Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Last days of the STINT Briefing: An iPod Touch give away and Commissioning 390 missionaries

At the end of the conference, we held a iPod Touch give away for those who came to our strategy seminar! The winner was a guy named Greg - he is headed to North Africa and, for security reasons and safety of the national staff, we cannot show his face. So we did this! 

Greg is actually a second year STINTer, returning to North Africa. We met with him at the MidYear conference back in February and told him about the Jesus Film Media app. During the second semester, he used what he learned from our brief training and started a Bible study on the gospel of Luke with the students he was working with. I am glad he was the winner!

The last night of the STINT Briefing, all 392 STINTers heard from Campus Crusade for Christ's president, Steve Douglass. He cast great vision for sharing the gospel with others and entrusting the results to God. Another cool part of the night is when the STINT teams were welcome into the countries "regional area family" and prayed over by a director from a receiving area.
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The night ended in worship with the very talented worship team Page CXVI  who blessed all of us in leading worship all week. Check out their music below:



As I've taken time to reflect and debrief with my team about this conference, I am thankful for all the ways God blessed our time. We had so many fruitful conversation with many teams and individuals. We heard powerful words from solid leaders within our organization. We experienced unique worship with missionaries, many of whom are headed to closed countries and won't engage in cooperate worship for many months.

"And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:18-20

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