Missions Plan: Working for the Good of All with Discipleship the Main Goal
Missions are much more than just a good week. They involve long term planning which goes on for months and visits which can cover many years of efforts. Family missions are a life changing family event from which your family will never be the same. Gone from the technology, which often binds us, team and family members are able to focus on being the hands and feet of Jesus Christ. However grateful for life changing family dynamics a mission trip provides, it is geared towards the needs of others. To that end we are approaching the Navajo people in Pueblo Pintado to see how we might help assist them.
Many people from the Duluth, GA area have been involved in missions for more than ten years. This year, the mission focus has been on:
- Vacation Bible School and Sports Camp for children four to eighteen years of age consisting of Bible stories, arts & crafts, outdoor games and sports and fitness.
- Adult arts and crafts and ministry at both the high school and senior center.
- A community night including food, music, bingo and carnival games & prizes
- Construction service projects at a local church, local home and the community senior center
This years mission was predominantly different from several perspectives:
- We hope to build deeper, more interactive long term relationships with those in the community
- If needed, we want to help in whatever way we can to assist the local community in working together to strengthen the community spiritually, in deed, and economically
- We did begin to build bridges to the local churches introducing ourselves into the community with the specific goal of bringing churches together focusing on what unites us, involving local churches in next years work with involvement in vacation bible school, devotions and adult bible studies, support local churches by making donations through them to the Pueblo Pintado children bringing local pastors together to give children book bags, school supplies, and Christmas gifts and boxes.
A group of us in Duluth, GA would like to help in “partnering” with the community and possibly offering assistance if assistance if desired/needed to help
- Assist in setting up local new businesses while focusing on bringing talent, resources, and training
- Work with the Pueblo Pintado chapter house, local schools and any other church or para church organization interested in improving the local business climate and per capita income of your residents with the specific goals of adding infrastructure (water, electricity, roads, and vocational training).
- To bring a fire station to the community.
For those who are so inclined we are seeking those who would desire to partner with us to assist the Navajo people in Pueblo Pintado with the specifics of the above and from all we ask for your prayers and Godspeed.
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