Read firsthand stories from MCN mission partners, get ideas for missionary support, and discover more about mission resources from MCN.
Thriving, Not Just Surviving: The Heart of Mission Partner Care
What is member care? Member care (or mission partner care) is ongoing preparation, equipping, empowering, and support of mission partners – a responsibility given, initiated, and led by God and shared by all within the organization. Mission Partner care is concerned with mission partner’s spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual, and relational development and well-being. Who is […]
Go and Grow: How Missionary Service Changes Us
As a mission mobilizer, many of my conversations with people considering missions have to do with their readiness and ministry fit. It’s natural to want to know things like “Am I the right kind of person to be a missionary?” “What skills do I have that will fit the needs of this field?” and “How […]
Taiwan Is #4
In a recent newsletter, Dr. Steve Oliver (seminary professor and missionary in Taiwan) wrote, “Taiwan’s Stock Market rose to the 4th in value worldwide (after the U.S., China, and Japan). This is amazing considering that Taiwan takes up only 0.02% of the world’s land space and also considering that Chinese were among the poorest 150 […]
Watering Seeds: A Summer of Serving in Cambodia
Brynn is a senior at Concordia University Nebraska. She spent about nine weeks this summer serving as a short-term mission partner at Stronghold Cambodia in Kampot, Cambodia. Stronghold is a non-profit educational ministry where children hear about Jesus’s love in their own heart language of Khmer for the first time, and students (grades 3-12) who […]
How Slovakia Prepared Me for Chicago
Are you a church work student, gearing up for your internship? Have you ever considered doing your internship overseas? Hear from Jennifer Edwards about her experience as a DCE Intern in Slovakia and how that experience prepared her for ministry in the States. Introduce Yourself: I went to Concordia University Texas in Austin. I studied […]
5 Things We’re Taking Away from CMI
The Concordia Mission Institute (CMI) is a yearly missions training conference jointly hosted by Mission of Christ Network and Lutheran Bible Translators. People thinking about future mission service, called Mission Explorers, are invited to join the week-long training as guests of MCN. It’s a rich and full week of fellowship and learning! Looking at comments […]
The Discernment Journey: Trusting God When Missions Feels Both Right and Impossible
Do I go or do I stay? Do I use my gifts here or there? Is this decision selfish or not selfish? Is this what God is really calling me to do or does He have something else for me? On and on the questions go. As someone who has lived the process of discerning […]
Where Does Scripture Talk about Missions?
Matthew 28:19 (“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…”) is likely the most famous mission verse in the Bible – although it’s only one of the Great Commission verses. (See Mark 16:15, Luke 24:47, John 20:21, and Acts 1:8 for other iterations of this sending.) God’s Mission, however, started long before Jesus’s resurrection and […]
Encouraged & Prepared for the Journey
Every year in May, Mission of Christ Network hosts New Mission Partner Training (NMPT) – a weeklong training focused on equipping new mission partners and specialists for their time of service in the foreign mission field. Training topics range from ‘Barriers to the Gospel’ to ‘Culture Shock’ to ‘Insurance’ and everything in-between. Hear from Mission […]
Milk Tea, Google Translate, and Grace: Adventures in Dorm Parenting
A conversation with Rex and Linda who served as dorm parents with MCN in Central Asia, a place where MCN is looking for retired couples to serve 3 month terms: Why did you decide to serve as dorm parents? The dorm project had been a vision for around five years prior to it becoming a […]