Traveling for work has begun for me, and I arrived in Canton, OH yesterday with Matt Davis for ALIVE '09. I was sickly on Sunday, so was unable to make it to church and worship band practice, but Matt told me that church was amazing, and that Jon went off a little crazy (could've figured that).
Anyways, regarding missions, it looks like this upcoming Spring Break may be spent in New Jersey to work with revitalizing a church up there. Revitalizing is a lot different then what we are doing in Huarochiri, Peru. In Peru we are working to create indigenious church plants that can be setup there and multiplied throughout the villages and region. In New Jersey we will be working to revitalize a dying existing church, and see how God will choose to use Summit up there.
Planting is got behind it the momentum of starting something new. Everyone gets excited about new things (i.e. movies, cars, music, etc.). Revitalizing is more like working in physical therapy program with a stubborn old man that knows that his knee is not like it should be, but in his pride would rather gimp along with a cane and think that he's doing just fine. There's no excitement in that; no one ever goes "Yay, you've got a cane!", unless you've progressed to that from a wheelchair...which again is somewhat descriptive of an act of revitalizing.
So, that's one area that Summit is looking at for Spring Break. I say "one" because Summit will also be looking at continuing to take missions teams over to Peru, as well as looking into "Martyr Missions".
Martyr Missions (is what I'm calling it), is where Summit will take a team of trained mission witnesses into an area where the gospel has not been in order to establish an indigenious church plant, and spread the good news to places it has not gone.
These mission trips and adoptions of people groups will be to those that are unreached by the gospel, and that people have no idea of how they will respond to outside people coming into their village. This is the "ends of the earth" crowd, and that is another area in which we are commanded to.
Stay up on the blog to hear more about what's going on this summer with Summit and my travels, as welll as Missions opportunities that Summit will be attempting later on starting this Fall semester.
Grace and Peace,
Nick
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How long do you foresee the MARTYR MISSIONS group staying in those unreached villages? Will there be someone there long term?
G (as in George...and not Geoffrey...or gina)
I see them becoming indigenious. I don't think that someone could go over for a week and give the gospel to an unreached people group and then start a church plant and take off. I figure at least three years or so of someone constantly being there at least a week or two every three months or so. When I was at the Advance '09 conference I really felt like that was an area that should be reached. Paul, after reaching those he could was going to go to Spain to the unreached peoples of his day and see what he could do there. I think we MUST do the same thing, and not just take the gospel to places that reject it, or have heard it but have no fire for it. Miss ya man! If you and Alexis wanna be those people that we send people to, I'm ALL ABOUT THAT. : )
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