June 2004

Prayer Points for the Mon of Myanmar

Mission Projects

Persecuted Church: China

Missionary Bio: Adonirum & Ann Judson

Bible Study: Ego: the Nemesis of Mission
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People Group Focus: The Mon of Myanmar (Burma)

burmapicAccording to Mon religion, Theravada Buddhism, the spirit can leave the body while a person sleeps, often taking the form of a butterfly. The Mon world is alive with spirits of both animate and inanimate objects. Mon shamans interpret messages and bad omens, and Buddhist monks may be called upon to exorcise spirits. Learn more about the Mon people.

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Prayer Points for the Mon

  • monkwithbuddhaThe boulder on which the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda sits in southern Mon territory is said to rest on a hair of the Buddha, holding the boulder and the pagoda in place supernaturally. Pray that this boulder would topple and with it, the stronghold of Buddhism among the Mon and in Myanmar would topple.
  • Ask the Father the send laborers into this ripe harvest field. Could you be a laborer here?
  • Pray for the protection of believers from persecution. Jesus prayed that God not take his followers out of the world, but that he would protect them by the power of his name (John 17).
  • Ask God to remind believersin Myanmar that it is their unity and their love for each other that will draw other Mon to Jesus.

boymonkDID YOU KNOW?

globe The majority of Buddhist monks are simply young men who are performing a "duty" for their families.   There is rarely a high level of commitment to Buddhist thought among the monks.   They are searching for Truth, too!  

Mission Projects

Youth Projects

Qualifications for Service

College & Seminary Projects

Qualifications for Service

Youth projects for 2005 will soon be posted online.

Right now, please pray for students and their leaders who are on IWC projects that begin in July.

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Summer 3-day Camp

Asia

Project #70404

Dates: Any 7 days betwn 6/1 & 9/1/04

Cost: $257 plus airfare

Wanted: People who love children and want them to know Jesus as their Savior & Lord. You will provide a fun "VBS-style" camp in villages, teach Bible stories, and pray that the children come to repentance and salvation to impact their families and world for Christ. 

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Community Student 2004

China

Project #67748

Dates: Any 10 days betwn 3/1 & 12/30/04
Cost: $470 plus airfare

Visit places in the city where young adults congregate, including karaoke clubs, tea houses, shopping areas, parks & internet cafes. You must be willing to sing karaoke! Initiate conversations to share your faith in order to encourage the rapid multiplication of new churches in the city. 
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"The Least I Could Do"

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PHOTO by Matt Miller

Carrie McDonnall, the sole survivor of a March 15 drive-by shooting in Iraq, tells us to "keep going to the hard places." Read more.

Hear her testimony.

Watch Carrie give her testimony at the Southern Baptist Convention.

10/40 Window - where 1/2 of the world's population and 95% of the world's unreached people groups live

Operation Go Gospel Saturation, Costa Rica

Project #67674

Dates: Any 7 days betwn 1/3 & 12/18, 2004
Cost: $617 plus airfare

Prayerwalk areas that will later be totallly saturated with the gospel. You will go house to house giving each family a copy of the gospel, praying and sharing the plan of salvation as the opportunity arises. This is part of a strategy to completely saturate the country with the gospel to ignite a Church Planting Movement.

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Cultural Discoverer, Denmark

Project #65983

Dates: Any 10 days betwn 1/15 & 11/25, 2004

Cost: $750 plus airfare

Come discover the people groups God has planted in Denmark. Spend time praying over, hanging out with, and interviewing Denmanrk's multiethnic population. 

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Persecuted Church: China

Sixteen Chinese Christians went into one rural area to start churches, but saw no response. They had little money to support themselves, so they lived in a forest and gathered what food they could find. Soon they faced starvation. Read more . . .

"The test of a servant is how he acts when he is treated like one." - Anonymous

Missionary Bio Byte: Adonirum and Ann Judson

The son of a Congretational minister, Adonirum Judson was an avowed atheist until he watched his college roommate die, screaming with the fear of going to hell. Read more . . .

Bible Study: Ego: the Nemesis of Missions

By Dr. Gailyn Van Rheenen

Human ego is likely the foremost obstacle to effective missions. Therefore, missionaries must be challenged to define who they are in relationship to God. In this brief Monthly Missiological Reflection, 2 Corinthians 4:7 provides a basis for this self-evaluation.

Used by permission from Gailyn Van Rheenen. All of Dr. Van Rheenen's Missiological Reflections are archived on the Missiology Homepage.

"We are pencils in the hands of a loving God, who is writing love letters to the world."

- Mother Teresa
 

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