OUTCOMES – Ideas we want participants to internalize

NOTE: This is a draft CBC Missions Committee Document

• We want each trip participant to find the place where their deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.*
• God has given each individual specific talents and gifts, and a unique personality that reflects a unique part of His personality. These gifts have been bestowed on mankind to be used in His service and to bring Him glory.
• Ministry is an essential part of a healthy Christian life. God expects all of His children to be in ministry, serving Him and others sacrificially.
• Missions is a seamless part of our Christian life. Missions is doing our ministry somewhere else.
• The world is hungry for Jesus, and there are many ways we can be Jesus to the world.
• How and why we do is more important than what we do
  
  *“There are all different kinds of voices calling to you, all different kinds of work and the problem is finding out which is the voice of God, rather than that of society, say, or the super-ego or self-interest. By and large, a good rule for finding out is this: The kind of work God usually calls you to, is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do, and (b) that the world most needs to be done.”
  
  “If you really get a kick out of your work, you’ve presumably met requirement (a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you have missed requirement (b). [Buechner’s example suggests that he does not think deodorant serves a significant purpose!] On the other hand, if your work is being a doctor in a leprosy colony, you have probably met requirement (b), but if most of the time you are bored and depressed by it, the chances are you’ve not only bypassed (a) but you probably aren’t helping your patients much either.”
  
  “Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do.” Frederick Buechner concludes, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”