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Missions is more than just missionaries living in primitive huts on faraway continents. It's more than slideshows and souvenirs. More than tribal dances and grass skirts. Missions is laying aside cultural assumptions and the familiarity of interacting with people of similar backgrounds. It is crossing cultural lines both here in the United States and in other countries. Missions is daring to love people who aren't like you, and being willing to give everything up in order to do that.
Missions is essentially what Jesus came to do, to give the good news to the lost. In our desire to be like Jesus, we at LifeSpring invest ourselves in various aspects of missions.
to other cultures to share Jesus.
missionaries by helping to train and prepare them.
the ones who go with prayer, finances, and encouragement.
international people who have moved to the Cincinnati area.
On a global scale, we look for opportunities to serve people who have never heard about Jesus. We are involved in these types of ministries in Eastern Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, Northern Africa and with Hispanics in New York City. And because we place great value in training nationals to teach their own people about Christ, we support training programs in the Philippines, India, Zimbabwe and Eastern Europe.
Throughout the year we host special events to help our members understand the work going on around the world. We provide opportunities to go on short-term mission trips to assist our missionaries. We realize that an investment in missions is an investment in eternity.
Blog for Kenya Trip
Check out www.lifespringkenya.blogspot.com for information from LifeSpring’s November 2008 mission trip to Kenya
For more on what we do with missions, contact Judy.
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