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happy for you!!! It’s amazing to hear how
you have given your life to Christ! I’m so
blessed to be able to be going on your team
this year! God is so GREAT! missionary build relationships. By offering
Ashley, Philippines a bottled water to someone thirsty in Chi-
cagoland, or helping with a Bible School shown them that they truly are mission-
There is something about being on the in Romania, or working to feed hungry aries, these students have a new sense of
mission field that changes you. Maybe children in the Philippines, or working in a purpose. They realize that God has set
it’s the looks of grateful faces or the sports camp in the Ukraine, or teaching conver- them apart. They are missionaries. They
opportunity to worship in a different sational English in China, VSM Summer become missionaries in their schools.
culture. It could be the chance to minister Missionaries help our missionaries gain the They become missionaries in their com-
without any expectation of anything in trust and love of the people they are trying munities. They become missionaries in
return. Or, maybe it’s seeing poverty, real to reach. Their touch is felt long after they their churches. Some of them even sur-
poverty, for the first time in your life. In have left the field. render their lives and futures to serve God
reality, the thing that always changes the And they come home different. full-time on the mission field. All because
lives of people on the mission field is the Once home, these students never see some good folks back home believed in
prospect of sharing the love of Jesus with the world in the same way. They view them. They become missionaries.
people who have never heard. people differently. They view the ministry They are our future. Our missionaries. n
VSM Team members make a difference. of their local church differently. Because
BMA missionaries have come to depend they have had the opportunity to make an
on them each summer. They help open eternal difference, and because the BMA
doors for the missionary. They help the of America and their local church have
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