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Educational Resources

Mission Education

The mission education point of Mission Priority One is the following:

The church participated in each of these four education categories:
a. NMI missions books/e-books
b. Missions service projects and/or hands-on missions activities.
c. Missions speakers
d.

Each of these may be accomplished by the following:
• Make NMI missions books available to the congregation.

• Participate in mission service projects (such as Work & Witness, Youth in Mission,
community projects, etc.) and/or hands-on missions activities (Crisis Care Kits, School
Pal-Paks, missionary care packages, etc.).

• Schedule one or more services with a mission speaker or provide interaction with a
missions speaker (teen/children's camps, missions events, workshops, etc.).

• Use multimedia mission resources (such as Nazarene Media Library, missions Web
sites, videos, etc.), or utilize missions publications and communications (such as,
adult, youth, or children's mission education, NCM magazine, Engage magazine,
Holiness Today, missionaries' newsletters, regional newsletters, etc.).

By participating in one or two ministries under each point your church will have fulfilled
the mission education point of Mission Priority One.

Holy God, how precious is our time in prayer with You.
In the craziness of our schedules nothing brings more peace
to our hearts than sitting at Your feet. What a joyous time of year
Christmas season is. What wonderful opportunities we have
to show You at work in our lives as we are out and about among
those who are frustrated with it all. But also Lord, are hearts hurt
for those who suffer from depression and loneliness this time of year.
Those who have unpleasant memories of Christmas. Help us Lord,
to minister those who are hurting. Open our eyes to their pain
and give us great compassion. May You be blessed, Father, by Your
servants this week. In Jesus' holy name we pray. Amen.

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