was a successful businessman and I never saw myself doing anything different. During my freshman year of college I participated in Perspectives, a global missions course, administered by a retired SIM missionary who is now a professor at John Brown University. I believe God had me attending this class to soften my heart to a message I would hear toward the end of that semester at school. Late in the semester I had the opportunity to hear from a group representing Mercy Ships at an evening event. As I listened to what they had done while on mission, my attention focused on one of the guys who had participated as a videographer. My degree was in media and I knew I wanted to do video production. In the midst of their sharing, I realized God turning on a light bulb in my head. I came to this realization that not all missionaries are church planters. Teachers, engineers, bankers, and nurses are just an example of the myriad of skills that are needed on the mission field. In this moment, I realized God wanted me on the mission field capturing the stories of missionaries to tell their story back to the American church. I had no idea when, where or how I would come to be a missionary, but that night I started my journey toward a life of missions.
Well, surprisingly, I got a call today. The TX licensing dept called to tell me my plate had come in. My first reply was… ‘oh, they lifted the lock-down???!!!’. So we struck up a funny conversation and I said thanks for letting me know and I’d come to pick it up today and we hung up.
30 seconds later I get another phone call. It’s the same girl saying that she totally forgot to tell me more. No big deal, other than to mention that the annual license registration I just got 2 months ago, has to be renewed again b/c the custom plate has to be synced with the license registration. Great! Suddenly getting custom plates isn’t so cheap.
