Mission: Impossible

A short-term mission trip is a good start for Christians to make friends with interreligious or intercultural friends. It also prepare the participants to know missionary work better. However, there is a “marked divide between scholars and practitioners, between missiology and short-term mission.” Problems may happen like our mission trip to Maine. Fortunately, though some of the team members were not happy on that day, they…

Oldcastle Precast Mid-Atlantic Group is making change possible by raising donations and volunteering their time at the Allentown Rescue Mission, which aids and feeds the homeless, provides emergency shelter, and offers programs to aid the homeless transition to being productive members of society. These services provide rehabilitation and restoration for people in crisis. On October 15th, 2016, employees from Oldcastle Precast Mid-Atlantic volunteered to help prepare the dinner, assist the…

For Better or For Worse? Directed by Roland Joffé, The Mission (1986), tells the compelling story of the Jesuits’ attempt to set up a mission for the Guarani Indians in South America. Faced with opposing outside forces from the Spanish and Portuguese nobles and the Roman Catholic Church, the Jesuits’ stood by their mission until their last breath. Starring Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, Chuck Low, Ray McAnally, Liam Neeson, Daniel Berrigan, and Indians themselves, the roles of the Jesuits, the…

In my opinion, The Mission was a fantastic movie because of the action, the drama, and the history of the movie. As we saw, Father Gabriel, a Jesuit priest, entered the Guarani lands in South America with the purpose of converting the native Indians to Christianity. Father Gabriel was accepted by the Guarani Indians and then builds a mission, where he is joined by Rodrigo Mendoza, a reformed slave trader seeking absolution. Unfortunately, a treaty transfers the land in which Father Gabriel has…

Latin America is a formidable topic to take on, but Roland Joffe accepts the challenge in his movie The Mission. The film, which is based on true events, is set in northeastern Argentina and the western Paraguayan jungle during the 1740s. Fr. Gabriel (Jeremy Irons), is a Jesuit priest who starts a mission with the goal of converting Guarani Indians to Christianity. In the process of building the mission, he meets Roderigo Mendoza, a mercenary and slave trader who is in jail for killing his…

youth group, Merge at Grace Church in Hamilton County, mission trips are offered every year to the students. The data below represents the number of students who attended each trip by year (High School STT Participation, 2015). From 2008 until 2010, only the mission trip to Mississippi was offered. Once more trips were added, more students started to go on mission trips in general. From 2010 to 2011, the number of students who went on a mission trip in general jumped from 41 to 105. The…

and one of the key ways that Christians make disciples is to go on mission trips locally or across the globe. In general there are two types of mission trips differed by duration: short-term and long term mission trips. In addition to that there is also one more factor, and that is wheatear or not it is a local trip or a trip abroad. There has been an ongoing debate in the missionary world about the effectiveness of short-term mission trips and what role they play in the lives of the community…

My first mission trip was for an organization called 1Nation1Day through my church, Milestone, back home in 2013. The goal was to save the nation of Honduras in one day and continue to pour out love and support to the Hondurans so that they may be disciples for a lifetime. To prepare for the mission we spent the majority of the year 2012 fundraising to provide clothes, shoes, and meals for the Hondurans and were grateful enough to raise $250,000.00. Applications for the mission trip were sent…

important for organizations to differentiate between an active mission statement versus an inactive mission statement. The difference might not seem importance, but the factors that make a mission statement non-relevant can cause complications in the workplace. When workers rely on outdated mission and vision, the expected outcome does not produce the anticipated change. For example, Schemica’ s Burgers and Fries outdated mission states: Our mission is to provide customers with a remarkable…

A mission statement, in my opinion, is like a road map. You can use your mission and values to set a course. Keeping that course can help you reach your goal/destination faster and easier. We can see in the example of Clay Walker that a mission statement can be derived from a very personal experience. JEAN E. PALMIERI (Dec 2011) explains how Clay took his firsthand experience and turned it into his life’s work. That to me is a true mission. Keeling, Mary (Sep/Oct 2013) discusses how “mission…