Nicaraguan Memories

by Missions team member Jen Bantle If I could have taken one home, it would have been Teressa. Teressa (short vowels, beautiful rolling “r”) has deep passionate eyes and a sweet smile. She is 7, but probably weighs as much as an average American 4-yr-old. Every time I saw Teressa, she was wearing an emerald [...]

Dominican Republic 2009, Part 5

by Mike Reed, Director of Student Ministries @ MBC Loudoun A rough summary on how God used the team: 6 baseball clinics (325 attended) 144 decisions for receive Christ Purchased 2 motorcycles for missionaries to plant churches in new neighborhoods Passed out 1000 tracts More than 1400 came to the basketball arena in San Pedro [...]

Dominican Republic 2009, Part 4

by Mike Reed, Director of Student Ministries @ MBC Loudoun God worked on our team: – One student who came to Christ just this year learned to share his testimony and that prayer is powerful. He had the joy of sharing Christ all week. – The junior high team pooled their personal money to buy [...]

Trick or Treat

Most children love to play dress up, and most children love candy! These aspects of Halloween can be not only fun, but they can also enable a valuable spiritual opportunity. By changing the focus when your children pick out costumes, you can change their focus to the needs of the spiritually lost. 1. Encourage your [...]

Dominican Republic 2009, Part 3

by Mike Reed, Director of Student Ministries @ MBC Loudoun The Power of Prayer At one site the weather looked bad and it started drizzling just as the kids were about to start the program to share Christ. The team prayed and God held the rain back till after the program and the whole gospel [...]

Dominican Republic 2009, Part 2

If you would like to receive new articles in your email, click here to sign up. by Mike Reed, Director of Student Ministries @ MBC Loudoun Evangelism: The first day we arrived we took some down time to swim and get ready for the week ahead. An adult leader felt led to witness to another [...]

Dominican Republic 2009, Part 1

If you would like to receive new articles in your email, click here to sign up. by Mike Reed, Director of Student Ministries @ MBC Loudoun This will be a 5 part recap of the Senior High Missions trip to the Dominican Republic God blessed us again this year with a life changing mission trip. [...]

Missions: Dominican Republic

If you would like to receive new articles in your email, click here click here to sign up. by Mike Reed, Director of Student Ministries @ MBC Loudoun We just returned from an amazing 8 days serving the people in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. We took a team of 180 people, with 25 students from [...]

Missions: Nicaragua, Part 5

If you would like to receive new articles in your email, click here click here to sign up. by Greg Lilly Our mission trip with ORPHANetwork was amazing. It was a total growth experience. I can’t explain it other than to say I felt so close to God that week. I felt like we were [...]

Missions: Nicaragua, Part 4

If you would like to receive new articles in your email, click here click here to sign up. by Greg Lilly There were so many things that happened on our mission trip with ORPHANetwork that are impressed on my heart! Below are three highlights… One really cool event was the day we took a group [...]