Globally, churches educate about missions in various and sundry ways. How does your church learn best?

• Our NMI group regularly visits homes. They pray with the families and assess their situations. If they identify needs during the visits, they try to minister to those needs. For example, if someone is sick and needs to go to the hospital, the group raises funds to hire a car to take the person to the hospital. (From rural India)
• We minister to children in the Mumbai slums through a school that reaches approximately 250 children. (From India Western Maharashtra District)
• We are not allowed to meet together in groups as Christians because of legal restrictions, so we cannot have a large meeting or service as such. However, small groups—even two or three—will get together and pray and give an offering for missions. (From a Gospel-resistant area)
• In our area, several homes were burned this year. The home owners were of different faiths, not just Christians. Our NMI group has gone to the victims in these areas and shared with them, one household at a time. We seek to encourage the victims, that even though they have lost so much, they still have God and they still have prayer. Then they pray with them. (From India)
• Missions books in the local language are very helpful. (From Spain District)
• Woodland Lakes Community Church of the Nazarene in Wichita, Kansas, divided into small groups and studied Rick Warren’s 40 Days of Community. Our Mission Outreach Project was to collect food for the Kansas Food Bank here in Wichita. God helped us collect more than 2,700 pounds of food. (From Mary Thelander, Wichita)

   
Sharing Resources for Adults, Youth, and Children
Primary goal: each local church purchases and uses each age-level mission education resource monthly. If that is not possible, here are several ideas for sharing:

• Larger church buys packet(s) for a smaller church.
• Two, three, or four small churches buy a packet and all share it, with each church using it for six, four, or three months.
• Local church identifies a donor or conducts a fund-raiser to buy a packet.
• Local church buys a packet and uses it for two years instead of one year.
• Two churches buy a packet to share and use it for two years instead of one year.
• Local church includes packet(s) in the faith promise budget.
• District NMI Council buys a packet for two, three, or four smaller churches to share.
• District NMI Council conducts a fund-raiser or initiates a special offering to buy packets for smaller churches.

Daniel D. Ketchum
Global NMI Director
 
Ordering Instructions from Nazarene Publishing House
Nazarene Publishing House (NPH) has provided an easy-to-follow video on how to fill out the order form for NMI merchandise. It also explains the new rebate program for Living Mission. To view the video, CLICK HERE to link to the Nazarene Media Library page. You do not need to register to view the video; however, to download the video segment, you will need to create a free account.
 
Recognizing Readers
I just used this idea in my church for mission book readers/listeners to recognize them. The award is printed on card stock, then I staple a small bag of gummy worms to the white space on the card.  (Download Card Here)
 
Yvette Bourne
Milford, Delaware
 

  
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