Japan: PMA Graduation Treasures
The Professional Missionary Academy (PMA) is an innovative training program created by the Family International for those desiring to make a positive mark on the world as a professional missionary.
By one of the Japan PMA mentors:
Actually it amazed me that Jesus and the CGO board would have four days from October 13th to 16th to have a graduation for the PMA students, as everyone is quite busy and needed in their homes.
Set in the beautiful and exclusive mountain resort of Karuizawa, in an amazing resort home of a friend that included a chapel on the property, we had time to stop. We had:
- Feeding word times;
- Rocking inspirations;
- A beautiful graduating ceremony;
- Delicious meals together;
- Crazy activity nights with dancing together;
Meditations, hiking, biking and liking each other who fought hard for 4 months to complete the course. Jesus made the time restful, inspiring, unifying and envisioning for us. Now, we will use what we learned.
The Lord always gets and gives much more out of what we give Him.
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- Japan PMA Group Shot
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- Receiving new anointing for the mission
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- Biking
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- Yuri & Aileen at meditation spot
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- Meal Time
Tags: PMA, The Mission, Witnessing
Posted in Contributed on November 16th, 2009 by Admin | 2 Comments »
The Family India has a new website
The Family India has launched their updated and redesigned website. The design is visually appealing and I think it’s an excellent example of the ethnic-diversity of The Family International. I especially like the logo and color scheme. Orange/white is a favorite scheme of mine. And what about that logo! Nice work India!
Posted in Syndicated on October 13th, 2009 by Chris | No Comments »
The Family International Podcasts ROCK!
I’m loving the podcasts that this team has been putting together regularly. Sometimes you just want a little variety in your devotions or a short pick-me-up and there’s lots of great material at The Family International Podcasts. (You don’t need an iPod to listen to them, there’s a host of ways to subscribe.)
The BiblePod is just like what my dad used to do when I was a kid, he’d read us a Psalm each day in the morning and I’m thinking of playing these for my kids when they wake up in the morning to help them start their day.
If you were to string together the Daily Praise with the Daily Might and From Jesus With Love and top it off with Connection through Meditation that’d make between 10-15 minutes of variety.
And hey, that’s not to mention all the great Activated material on there too. I just haven’t gotten around to listening to those yet. I’ll bet you could put together a great playlist for the day. But what are you listening to me for? I’m sold, but the site sells itself, check it out: http://podcasts.thefamily.org
Posted in From the Editors on October 6th, 2009 by Chris | No Comments »
Change program — the times are a changin
This isn’t news within the Family International but I wanted to link to this post that the Family International’s spiritual leaders gave at CESNUR earlier this year. This article provides a nice summary of the current direction and changes with the family. So without further ado please see: CESNUR presentations.
It’s a long but worthwhile read if you are interested in the direction that the family is headed and haven’t had a chance to read about the “Change Program” — Here are a few quotes.
Perspective on the Second Coming Considering the future of the Family and the change this will entail led Maria and me to discuss the time frame for the second coming of Jesus Christ. We ultimately conjectured that this may not occur for another 30–50 years.
Our intention is to bring about substantial change within the Family. We are after significant differences from the way we have thought and operated in the past. We want to unhitch the Family from anything of the past that hinders us from fulfilling our mission, our core purpose.
Tags: Change Journey, The Mission
Posted in Syndicated on October 4th, 2009 by Steve | No Comments »
Fire fighting tales from South Africa
This one from my good friend Anita.
…..in the middle of our evening party we got a call that the fire had flared up again and was getting really out of hand. The wind had picked up a lot as a big storm was blowing through. A couple of people drove down to look at it and called back to tell everyone to desperately pray as the fire was completely out of control, jumping about 10 meters every five seconds, and burning toward our house.
Posted in Syndicated on October 1st, 2009 by Jules | 1 Comment »
