May 10: Objectives

• Give participants direct experience in planning and implementing effective cross-cultural service.
• Provide participants with many opportunities to share their faith in Christ through word and deed and develop and exercise their unique gifts and abilities.
• Assist participants in learning to work well within a team that must strategize and plan ministry programs together and then function effectively in a foreign culture.

I hope that this time of preparation and the mission trip itself will make me get out of that shell that I am so used to be under. I want to be able to express more often my opinions and ideas, to not be afraid of sharing what I think because this is what happens to me most of the times. I get to be afraid that my opinions would sound lame or not be taken into account and at the end I don't say it. And I don't want that to be part of me anymore.
I also hope I can get more sense of responsability by being part of a team that is orginizing something because all my life I haven't really liked working with people. I do things mostly by myself and if I'm in a group I feel uncomfortable and don't really say anything and just do what I'm told to do so. Though I have to say that things have been changing these few weeks that had passed since I'm part of this team =). I'm starting to express what I have on mind!
I'd like to see myself grow in my faith, to share about God with people that I don't necessarily know and be able to build a lasting friendship with someone. I want to help teens that are struggling in their lives because I know there's lots of worse things that could happen to someone than the ones I had gone through. And I want to be there for them for comfort and to guide them to the Lord. Doing these things will surely make an impact in my life, make me see life in a different perspective by understanding other people's struggles and by seeing God's work in their lives.