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10 Reasons Why You Should Go on a Missions Trip 

adapted from http://www.newlifepca.org/10-reasons-why-you-should-go-on-a-missions-trip/#

10. You get to experience another culture. We all tend to be ethnocentric and shrink the world to revolve around us, while ignoring the varied cultures and nations that the Lord has created.

9. You get opportunities to make friends with people from different ethnic and social backgrounds than in your hometown, and God has made each of them fearfully and wonderfully.

8. You will come away with a new appreciation for what the Lord has given you. Like being able to worship the Lord in air conditioning or the fact that your refrigerator is filled with food.

7. You will develop intimate relationships with Those you serve with. There is just something sweet about painting a door together, sharing the gospel together, and experiencing culture together that brings a depth when you return and see them every Sunday.

6. You will return with new ideas of how to reach out to our community, serving the needs and sharing the gospel. And with fresh motivation to do it!

5. You get to help partner with key ministries that might not happen without the additional laborers. 

4. You get to encourage missionaries and ministry leaders in these other areas.  They are encouraged just by you showing up!

3. You get to see the kingdom grow.  Just like you notice how much taller your nephew is when you haven’t see him in a while, you will notice the growth in these churches.  We see new faces each time we visit and even more humbling, hear how we were apart of that new life in Christ joining the church.

2. It will awaken a passion and a vision to see every tribe, tongue and nation worship the one true God and ascribe to him the glory due his great name!

1. You will know and experience the heart of God. Our God is a missionary God, sending his son, Jesus, to seek and save the lost, and when we follow suit we experience the depth of the gospel in a new way.

When will you find time to serve?  When will you go?

Getting GO! Ministries started- the desire of my heart

I set up a GoFundMe account at http://www.gofundme.com/bpnvrw today.

My wife and I are raising funds to go to Costa Rica and Guatemala to get a boots-on-the-ground assessment of the needs in a few locations and verify a few of our contacts for mission outposts for our fledgling GO! Ministries.  We will then become long term missionaries and partner with the locals modeling the gospel and helping them with education, medical, and practical needs like housing, agriculture, clean water, food and clothing. We hope to establish an orphanage in each area as well.  Our mission outposts will provide an opportunity for people to travel to these countries and serve on a short term basis.  It will be a base-camp for serving and sharing valuable skills so the indigenous people can improve their life.  This will be a long term mission that will be able to offer affordable short-term mission opportunities for others.

I am modeling around the work of Back2back ministries, Matthew 25 and People Building People.  I have contacts in these countries that I would like to verify are legit and I would like to observe the needs firsthand.