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 By Jon & Angie Kangas
Trainers and Equippers of Sunday-School Teachers in Mexico and Latin America
After trying to get "donors" for almost a year and not getting responses from churches while sitting at only 29% of our required support without a new donor found for three months, we knew we had to try something new. A missionary forwarded us an email for an upcoming Support ConneXion meeting and suggested that we go. We connected with everything the presenters from Kingdom Come training shared, realizing we were not alone, and decided to take their full course.
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 OM Founder George Verwer, Author Randy Alcorn and moderator, OM-USA President Andrew Scott sharing a lighter moment at May 30th "Treasure Principle Evening with Randy Alcorn and George Verwer" eventBy George Verwer, Founder and World Missions Advocate, Operation Mobilization (OM)
Last month, we defined a mission mobilizer as one who not only wants to get involved in mission, but who wants to get others involved as well. Now, let’s look at where it all begins.
On the opening page of his book Let the Nations be Glad concerning the supremacy of God in missions, John Piper says, "If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the church, man will not be well served and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the most remote peoples on earth."
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By Bob & Sharon Wagar, Missionaries in Kampala, Uganda
God is amazing! When we started working with Life Church more than 3 years ago, we felt a very strong mandate from the Lord to see it become a strategic church that could influence a nation for the sake of the kingdom. We were given three words to describe what was needed: healthy, growing, overflowing.
We are so excited to report that this is coming to pass. For several months, attendance on our two campuses (three services) had been approaching 1,000 people, and one Sunday last summer, we hit the mark exactly for the first time!
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By Betsy Rouse
With nearly two billion Muslims in the world today, the question of how to engage and reach out to our Muslim neighbors around us is a relevant one. May 17-18, Dr. Don McCurry, founder and director of Ministries to Muslims, will be speaking at Muslim ConneXion in Beaverton. Dr. McCurry will stress that when reaching out to Muslims, relationship is essential, as demonstrated by the testimony of John and Anne below:
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by Ted and Brenda Whiteman, with Betsy Rouse
 Ted and Brenda had a heart for missions. They had been involved in mission trips through their local church for many years. Having traveled to Honduras seven times, Mexico twice, and also spending time serving in local organizations like Bridgetown, the couple knew, as retirement approached, missions was in their future.
"We began discussing our options," says Ted, "and every conversation seemed to lead us to Honduras. It was in Honduras that we were first exposed to cross-cultural missions. "Yet they couldn't seem to find an ideal match for their skills and passions in that country. "As we were working through this process, our missions pastor told us about Mission ConneXion Northwest." Their pastor urged them to go and explore other possible mission opportunities at the event.
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by Leslie Erickson
From seven different states,175 people gathered together on April 19 -20 for one purpose
– to learn how to better care for their missionaries.
 The Care ConneXion conference, in its fourth year, had the highest attendance so far. Counselors, Agency Representatives, Pastors, Church Lay People, Missionaries, and Educators were encouraged and challenged by messages from keynote speakers, Scott Shaum from Barnabas International and Pastor Mark Hanke from Salem First Baptist Church.
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The Writing ConneXion
by Betsy Rouse, Intern Writer
After spending a year in the UK serving with Operation Mobilization as a journalist, I welcomed the opportunity in October 2012 to continue using my skills for missions. Over the last several months, I have heard and recorded amazing stories, and participated with a team of people who are truly committed to seeing the church mobilized for mission.
But we need more writers--writers to share stories from the field, stories of those leaving for the unknown, and stories of those returning on home assignment. The work that God is doing through Mission ConneXion needs more voices, and one of them could be yours.
Are you a writer? Are you passionate about the power of story to inspire and mobilize individuals? Do you have a heart for missions? If so, contact Mission ConneXion at
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by Kaytie Fiedler, Mission ConneXion Events Coordinator and India Partners Team Leader
 India Partners takes teams to India 3-4 times a year, serving various needs across the country. Each team is comprised of volunteers with a variety of skills--some use their state side professions in the field and others are stretched and grow into new found skills!
An India Partners team left the US February 22, returning March 9. Working with two partner agencies, we visited the red light areas of Mumbai, serving our partners who rescue women and children from the horrors of human trafficking. Of an estimated 200,000 commercial sex workers in Mumbai, approximately one third of those are children under 12 years old.
It's never easy to work with trafficked women and children. One would think a woman would take any help offered to leave the trade. But because they are kept under the bondage of fear, they do not see a way out.
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