Missions Blog for Churches

 One idea that was recently shared through the Mission Pastors Forum was a Christmas catalog for missions. Here is what Blair Commons, Director of Global Outreach at Seven Rivers PCA, wrote:

Last year we stole an idea from Samaritan’s Purse and created our own Christmas catalog for Seven Rivers missions and ministries.  It was well received by the congregation as an alternative to giving one more useless gift to family and friends.  We created and printed them in house and made them available after services in our lobby.

Click here to view the catalog.

If you have further questions, you can contact Blair at the church www.sevenrivers.org.

I came across an interesting in website recently. I’m not sure that it has tons of value for us in the “missions world.” But it might be fun and/or interesting for you to use to help your people learn about the nations of the world. It is called Nation Master, and can be found at www.nationmaster.com. Here is the introductory paragraph about this site:

Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.

You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables, and refer to fully integrated encyclopedia with over one million articles.

I am thinking about starting a coffee ministry in Norway.

Coffee Consumption