Mission Learning Center

Two Mission Learning Center (MLC) workshops/demonstrations are to be delivered this year. First, at the Global Missions Conference in Arlington, Texas, July 23 - 25, 2008. The 'culture' to be demonstrated is CHINA. For information call (817) 267 - 2727. View www.globalmissionsconference.org for more information and to register.

Then, August 8 - 10, 2008, the culture of BRAZIL will be demonstrated (on Saturday at the noon hour) at the Lewisville (Texas) Sound Doctrine and Practice Workshop - 2008, at the Lewisville Church of Christ, Lewisville, Texas. Certainly you are welcome at both these events to further the spreading of the word of God to the lost. For information call (972) 353 - 2518. For more information and to register online view http://www.chofchrist-lewisville.org/sdp .

{NOTE: Scroll down about five entries to read who the speakers will be at the          Lewisville (Texas) Sound Doctrine and Practice Workshop - 2008}                                                                                                                                

NOTE ABOUT THE TRAINING GIVEN IN A MISSION LEARNING CENTER. Mission Learning Center workshops and demonstrations have helped spread the concept of teaching our congregational children from 3 years old up to 8th grade to become "mission-positive" adults by the use of  "simulated cultures" in the authentically-decorated  Sunday morning bible class rooms. In the thoroughly decorated room three basic things are always taught:  a CHRIST-CENTERED bible lesson, a CULTURE of another land, and the GREAT COMMISSION to "Go teach all nations."

Each Sunday a class of students are brought to the 'mission' room to tell them about the other culture and how Jesus wants us to go tell them about Him. Then a prayer is said for those people and for the church to tell them about Jesus and the gospel, and the one offering the prayer stands at the door of the room as the children prepare to go back to their regular room and reads the great commission from an open bible. The next week another class of a different age comes to hear the same lesson, but this time at their level of understanding, and so each week the same class is held but at an increasingly deeper level of study as the age level increases week by week.

This overview of the MLC is so you the reader can understand the basic concept of teaching congregational children to be mission-positive as they grow older and go out from their home congregation for work or for college. May God bless this long range effort to obey the great commission.

Don Petty (972) 243 - 2585

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