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faith?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-11-24.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know maybe you\u2019re just in Safeway, and you\u2019re going down the aisle, and you just see someone, and God just puts like a little nudge in your heart.\u00a0 That person just needs to hear a little word \u2013 you know a little encouragement or a little word of witness \u2013 you know it\u2019s in having a passion for the lost if you realize we are the kingdom of God with God\u2019s light inside of us brushing up next to the kingdom of darkness all the time.\u00a0 Most people do not even care, and we need to care more.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, November 24<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Wherever God takes you today \u2013 that\u2019s your mission field.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> thanks for joining us.\u00a0 When you and I have talked over the years about the responsibilities parents have in raising their children you have come back over and over again to four key areas that you believe parents need to be investing in.\u00a0 One of them is helping a child understand his or her identity right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s spiritually, and sexually.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of them is developing a child\u2019s character so that it\u2019s godly character.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knowing right from wrong, and being wise, and not a fool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 One is helping your kids know how to build relationships and sustain relationships.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Know how to love another person, forgive another person, and also ask for forgiveness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And then the fourth area is the one we\u2019re focused on this week.\u00a0 That\u2019s the area of helping your child understand his purpose or his mission.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>His mission, and it really ties into Psalm 127 where it talks about children are like arrows in the hands of a warrior.\u00a0 The arrow was not meant to stay cloistered in the quiver\u2014in the comfort of the nice little nest.\u00a0 No, the arrow was meant to be aimed at a target by the archer \u2013 by the warrior, and to be let go on a mission.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s the imagery that God was all about as he challenges us as parents to think about letting our children go on purpose, and for a purpose.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You think a lot of parents today are letting go, and the arrow doesn\u2019t know where it\u2019s headed?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, no question!\u00a0 I think a lot of parents haven\u2019t stopped to consider where they\u2019re supposed to aim the arrow.\u00a0 What\u2019s the bulls eye?\u00a0 Well, if I was a parent just starting out I\u2019d go to the New Testament specifically the Gospels, and I\u2019d say, \u201cAre there any two great commands in the Gospels that Jesus gave that could give me the bulls eye of what being a parent is all about?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You\u2019d just ask that question right out of nowhere right?\u00a0 Hey, I wonder if there are any two great commands in the Bible \u2013 in the Gospels?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, there is a great command first of all to love God, and your neighbor.\u00a0 Actually there are two commands in there.\u00a0 But, then there\u2019s the great commission, which is also a command, and it is a command to go to the world, and make disciples.\u00a0 Now neither the Great Commandment nor the Great Commission is optional.\u00a0 They\u2019re both a part of how we\u2019re to raise children today.\u00a0 If we miss those right there\u2014if we miss that bulls eye as parents, or as individuals we\u2019ve missed life\u2014we\u2019ve missed what God has designed for us, and I think for our children as well.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have a guest with us who I can see she\u2019s about to come out of her seat in agreement with what I\u2019m saying here.\u00a0 Ann Dunagan joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>Ann, you have seven children, you\u2019ve been in ministry for a quarter century with your husband John, you agree with what I just said \u2013 don\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely!\u00a0 We are here to love God and to love others!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And to go to the world with the greatest news that has ever been proclaimed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This world desperately needs Jesus Christ!\u00a0 You know a picture that I sometimes think of is:\u00a0 Sometimes we talk about how there\u2019s a little empty spot, and when we ask Jesus to come into our heart and fill that empty spot, He makes us complete.\u00a0 It makes God very small in our life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat I try to realize is that God is the awesome, almighty creator God of the entire universe, and He is huge.\u00a0 He just wants for us to surrender our lives to Him so that His presence can flow through us, and through our family to a lost and hurting world.\u00a0 He wants for His light to flow through our family to make a difference in this world.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we\u2019re here for!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You\u2019re written a book called:\u00a0 <em>The Mission Minded Family.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>From the get go did you and John purpose to be intentional about raising kids who were mission focused?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely \u2013 as we started our family we realized that we wanted to raise our children to love God and to surrender their lives to Him.\u00a0 You know whether it was sitting on the couch reading them stories, or teaching them how to pray\u2014teaching them to say Jesus\u2014that we raised them to fulfill God\u2019s purpose.\u00a0 Not necessarily that they all would become what we typify as a missionary because we knew that God also gives unique callings to each one of our kids.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re to train them up in the way they should go into the particular bent or particular gifts and talents that God has because there are needs in this world in every sphere of society for men and women of character who know God, who love Him, who can go into politics, who can go into government, who can go into the education system or into sports, and to preach the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know as you were talking it reminded me of one of my favorite memories of our family, which was preparing our kids to go to school every day.\u00a0 We\u2019d read a little devotional, which took less than five minutes:\u00a0 It was called <em>On This Day.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>It was a 365 day short story devotional about great missionaries who were heroic men and women who had given their lives for Christ, some who had given their entire lives for Christ \u2013 okay.\u00a0 It was stories you never heard of, but heroic acts like Indiana Jones, which we talked about earlier \u2013 just spiritual heroes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember that spawning conversations with our kids just around the value of hearing stories about those who have stepped out in faith, and been obedient to God.\u00a0 Is that what you did as you took your kids around the world?\u00a0 You\u2019ve now been on how many missionary trips with your kids?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, I don\u2019t know how many but I\u2019ve been to 29 different nations but many nations back and forth, back and forth to the same ones.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, you\u2019re overseas two, three, four times a year?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Both my husband and I, sometimes we\u2019re going together, and sometimes we tag team.\u00a0 We\u2019re a team together, but sometimes it\u2019s like pass the baton.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>When you go together do you always take seven kids in tow with you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, like I mentioned before we have always lived in the United States so when our family was smaller we would always go together as a family.\u00a0 Then as our family got to be a little bigger, and the Lord began drawing us into countries and places in the world that were extremely dangerous\u00a0 - the Lord was drawing us particularly to war torn areas like into the Sudan, or into Rwanda just after the genocide.\u00a0 So, we would just take every trip and pray \u2013 you know who\u2019s supposed to go?\u00a0 Is it Dad, and one of the teenagers \u2013 is it Mom and one of the girls \u2013 is it Mom and Dad \u2013 is it Mom and Dad and a baby \u2013 you know Mom and Dad and several little kids?\u00a0 We would just take each trip and have the time of our lives!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>But your kids all have passports, they\u2019ve all been out of the country, they\u2019ve all been on the field somewhere \u2013 right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely!\u00a0 A mission minded family has up-to-date passports for everybody in the family, knows how to use chopsticks, and is not a picky eater.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, what was your favorite trip?\u00a0 I\u2019m going to force you to pick a favorite trip where you saw God do something really special.\u00a0 That has to be a trip where you took your kids where they either observed it or participated in it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, there was this one trip where I was with my daughter Christy, and we started an orphanage.\u00a0 It was where the need of the orphan children \u2013 there\u2019s 130 million orphans in the world, and there was a particular group of orphans on this remote island in Lake Victoria called Bussi Island, and God just dug in our hearts, and the two of us were trying to figure out what we could do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe looked at the need around us, and we looked at what was in our hand, and we thought how many mattresses and sheets and blankets can we get for three thousand dollars?\u00a0 We began with that and then started to raise sponsors, and started an orphanage called Osanidde Village on Bussi Island, Lake Victoria.\u00a0 My daughter Christy and I just had such a fabulous time together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And these are orphans of aids?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>How many of those children have aids themselves?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Only one.\u00a0 We\u2019re very thankful to the Lord that the rest of the children their test results have all come back negative.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And today how many children are in that orphanage?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Today there is 160.\u00a0 We don\u2019t call them orphans we call them Osanidde kids.\u00a0 Osanidde is a Ugandan word that means you are worthy, and it sounds just like Oh Sunny Day.\u00a0 We wanted a happy place; we wanted a place where these kids would be raised up to not just be fed, and clothed and have a roof over their head but to be loved.\u00a0 They\u2019re in a home environment with a widow that is their permanent Mom \u2013 eight to ten kids, and then they have school, and a chapel, and these children are being raised to deeply, passionately love God.\u00a0 They have prayer every morning before the sun comes up for at least an hour and a half to two hours \u2013 I\u2019m serious.\u00a0 These children pray fervently!\u00a0 They challenge my faith every time I go there and see these little kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And you\u2019re working with Ugandan families to adopt them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s in a second orphanage called Guma Na Yesu Children\u2019s Center where we\u2019re working to get those children adopted into homes.\u00a0 At Osanidde we felt in that particular situation that the children on that island needed to be protected and cared for in that place to be able to be raised up to influence those remote islands for Jesus Christ.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay, I just have to stop you here because most of the Mom\u2019s and Dad\u2019s who are listening to us right now don\u2019t travel out of the country three or four times a year \u2013 their kids don\u2019t have passports \u2013 they\u2019re thinking I do want to raise my kids to love Jesus, and to have godly character, and I would like them to have the mission orientation that you talked about Dennis, where they have a spiritual purpose for their life, and they\u2019re asking God what does a surrendered life to you look like, but we\u2019re not going to pack them up on the plane and go to Africa \u2013 that\u2019s not just a part of what we do.\u00a0 Do we have to do that to raise a mission minded family?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think we have to be willing to do it \u2013 you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Even if we don\u2019t have the money we have to be willing because I\u2019ve seen God provide for some of these mission trips in some pretty cool ways.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, to be a mission minded family you\u2019re saying sometime on the field short-term mission at a minimum that\u2019s a part of being mission minded?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Not necessarily!\u00a0 I think that God is looking for our heart, and I think God takes you where you\u2019re at.\u00a0 You know, wherever you\u2019re at right now God just wants to kind of move you to the next level.\u00a0 It might be just thinking about it a little more \u2013 maybe just buying a couple of missionary biography books, and beginning to read some stories to your kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes and then maybe joining a group from your church that\u2019s going to a country that\u2019s nearby \u2013 you know.\u00a0 Or, going to an inner-city area that\u2019s near where you live to be able to minister.\u00a0 It really means taking steps of faith where you are because people are all over the spectrum.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Absolutely!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They\u2019re taking baby steps, and some are taking big leaps, but God takes us where we are and I think as we go it\u2019s where we get God\u2019s heart for those who\u2019ve never heard about Christ, where we see the needs of orphans like you did.\u00a0 I mean you went to Uganda how many times before you established an orphanage there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh \u2013 ten years?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, dozens of times!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Dozens of times of seeing these little kids face to face until it finally was like I can\u2019t go on living unless I do something more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You have to do something about it.\u00a0 There was a passion within you that ultimately led to the establishment of that orphanage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s right \u2013 you know God wants to stir in us a deeper passion for the lost people.\u00a0 You know maybe you\u2019re just in Safeway, and you\u2019re just going down the aisle, and you just see someone, and God just puts like a little nudge in your heart \u2013 that person just needs to hear a little word\u2014you know a little encouragement, or a little word of witness.\u00a0 You know it\u2019s of having a passion for the lost if you realize we are the kingdom of God with God\u2019s light inside of us brushing up next to the kingdom of darkness all the time and most people do not even care.\u00a0 We need to care more because eternity is too long, and hell is too real for us to just say, \u201cIt\u2019s not my thing.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, I have a five year old or a ten year old or a fifteen year old at home\u00a0 - now I\u2019m thinking okay I want these kids to have a heart for the world; to care about the lost do I read them the missionary biographies?\u00a0 Is that the best thing I can do, or what kind of tips would you give me as a parent to stir up in the heart of my kids a desire to see the Great Commission fulfilled?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think reading stories is awesome \u2013 reading the news \u2013 being able to just expose our kids to current problems and challenges around the world where we can show them you know this is a current problem that\u2019s happening right now in India \u2013 we need to pray for this today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr, like the other day there was a missionary from China who came to our church, and he was a young adventurous guy and he would go hiking or bike riding into remote places of China, and he would give out these little remote radios that were hooked to a Christian radio station, and pass them out in unreached villages.\u00a0 I thought wow!\u00a0 So, after church I just brought my kids up after church to meet this guy\u2014you know this is someone I admire\u2014this is someone I want them to see\u2014this is a man that\u2019s like a hero that\u2019s real that you can talk to, and you can look in the face.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And invite them home.\u00a0 I remember when our kids were teenagers we would invite some of these leaders who came to our church or who visited here at FamilyLife from around the world to come to our home for a meal.\u00a0 First of all they need to see what an American family looks like that are attempting to follow Christ, but secondly American kids and American teenagers really need to see some of these heroes face to face, and then set them up for them to share their stories around the dinner table.\u00a0 Instead of the meal being over in an hour take two hours for the meal, and let them share about how God\u2019s working in their country.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know Elisabeth Elliott mentioned that when she was a little girl growing up in her family they would often have missionaries that would come and stay in their home and her mother said that she feels sorry for those that don\u2019t invite the missionaries over because it was such an honor to hear their stories.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know something that really influenced my husband when he was a little boy \u2013 he had this hero \u2013 this Sam from the Amazon that was traipsing through the jungles, and killing the crocodiles and eating the monkey brains, and doing these amazing things.\u00a0 Well, one day Sam from the Amazon came and stayed with his family on the farm.\u00a0 My husband said that before the missionary came his folks tried to figure out what they could do to give a gift to this man.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t have much money.\u00a0 They had a big family, and no discretionary income but they thought well, you know what can we do? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey ended up selling a cow, and they came up with about a hundred dollars.\u00a0 This was quite a while ago, and when the missionary came my husband watched his parents just hand that money just quietly \u2013 just kind of put in the hand of that missionary, and just say here \u2013 this is for you.\u00a0 But, my husband knew what a sacrifice, and how all month long his parents were trying to figure out how they could come up with something to give to the missionary.\u00a0 My husband as a little boy - he was 12 years old \u2013 he ran into his room, and he pulled out his little piggy bank, or whatever it was that he was keeping his money in, and he dumped it out on the bed and he pulled together all of his money \u2013 he had about 40 bucks \u2013 and he came out and he gave it to that missionary. He thought you know if missions is that important to Mom and Dad it better be important to me.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One of the things I hear you saying is that as parents we have to help our children have a world focus not just a United States focus.\u00a0 I think part of the problem is most of us don\u2019t have a world focus \u2013 just a United States focus.\u00a0 I mean I\u2019ll hear about fighting that\u2019s going on in some country, and I\u2019m not even sure where it is on a map, and then I\u2019m thinking and why would I even care that there\u2019s fighting going on in that country?\u00a0 We really need to look at our own hearts and say, \u201cDo we have a heart for the world, or do we just have a heart for our own back yard \u2013 right?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, and to that point I think every family ought to have a country that they\u2019re praying for.\u00a0 That would just be a great application out of this broadcast.\u00a0 I believe it was William Carey who was a cobbler who had a map of the world on his wall where he repaired shoes, and he prayed for the country of India not realizing at one point that God would tap him on the shoulder, and tell him to go.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know when Hudson Taylor was little his dad had a fervent heart for China.\u00a0 His father he had health problems \u2013 he wasn\u2019t able to go himself but he instilled in his family a heart for China.\u00a0 Hudson Taylor was only five years old when he said, \u201cWhen I\u2019m a man I mean to be a missionary, and go to China.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think also another thing that is a simple way to begin like a little baby step is get a globe, and have it out somewhere in a prominent place in your home\u2014maybe put up a map\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tmaybe collect the missionary newsletters, and put them up on the wall \u2013 put some things on your refrigerator \u2013 put some missionary books on your coffee table just stick them there so that they\u2019re easily accessible for people who come into your home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe kind of went a step further, and we took our family room, and we put wallpaper over one entire wall.\u00a0 One entire wall is an entire giant map of the entire world, and our office is all decorated like Africa\u00a0 - you know we have stuff from all over the world\u00a0 - it\u2019s because as people walk through our house we tell them stories, and it\u2019s awesome.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know I\u2019m going to follow up on your suggestion.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to start praying for either New Zealand or Fiji.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure which \u2013 maybe Hawaii but I\u2019m thinking we\u2019re going to make that our focus \u2013 maybe God will call us there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I have a more noble\u2014not that Fiji or New Zealand doesn\u2019t\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s not ignoble!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It isn\u2019t but!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>New Zealand needs Jesus!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh yes, and Australia too, but I was going to challenge folks to consider praying for a country in Europe.\u00a0 Right now Europe is becoming Muslim \u2013 I mean the fastest growing religion in all of Europe is Islam, and people are becoming Muslims\u00a0 - they\u2019re embracing that faith as their own, and I think we owe Europe our own faith.\u00a0 They helped give birth to America\u2019s spiritual roots \u2013 the Pilgrims, and the great pioneers who came and settled America - perhaps it\u2019s time for a new generation of families to begin praying for those countries that perhaps your family came from, and begin to pray for a spiritual awakening in those countries because they need to hear about Christ as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, and the point is we need to be on mission.\u00a0 Some of us are going to go, some of us are going to give, some of us are going to pray, but all of us need to be focused on what is the mission of the church \u2013 what God has called us as families to \u2013 what He\u2019s called us as individual believers to \u2013 what He\u2019s called His church to, and that is introducing people to God through Jesus Christ so that they can be reconciled to their creator, and can be adopted into His family, and then disciplining those who have come to faith.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the great commission in Matthew 28 is all about.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Ann\u2019s book is all about as well:\u00a0 It\u2019s called <em>The Mission Minded Family.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnn gives us very practical thoughts here on what we can do as mom\u2019s and dad\u2019s first of all to make sure that our own hearts are pointed in the right direction, and then that we stir the hearts of our children to have a mission mind set \u2013 a mission orientation.\u00a0 We have copies of the book <em>The Mission Minded Family <\/em>in our FamilyLife Todayresource center.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne great idea for families \u2013 a practical way that you can inspire your kids to be on mission is to read them the stories of missionary heroism.\u00a0 We have a book in our FamilyLife Today resource center that recounts a number of these stories:\u00a0 The book is called <em>The Adventure of Missionary Heroism, <\/em>and you can find more information about that book, and about Ann\u2019s book on our web site:\u00a0 FamilyLifeToday.com \u2013 that\u2019s FamilyLifeToday.com\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can order from us online if you\u2019d like, or you can call toll-free 800-FLTODAY \u2013 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0 That\u2019s 1-800 F as in \u201cfamily\u201d L as in \u201clife\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 When you get in touch with us we can get you more information about these books or make arrangements to have the ones you\u2019d like sent to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow I just need to say here \u2013 we do appreciate those of you who help support the mission of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>Really at the core of what we\u2019re all about is seeing every home become a Godly home.\u00a0 That means first of all introducing mom\u2019s and dad\u2019s, and husbands and wives and children to Jesus Christ to help them understand what it means to have a relationship with Him, and then secondly pointing families to the scriptures so that we can understand what the Bible teaches us about how we\u2019re to live for Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThose of you who help support the mission of this ministry we appreciate your partnership with us, and your mission mindedness.\u00a0 I want to take a minute here and just say thank you to you for being a part of what God\u2019s doing through the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>\u00a0<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re able to help with a donation this month \u2013 a donation of any amount as a thank you gift we\u2019d like to send you Barbara Rainey\u2019s new devotional guide for families called:\u00a0 <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a seven day devotional designed to help cultivate a heart of thanksgiving in our own lives, and in our children\u2019s lives.\u00a0 You can request that book when you make a donation this month of any amount to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>\u00a0<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you make that donation online at FamilyLifeToday.com just type the word \u201cGRATITUDE\u201d in the key code box on the on-line donation form, and we\u2019ll know to send you Barbara\u2019s devotional or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY \u2013 1-800-358-6329.\u00a0\u00a0 Make a donation over the phone, and just ask for the gratitude devotional.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain let me see thank you so much for standing with us, and for partnering in the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>We hope you can join us back tomorrow Ann Dunagan is going to be here again.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk about how we can raise mission-minded 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