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| LETTER FROM ME |
| DEAR CHRISTIANS: EACH SUMMER, MANY COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTENDING SOUTHERN BAPTIST COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, PLUS BSU STUDENTS FROM OTHER COLLEGE/UNIVERSITIES, TAKE TIME FROM THEIR SUMMER VACATION TO SERVE IN SUMMER MISSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA AND ALSO IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. THEY SERVE IN MANY WAYS SUCH AS CENTRIFUGE, M-FUGE, CENTRI-KID, VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, WITNESSING TEAMS, AND SO ON. MANY OF THEM USE THEIR TALENTS TO WITNESS TO OTHERS. FOR EXAMPLE, ALEXIS HOLEMAN, STUDENT AT BELMONT UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, DID JUST THAT. FOLLOWING IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE SUMMER MISSIONS PROJECT SHE PARTICIPATED IN DURING THE SUMMER OF 2001: "IN JULY 2001 I WENT TO BOMBARRAL, PORTUGAL, AS A VOLUNTEER STUDENT MISSIONARY. THE COUPLE I MINISTERED WITH THERE BEGAN PARTNERING WITH |
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| THE TENNESSEE BAPTIST CONVENTION A YEAR PRIOR. "THE PREMISE OF THE TRIP WAS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER MISSION TRIPS I HAD HEARD OF OR PARTICIPATED IN BEFORE. FOR THIS TRIP, ART WAS THE PRIMARY FORM OF MINISTRY AND OUTREACH. THE IDEA WAS TO GO OUT ON THE STREET AND SET UP EASELS TO PAINT LANDSCAPES IN THE TOWN OR NEARBY AREAS, AND INVITABLY PEOPLE WOULD COME BY AND SEE WHAT WE WERE DOING AND SOMETIMES STAY AND TALK. IN THIS WAY, OUR BEING THERE IN ITSELF WAS SOMEWHAT AN ICEBREAKER; AND THE CONVERSATION EVENTUALLY COULD BE STEERED TO CHURCH AND THEN AN INVITATION TO ATTEND A CHURCH THAT ALREADY HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED NEARBY. "ON THE WHOLE, THIS ANGLE AND IDEA WORKED WELL. BY THE END OF MY TIME THERE, I COULD RECOGNIZE PEOPLE FROM THE TOWN AND IDENTIFY WHERE I HAD SEEN THEM BEFORE. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW HELPFUL THIS WORLD BE FOR DON AND ROSE MARIE, WHO LIVE THERE AND COULD TRULY BENEFIT FROM RECOGNIZING ALL THESE FAMILIAR FACES. "AT A BASE LEVEL, OUR CONSISTENT GOING OUT AND PAINTING ON THE STREETS AND IN FRONT OF PEOPLE'S HOUSES SENT AN UNSPOKEN MESSAGE THAT WE APPRECIATED THEIR TOWN AND IT'S BEAUTY. IN ADDITION, THIS APPROACH BUILT A TRUST RELATIONSHIP WITH PRIMARILY ABOUT THEM AS INDIVIDUALS. IT IS TRULY IMPORTANT THAT THEY KNOW THEY ARE CARED ABOUT ON A REAL AND PERSONAL LEVEL, AND WE WERE SHARING WITH THEM A SAVIOR WHO WANTS TO PROVIDE THAT VERY THING!" SUPPORT AND PRAY FOR THE COLLEGE STUDENTS IN YOUR CHURCH WHO GIVE THEIR TIME TO SUMMER MISSIONS, AND PRAY FOR OTHERS TO BE A PART OF SHARING CHRIST WITH OUR NATION AND WORLD! THANK FOR READING JESUS LIVES WITHIN MY HEART MINISTRY |
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