Dream with me for a moment.
What if we expected every teenager to go to the front lines of missions after high school for a few months to a year? To make this challenge part of the DNA of our churches, we challenge parents, pastors, and age-group ministers (both local-church and denominational) to plant this call in the hearts of preschoolers, children, youth and collegians. In addition, we call on parents to open saving accounts upon the birth of a child that later will completely fund that individual’s extended mission experience after high school.
What if we expected every church to support or plant one church every year?
What if we expected every Christian to take one mission trip every year? Through short-term missions, we can encourage one another to give 2 percent of our time each year in contexts around the world in a way that, in the process, transforms the other 98 percent of our time here.
We need a bold vision. We need a vision that is so large that only God can accomplish it. Will you join me?
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