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MUP Short-Term Teams
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In addition to providing help with logistics and planning for short-term teams coming from various organizations like Heritage Christian School and Campus Crusade, we also regularly welcome short-term teams and individual workers that come through our own Mission to Unreached Peoples' home office. Many workers have said that their short-term trip was very rewarding. If you know that you are headed for the mission field but are not yet ready to go long-term, a short-trip can provide some hands-on training and fuel to keep your missions vision burning brightly. If you are not yet sure whether the Lord is calling you to missions or not, a short-term trip provides a great opportunity to test the waters and to listen for the Lord's voice. Or maybe you know that your long-term calling is in your home church, but you want to get a first-hand look at the mission field to broaden your vision of the church so that you can serve more effectively at home. If any of this is striking a chord with you, please consider a missions trip with Mission to Unreached Peoples, or a mission agency of your choice.
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Short-term missions: Join a Team
Some Photos from our 1997 and 1998 MUP Summer Outreaches
Before the 1997 team arrived, the church prepared 2000 Digest Bibles (inserting a letter from the pastor and an invitation to a church "open house"), to be distributed door-to-door in the neighborhood. |
One of the major outreach activities was a two-week intensive English course, including parties where the gospel was shared. The team was Michael (Denmark, front), Jeff (U.S., far left), and Maggi (Panama, next to Jeff). |
Everyone had plenty of food and fun at the open house. |
At the open house, the team performed a skit of the prodigal son story, acting out the action as Dan read the Bible passage. |
In 1998 we also had an intensive English class. As in 1997, a team member sat with a small group of students to get to know them better. Here is Brenda with her "table friends". |
The 1998 team had two guitarists (Jordan, from Seattle, is playing in this photo), so we held a sing-along party for the English students, including plenty of Christian songs. |
We and the church made a custom cassette recording of testimonies and songs, and the team and church members prepared and distributed 2600 copies. |
This time the "open house" was a music and BBQ party in a nearby park, and Eun gave a gospel message using a rope trick as a object lesson, while Dan interpreted into Japanese. |
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