http://mattcleaver.com/2008/01/19/more-on-mission-trips/ youth ministry, reimagined Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:12:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mattcleaver.com/2008/01/19/more-on-mission-trips/#comment-6131 Matt Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:54:28 +0000 http://mattcleaver.com/2008/01/19/more-on-mission-trips/#comment-6131 Katie, that's great! Katie, that’s great!

]]> http://mattcleaver.com/2008/01/19/more-on-mission-trips/#comment-6130 katie Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:01:37 +0000 http://mattcleaver.com/2008/01/19/more-on-mission-trips/#comment-6130 my presbytery is involved in a relationship we've termed "mutual mission" with a group of churches in jamaica. each year a group of youth and adults from northeast fl travel to montego bay for a week to spend time with youth and adults there,working on a project or doing vbs together (but mostly it's about being immersed in culture and learning what it means to be church in a different place), and then we spend a week in fl doing something similar in our community. my particular congregation does an every other year exchange with some friends in jamaica, and just this year we're partnering with our jamaican friends to travel to cuba to form a third piece of the mutual mission. my presbytery is involved in a relationship we’ve termed “mutual mission” with a group of churches in jamaica. each year a group of youth and adults from northeast fl travel to montego bay for a week to spend time with youth and adults there,working on a project or doing vbs together (but mostly it’s about being immersed in culture and learning what it means to be church in a different place), and then we spend a week in fl doing something similar in our community. my particular congregation does an every other year exchange with some friends in jamaica, and just this year we’re partnering with our jamaican friends to travel to cuba to form a third piece of the mutual mission.

]]> http://mattcleaver.com/2008/01/19/more-on-mission-trips/#comment-6129 brit Windel Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:49:27 +0000 http://mattcleaver.com/2008/01/19/more-on-mission-trips/#comment-6129 matt i think you are right on the money with your comment that i think does plague the 'mission' field. it is this idea that 'we' bring is almost racial, economically driven. more often than not we specifically target poorer towns that the message of 'hope' might reach them. not sure. i find it very pressing to merely give it a name (which i know that is not the point) but to discuss the ethos behind what we do. the relational side i think is the only way in that it shows true community and body when one is actually interrogated within a town/community outside of its own and begin a communion and fellowship with that town... sorry for not being in the naming game right now...i'm in the process of reconstructing some thoughts on the current situations with the Episcopal division...but i promise to put my mind to it.. oh cross-cultural out reach; cross-cultural community work....nope i got nothing ;-) matt i think you are right on the money with your comment that i think does plague the ‘mission’ field. it is this idea that ‘we’ bring is almost racial, economically driven.
more often than not we specifically target poorer towns that the message of ‘hope’ might reach them. not sure. i find it very pressing to merely give it a name (which i know that is not the point) but to discuss the ethos behind what we do. the relational side i think is the only way in that it shows true community and body when one is actually interrogated within a town/community outside of its own and begin a communion and fellowship with that town…
sorry for not being in the naming game right now…i’m in the process of reconstructing some thoughts on the current situations with the Episcopal division…but i promise to put my mind to it..
oh cross-cultural out reach; cross-cultural community work….nope i got nothing

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