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December 03, 2009
What would you POSSIBLY do in Egypt?? Well, think X. How many commandments were there? Which Old Testament book in the Bible starts with X (okay, sounds like x)? How about Xtreme history? Religion? Culture? Climate? The Xtreme Team is called Xtreme for a reason! It's ...more
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November 30, 2009
In October, Rev. Mar Imsong of FBC
Bedford, MA led a team of four on a mission to Nagaland and Karbi Anglong for
over two weeks. Their primary focus was
to conduct special needs awareness and assessment workshops for church leaders
and school teachers with the suppo...more
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November 23, 2009
Robyn Smith, member of Second Baptist Church in Suffield, CT, is volunteering for two years as a teacher in Bogata, Colombia. Follow her adventures, and pray for her as she serves in ministry at El Camino Academy.My name is Robyn Smith, and I recently graduated from Messiah College
(near Harrisbur...more
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November 04, 2009
Stan Zimmer, founder of Zimmer Foundation
has been leading teams to China
since 1994. They were warmly received by
their government hosts when they went in October, 2009 and felt that their
ministry was much appreciated. Close
relationships with off...more
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November 04, 2009
Pat and Luis Alvarez from Lake Stevens, Washington,
have been going on mission trips to México since 2002. This year, they have been in the Yucatán on
three separate trips working in partnership with Gamaliel Canul from Action
International Ministries and with p...more
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November 02, 2009
The mission committee of First
Baptist Church of Greater Des Moines IA set a goal in late 2008 to sponsor an
international mission trip for members of their church. They partnered with their region,
Mid-American Baptist Churches, to provide leadership through Rev. Soozi Whitten
Ford and ...more
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October 28, 2009
In July, Harry and Sherry Palmer of
Covenant Baptist Church, West Bloomfield, MI went on a 20 day family mission
trip to Jeemangalam, India.
Their host was the Asian Christian
Academy. They see God at work in the community...more
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October 21, 2009
Taryn Jung, from First Chinese Baptist Church in Fresno, CA will be serving in Thailand until February, 2010. For a sneak peak into Taryn's life in Thailand read below... for the full blog, go to Taryn's Mission Blog Don't forget to leave comments and encourage her as she serves in a p...more
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October 20, 2009
What would kindergarten be without sand and water? Well, we have it! A kid's dad made these (see attachment) out of blue PCV water pipe and plastic storage boxes. Aren't they cool? Now we wish for a water wheel and pump. We have salvaged bottles, cups, and jars. I've ...more
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October 13, 2009
Rev. MJ Hinchliff from First Church of
Christ Congregational has been going on mission trips to the Dominican Republic
for 11 years, has been a team leader for medical missions for the past 4 years,
and in July, headed a team of 22 to
serve with Good Samaritan Ho...more
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October 06, 2009
In June, Rev. Larry Dale of Baptist Temple,
Parkersburg, WV and his wife Susan's team of 15
worked alongside the families of the community of Cumaica Norte, in Boaco to
help complete a medical clinic.
The other major project was to establ...more
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September 29, 2009
If you can see the photo, you can see 1/4 of our kindergarten
classroom. I was able to bring many learning tools with me. A 1 -100 chart and calendar are a couple of effective helps. The
children created the coconut tree with newspaper-painted leaves, and lunch
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September 24, 2009
And He will give you all you need from day
to day if you live for Him and make the Kingdom of God
your primary concern.
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Matthew 6:33 -
The first mission trip to the Dominican Republic from First
Baptist Church
in Wallingford, CT began in 199...more
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September 15, 2009
WEEK 1: Setting up the classroom was an extreme, "Extreme Makeover". Sorting,
cleaning, hunting, inventing, unpacking, arranging, shopping, and organizing
took all week with time out for staff meetings.WEEK 2: Three happy students
and one never-been-away-from-mom, limited Engl...more
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September 08, 2009
Be Surprised by Walking in Different Shoes...Maybe you have done this - walked in someone else's shoes. You've entered someone else's reality for a period of time and eaten the same food, done the same daily chores, bathed in the same streams. How were you surprised? What difference has i...more
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August 24, 2009
Silent Challenges
Silence
in my ears as being deaf traveled halfway around in the world to Russia brought
xtreme challenges but worthy xperiences.
Prior to the trip to Russia, I faced interesting xperiences with
God. Like Abraham, God tested my faith
and knew that I...more
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August 24, 2009
“I walk by
faith, each step by faith, to live my faith; I put my trust in you!” Easy words to sing, yet how easy is it to
fully and honestly live?
Russia
truly Xercised my faith. There were many
times I would find myself upset because we weren’t doing w...more
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August 24, 2009
Follow Me
Being
led from New York State to a camp that gave Gypsy kids an opportunity to learn
more about God for the first time became a chance to examine what I thought it
meant to follow Jesus. As God extended
his hand beckoning for me to continue on this path t...more
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August 24, 2009
While
in Russia I saw several different ministries, but one impacted me more than any
other. It was the Moscow Protestant
Chaplaincy also known as MPC. They have
identified needs within the community and have decided to do something about
them. We had the opportunity ...more
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August 24, 2009
Hello, my name is Joel.
During our trip to Russia, each of the team members had to
write journal entries. We wrote our thoughts and posted them online. I do not
know if you read my final journal, but in it I wrote that I believed that knowing the language of the
c...more
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August 24, 2009
Who Cares? Who cares about the children of Putatniya who must leave the
orphanage at age 18 with no home, no family, and no marketable job skills?
God cares!
Daniel cares.
Daniel Slobodenko is a very successful business man in the
Ryaz...more
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August 18, 2009
Martin´s Musings Touching Souls in NacoscoloThe day had begun early in Nicaragua; 4:00 Am I think, though I wasn’t wearing a watch. The roosters began to crow a couple of hours before sunrise and the birds began to sing; one bird singing such a complicated song I thought I was dreaming...more
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August 18, 2009
From Larry and Robin Sweeney, serving in Costa Rica for the past two years....We'll be here (Costa Rica) until December, when we'll close up the rental house and return to the Port Angeles permanently. (Well, we think permanently, but you never know what God has planned next!) These two years we'v...more
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August 10, 2009
Sun’s ray shined on my closed eyes
and woke me up as I was excited to finish the last day of being in Russia and
go to home in America. My team and I met
Rev. Peter Mitskevich in the morning. He
was the president of Moscow Theological Seminary of the evangelical
Christian-Ba...more
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August 09, 2009
A day to sleep in and be fully rested, to listen and learn
what God has for us. Today we attended a
church service in all English, if truth be told; the Russian language is not
allowed to be spoken in the church. I
found this interesting, the Russian Government gave the chu...more
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August 08, 2009
How
often do we reach out to experience faith on a level that we aren’t familiar
with? Besides ushering or being a deacon
or worship leader, how often do we find ourselves coming in direct contact with
our faith; especially on days besides Sunday?
For faith to be real, I ...more
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August 07, 2009
Today we had a day of rest. We slept in then did some shopping. When we got back it was time for supper. We were given money and were told to go to the market. We decided on spaghetti for supper and what we needed for breakfast in the morning. Three of us went to the market and the other three coo...more
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August 06, 2009
For over a decade, the Xtreme Team program has provided opportunity for young adults, ages 19 to 29, to Xperience the richness of God's mission around the world through the work of American Baptist International Ministries. Egypt is the destination for 2010 and the dates are Jun...more
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August 06, 2009
Dear partner in mission,It’s been an Xtreme couple of months, with teams and volunteers serving, the Xtreme Team flying off to Russia, connecting with folks at the Biennial and the AB Women at Lake Williamson, IL. We’ve heard inspiring stories from around the world and been praying for y...more
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August 06, 2009
This morning we woke up EARLY
(5ish)… and we had gone to bed LATE last night after arriving in Moscow (1ish)…
I was zonked. I am willing to bet the rest of the team was wiped out too, but I
was too tired to notice anyone else. So the rest of the day I was zoned out. And
even though I ...more
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August 05, 2009
Xemplary: God created an xtraordinary Xtreme team. We all
bring our own unique personality and skills. Yet through the Xposures God
provided, we have seen each other shine.
“‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents.
See, I have gained five more.’...more
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August 04, 2009
I woke up early in the morning and to be honest, I
started to feel bit exhausted of this Xtreme challenges that we, as team, faces
daily but as always, I kept praying for the strength from God. It helped me a lot when I do that. I noticed our team is getting exhausted too.
I s...more
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August 04, 2009
If you have tried to leave a comment on a team member's page or journal and have been unsuccessful, take heart! Our cool techie guys have xterminated the bugs and we're good to go. Some things you should remember, though:1. To receive Xtreme team updates, you need to click on the yello...more
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August 03, 2009
Today started out slow for me, I was annoyed because we were
not doing anything Christian like and that is what I wanted to be doing. We were shopping and being a bunch the silly
looking tourist, then it got even better…we took an hour bus ride and I didn’t
have a clue where ...more
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August 02, 2009
After our first evening in St.
Petersburg, last night, I began to remember the words we as a team yesterday
morning: “Trust God.” Those two words
remained a part of my thoughts as today began without realizing how important
that would be at different times today.
I was rem...more
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