... often I have met them 6 months later……

[David]

How can I get involved? What can I do?

These are the questions I often hear as people come back from a summer mission trip, or as they complete the Perspectives Course about missions.

Yet when I see them 6 months later, the fire has died. How do you keep the "Great Commission" fires burning?

[berryahou35]

With the organization I went with, after camp we start the e-phase (electronic) where we keep in touch with our kids by e-mail, webcam sessions, or msn/yahoo messangers. The webcam session typically organized by the church in Taiwan. It's a great way to keep in touch, but now we are struggling with the webcam sessions. (Some kids are bored with only seeing us)

[The Aesthetic Elevator]

By getting them involved!

Join the church missions team

Outreach to int'l students/refugees

Prayer groups (using Operation World and the like)

The www.Perspectives.org class

Researching unreached people groups

Travel to missions conferences

Finding a mentor who's been a missionary

Making the family vacation int'l, visiting missionaries you know

Giving to missionaries!

Reading books and magazines on missions/missiology
(Start a missions book club for accountability)

Using discussion forums like these to keep each other sharp

Leading and being a part of missions Bible studies

Keeping up on world news (Mt. who-what just erupted in where?)

And along those lines, learn your geography!

Learn a second language!!!
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Otherwise known as "Paul"