Take a minute to feed your soul and impact your world!
Toma un minuto para alimentar tu alma e impactar tu mundo!
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PARA COMER ~ FOOD FOR THE SOUL

The First Missionary Trip

Act. 13:1-4, "In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.  The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus."

Like most cities today, Antioch was racially diverse and culturally pluralistic. As a result, when the scattered believers arrived there (Acts 11:19-20), they had to wrestle with how to make the gospel meaningful for a diversity of groups.

I'm writing to you from Malaga, Spain and its here that I must learn to adapt my approach to evangelism-making it meaningful to a diverse group of people. There are many post modern people in Spain, and they are different from me in many ways, although I'm a Latino, I'm still influenced by differences in culture, geography, heritage, and history. But one thing we have in common is we are people of community. And this is our common ground, like most people in the world we first want to be a part of something, a community of people. We want to belong, and it's in this community of belonging we start to take on the beliefs. Post modern folks want to belong to a community before they believe. 

 We find this to be true many times on the college campus as well. Most people under 40 want to belong (experience) before they believe, where those over 45 want to believe (give me the facts) in something and then belong to it. Many on the campuses today want to experience Jesus in and around a community of believers; they want to see Jesus in you and those in your group before they believe in Jesus. 

So, how can you get involved in peoples' lives and help them to connect to your believing community?

Pastor Alex Garcia 
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PARA LLEVAR - IMPACT YOUR WORLD           

 Creating Comunidad & Inviting others

 3 Good Questions to Consider:

1. What are characteristics of group I enjoy being a part of?

2. What does our group communicate to those not involved with us (either other Christians or those that don't know Christ) - warmth, welcome, inclusion, exclusion, cliques etc..? 

3. In our Destino movement - Is the cause greater than our sense of community - how can we get a good balance?

 3 Good steps to involve others:

1. Make it easy for people to get involved - Anyone can help hang up posters, bring some food to a party, offer their home as a meeting place....Invite involvement early on, never do anything in your ministry alone and build relationships along the way.

2. Get involved in the community - it communicates that you want to be an active part of making a difference and showing love through acts of service. It's a great way to bring people together and creates a unique bond.....Assist or host a blood drive, have ongoing collections (food, clothes etc) in conjunction with another organization and donate to a local ministry that helps people in need,   

3. Get involved in campus life - it's a great way to meet people, show them who you are and invite involvement...Host study groups for various subjects, Homecoming parades - floats, nominating kings&queens, etc, Lipsync contests, talent shows, pep rally's, tailgate with other groups, etc....see what your campus does and get involved. It communicates great things to the school administration and a great way to foster involvement.

Have fun creating famila & loving those around you with the love of Christ!
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