Incorporating Missions into our Lives

I’m a missions junky. I’ve wanted to be missionary since I was a teenager. When it was time to decide what to study in college, I figured teaching or nursing would be the most useful on the mission field, and I didn’t like blood, so it had to be teaching. We have never actually moved outside the US, but we do run an organization that helps missionaries do their jobs, so I guess I am a missionary afterall.
I found Penny one day and loved her posts about teaching missions to kids. This one on Haiti illustrates how missions can weave its way into many aspects of our lives and our homeschools. I’ve copied and pasted it below. Enjoy!
Photo taken from World Hope International website.
One of the wonderful benefits of teaching missions is that each country I teach on becomes more interesting and “real” to me as a person and to my family. We’re more likely to pay attention to current events in that area, read blogs from people who live there and most importantly more likely to feel compelled to pray for the people of that country.

The above has been especially true for Haiti. Right now they are really suffering because of the hurricanes that have hit them. They have lost their homes, roads, crops, animals (that provide food and milk) and like I read in this blog, the most important thing many of them has lost is hope.

Please take the time to pray for the people of Haiti. If you’re interested in more information or how to help please click here and here.

As for us we’ve all been praying about how we can help and will be discussing it at dinner this evening. I tell you this not to “toot my own horn” but to encourage you that every little bit helps, especially for children. I find that it’s much easier for them to give to God when they can see where it’s going. Sometimes just putting money into an offering plate is a bit too abstract for them.

Thanks so much for sticking with this post and for all your prayers for the people of the world!

Jena is a homeschooling mom of three teenagers (one off to college and one checking out public school this year). She has been relaxed/unschooling for most of her home school career. She writes at www.yarnsoftheheart.com, runs http://www.dailylearners.com, and writes at http://lifewithoutschool.typepad.com/.
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5 Comments

  1. Heather Young
    Posted October 3, 2008 at 12:12 am | Permalink

    Beautiful! I have a passion for missions as well though the only way I have found to be a help is to host websites for missionaries and ministries so they don’t have to fuss with them or pay an arm and a leg. :)

  2. aswewalk
    Posted October 3, 2008 at 2:24 am | Permalink

    Our church sponsors a program in Kenya, and last year they put together a holiday prayer guide of the stories of each teacher and some of the students. It was tremendously personal and really brought missions home to us.

  3. Jena
    Posted October 3, 2008 at 2:50 am | Permalink

    That’s great Heather! That’s pretty much what we do with Good Measure. :) We promote missionaries as best we can and we don’t charge them–our salary comes from personal donors, as if we were missionaries ourselves. That’s so cool that you use your web talents to serve others.

  4. Renae
    Posted October 3, 2008 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

    We are so blessed to have good friends that are missionaries. Their visits really make an impact on my children.

  5. Penny
    Posted October 4, 2008 at 5:38 pm | Permalink

    I too dream of being a missionary some day and that’s why I started teaching missions! It’s so wonderful to see the passion of the people contributing to this site. I’m glad we found each other.

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