tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206309352024-03-14T00:22:45.139-07:00The Journey of GraceYes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts." Isaiah 26:8Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-60061080252124074902013-11-27T08:15:00.002-08:002013-11-27T08:15:34.716-08:00Global Growth<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">This is Tariku and Fr</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: Candara; mso-eudc-font-family: Candara; mso-hebrew-font-family: Candara;">é</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">. I met them at our CMM staff retreat in August. They are from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Their passion is to mobilize the Ethiopian church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">Tariku and Fr</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-armenian-font-family: Candara; mso-eudc-font-family: Candara; mso-hebrew-font-family: Candara;">é</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;"> believe that if they are going to mobilize the whole church, they will have to mobilize children and their families. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">They see great potential in launching Weave in Ethiopia!</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">Up until now, we have focused solely on equipping North American families. God is expanding our ministry to include international training as we seek to launch Center for Mission Mobilization Hubs in other countries. Weave will play a big role in that. Our heartbeat is that all families, around the world, would be empowered to live out their unique role in God’s story. We've already been invited to South Africa and Thailand for 2014, and there may be additional trips that we don’t know about yet. This is a God-sized vision to see the task of the Great Commission completed and we see God leading the way.</span><span lang="en-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">In May, our team went to Bogota, Colombia and took our first steps toward international training. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;">I’m inviting you to partner with me again.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US;"> Incredible opportunities lie ahead in Asia Pacific, and I want you to be a part of it. To partner with me, you can give online at mobilization.org/give.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There it is again. A deep, unsettled feeling creeps into my
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The truth is, stepping into God’s purposes scares me. The
vision is so grand that is seems vastly out of reach. It’s global, foreign and
unknown. The unknown has never seemed like a wanted companion, especially when
it affects the little lives I want to protect more than anything in the world. </div>
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A fear that God might call us to take big steps towards
something later down the road can often paralyze us from making small,
meaningful steps in the present. What if we start praying for the unreached? Will
that mean God will one day call us to go to the unreached? If I teach my
children about God’s love for all people, will that one day lead them to take
risks for the Kingdom that an “ordinarily safe” life would never require them
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Embracing God’s purposes, His heartbeat to be enjoyed and
worshiped by all peoples, is a process. A child must scoot before he crawls. He
then learns to take a few wobbly steps, hands still raised for support, before
he learns to walk and later run. Once he has learned to run confidently,
earlier fears are erased. All that remains is the pure joy and exhilaration of
the adventure before him. </div>
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The children in our lives are watching us, learning from us.
They are waiting to see if we will choose to scurry into a corner and hide from
fear or if we will take bold, even if small, steps forward toward those fears. It
is okay if we must first crawl before we learn to walk confidently. What matters
is our children seeing us as people who use our fear to press into Jesus and
fuel our passion to serve Him wherever He may lead us. </div>
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Be encouraged, even in your fear. We do not have to face it
alone. Together, we are stronger. We can remind each other daily of our shared
vision, both to see Jesus worshipped by all peoples and to see a generation of
children loving and following Jesus all the days of their lives. </div>
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We at WEAVE are praying for you, trusting Jesus to do big
things both in and through your family as you obey His voice saying, “Do not be
afraid, for I am with you.”</div>
Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-15187172884144804132013-04-23T15:12:00.003-07:002013-04-23T15:18:03.200-07:00Against All Hope: Lessons from Abraham<br />
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I was walking through a back alley in Old Delhi, India.
Electric wire twisted and turned above me like jungle vines. Street vendors
stood in dark corners, trying to shade their raw meat from the blazing sun.
Street children ran to and fro, some stopping to beg for any lose change we
might toss their way before they ran off after their friends. </div>
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Pray as you walk. That was our instructions. But as the
aroma of incense and human waste burned my nose and I watched a woman bow
before a ceramic statue of Ganesh, an elephant with four arms, my heart
shattered within me and words ceased to exist. All I knew in that moment was
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God’s unyielding passion for His glory and the excitement of
being a part of His plan to redeem the nations had driven me to India. Yet, as
the end of my third week in country approached, the heaviness of millions of
people who had never heard the name of Jesus flattened my soul. Would another
prayer for yet another person to hear and know Jesus really make any dent? <br />
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to feel hopeless. <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Another
school shooting, a beloved church family shattered by divorce, sick family
members, neighborhoods wrecked by poverty.</span> It’s all around us every day.
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Abraham lived in a pagan world. He didn't know what Jesus
would one day do. He had no track record of God’s character to read about. He
struggled just to understand how he would start a nation still without a son of
his own, let alone to see how God would bless all the families of the earth
through him. Yet, against all hope, Abraham in hope believed.</div>
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“<span class="text"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed
and so became the father of many nations,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">just
as it had been said to him, ‘So shall your offspring be.’ <b><sup> </sup></b>Without
weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as
dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also
dead.</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise
of God, but was strengthened</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">in
his faith and gave glory to God,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">being
fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">” </span></i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Romans 4:18-21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to rest upon. Yet Abraham, against all hope, IN HOPE, believed God would do
what He said He would. Abraham faced all the impossibilities, yet he did not
waver in unbelief. No, instead he was strengthened in his faith and gave glory
to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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our neighborhoods, as we pray for far-away peoples who have no access to the
gospel, we face soul-flattening discouragement. We can feel helpless in a giant
world of need. Our children may feel it most, feeling too small to do anything
that matters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Abraham’s lead. We can demonstrate and pass on to our children a faith that is
fully persuaded that God has the power to do what He has promised. He redeems.
He restores. He saves. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And our families, though small in comparison to the world we
are trying to reach, have the power and influence to make a difference…in the
back alleys of India, in the suburbs of California, in the rural farms of the
south. </span><span style="background: white;">Why? Because in the end, it wasn't anything about Abraham that accomplished the promise God made to him. It was
God himself, working through Abraham’s willing heart, despite human frailty and
failures, to accomplish His purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-41343952862127055812013-01-18T13:58:00.002-08:002013-01-18T13:58:28.319-08:00The Journey is here! January update<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Journey is here! Hear about this exciting new tool and how God is already using it around the globe!<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_iXKTqm3B8" target="_blank">Click here to watch now!</a></span></td></tr>
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<br />Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-54967492220554304892012-11-14T13:30:00.001-08:002012-11-14T13:30:51.342-08:00The next BIG thing...November ministry updateHere about the next project we're working on and how God is coming through in BIG ways!<br />
Watch it now: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/OCMZjucXtlQ">http://youtu.be/OCMZjucXtlQ</a></span><br />
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<br />Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-41703642223975367022012-10-17T10:04:00.003-07:002012-10-17T10:06:17.294-07:00The Praying Child<a href="http://wmu.com/sites/default/wmutempfilez/images/praying-family-feature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="279" src="http://wmu.com/sites/default/wmutempfilez/images/praying-family-feature.jpg" width="320" /></a>Think about it. All the essential habits of life are learned in childhood. It is a rare person who learns how to brush their teeth or tie their shoes in adulthood.<br />
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Why would learning spiritual habits be any different?<br />
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Teaching children how to pray and communicate with God at a young age lays a foundation for the rest of their lives.<br />
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Read this great blog from WMU on how to begin incorporating prayer into your family routine.<br />
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Get the article here: <a href="http://wmu.com/index.php?q=blog/adults/women-mission/praying-child-teach-your-children-pray" target="_blank">Teaching Children How to Pray</a>Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-64604366380311655772012-08-30T12:14:00.002-07:002012-08-30T12:14:22.268-07:00You're best $7Prayer is an important habit to build into the lives of children.<br />
How great when we challenge a child to think about others they have never met.<br />
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Use these two fantastic resources from Pioneers to help lead your child in praying for unreached peoples using the acronym THUMB (<b>T</b>ribal, <b>H</b>indu, <b>U</b>nreligious, <b>B</b>uddhist, <b>M</b>uslim)<br />
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<b><u>It will be the best $7 you ever spent!</u></b><br />
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<br />Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-53786908151560507572012-08-27T15:35:00.001-07:002012-08-27T15:35:11.700-07:00August Ministry Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The words of Theodore Roosevelt hang above my computer screen. This morning, like many mornings, I spend a few moments reflecting on them as the resonnate with my heart:</div>
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"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."</blockquote>
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And so I stretch. I say with Paul, "But by the grace <sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV1984-28713V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)"></sup> of God I am what I am, and his grace to me <sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV1984-28713W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)"></sup> was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them <sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV1984-28713X" title="See cross-reference X">X</a>)"></sup> —yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me." (1 Corin 15:10). I read. I ask questions. I fall on my knees in prayer. I give everything I have, leaving everything on the table. I never stop believing that God is able. That He confides in those He loves. That in the end we will see the lives of families transformed. </div>
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<span style="color: #330099;"><strong>PRAY</strong> for creativity, insight, and wisdom as we work out our next full-time project, wrap up the Perspectives family take home sheets...and that the Lord would give our ministry a name!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #330099;"><strong>PRAY</strong> to the Lord of the Harvest for more laborers to complete our children's family team, as we seem to be losing the few people we do have.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #330099;"><strong>PRAY</strong> for sweet intimacy with Him after a long and busy summer. I need to be filled so I can empty myself again. Next week, on August 22nd, I celebrate 10 years of walking with Jesus. I am taking the afternoon off to head to a nearby lake and celebrate with my Savior...<strong>PRAY</strong> that my time will fuel me for the season ahead as I reflect on all He has done. </span></div>
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Slowly, my support team is growing. I am back up to the $2800 in commitments I was out when I moved here almost a year ago (can you believe it...almost a year!). I am working to raise the remaining $800 a month needed to get to my new budget. </div>
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"Attempt great things for God. Expect great things from God." -William Carey</div>
Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-19331479397830234732012-08-15T13:05:00.002-07:002012-08-15T13:05:56.359-07:00Pray for your kids!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-21334052779321500992012-08-13T12:58:00.001-07:002012-08-13T12:58:14.928-07:00How to be an Olympic MotherI'm not mom. I just dream to be one. But when I find great material on motherhood, I can't help but pass it on. It is my job afterall..to inspire mom's to raise strong and purposeful arrows. :)<br />
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Check out this blog from InspiredtoAction. Great material. Be inspired. Be encouraged.<br />
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<strong>I’ve been equally inspired by and distracted by the Olympics the last few weeks. </strong><br />
I have been staying up way too late and not getting enough done. But at the same time, I am so inspired watching the focus, commitment and passion of each athlete.<br />
<strong>I love how their dedication to excellence defies the modern idea that we can have it all. </strong><br />
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I know it may look to the average watcher like they have it all – fame, fitness, achievement – but the only reason they have those big things is because they gave up so many small (and not so small) things along the way.<br />
<strong>They have given up, over an over, the things they want in exchange for the things they dream.</strong><br />They don’t watch HGTV marathons. They don’t eat ice cream or snacks at their leisure. They don’t sleep in or stay up late.<br />
The pattern of their lives has been to surrender their wants for their dreams.<br />
<strong>The trajectory of their entire lives led to this one moment.</strong> What they ate, how much they slept, how they spent their time, how much they pursued pain because they knew Gold was on the other side.<br />
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<strong>One of my favorite things to watch is the way each athlete preps for their event.</strong>Some listen to music. Some talk to themselves. Others seem to stare into oblivion with a focus and intensity that could burn a hole through anything that gets between them and the Gold medal.<br />
No one is checking their phone, leisurely chatting with others or nibbling on a bag of chips. That would be ridiculous. <br />
<strong>They are at the Olympics. This is the moment of urgency.</strong> All the training they’ve been doing their entire lives comes down to right now and they’ll stop at never.<br />
<strong>There is no sacrifice without urgency.</strong><br />
Hours upon hours upon hours they spent on meticulous and mundane things like the way they start, the line of their arms, the way they breathe, and how they finish. They work for years in anonymity, early mornings, financial sacrifice and physical pain. <br />
<strong>Being an Olympian really isn’t that different from being a mother.</strong><br />But perhaps it’s easier to sacrifice when you’re standing at the starting blocks of your Olympic dream, but when you’re a mom and there are 5 long hours until nap time and 18 years to get the job done, it’s hard to feel the same sense of urgency.<br />
<strong>And yet, in mother time, 5 hours and 5 years seem to go by equally. It is no sooner nap time as it is graduation day.</strong><br />So, now is the time to make all those choices we hope our future selves will make. Now is the time to stop saying we’ll do better tomorrow, because we said that yesterday. <br />
<strong>Now is the time to embrace the timeless urgency of motherhood, trade in our wants for our dreams and trade in regrets for Gold.</strong><br />
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{This is where I put my hands on your shoulders, look you in the eye and say, “You’ve got this! Now go be awesome!” Fist bump.}<br />
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Oh yeah, there’s gonna be some well loved kids today. <br />
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Cue “The Eye of the Tiger…” <br />
By Kate Lee @ <a href="http://inspiredtoaction.com/">http://inspiredtoaction.com/</a>Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-21316071936918783762012-07-11T10:09:00.000-07:002012-07-11T10:09:31.722-07:00Ramadan...challenge your kids to engage with the world<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span>Rashid excitedly follows his father and uncles to the mosque. He has joined in prayer with the men before, but this time is different. He’s finally old enough to participate fully in the fast of Ramadan, the most holy month on the Muslim calendar. As his stomach growls in protest, Rashid realizes it has been hours since his predawn meal. His stomach will just have to wait until sunset, the time he will enjoy a meal with his family. But it is worth it. Rashid remembers his father’s words: “Fasting is an expression of our faith, a form of worship, and a way to please Allah.” Entering the cool interior of the mosque with the others, Rashid imagines other Muslim boys all around the world. Like him, they are observing the fast, going to the mosque in their town, and seeking to please Allah.</span></span></h4>
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This year, Ramadan is July 20-August 18. Join millions of Christians worldwide in praying for the Muslim world during this period. The 30-Days Prayer Network produces a printed “Just for Kids” <a href="http://stand4kids.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3f981ada0ce9737d8c1564a1e&id=1f42206665&e=05e9a0ae3b" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Print version">booklet</a> for children and families on Muslim people groups in many countries with information, activities, and prayer points. It's also available as a<a href="http://stand4kids.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3f981ada0ce9737d8c1564a1e&id=edc2e69f6c&e=05e9a0ae3b" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="download version">download</a>. To teach your children more about this important Muslim observance and what the Bible says about the purpose of fasting, download the free <a href="http://stand4kids.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3f981ada0ce9737d8c1564a1e&id=b00bba5aec&e=05e9a0ae3b" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Ramadan Basics</a>. Also, check out <a href="http://stand4kids.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3f981ada0ce9737d8c1564a1e&id=d46c9262c2&e=05e9a0ae3b" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Meet Noor">Meet Noor</a>, a 30-minute lesson for ages 5-7 about a Muslim girl in Pakistan.</h4>
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And it got me thinking....You could use this with kids to help them pray for the world!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Step 1: Make a jar to place your prayer notes in. I used a cashew jar and just designed a label and glued it on. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Step 2: Create 100 prayer slips. I fit 6 on a page. I labled them Day 1 through 100. Then I just gave a kick off sentence, "Today I pray..."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Step 3: Each day, write out your prayer. I date my slips and fill them with my thoughts, prayers, lists, and verses God is speaking to me. You could use this to help your kids pray for the nations. You would write "Today I pray for China..." and then jot down some prayer points or journal them out (depending on age). Then place them in the jar!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I keep my jar and prayer cards where I can easily access them each day. I'm looking forward to looking back through them 100 days from now and seeing how God responded and worked!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This week marked 5 years in full time missions, and Friday I was offered the position as Director of Children's Mobilization. I am SO honored and humbled, amazed at what God has done and is doing in my life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Join me in praying that God would give me the wisdom and strength to serve this role well and carry this ministry into the future!</span>Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-27389738043942819822012-05-14T07:30:00.001-07:002012-05-14T07:30:22.762-07:00Families in Mission<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QiTxVBuHMtg?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-91941285899654825542012-05-07T15:11:00.000-07:002012-05-14T07:38:12.351-07:00A New Purpose.When I started this blog 3 years ago, I intended to use to keep my faithful supporters updated on my ministry. I have not done such a good job of that... a part from the occasional newsletter upload. However, I discovered pinterest just a few weeks ago. I've spent many weekend hours looking up new crafts and techniques to become better organized. Through that process, I have discovered so many blogs...all by women, most moms, sharing their life with others.<br />
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I started to wonder...how many of these blogs, although great, share ideas on how to not just organize our kids, but to equip and engage them in the Kingdom. So I started a new board on pinterest and started pinning what I could find. There wasn't much. So it's time to put this cyber vacant spot to use. Each week, I'm going to aim to share some project/idea/video/resource that will help both you parents and teachers have the tools you need to "train up their kids in the way they should go," as well as keep you updated on the growing ministry<br />
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Thank you for your faithful support!<br />
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Until the whole world hears,<br />
CarissaCarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-41493543517469465052012-03-19T09:19:00.005-07:002012-03-19T09:19:49.888-07:00DiscipleLand, CMTA, and more!Spring brings new flowers, warm sun, and LOTS of ministry opportunities! <br />
Check out what's happen this month and how you can be praying with me!<br />
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Check it out by clicking <a href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/_pmUeOOc9Fb4b_ID8vDZ6odo8K0L4e_Q?w=2">here</a>.Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-87715252629208941332012-02-24T09:42:00.002-08:002012-02-24T09:42:28.214-08:00God at workJust helped a Perspectives coordinator, quote "see the value of going beyond childcare to actually engage kids in learning about God's heart for the world along side their parents," AND found out another ministry is going to publish my article on their website! Encouraged by how God is using me today!Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-17383323497960670062012-01-13T14:20:00.000-08:002012-01-13T14:20:30.866-08:00Welcome to 2012!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A new year has kicked off here in the mobilization department of the US Center for World Mission.<br />
We are already busy diving into amazing opportunities to mobilize children and their families.<br />
Will you join me in praying for these up coming events?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">January 17th...Teacher's Training at Grace Church</span></strong><br />
This coming Tuesday I will be the guest speaker at a Children's Ministry volunteer training at Grace Church in Bentonville, Arkansas. I will be teaching a segment on the lies children believe. Pray that these teachers and <br />
helpers will be encouraged, challenged and equipped!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">January 19th...Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Begins!</span></strong> <br />
Next Thursday, the Perspectives course begins. I will be taking this class along side teammates Emily and Tanja. Each week, we will work to break down the lessons into a "database" of resources to better equip parents and kids to understand God's heart for the nations. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">January 26th...Children's Mobilization Vision Day #2</span></strong> <br />
From 9-2pm, our team of 5 will be gathering again for a focused day of seeking and asking. We will spend time continuing to work through questions regarding how to be most effective in this new ministry and discussing in more detail what we are already working on in 2012 and what else is of top priority. Pray for unity and wisdom, as well as unhindered creativity as dream together. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Financial Partnership:<br /> For a tax-deductible receipt you may send financial gifts to USCWM Ministry Accounts, PO Box 3586, Fayetteville, AR 72702, or go online to </span><a href="http://www.perspectives.org/giveonline"><span style="font-size: x-small;">www.perspectives.org/giveonline</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. You may make checks payable to USCWM MA 164 so it is directed toward the ministry of Carissa Potter in Children's Mobilization. I currently need approximately $540 more each month to continue building the ministry in 2012.</span>Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-89143891062717420822011-12-14T13:01:00.000-08:002011-12-14T13:01:32.698-08:00The Year Ahead...Carissa's Chronicles 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-74280494360347979132011-11-07T07:39:00.001-08:002012-10-17T10:10:11.988-07:00Sharing Vision: Perspectives PLC<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/31562839?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/31562839">Carissa Potter: Children's Mobilization</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/perspectives">Perspectives Study Program</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-81153909341854793932011-10-25T12:44:00.000-07:002011-10-25T12:44:42.119-07:00I Am a Mobilizer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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God is the God of adventure...my first full week of work and I was off to Tulsa, Oklahoma to attend the Perspectives Leadership conference where I was given the opportunity to present on children's mobilization. There was roughly 80 people there from across the nation, all directors and coordinators for the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course (see <a href="http://www.perspectives.org/">www.perspectives.org</a> ). It was exciting to see the buzz in the room as we talked about engaging more families and kids and creating new tools. There was a lot of positive response to the new ideas being formed. A great start to a new chapter in ministry.Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-62997987841164562632011-10-19T12:13:00.001-07:002011-10-19T12:14:55.838-07:00Carissa's Chronicles October 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20630935.post-82290277094715392222011-10-12T21:24:00.000-07:002011-10-12T21:24:12.542-07:00Home Dedication!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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God has been so faithful every step of the way...He provided me with an amazing place to live just 2 days after getting here...it's perfect and so homey! Here's my new team, just after moving in, dedicating my home to the Lord!Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01555118100289919455noreply@blogger.com0