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Discover if you have a mission call





Discover if you have a mission call
1. Immerse yourself in the Word
All of it! Not just a few favorite phrases
2. Listen to the Holy Spirit
The inner witness
3. Look to God as sovereign
He often leads by opening and closing doors
4. Seek the counsel of mature Christians
Church elders, pastor, a mentor, close Christian friends
--Joe Mattox, Heart Institute, Lake Wales,FL< /small>












When does God call people to long-term missionary service?

  • 21% were called to missions as a result of a missions education service in their local church
  • 20% felt God calling them after listening to missionary speakers
  • 19% were called because of their own family's missions vision and conversations
  • 10% heard God's call through reading books by or about missionaries
-- Terry Read, missionary and missions professor










SNU's volunteers overseas


1+2+1
1:Get your feet wet cross-culturally on a one-week Work & Witness trip
2:Spend two summer months on a Youth in Mission team
1:Volunteer abroad for a full year

hculbert@snu.edu

Short-term mission resources

A martyred believer's commitment

Knowing if you have a missions call

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"Prayer is your most important resource"
– Merritt Mann
"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle."
– Phillips Brooks
"Recently, we visited a young adult handicapped association in Sofia, Bulgaria. One of the young members there said to us: We can't heal our bodies; so, at least help us heal our souls.'"
- Missionary Don Moore

What is it you would do even if you never got paid for it?

SNU's goal is for every student to have some significant cross-cultural experience. The capstone goal would be for graduates to follow the "Mormon model" in giving a year or more abroad of volunteer service to world evangelism. It's a BHAG -- one of those Big Hairy Audacious Goals that James Collins and Jerry Porras talk about.
Among the visionaries who set that program into motion in 1994 were SNU's President Loren Gresham and then-religion-department head Roger Hahn along with Robert Scott and Hermann Gschwandtner from Nazarene World Missions. For his tenacious creativity in the effective use of youthful volunteers in missionary outreach, Herman Gschwandtner received an honorary doctorate from SNU in 1998.
SNU works closely with the Nazarene World Mission Division office to place these young volunteers. After completing approved training, that office signs the SNU volunteers to Mission Corps contracts.
Our volunteers have also gone overseas with organizations like Youth With a Mission (YWAM) and Operation Mobilization (OM).

Reasons young people say "NO" to volunteering overseas

  1. They are living a self-centered lifestyle in which the only focus is personal and local needs
  2. Prayer and intercession have been replaced by "sharing," fellowship, and counseling
  3. Theologically, serious convictions about the final judgment and hell have been shelved
  4. Obsessive concern for safety amid news reports of terrorism, military takeovers and tribal conflicts
  5. Fear regarding raising support
  6. Existing debts and financial commitments
Adapted from Marching to a Different Drummer by Jim Raymo, Christian Literature Crusade

Are you interested in going as a volunteer?

SNU's Missions Heritage

"We have been challenged by the unprecedented opening of doors for evangelism . . . working together, we can seize the opportunities that God keeps placing before us"
Board of General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene
Entrepreneurship = The pursuit of opportunity
without regard to the resources at hand
Howard H. Stevenson, quoted by Merritt Mann
during a Southern Europe Field Partners meeting at SNU

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