Adjusting Our Course: Plans for Next Year
As we close our first year, our hearts are overflowing with a sense of God’s direct involvement in opening doors for IGo in Asia. Our first year students have been valiant participants in helping us tweak the training program and ministry tracks. This has brought us to adjust two things in our schedule for 2009.
Visit to Thailand: A Look at the Present and Future of IGo
My family and I spent the month of October in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I taught one three week course at the Institute for Global Opportunities. I was impressed with the commitment and dedication of the twelve students currently enrolled in the missionary training program at IGo. Most of these young people are planning to spend a significant period of time in the work of bringing the Gospel to others in cross-cultural settings.
The Mennonite Thing
Over the years of working with young people, occasionally someone will condescendingly refer to the “Mennonite thing.” I find that to be a curious expression! What is the “Mennonite thing”? How does that differ from the “Baptist thing”, the “Pentecostal thing” or the “Lutheran thing”? What is it about the “Mennonite thing” that distinguishes it from any other “thing”?