Plan a Mission-Minded 2012: FREE Guide!

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Do you want to set aside time to seek God’s will for 2012? Do you want your life and your family to become more effective for God’s Kingdom . . . and for ETERNITY?

This year, don’t just make empty New Year’s resolutions that you’re likely to forget by February; instead, pray and seek God for His specific plans and purposes for your LIFE.

Get focused on God’s eternal mission and His long-term vision (including His Great Commandment — to love God and to love others, and His Great Commission — to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with people who don’t yet know Him).

And no matter what “job” you do for a living, may you and your family be a part of expanding God’s Kingdom in 2012, both in your own sphere of influence, and across the world.

Introducing your FREE New Year’s Guide for 2012

Watch this 2 minute video for a quick explanation of this evaluation and prayer guide.
Our heart is to help you to plan a more effective and MISSION-MINDED New Year:

Click here — for your FREE 2012 New Year’s Guide!

(PRINT 1 copy of the entire document, pgs. 1-16, and 3 EXTRA COPIES of pgs. 10-11.
Also, here’s our favorite 1-year Bible Reading Plan from www.Bible-reading.com.

Please share this with your friends, and help us by posting it on facebook, twitter, and your blogs. And let us know what you think. How is God directing you and your family to impact God’s Kingdom in 2012? We would appreciate your feedback and comments!!!

Have a Happy (& Mission-Minded) New Year!!!

In His Harvest,
Jon & Ann

Click here for more details about Ann’s books, The Mission-Minded Family and The Mission-Minded Child including a link for FREE sample chapters (and info about how you can get your own copies)!!!

Plus, stay tuned to learn more about our brand-new upcoming book:
THE SCARLET CORD – Nothing But the Blood of Jesus (A Concise Call to World Missions – by Jon & Ann Dunagan — scheduled for release early in 2012)

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Mission-Minded 2 Book SPECIAL!!!

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Do you know a family with a heart for God’s Great Commission? Do you know missionaries serving overseas with their children? Bless them by giving a gift to encourage God’s call on their lives!!! Here’s info on the books to learn more . . .

Right now, we’re offering our two-book Mission-Minded set (The Mission-Minded Child & The Mission-Minded Family) for $20 + FREE shipping.

1 set = $20

Just CONTACT US — with your MAILING ADDRESS and let us know how MANY SETS you want to order. We’ll send you an invoice to pay later — after the books arrive!!!

6 set special = $100

(12 books – 6 copies of The Mission-Minded Child
and 6 copies of The Mission-Minded Family)

12 set special = $200

(24 books – 12 copies of The Mission-Minded Child
and 12 copies of The Mission-Minded Family)

May God bless you as you seek Him!

See our FREE Mission-Minded study guide
to use these books for small groups and mentoring.

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Daring Daughters

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DARING DAUGHTERS is a vision to inspire teenage girls for missions & God’s purposes. Our heart is for teens & ‘tweens, ages 10 to 20 (plus moms & mentors!!!).

Welcome to our Daring Daughters blog!

Come join us! — To learn more, just click on each link below . . .

DARING DAUGHTERS — like us on facebook
DARING DAUGHTERS — follow us on twitter
DARING DAUGHTERS — listen on blogtalk radio
DARING DAUGHTERS — comment on our BLOG

Inspiring young women . . . for world missions

DARING DAUGHTERS is co-directed by Ann and Christi Dunagan, mother and daughter.
It’s a vision to inspire girls for world missions, based on this verse from the Bible:

“And how shall they preach, except they be sent?
As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them
that preach the gospel of peace,
and bring glad tidings of good things!”
–Romans 10:15

the real lasting beauty . . .

There’s more to being beautiful than outward appearance, and there’s more to being godly than simply looking good in church. It’s more than just saying “NO” to impurity and sin; God also wants us to get His heart for the world, and for us to say “YES” to His purposes, which might not always be easy . . . or admired.

Remarkable women have gone before us, godly and daring daughters like Amy Carmichael, Florence Nightingale, Lottie Moon, and Elisabeth Elliot.

These women made a difference. They embarked on adventures that took them around the world. They rescued orphans, they loved the lost, and they made tremendous sacrifices. Some married dangerous men, and stood by their side, even when things were tough. They dared to go — wherever God would lead. They dared to pray — and they let God’s compassion move their hearts. And they dared to love the world — with a passion that was self-sacrificing, and eternally beautiful.

motivating girls to get God’s heart . . .

Through this new vision of DARING DAUGHTERS, we have some exciting things ahead for the next few months (specifically before Christi gets married in June — to Trae Childs, an awesome 3rd generation missionary from Niger, West Africa!!!) to inspire teen girls to get God’s heart for the hurting people of this world — both nearby, or in faraway nations. We want to stir young women to care for those who are hurting, and to deepen their love for God. Our desire is to motivate girls to be willing to trust God, and to follow Him, no matter what.

God may or may not call you to live in a foreign country, but He has called to obey God’s Great Commission. As women of God, we’re called to love God, to love others, and to work with God to expand His kingdom.

We invite you to join us in the adventure.

Girls, let’s DARE to obey God.

In His Love,
Ann & Christi

Mission Reports & Articles about DARING DAUGHTERS
One DARING DAUGHTER: Amy Carmichael

Upcoming Events

Online radio –
Daring Daughters on blogtalk radio . . .
Introducing Daring Daughters
Daring Daughters Chat @ Romance
Daring Daughters Chat @ Darkness
Daring Daughters Chat @ Sin
Daring Daughters Chat @ Amy Carmichael
Daring Daughters Chat @ Leaving a Legacy

Brand-new book for teen girls —
Daring Daughters & Dirty Feet, by Ann & Christi Dunagan
Lord willing, scheduled for 2012

Simple devotionals for Daring Daughters —
by Ann & Christi Dunagan
Coming soon!!!

Homeschool event in South Carolina –
Daring Daughters & Mission-Minded Families will be featured
@ Teach Them Diligently Homeschool Convention
Spartanburg, South Carolina – March 17-19, 2012

Retreat in Oregon –
Daring Daughters – Mother-Daughter Retreat
@ Christian Renewal Center
Silverton, Oregon – March 23-25

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Mission-Minded Families: Articles & Links

FREE Guide: MENTOR FAMILIES for MISSIONS!

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We see a great need to motivate “normal” Christian families for local and international missions. Harvest Ministry has put together a simple 4-week study guide utilizing Ann’s two books The Mission-Minded Child and The Mission-Minded Minded Family.

If you are going to be leading this 4-week mentoring study, please contact Harvest Ministry for a special book-set offer (at our cost + shipping).

MISSION-MINDED FAMILIES Study Guide!

To download this FREE 4-week guide (30 pages – in PDF format) – click here.

The study, designed for small groups and mentoring (for church home groups, women’s studies, families, or personal use), is now available as a FREE PDF file.

Download a FREE sample (with several chapters) of The Mission-Minded Child — here,
And a FREE sample (with several chapters) of The Mission-Minded Family — here.

“Missions is not just for missionaries;
God’s call is for all!”
– Jon & Ann Dunagan, The Mission-Minded Family

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Mission-Minded Books & Family Resources:

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David Livingstone said, “This generation can only reach this generation.” Are you teaching and training your kids to reach their generation for Christ?

To begin our FREE 40-Day MISSION-MINDED FAMILY CHALLENGE, click here!

IMPACT FAMILIES FOR WORLD MISSIONS

Our Mission-Minded Books:

Click on each book cover for more information.

>> Click here for special bulk discounts!

Both books are now available in sets of 2, 12, and 24 to help you & your church or ministry to IMPACT families for MISSIONS!

Free Teaching Materials and Curriculum:

(Mission-Minded Curriculum for Homeschool Families, Churches, & Christian Schools)

Be sure to see all of our FREE Mission-Minded Family Resources!

Articles & Devotionals:

On-Line articles:

@ Crosswalk.com – Training Teens On-Target – Part I

@ Crosswalk.com – Training Teens On-Target – Part II

@ Crosswalk.com – Striking Balance as a Mission-Minded Family

@ Crosswalk.com – God Has a Mission for Your Family (By Whitney Hopler, featuring Ann’s book, The Mission-Minded Family)

@ The Christian Post – “Better Parents, Better Families” – Ann is a regular feature writer for this national and international on-line news source.

@ The International Faith Telegraph – World Christian News & Missions News – Ann has contributed several mission articles for this missions news source.

Example of Ann’s speaking and preaching:

OCEANetwork – Homeschooling Workshop: “Playing the College Game – Winning Admissions and Scholarships . . . for God’s Glory!”

OCEANetwork – Homeschooling Workshop: “The Mission-Minded Homeschool – Releasing Your Family to God’s Destiny”

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100 Mission Mottos (& Missionary Quotes)

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Ponder these powerful mission-minded quotes. Memorize them. Recall them in prayer. Use them in speaking and preaching. Post them on facebook and twitter. Teach them to your kids and teens. And best yet, get inspired to GIVE, to PRAY, to MOTIVATE, and to GO!!!

Mottos for Missions

Get motivated for God’s Great Commission with these 100 inspiring missionary mottos and missionary quotes. As Oswald J. Smith says, “Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?”

“Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.”
- Jesus Christ (THE GREAT COMMISSION – Mark 16:15)

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…”
- Jesus Christ (THE GREAT COMMISSION – Matthew 28:19)

100 Mission Mottos

1. A man may die leaving upwards of a million, without taking any of it upwards.
– William Fetler

2. A nation will not be moved by timid methods.
- Luis Palau

3. Anywhere provided it be forward.
– David Livingstone

4. As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.
- J. L. Ewen

5. Can’t you do just a little bit more?
- J.G. Morrison (pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930′s Great Depression to support their missionaries)

6. Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.
- David Livingstone

7. Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
- Billy Graham

8. Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.
- William Carey

9. Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
– William Booth

10. Go, send, or disobey.
- John Piper

11. God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.
– David Livingstone

12. God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.
- Hudson Taylor

13. God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
- Hudson Taylor

14. God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.
- Hudson Taylor

15. He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
- Jim Elliot

16. I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
- Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

17. I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
- Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand

18. If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.
- Oswald J. Smith

19. HUDSON TAYLOR – THE PROGRESSION OF A MISSIONARY CALL:

As child, at age 5:
When I am a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.

As a young man:
I feel I cannot go on living unless I do something for China.

Late in life, as a veteran missionary:
If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.

- Hudson Taylor, Missionary to China

20. I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
- John Keith Falconer

21. I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.
- Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

22. I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.
- Oswald J. Smith

23. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.
- Oswald Chambers

24. I pray, and I obey.
– David Yonggi Cho

25. I want to be where there are out and out pagans.
- Francis Xavier

26. I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.
- Ignatius

27. If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
- David Livingstone

28. If God’s love is for anybody anywhere, it’s for everybody everywhere.
- Edward Lawlor, Nazarene General Superintendent

29. If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
- C.T. Studd

30. If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.
- Arthur T. Pierson

31. If ten men are carrying a log — nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end — and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
- William Borden

32. If the Church is ‘in Christ,’ she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.
- David Bosch

33. If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
- Pat Morley

34. If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
- David Livingstone

35. If you don’t have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.
- Keith Green

36. If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn’t it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death.
- Dave Davidson

37. If you take missions out of the Bible, you won’t have anything left but the covers.
- Nina Gunter

38. In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God’s work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.
- Dick Eastman

39. In our lifetime, wouldn’t it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?
- Dave Davidson

40. In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.
- Robert Moffat

41. It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.
- John R. Mott

42. It’s better to obey God rather than men.
- Brother Andrew

43. Let my heart be broken with the things that break God’s heart.
- Bob Pierce, World Vision founder

44. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing!
- Helen Keller (she wasn’t a missionary, but this is an inspiring mission-minded thought!)

45. Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today.
- John Piper

46. Live God LOUD!
– Ron Luce, TeenMania

47. Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.
- Keith Wright

48. Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
- Roland Allen

49. Missions is not just for missionaries; God’s call is for all.
– Ann Dunagan, The Mission-Minded Family

50. Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. – John Piper

51. Missions is practicing God’s presence until His passion compels us to obey.
- Ann Dunagan, The Mission-Minded Family

52. Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.
- John Piper

53. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.
- Robert C. Shannon

54. No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.
- William Borden

55. Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?
- John Wesley

56. Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God’s glory!
– David Brainerd

57. Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.
- Robert Moffat

58. One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!
– T.L. Osborn

59. Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence.
- Unknown

60. Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.
- Kurt von Schleicher

61. Some wish to live within the sound of church and chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell!
– C.T. Studd

62. Someone asked, Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved.
- Charles Spurgeon

63. Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.
- Francis Xavier

64. The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
– David Livingstone

65. This generation can only reach this generation.
– David Livingstone

66. Sympathy is no substitute for action.
– David Livingstone

67. The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible.
- Ralph Winter, U.S. Center for World Mission

68. The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
- A. B. Simpson

69. The Church must send or the church will end.
- Mendell Taylor

70. The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.
- Oswald J. Smith

71. The mission of the church is missions.
- Oswald J. Smith

72. (Related to the previous quote.) God’s mission for the family is expanding God’s family.
- Ann Dunagan, The Mission-Minded Family

73. We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.
- Oswald J. Smith

74. The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.
- Alexander Duff

75. The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
- Carl F. H. Henry

76. The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
- Hudson Taylor

77. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
- Ron Luce, TeenMania

78. The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.
- Samuel Zwemer

79. The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
- C. T. Studd

80. The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.
- Mike Stachura

81. There is nothing in the world or the Church – except the church’s disobedience – to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.
- Robert Speer

82. The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
- Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

83. The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.
- Oswald J. Smith

84. The will of God — nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
- F. E. Marsh (also attributed to Bobby Richardson)

85. To know God and to make Him known.
- Loren Cunningham, YWAM

86. To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
- William Carey, pioneer missionary to India

87. Untold millions are still untold.
- John Wesley

88. Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.
- K.P. Yohannan, Gospel for Asia

89. We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.
- P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene

90. We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.
- Wesley Duewel, head of OMS International

91. We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
- John Stott

92. What can we do to win these men to Christ?
- Richard Wurmbrand, The Voice of the Martyrs (referring to the men who were persecuting him)

93. Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?
-Oswald J. Smith

94. Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
- William Booth

95. Will you shed your tears for the souls of the nations?
- Wendi Stranz, Pastor’s wife

96. World missions was on God’s mind from the beginning.
- Dave Davidson

97. You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.
- Amy Carmichael

98. You can’t take it with you, but you can send it on ahead.
- Oswald J. Smith

99. You must go or send a substitute.
- Oswald J. Smith

100. You have one business on earth – to save souls.
- John Wesley

More Missionary Quotes

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
- T. E. Lawrence

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen . . . I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ. I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
- David Brainerd

Believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.
- K.P. Yohannan, Gospel for Asia

Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!
- Amy Carmichael

God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit.
- George W. Peters

God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of “quality time” that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent’s faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren’t at their soccer games or didn’t take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.
- David Shibley, (The Missions Addiction)

God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.
- John Piper

I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not he assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.
- V. Raymond Edman

Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die with for Him and His glory.
- Gladys Aylward

Lord, I give up
All my own plans and purposes,
All my own desires and hopes
And accept Thy will for my life.
I give myself, my life, my all,
Utterly to Thee
To be Thine forever.
Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit.
Use me as Thou wilt,
Send me where Thou wilt,
Work out Thy whole will in my life
At any cost,
Now and forever.
- Betty Scott Stam (Martyred in China, in the 1930s)

‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives … and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.
- Nate Saint, missionary martyr

The command has been to ‘go,’ but we have stayed — in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth … but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.
- Robert Savage, Latin American Mission

The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.
- Thomas Hale – missionary to Nepal

The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man’s personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.
- James S. Stewart

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages.” To that, Calvert replied, “We died before we came here.”
- James Calvert

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.
- Hudson Taylor

God’s mission for the family is expanding God’s family.
Missions is not just for missionaries; God’s call is for ALL.

Ann Dunagan, The Mission-Minded Family

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Mission-Minded Families on “Revive Our Hearts”

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Ann Dunagan encouraged MISSION-MINDED FAMILIES on Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, a nationwide women’s radio broadcast.

Here’s a glimpse of these programs:

Monday’s broadcast: DAY 1 – UNLEASHING YOUR CHILDREN’S TALENTS

What talents has God given your children? The world is waiting for those talents to be unleashed for God’s glory. Learn how to develop your children’s gifts while giving them a vision for God’s kingdom.

Tuesday’s broadcast: DAY 2 – I WAS NAKED, AND YOU CLOTHED ME

Ann Dunagan’s family was visiting Africa and was struck with the number of children without adequate clothing. The words of Jesus came to mind, “What you’ve done for the least of these, you’ve done for me.” Hear how this family responded to this huge need.

Wednesday’s broadcast: DAY 3 – RELEASING ARROWS INTO THE WORLD

There are so many urgent needs in the world. How might God be preparing your children for making an impact in the needy world? Learn how to release them to build God’s Kingdom.

Introducing Nancy Leigh DeMoss . . .

Nancy Leigh DeMoss grew up in a family deeply committed to Christ and to the mission of world evangelization. At an early age, she surrendered her life to Christ and to His call to fulltime service. Today, Nancy mentors millions of women through Revive Our Hearts (an outreach of Life Action Ministries) and the True Woman Movement, calling them to heart revival and biblical womanhood. Her love for the Word and the Lord Jesus are infectious, and permeate her online outreaches, conference messages, books, and two daily nationally syndicated radio programs—Revive Our Hearts and Seeking Him. Her books have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, and include Lies Women Believe, Choosing Forgiveness, A Place of Quiet Rest, A Thirty Day Walk with God in the Psalms, Brokenness, Surrender, and Holiness. She also co-authored Seeking Him and Lies Young Women Believe.

“It was a tremendous honor to meet with Nancy Leigh DeMoss in her studio, to talk about encouraging families for God’s kingdom and missions, and to pray together. I’m so grateful for Nancy’s spiritual leadership, godly integrity, and her heart for women. — Ann

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Balancing Missions & Family

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How can we balance our passion for missions with our hearts for our homes? Do we have to choose between “raising our kids” and “reaching the lost”—or is it possible to do both?

As parents, we’re called to raise our kids; and as Christians, we’re called to reach the lost. We really can’t fulfill one of these callings, if we choose to neglect the other.

As I was writing The Mission-Minded Family, I felt especially led to evaluate the homes and family-lives of well-known missionaries. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long to realize that many missionary heroes with families were not heroes of the family. Some of the most prominent names in mission history had horrible problems at home; while other leaders (such as William and Catherine Booth of the Salvation Army or Hudson and Maria Taylor) found a powerful ministry-family balance.

As I began to delve deeper into these examples, I searched for clues and common-denominators for those godly world-changing leaders who had God-glorifying homes. And I believe I found the key. It’s PRAYER. The men and women of God who focused primarily on seeking the Lord and their personal devotion to Him (rather than focusing on a merely a successful ministry) seemed to find God’s divine balance for each day. As a result, not only did their ministries glorify God, but their families did as well.

Author and international minister Dr. David Shibley says, “The normal Christian life is anything but balanced, as popularly defined . . . The normal Christian life is high risk and high joy. The normal Christian life releases the temporal to embrace the eternal . . . God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of “quality time” that the children never saw the kind of consuming love that made their parents’ faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, not because they weren’t at their soccer games or didn’t take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.”

I want my family to have that kind of consuming love, with high risk and high joy. I want to live out my faith in a way that is not only attractive, but also compelling and irresistible! I want to be moved by the passions of God’s heart—and for my kids to take these godly passions to a deeper level. I want to hand off the baton to my descendants, and have them run faster and farther than I ever did.

Let’s raise our kids; let’s reach the lost; and let’s challenge the next generation to live for God with even greater boldness, wisdom, and effectiveness. Through Christ, all things are possible.

Tags: Balancing Our Priorities, FAMILY LIFE, parenting

Daring Daughters . . . and Dirty Feet

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I’ve always had this “thing” for baby feet. I pull off darling shoes, and little newborn socks, and just want to kiss each of those tiny toes! I always ponder where a baby’s precious feet will go, and about God’s destiny and purpose for each new life.

But speaking as a mother, what happens when our kids grow up, and God perhaps would call our sons, or our DAUGHTERS, to dangerous places?

Daring Daughters . . . and Dirty Feet

Our oldest daughter, Christi, recently climbed a mountain barefoot. She didn’t want to wear out her TOMS, which incidentally are shoes produced by a company that helps kids in impoverished countries . . . . who don’t have shoes. These dirty feet actually give a pretty clear glimpse of our daughter. Christi’s always dreamed of daring things for God.

She’s grown up on a steady diet of missionary biographies — Amy Carmichael, Gladys Aylward, Florence Nightingale, Lottie Moon, and Elisabeth Elliot; but she’s done more than merely read about godly self-sacrificing women. Christi’s been living-out her own mission adventure story, as she’s also continually dreaming about the future.

The Bible says, “And how shall they preach, except they be sent?

as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace,

and bring glad tidings of good things!” – Romans 10:15

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Raising daughters . . . to fulfill God’s destiny

I want to be a mom who encourages each of our children to completely fulfill God’s destiny — not by our own efforts, but by God’s GRACE!!! Jon and I know that each of our sons, and our DAUGHTERS, have been entrusted by God into our family to be raised FOR HIM and His mission-minded and eternal purposes. We want each of our kids, including each son and each DAUGHTER, to fully obey God’s call and purpose for his or her life.

Sometimes, as a caring and loving mom (who remembers kissing our babies’ feet and tucking away their precious hand-knitted booties for the next generation), that can be challenging and stretching.

But oh, what a JOY!!!!

Our daughter, Christi

Here are a few pictures of our daughter on a mission outreach in East Africa. Christi was instrumental in helping to establish Harvest Ministry’s orphanage outreaches in Uganda, currently caring for hundreds of children orphaned primarily because of AIDS.

During her last year at home, Christi worked tirelessly in our ministry office, coordinating child sponsors and sharing needs. She’s traveled the globe to share the Gospel and to help others; but her passion for people who need Jesus is just as fervent here in the United States! She loves to mentor young women, to pray for those who are hurting, to speak out for world missions, and to have fun with community outreach projects (just last weekend, on Oct. 31st, she worked alongside an “army” of college students in an exciting city-wide canned-food drive!).

As mothers in God’s kingdom, we need to not only raise our own daughters to love the Lord, but realize that there are multitudes of God’s precious daughters throughout the world, who desperately need all the motherly-and-sisterly-love we can give, along with our sacrificial support and prayer.

Fulfilling a dream . . . for God’s girls in Cambodia

As for Christi, she’s now in her final year at ORU. This semester, she’s writing her senior paper, focusing on the horrible issues surrounding child prostitution and international human trafficking and the necessary process of healing after sexual abuse. She’s also preparing to be an ATL (Assistant Team Leader) for an upcoming two-month ORU summer mission to Cambodia, in Asia.

It’s amazing how God puts all the details together. Some people say that homeschool families isolate their children and keep them sheltered from the world. For us, we have protected our kids and teens from allowing compromising friends and lifestyles of sinful distractions, as we’ve covered them in the power and blood of Jesus Christ, so they can IMPACT a dark world with the bright light of our wonderful Lord.

Interceding for God’s girls . . . in Iran

As a side-note, I (Ann) have had a tremendous burden this week for persecuted women, especially in Iran, who are being abused and tortured for their unfailing love for Jesus Christ. Just today, I received a specific prayer request from Voice of the Martyrs to uphold two beautiful Christian girls in Iran, Maryam and Marzieh, who are suffering persecution right NOW for their faith.

Please pray for our daughter Christi, for Mayam and Marzieh, and for God to give all of us more of His passion for ALL of His daughters throughout the world.

I love Proverbs 31. Sometimes we neglect to read all the verses about God’s virtuous women. As moms, we don’t need to be afraid about what is to come, for our household is “clothed in scarlet” (protected by the blood of Jesus). We need to reach out our “hand to the needy” and train our daughters to be women who “fear the Lord.”

Here are my favorite verses from Proverbs 31:

“Open your mouth for the speechless,

for the cause of all who are appointed to die.

Open your mouth and judge righteously,

and plead for the cause of the poor and the needy.”

Proverbs 31:8-9

May we raise daring daughters, perhaps with dirty feet, who will fully obey and follow God’s plan and purposes, in complete obedience and submission to Him, with fervent love.

God is so good.

May His goodness flow through us, and through our sons and our DAUGHTERS.

11/18/2009 – PRAISE REPORT: Just received news today via twitter (on @persecutionblog and The Voice of the Martyrs) that the two women in Iran, Maryam & Marziah, both mentioned in this article, were just SET FREE after 259 days in prison!!!)

QUOTE from persecutionblog.com: “VOM’s friend, Elam Ministries, which serves the growing church in Iran, has announced that Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh have been released from Evin Prison in Tehran. Family members picked them up at the prison this afternoon, Iran time. The two women immediately expressed thanks to Christians around the world who had prayed for them during their 259 days in prison.

“Words are not enough to express our gratitude to the Lord and to his people who have prayed and worked for our release,” they said.

Tags: AFRICA, Cambodia, Daring Daughters, Iran, Loving Orphans (News & Updates)

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