Thailand Missions (2018) "Relational Missions"
Hello everyone! It's Kevin!
We’re 8 days into our mission trip. And we’ll be heading back in 2 days. On the first few night I thought this would be a long 10 days. I would come home from the Centre, take a shower and fall directly to sleep. Now that it’s almost over, I ask myself where did all of those days go.
Tuesday (July 3rd) We had the opportunity to visit an elephant farm yesterday. The farm was owned by local Thai citizens with the goal of protecting the elephants. We saw a small elephant family had recently migrated to a renovated farm. With a total of 3 elephants, a mother, aunt, and a baby, elephant. We had the chance to feed them bananas and shower them. After our daily routine of eating breakfast and morning devotions, we headed out for the Centre.
Missions For those who don’t know what are we doing in Thailand, I wanted to clarify. What we are doing in Chang Mai is considered “relational missions.” That means we’re building relationship and trust with the local community members. And hopefully sharing the Gospel with them.
There are five steps that we use: * Get to know the locals by starting a conversation with them or asking questions.* Building relationship and trust by creating sentimental moments with the people. * Getting personal with the people. There are many ways in sharing the gospel. Cold contact, the opposite of relational, is the process of directly sharing the gospel to someone. This could cause people to think it’s weird or not like having a foreigner tell them what’s considered right and wrong. * Sharing the gospel. One of the most difficult parts about sharing the gospels is finding opportunities. Most people would say “that feeling just comes to you.” When I first heard this I was puzzled at how it was a valid answer and yet it explained nothing. But lucky for me I got the chance to share the gospel with someone on this trip. My advice for sharing is that “you gotta pull the trigger.” It’s comfortable and safe to act like this new fun person that everyone likes but this isn’t why we’re here. * Help build a sustainable faith. Like all missionaries we wanted to do something impactful. We don’t want to share the gospel and not have them be able to live it. For us this is the Centre. The Centre can help us give a sustainable Christ life.
“Missions is a really awkward term. Everything you do to glorify God and showing that to people is missions. Missions is more of a lifestyle”-Denise Poon
Prayer • Please pray for that we could at least leave an impact on the students’ life. * (please pray for the health of our members. As Jonny, Matthew, Alisa, and me (Kevin) are still recovering from our sickness, common cold. )
We’re 8 days into our mission trip. And we’ll be heading back in 2 days. On the first few night I thought this would be a long 10 days. I would come home from the Centre, take a shower and fall directly to sleep. Now that it’s almost over, I ask myself where did all of those days go.
Tuesday (July 3rd) We had the opportunity to visit an elephant farm yesterday. The farm was owned by local Thai citizens with the goal of protecting the elephants. We saw a small elephant family had recently migrated to a renovated farm. With a total of 3 elephants, a mother, aunt, and a baby, elephant. We had the chance to feed them bananas and shower them. After our daily routine of eating breakfast and morning devotions, we headed out for the Centre.
Missions For those who don’t know what are we doing in Thailand, I wanted to clarify. What we are doing in Chang Mai is considered “relational missions.” That means we’re building relationship and trust with the local community members. And hopefully sharing the Gospel with them.
There are five steps that we use: * Get to know the locals by starting a conversation with them or asking questions.* Building relationship and trust by creating sentimental moments with the people. * Getting personal with the people. There are many ways in sharing the gospel. Cold contact, the opposite of relational, is the process of directly sharing the gospel to someone. This could cause people to think it’s weird or not like having a foreigner tell them what’s considered right and wrong. * Sharing the gospel. One of the most difficult parts about sharing the gospels is finding opportunities. Most people would say “that feeling just comes to you.” When I first heard this I was puzzled at how it was a valid answer and yet it explained nothing. But lucky for me I got the chance to share the gospel with someone on this trip. My advice for sharing is that “you gotta pull the trigger.” It’s comfortable and safe to act like this new fun person that everyone likes but this isn’t why we’re here. * Help build a sustainable faith. Like all missionaries we wanted to do something impactful. We don’t want to share the gospel and not have them be able to live it. For us this is the Centre. The Centre can help us give a sustainable Christ life.
“Missions is a really awkward term. Everything you do to glorify God and showing that to people is missions. Missions is more of a lifestyle”-Denise Poon
Prayer • Please pray for that we could at least leave an impact on the students’ life. * (please pray for the health of our members. As Jonny, Matthew, Alisa, and me (Kevin) are still recovering from our sickness, common cold. )
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