LIVING MISSION - PURPOSEFUL MISSIONS
2017-18 Adult Mission Education Resource

Purposeful Missions delves into facets of global education and how missions touches them, the importance of education in missions, and an update on the NMI International Student Scholarship Fund. Topics visit a number of compassion-based ministries in the Church of the Nazarene—agriculture-focused missions, breaking the bonds of global poverty, and how the church has developed resiliency in times of disaster. Your people will be inspired to learn about preparing children and youth for missions, how the global church breaks down barriers, and about the need for patience in missions. Discover how John 3:16 can help win souls around the globe, how your church can be a sending church, and how to effectively pray for missions.

This curriculum includes 12 lessons with suggested additional resources such as recipes, books, articles, websites, and videos. Each lesson features multiple presentation options, handouts, and varied involvement ideas that coordinate with the lesson topics. 

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LIVING MISSION - EMBRACE YOUR PURPOSE
2016-17 Adult Mission Education Resource

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Living Mission - Embrace Your Purpose provides inspirational missions stories from around the world. The curriculum includes 12 lessons with suggested additional resources such as websites and videos. Each lesson has multiple presentation options and varied involvement ideas that apply to the lesson. It is streamlined with a new low price!
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Tips and Hints for use of these materials

I've had inquiries from some people about how to deliver the materials that we are given. 
Apparently people are finding the materials very short, and have run out of materials well before the end of the church year.
​Here are some of my suggestions that I'd like to share with everyone: ​

CLAIR ANN KEODPROM

District NMI Vice President
First, I review all twelve topics for use each month. Then I take the topic and find out as much information as I can about the topic that applies here in Ontario and in my own city. For example: The lesson on Ministry to the Disabled - I went on line to find out all I could about the Government of Ontario's regulations concerning people with disabilities (don't call people "disabled") and then discovered all the agencies that deal with people with disbilites here in my own city, downloaded their information and put together a study related to that and how we here can plug into those agencies and assist in anyway we can. 

I've invited someone from the Community Living Association to come to speak about how we can assist people with disabilites in our church and to talk about our joint project of "Cooking Buddies" that our youth group is involved with. Our youth meet with young adults every Monday evening for 2 months to teach them cooking skills, cook a meal together, play games, have a devotional and finish with a meal for all of the buddies and their families.  

For the second month study on the same topic I deal with the topic globally and how our church is ministering to people with disabilities such as the Mango Tree Center in Tonga. 

For the lesson on Human Trafficking (a previous year's topic) I found out what Canada is doing to combat that, got a speaker from our own congregation who worked for the Minister in Ottawa responsible for legislation, found out about the local organization that works to combat this horrible problem, went to lots of websites for information, created a quiz to find out how much our people knew about the problem of human trafficking, and whether they knew what signs to look for if they suspected that someone they knew might be a victim of that. It was quite interesting to see how much they did and didn't know!