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Upcoming Trips |
Remnant Young Adult Germany TEAM IS FULL
Purpose: Music and Outreach with the Hostetlers in Wiesbaden and the McCalebbs in Heidelberg
Proposed Dates: June 26-July 5, 2012
Team Leader: Chris Gibson and Paul Evans
Cost: $2000
Youth Guatemala/El Salvador TEAM IS FULL
Purpose: Youth Camps, Feeding Center and Orphanage
Proposed Dates: July 12-19, 2012
Team Leader: Ryan Marr, Niles Parker, Ernesto Diaz and Art Dykstra
Cost: $900
Washington DC
Purpose: Celebrate our country's birthday by taking the gospel message to numerous nations on the National Mall on and around the 4th of July.
Proposed Dates: Staggered teams - June 27 – July 11, 2012
Team Leader:Scott Rodriguez
Co-Leaders: Dave Dodge, Art Dykstra, Gabe Graham, Luis Hernandez, Kevin Roberts
Cost:$700-$900 pending team/number of days
Guatemala Family-Friendly Trip
Purpose: Light Construction/VBS
Proposed Dates: August 6-13, 2012
Team Leader:Rick Hermanns
Cost:$880
The Vision: Calvary Chapel Missions
As an outreach of Calvary Chapel St. Petersburg Missions Department, short-term missions exist to be the hands and feet of Jesus with the goal of spiritual transformation and growth of the local community and team members, resulting in church planting, global awareness, growth of leaders, expansion of faith in action and exploration of long-term missions.
I. Commitment to Supporting Church Planting and Nurturing
"do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!" John 4:35
"The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." Matthew 9:37-38
"...and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!... So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:13-15, 17
As a priority, Calvary Chapel St. Petersburg is committed to supporting missionary endeavors that involve raising up indigenous churches, with the end goal of being a self supporting and a locally run Christian entity. Our emphasis is on Bible believing Calvary Chapel or Calvary style ministries (ministries consistent with our values). The ministries are defined by dependence on the Holy Spirit in directing its operation and ministry and the four functions of the church as defined by Acts 2:42:
* Leading people into a greater understanding of the whole counsel of God through his Word
* Developing fellowship
* Participating in communion among believers
* Placing priority on prayer.
Our short-term mission trips will strive to empower and support the local people we work with to continue to change lives in their communities, even after we have come and gone. We will only participate in outreach that is locally initiated, ongoing and involves follow-up after the team has left.
II. Commitment to Missionaries Sent from Local Fellowship
Calvary Chapel St. Petersburg is committed to supporting missionaries from our local fellowship by sending short-term teams. Our priority will be to support missionary efforts that lead to indigenous church planting or nurturing and care for widows and orphans.
III. Commitment to Sound Principles While Involved at a Location
We will:
* Avoid situations that lead to paternalism at all costs (i.e., creating an environment where the nationals feel they cannot continue the work on their own).
* Avoid creating a dependency on our resources (money, time and involvement).
* Encourage national involvement and ownership whenever possible.
IV. Commitment to Develop a Mission Minded Body through Short-Term Missions
Our goals for the church body for short-term missions are three fold:
* To raise up Christian leaders that are sent out as missionaries from the local body.
* To create a missions minded church body with a global perspective.
* To build up Christian leaders at Calvary Chapel.
V. Commitment to a Holistic View of Mission
We believe that everyone is called to serve the kingdom of God and we believe that Missions involvement is for every believer. As a result, we are committed to three types of teams:
* Service/Encouragement Trips (Missions Level 1 - service and lighter construction)
* Work Teams (Missions Level 2 - medical, construction, etc.)
* Primarily Evangelism (Missions Level 3 - intense ministry)
VI. Commitment to Building Relationships with Nationals
We will focus on participating in the lives of the people in the community as well as working with them, as opposed to doing something for them. Our priority is to be involved in work that involves nationals, allowing for maximum interaction and opportunities for relationships to be formed on an individual basis as well as on a community level. Building relationships takes time, and we will prioritize supporting locations where there is an opportunity to return to participate with the local church or organization.
VII. Commitment to Long-Term Partnership and Involvement
We are committed to developing long-term participation and partnership with the host organization. We will continually reevaluate the process and our involvement to ensure we are helping and not hindering the local work. In addition, we believe that long-term involvement of participants in missions is strengthened through follow up events and debriefing. As our focus is long-term, our training will reflect that vision.
In all things, Calvary Chapel will continue to allow the Lord to define the specific direction of the Short-Term Missions Program; however, in a desire to be consistent and to be focused with the resources God has given us, we have defined this mission statement.
Applications for future trips are available at the Ministry Info Center or by linking to the Short-Term Mission Trip Application from our Web site.
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While tragic, disasters often provide a unique opportunity for us to show the love of Christ in otherwise inaccessible locations. Our desire at Calvary Chapel St Petersburg is to touch God's world by using our time, energy and resources. We believe that God has blessed us for such a time as this.
An emergency disaster relief team that is properly equipped in medicine, dentistry, search and rescue and construction can have an eternal impact on people devastated by a natural disaster.
Calvary Chapel St Petersburg has partnered with Arise Medical Missions (www.arise.ms) to train and equip a disaster relief team of 40-50 people who are prepared to send teams of five to eight available people at a moment's notice to share God's love wherever they are called. A medical background is helpful but not required as we conduct extensive disaster mission training on a consistent basis.
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SENDERS! is a ministry whose goal is to come alongside the Missions Department to provide extended support in six identified areas (moral, logistics, financial, prayer, communication and re-entry) to assure that all missionaries connected to Calvary Chapel St. Pete experience effective preparation, deployment, field service and re-entry. There are many opportunities to get involved in this vital ministry.
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Calvary Corps is a ministry of helps that was designed to bridge the gap between short-term and long-term missions. Often team members leave a mission trip with a desire to do something more or to explore a call to missions. Calvary Corps provides an opportunity for people to spend a month to a year assisting a full time career missionary or foreign church with their ministry goals. In this way, both parties win: The kingdom of God is expanded and the Corps member gains experience in missions!
We have several opportunities to serve right now teaching English in central Guatemala, volunteering at the Rhea of Hope orphanage in Eastern Guatemala, building fish farms in India and administration work in Kenya.
Click on a Calvary Corps Opportunity below:
Bart De Craene
Pastor Of Calvary Chapel "North" St. Petersburg, Russia
www.calvarychapel.com/nsp
As the Pastor of CCN St. Petersburg in Russia, I see a lot of needs in our church that are not being met, and I am not able to meet them all. I believe that (short or long-term) missionaries could impact the lives of many Russian people by coming alongside and helping out in a practical way. I especially want to underscore the difference missionaries can make in sharing their spiritual and practical experience. It's not just about doing the work (because then every time a missionary leaves we'd only be worse off) but mainly about helping the Russian people see the need, know Jesus better, love Him and others more, and do the ministry themselves out of love for Jesus. Some of the ways a "Calvary Corps" short term missionary could help us are listed below:
1. Worship:
• Setting up / taking down equipment every Sunday + preparing hall for service
• Making shelves in the storage room, so we can actually store something.
• Some carpentry work: make a box on wheels that fits soundboard, wires, power transformer, etc.
• Doing sound on Sundays + Teach our guys how to do sound better + spiritual coaching of sound guy
• Helping people mature in the spiritual aspect to worship.
2. Nursery:
• Cleaning up room before service starts on Sundays, so moms and babies feel comfortable enough to come and stay.
• Help out in our tiny children's ministry: together with one of the moms/dads - play with the kids, support the young mom's, help our people develop this ministry as good as possible in the conditions given.
3. Men's ministry:
• Help out in discipling our guys. Encourage those that work. Remind them of their responsibilities and calling (in the church and in general). Helping them mature.
• Perhaps start a home fellowship.
• Organize some fun activities to strengthen the bond among the men.
4. Women's ministry:
• Join the weekly bible-studies. Encourage the sisters in their walk with the Lord
• Organize some fun activities to strengthen the bond among the women
5. Web-site:
• Take pictures of church activities
• Sharing know-how with our responsible. Or train a new person from scratch.
6. English-clubs for college students:
• Share your testimony, share your life with the young non-Christians that show up.
• Play fun games with them with one goal: Making contact to share the gospel afterwards.
• Help out as an English teacher.
7. Administrative / computer work:
• Help making our bulletins "fresh" + encourage the people involved in this work
• Edit the Word files with all the songs for the worship team, print them again, make new folders...
• Design invitations to our church activities + share your know-how and spiritual insights.
8. Kids ministry in Gruzino (village)/ or at an orphanage:
• Help out with planning (program / games / food)
• Buy food for the kids
• Play with the kids
Agape runs several programs including:
1. An orphanage with 280 kids.
2. An old age home.
3. Direct support of a church planting movement that has led to the establishment of 95 churches of which Agape is still a primary supplier of support.
4. Vocational training aimed at Dalit women-primarily through a nursing school and a sewing program.
5. A VBS program that reaches about 425,000 (that's not a typo) kids each summer.
The couple that runs the organization are about 70 and were orphans themselves. They receive no substantive support from the outside relative to the scale of their ministry. As a result of their low budget and an aggressive anti-Christian movement in India, many of their pastors are being enticed with financial arrangements to leave the service of Christ.
A local foundation run by Calvary Chapel businessmen has a desire to set up fish farms. The goal is to allow the recipient ministry to become more independent of the need for foreign donations. We plan to establish a fish farm in Jangaon at the end of this year. Although they have the heart to do it, we do not believe that Agape has the staff to train their pastors in personal fish farming. In the ideal outcome, each of the 95 pastors will learn micro-fish farming techniques. As such, they will be able to generate sufficient income to support the bulk of their own needs and be able to continue in the ministry. In addition, orphans and others can be trained at the main compound to grow fish to supplement the kids' diets with protein and/or sell the fish on the market to help fund the operations of Agape. I would expect it to take 1 1/2 years to train pastors in this regard.
Jangaon is about 2 hours NE of Hyderabad by car. It is a smallish city. It is possible to stay right on the compound with the orphans. Map
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MISSION MINDED SMALL GROUP is a monthly gathering open to anyone with a heart for missions. It is a night of food, friends, fellowship, prayer and brainstorming for missions. Children are welcome, but no childcare is provided. Typically meeting the 1st Tuesday of each month, contact the ministry leader for confirmation and meeting location.
To access information about our in-class and on-line training opportunities, please click here.
We are excited to see godly men raised up out of our fellowship to plant Calvary Chapels in fertile ground.
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