A Minute for Missions
Many campus groups and churches have adopted the idea of using several minutes of each meeting to focus on some area of missions. The key to this time is to use it creatively. No one likes to hear someone drone on and on about some faraway place or people. And few like to listen to a lengthy prayer letter from a well-intentioned missionary. BUT frequent, quick and lively presentations attract our attention. So take a few tips on how to use those moments for missions:
• Always keep it brief, unless it is a well-done drama or video.
• Use real-life stories as opposed to theories or concepts.
• Buy a good map and use it frequently to point out places.
• Get lots of people involved. Don't have the same person do it each week. Spread the load and provide variety.
Ideas for "Minute for Missions":
• Use a Misssions Awareness Quiz.
• Read excerpts from a Twinning letter and pray.
• Ask an international Christian student to share prayer requests from home and then pray.
• Read letters from your adopted child and pray.
• Perform a skit on some aspect of missions (Write to Caleb Project for some scripts of great dramas).
• Read excerpts from a missionary letter and pray.
• Tell a story from a missionary biography.
• Have someone give a 5-minute report on a missions book and pass it on.
• Pick 5 cards from an Unreached People card packet. One by one call people up to find each of the five groups on a map. Then split into five groups and each pray for one group. (If your group is large, use more cards.)
• Borrow a speakerphone and call up a missionary or Twinning group in another part of the world. Ask a few questions of them and then pray together for them.
• Read excerpts from Operation World and pray.
• Sing a song in another language and pray for the church in that language group.
• Choose a region of the world each term and pray for a different country at each large group meeting.
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