Mission-Minded Passports
Are you considering international travel, or taking a family mission trip?
If you want to be a part of God’s Great Commission (Matthew 26:19 and Mark 16:15 – to “Go into all the world and preach the gospel”), here’s a little question with BIG implications:
DO YOU HAVE YOUR PASSPORTS YET?
I wrote an article for Heart of the Matter Online, a great homeschooling website for families. In this article I share instructions to make mission-minded “Passports” — as a fun craft project and learning tool (including a FREE pdf file with passport pages, and links to FREE international flag stamps). I also motivate families to go one step further and to apply for “real” passports. Come take a look! (And it would be wonderful if you could leave an encouraging comment on the Heart of the Matter site! We hope to keep this door open to continue motivating homeschooling families for world missions!)
Click here for PASSPORTS FOR MISSIONS (at Heart of the Matter Online)
Easy-to-make passport crafts are perfect for mission-minded Vacation Bible Schools, Christian school or homeschooling projects for art, Bible, or geography, children’s ministry or Sunday school classes, and for mission-minded families. Spread the word to others. It’s a tool that is available for FREE to motivate children for God’s Great Commission!
Blessings to you!
Ann
The Challenge: DAY 35 – Get Ready to GO! #5
The EvangeCube
Welcome to DAY 35 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
Today’s focus is getting your family ready to GO is learning to use a witnessing tool called the “EvangeCube.” This effective Gospel evangelism tool is effective and fun to use (for all ages), and sometimes called the “Jesus Film” of one-on-one evangelism.
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resources: - More about the EvangeCube
Simply Share Jesus – How to effectively use the EvangeCube- Today’s Mission Quote: “As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.”" – J. L. Ewen
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: EUROPE,
- Memory Verses – Learn the Bible verses for the EvangeCube
- Today’s 5-minute online video
The Challenge: DAY 34 – Get Ready to GO! #4
The Gospel Colors
Welcome to DAY 34 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
A common children’s witnessing tool is using the “Five Colors” – gold (God wants us to live forever with Him in heaven), black (all have sinned), red (salvation is only possible through the blood of Jesus), white (by God’s grace and faith we can receive forgiveness from sin), and green (God want us to GROW and to GO).
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resources: - The Five Colors, Good News for Children
- Today’s Mission Quote: “This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth.” – Keith Green
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: EUROPE,
- Memory Verses – Learn the Bible verses for the Five Colors
- Today’s 5-minute online video
The Challenge: DAY 20 – Beatitudes #5
The PERSECUTED
Welcome to DAY 20 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
Today, we are finishing-up our memorizing of the BEATITUDES from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, continuing with Matthew 5, verses 9-10. Today, our mission-minded emphasis is being a PEACEMAKER (we bring the “Gospel of Peace”) and being willing to be PERSECUTED for righteousness.
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resources:
Teaching With God’s Heart for the World, and Voice of the Martyrs – be sure to sign up for their FREE newsletter, and check out their FREE book, Tortured for Christ.- “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” – Missionary Quote by John Keith Falconer. Among missionaries, Falconer’s life is often overlooked; yet he greatly impacted the development of early twentieth-century Christian mission to Islam – (1856-87).
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: REVIEW
OCEANS & CONTINENTS, ASIA,MIDDLE EAST,AFRICA,- Memory Verse: Matthew 5:9-10
- Today’s 5-minute online video
The Challenge: DAY 19 – Beatitudes #4
The MERCIFUL
Welcome to DAY 19 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
As we are continuing with our memorizing of the BEATITUDES – with a mission-minded focus – from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, continuing with Matthew 5, verses 7-8. Today, our mission emphasis is being MERCIFUL and PURE in HEART.
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resources:
The Mission-Minded Child, The Mission-Minded Family- Missionary Quote by Ralph Winter – U.S. Center for World Missions
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: AFRICA
- Memory Verse: Matthew 5:7-8
- Today’s 5-minute online video
The Challenge: DAY 18 – Beatitudes #3
The MEEK
Welcome to DAY 18 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
Today’s focus is on being MEEK and being HUNGRY and THIRSTY for righteousness. Throughout this 4th week, we are working through learning and memorizing the BEATITUDES from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, continuing with Matthew 5, verses 5-6.
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resources: The Mission-Minded Child, The Mission-Minded Family, and our FREE – M.A.P.S. for KIDS – Vacation Bible School Curriculum.
- Missionary Quote by Hudson Taylor Also, special feature video about the importance of Bible translation – by Wycliffe Bible Translators
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: AFRICA
- Memory Verse: Matthew 5:5-6
- Today’s 5-minute online video
The Challenge: DAY 17 – Beatitudes #2
Those who MOURN
Welcome to DAY 17 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
Today’s focus is to realize our total need for God, by being POOR IN SPIRIT, along with having a godly heart that will MOURN for the needs and injustices that grieve the heart of God. Throughout this 4th week, we are working through the BEATITUDES from the Sermon on the Mount, continuing with Matthew 5, verses 3-4.
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resource: George Mueller – The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans – From YWAM’s Christian Heroes Then & Now Series George Mueller is also featured (with a Missionary Monologue Skit) in The Mission-Minded Family
- Missionary Quote by Bob Pierce – Founder of World Vision. This insightful article by Christianity Today, focuses on Bob Pierce’s mission life and eventual downfall: “Imperfect Instrument: World Vision’s Founder led a Tragic and Inspiring Life”)
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: AFRICA
- Memory Verse: Matthew 5:3-4
- Today’s 5-minute online video
A few questions for feedback:
Ask your kids if they understand what it means to be POOR in SPIRIT? And as a family, what types of needs in the world do you MOURN about? Or do you realize that you don’t really care as much as you should? If so, how can you stir up more compassion for specific needs and injustices in the world?
The Challenge: DAY 16 – Beatitudes #1
The DISCIPLES
Welcome to DAY 16 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
During this fourth week, we’re going to focus on memorizing and studying the Beatitudes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Today’s focus is Matthew 5:1-2, and the difference between being a “disciple” of Jesus, or a “disciplined” one who follows hard after God, rather than merely “one of the multitudes” in church.
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resource: William Carey – Obliged to Go – From YWAM’s Christian Heroes Then & Now Series and also The Mission-Minded Family
- Missionary Quote by William Carey
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: AFRICA
- Memory Verse: Matthew 5:1-2
A few questions for feedback:
Would you say your family leans more toward being one of the multitudes, or are you growing as disciples (or “disciplined ones” following Jesus)? Think about each member of your family; how is each person (parents and kids included) growing and maturing, right now, as a faithful disciple of the Lord?
The Challenge: DAY 6 – God’s Commands #1
His PATH
Welcome to DAY 6 of the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE!
Today your family will consider God’s path of life and two “ditches” to avoid: legalism and lawlessness. This week we’re focusing on God’s Ten Commandments, and learning the HAND COMMANDS. These simple finger motions can help you to show people their need for God’s salvation.
C’mon . . . Take the Challenge!
- Recommended Mission Resource: David Livingstone – Africa’s Trailblazer – From YWAM’s Christian Heroes Then & Now Series
- HAND COMMANDS – The Ten Commandments for Little Ones
- Missionary Quote by David Livingstone, Missionary Explorer to Africa
- Geography Quiz at lizardpoint.com: ASIA
- Memory Verse: Matthew 7:13-14
A few questions for feedback:
Discuss as a family Commandment #1 and #2. What does it mean to love the LORD your God and to only serve Him? Is there anything in your family that is out of place? Also, are there are “idols” or things in your life that take priority over your relationship with the Lord? What do you think about walking on God’s path and not falling into either legalism or lawlessness; which “ditch” is more of a tendency for your family?
Continue the 40-Day Mission-Minded FAMILY CHALLENGE . . .
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