Mission team trip to South African & South Korea
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Hi, my name is Natasha Brown. J Rose (far right in the picture) & I are fundraising for our mission trip to South Africa in preparation for our missionary life calling to serve in South Korea as missionary teachers. Our goal is to inspire and reignite the true aim of education in our schools, which is summed up in the following statements:
"Those in charge of the school are to teach the students to use for the highest, holiest purpose the talents God has given them, that they may accomplish the greatest good in this world. Students need to learn what it means to have a real aim in life, and to obtain an exalted understanding of what true education means. They need to learn what it means to be true gospel medical missionaries- missionaries who can go forth to labor with the ministers of the word in needy fields." {Counsel to Teachers, p 532}
Another statement puts it this way, " Our ideas of education take too narrow and too low a range. There is need of a broader scope, a higher aim. True education means more than the pursual of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the students for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come." {Education, p 13}
There are three key principles that we desire to implement as missionary teachers which are from the statement above:
• To train students to use their God-given talents for God's service.
• To provide students with the practical tools to be intelligent & effective gospel missionaries in their life-calling that they may accomplish the greatest good in this world.
• To give students and their families a broader view of education, that encapsulates physical, mental, and spiritual development for service in this world and for the life to
come.
It is important to us to do this work because we are convicted and convinced by the Word of God, with the evidence of the signs of the times, that we are living on the threshold of eternity. This conviction allows us to see the need for a greater & more urgent preparation to meet the impending crisis that is soon to come upon the world just before the SOON COMING OF OUR LORD & SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
Therefore, these funds will be used to help us to enroll in a two-month spiritual and practical training school in South Africa this coming November 1st-December 31st,2022.
These funds will help us to get our plane tickets and will contribute both practically & financially to the building projects in South Africa as we co-labor with them by practically engaging in service to the school, the sanitarium (lifestyle-health center), and the community.
We believe in the work that they are doing at "Messengers of Present Truth Ministry international." This work is summed up in their Mission statement as they reechoed God's purpose for their existence; “God’s purpose in giving the third angel's message to the world is to help prepare a people to stand true to Him during the investigative judgment. This is the purpose for which we establish and maintain our publishing houses, our schools, our sanitariums, hygienic restaurants, treatment rooms, and food factories. This is our purpose in carrying forward every line of work in this cause”. - {1MR 228.2}
Their weekly online ministry has blessed us personally for more than a year. Thus, we sense the call to attend the Messenger of Present Truth Ministry International Training Institute, which will provide us with additional tools to incorporate into our classrooms as missionary teachers to South Korea next year, 2023, God willing. We believe it will also equip us to go beyond the classroom to the families of our students and the broader communities around us.
Moreover, we have felt our great need for a more thorough and practical training that will give us the proper tools to do more effective missionary work without spending years to attain it. This training will enable us to help many people to be ready for eternity.
In 1 Chronicles 12:32 the Bible tells an important principle about understanding the times that we may know what God would have us to do in His work. "And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment."
We believe, as missionary teachers, that the time has come to awaken and equip the students in our schools to active and intelligent service for God.
Your donation towards this cause will aid us to contribute and gain these valuable tools to incorporate into our classrooms and beyond to be ready and be an influence to prepare others to meet our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Thank you all for your contributions so far. Those who would prefer another platform to donate may do so using the following:
CashApp:
$NataRoseBrons:
Zelle : J Rose cell #
Natasha Brown cell #
PayPal: [email redacted]
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* We now raised $3,670 combining the other donating platforms. According to gofundme we have reached 90% of our goal. Glory to our Lord Jesus & much thanks to all our donors who made this possible thus far, and to all who are continuing to contribute to reaching the goal. The team expressed warm thanks to you all!
Please don’t hesitate to cast in your two mites as the widow in Luke 21:2. Little in the hands of God can make much!
Thanks for your continued prayers and support. Blessings to all!
Organizer
Natasha Brown
Organizer
Kendale Lakes, FL