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trip?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-11-25.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s one thing to say okay my son is thinking about going on a short-term mission trip to\u00a0 say Calcutta, India for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 Would I let him go?\u00a0 Well, we\u2019d pray about it and see if we\u2019ve got a clear go ahead from God and send him off.\u00a0 What about if he comes back and he says I feel like I\u2019m supposed to go live in Calcutta, India for ten years.\u00a0 What would I say about that?\u00a0 Would I really release my kids to do that?\u00a0 To be away, to maybe to get married, have grandkids over there?\u00a0 Would I let him go to do that?\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 Thursday, November 25<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 Is your dream for your child\u2019s life getting in the way for God\u2019s plan for your child\u2019s life?\u00a0 We\u2019re going to talk about that today.\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 At this point in the week you\u2019re going to turn our guest into a coach.\u00a0 Is that right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am it\u2019s not often you have a chance to interview someone.\u00a0 Did you ever say, Ann, how many missions\u2019 trips you\u2019ve taken?\u00a0 You\u2019ve never counted them all?\u00a0 You don\u2019t know how many times you\u2019ve been overseas?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 In our family it\u2019s in the hundreds.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how many.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hundreds of mission\u2019s trips.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well let me ask you this, what\u2019s your status on the airlines?\u00a0 Are you\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh yes, we\u2019re on gold status and frequent flyer miles and we get some of those free tickets and those are really fun you know to figure out where we can go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well that is the voice of Ann Dunagan who has joined us this week on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 She has written a book called <em>The Mission-Minded Family<\/em>.\u00a0 And I thought, Ann, because of your credentials of having been so many times that because of your expertise and of a couple that work here at FamilyLife who are getting ready to go to Rwanda, Bill and Tracy Eyster.\u00a0 I decided we\u2019d bring Bill and Tracy into the studio and let you coach them as they take their very first mission trip with their two teenagers, okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s awesome.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ok, so Bill and Tracey join us.\u00a0 Bill, Tracy welcome to the broadcast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks.\u00a0 We appreciate you having us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bill and Tracey have been on staff with FamilyLife for now over three years.\u00a0 Bill is the Executive Vice President and COO of FamilyLife.\u00a0 He is a right-hand man around here and Bob\u2019s boss.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 So you\u2019re going to see Bob on his best behavior as a listener.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes sir, Mr. Eyster, is there anything I can get you while you\u2019re in the studio?\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>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And our listeners may know Tracey as the one who gives oversight to the FamilyLife Mom Blog and if they\u2019d like to find the Mom Blog just go to FamilyLife.com, they can find it on our home page is that right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Tracey:<\/strong>\u00a0 They can find it on the home page.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Then you go right to the Mom Blog and see what moms are saying to other moms about mom kind of stuff.\u00a0 And I look in every once in awhile just to see what moms are talking about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and it\u2019s really good, Barbara contributes to it, along with our daughter Ashley and also another daughter of ours Rebecca has posted some things on Mom Blog as well.\u00a0 So the Rainey family is well represented on Mom Blog and I\u2019m going to resist allowing Bill and Tracey to tell their own mission story of how they ended up at FamilyLife.\u00a0 We\u2019ll let that be for another day, but I do want you, Bill to share.\u00a0 Where did you come up with the idea of even thinking about going on this mission trip, taking your two teenagers with you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we\u2019re really excited.\u00a0 First of all I have to say that Dennis doesn\u2019t let us out of the office very often so it\u2019s going to be great to be able to get out on the mission field for a change.\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>Bill:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019ve been working with a leader in the Anglican Church in Rwanda and really just he came over, spent some time with us and told us about the structure of the family and what the conditions of the family and marriages are in Rwanda.\u00a0 And it really just tugged on Tracey and my heart and we just feel called to go over there and help build godly marriages and families.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tReally we want our children to have that same kind of a sense about kingdom work and have a heart for loving on others.\u00a0 So our prayer is that this is really a continuation of their ability to be able to think about others and I mean culture is always wanting us to think about us and that\u2019s really very selfish focused.\u00a0 And so we want them to think about other people and minister to people who need it so desperately.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bill is referring to Archbishop Kolini, Emmanuel Kolini who is one of more than 30 leaders in the Anglican church worldwide and it\u2019s a long story, but the essence of it is back last October we invited Archbishop Kolini and three other leaders to come and bring their spouses to FamilyLife and we paid their way over here to talk about developing a partnership between FamilyLife and this country toward ultimately rebuilding the Rwandan family.\u00a0 If you knew what was going on in the Rwandan family, I promise you you would understand why I use the word rebuild.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s heart wrenching.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It really is, the needs of this country, not only because of the genocide, but just its history and legacy, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever had a focus on really building the Christian family in the country.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tracey, tell us about the conversation you had with Bill at I don\u2019t know, the kitchen table, or on the sofa or that night when he said, what would you think about all of us packing up and going to Rwanda for a few days.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Tracey:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, interestingly when we had met Archbishop Kolini and his wife and the other families, our children were with us.\u00a0 We had a function where the families were there with them.\u00a0 We were all drawn to what we heard from them and just looking into the other women\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 So I don\u2019t know so much if it was Bill coming and saying, hey, what would you think about us going to Rwanda.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think we were all feeling drawn towards the stories that we heard from the couples.\u00a0 We were drawn towards them as individuals just their heart and the way they love the Lord and the way the Lord had brought them through so many tragedies, but they still loved the Lord and they still wanted others to know the Lord.\u00a0 So we were drawn to the people initially.\u00a0 Then I would say it sort of didn\u2019t matter where they were, we just wanted to join what they were doing and then when it came up that we had the opportunity to go to Rwanda the scary part of your heart says, oh, something scary could happen if we go to Rwanda.\u00a0 But then your heart says I want to go to Rwanda and be about what they are doing, be part of what they are doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you and your husband have been to Rwanda. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Actually I\u2019ve been in East Africa a number of times, near Rwanda.\u00a0 I have friends who are from Rwanda.\u00a0 My husband has been back and forth into Rwanda right after the genocide.\u00a0 Usually where we go in ministry is places where harvest is most ripe and often it is right after a war torn situation.\u00a0 So my husband had our teenage son with him in those outreaches.\u00a0 It was a big part of his upbringing of being able to witness some of those events.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 These guys are first timers at this taking teenagers and going as a family into another country, going to Rwanda.\u00a0 They still have a few weeks before they are going to go.\u00a0 What should they be doing between now and when they get on the plane to get ready for where God is going to take them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well I think one of the biggest things is be prepared to be flexible.\u00a0 Be prepared to have your agenda totally tweaked and things are not going to come into place.\u00a0 Here in America we are very time oriented.\u00a0 In many other places around the world people are more event oriented.\u00a0 So you might have an appointment at 9:00 and you might be sitting there and it is 10:30 and no one is showing up yet and you think they don\u2019t care.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t care; it\u2019s just that they are in the middle of something else.\u00a0 So you just kind of have to take it as it goes.\u00a0 Do not be, don\u2019t get worked up.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hang on, you taking notes on this, Bill?\u00a0 Trying to make sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, another thing that is very, very important is that you get on a mission trip and you get in a tight situation, you get in a place where you are all jet lagged out you are tired, you are hot, you are dirty, you are stinky, you will see the worst of each other come out.\u00a0 It is a test which means God is going to pull it out so you guys can work on it.\u00a0 Take care of things.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ll give you an illustration of that, there is nothing like going through customs when I took the kids to China a number of years ago.\u00a0 I had a teenager, a ten year old and an eight year old.\u00a0 I forget the exact ages, but the point was at 2:00 a.m. to be going through customs with three kids.\u00a0 Barbara wasn\u2019t there.\u00a0 It was just me and a couple of other dads.\u00a0 They all just had one child, I had three and I want to tell you something, you are exactly right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou have got to practice what is called spiritual breathing.\u00a0 Walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, confessing your sins, exhaling what you have done wrong and appropriating the power of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t, you will be at each other\u2019s throats because it really can be a time that is fraught with interruptions and delays as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 And just to rely on God\u2019s grace.\u00a0 God has grace for you for whatever it is you are going to encounter, both as a mom, as a dad, in the leadership and ministry you are going there to do.\u00a0 What you are also doing is instilling some things into your children.\u00a0 It actually is very exciting traveling with your kids overseas because you are in a different environment and so everything is new it doesn\u2019t have the same rules that you had at home and so you are able to sometimes the discussions that you have with young people and teenagers on a mission trip are fabulous.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo I would encourage you take advantage of some of these lull times when you are hanging around trying to figure out where on earth these other people are for your appointments to find out what\u2019s going through the heads of your kids.\u00a0 What are they thinking about?\u00a0 What has stood out in their minds?\u00a0 What are they seeing?\u00a0 What is standing out to them?\u00a0 When I think of the word compassion, you know you mentioned when you were with this family or with these people that God began to stir something of compassion in your heart and I felt that I was to really study the word compassion.\u00a0 What is compassion?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd there is this New Testament Greek word for compassion that is a verb, it\u2019s not just that you have compassion like a noun or it\u2019s like compassionate, an adjective.\u00a0 But compassion is a verb and you are moved with compassion and it\u2019s when God stirs you in the gut for something and this word is <em>splagchnizomai.<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Splagchnizomai it\u2019s like this word that we get the word spleen from like from the gut.\u00a0 And when God gives his compassion He moves us at the gut level, you just feel like when you said I don\u2019t even care where it is, I just want to go because I know I am supposed to go.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s because God moved you in your heart and when God moves us in our heart, it doesn\u2019t matter if we have the money.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter if we know all the details.\u00a0 When He gives us His compassion, He will bring all the other stuff in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want you to comment on two things, what about buying a journal for each person going on the trip?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely, we usually have a journal and have a Bible that you have.\u00a0 Another thing that is good, have you ever seen the Evangecube? Ok, take an Evangecube; maybe hook one to your backpack.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I haven\u2019t seen one.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ok, an Evangecube is kind of the size of a Rubicscube although they do make big ones and they make little tiny ones that you can attach to your backpack.\u00a0 It\u2019s by E3Resources.com and it presents the whole plan of salvation very simply.\u00a0 It starts with man and God, man is sinful, God is holy, you open it up there\u2019s the cross. It has the tomb, the resurrection, you open it up there\u2019s only one way to Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But what is it, it\u2019s a cube?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a little cube and you open it up and turn it different directions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I see what you are talking about it\u2019s like a paper tract, but every time you turn the page it turns into a new cube like you\u2019re talking about.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well it\u2019s not a tract it\u2019s actually like a little box.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little plastic box like a Rubicscube.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But it\u2019s a way to present the gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is a very effective way of presenting the plan of salvation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And to that point, what other tools would you take with you to give away in terms of sharing your faith?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 You could go and find the Four Spiritual Laws.\u00a0 Find it in the language of where you are going there in Rwanda.\u00a0 Have some extra of those tracts all ready.\u00a0 Actually I would bring along some tracts in some other like English, that you could pass out in the airport as you are headed that direction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong>\u00a0 As a parent, how would you recommend we counsel our children in preparation for this trip?\u00a0 How should they be praying?\u00a0 How should they be preparing themselves?\u00a0 And setting their expectations?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 I would say for them to just encourage them to just be willing to say, God, whatever you want to do on this trip.\u00a0 Do in me and through me and sometimes what\u2019s really challenging especially for a teenager maybe that\u2019s like has a real heart for God and you know wants to have this ministry experience, sometimes the most challenging thing is not being able to do what they want to do.\u00a0 So it\u2019s surrendering that to God and saying Lord if these openings happen, if we are able to go into these orphanages that you said you wanted to go to or maybe be to preach.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMaybe those opportunities will come and if they are that they will have boldness to step out and not think about what other people think, but that they would just be an ambassador for Jesus Christ.\u00a0 But then if they\u2019re not able to that they would be okay with that and mostly just that they would keep their eyes open and they would just see, just take it all in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Speak to the issues of just offering a cup of water in the name of Christ.\u00a0 I mean they\u2019re going to visit some orphanages where the commodity of the heart is love.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019re talking about acts of service of any kind.\u00a0 Right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 Something that can even be really helpful is to take along in your luggage a few little gifts.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to be expensive.\u00a0 You can go to a store that sells things for just a dollar and find some little gifts that they can give either to children or for you to give to other women, because they take that very kindly and it really expresses a heart of love.\u00a0 So prepare your heart and have some things that you are preparing.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019d also encourage you to bring along some missionary biography books that they can be reading on the plane, because they are going to be reading something maybe they will be watching the movies or browsing through the magazines that are on the airplane.\u00a0 But to have some books like maybe <em>Bruchko <\/em>or <em>Is That Really You God?<\/em> by Lauren Cunningham or some of the <em>Christian Heroes Then and Now<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Just bring along some of these missionary biography books so that they are reading about famous men and women of God who surrendered things and then they\u2019re putting it into practice and they are keeping a journal of what\u2019s going on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Have you guys been reading about the country of Rwanda together as a family?\u00a0 Have you been looking at any National Geographic specials on Rwanda or anything like that that you\u2019ve found?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Tracey:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we just made the decision to go last week.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Tracey:<\/strong>\u00a0 But we already went out and got a movie about Rwanda that Archbishop Kolini had told us about.\u00a0 Then we downloaded a book about Rwanda about socially how things are done there socially that are different than here.\u00a0 So we\u2019ve started reading that out loud and highlighting areas so we can go back and read it again.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen interestingly I just wanted to say that the book my son just read was the Hudson Taylor book and this is before we knew we were going to Rwanda and so when all this came up he just started talking about when we decided that the only way we could go was to raise the funds and my son said to me, he goes we can\u2019t do this unless we get money from other people?\u00a0 And I said \u201cRight.\u201d\u00a0 And he said, \u201cbut you know, Mom, Hudson Taylor wanted five dollars and the man gave him five hundred dollars so I know that\u2019s what God will do for us.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know David Livingston said God had only one son and He made Him a missionary.\u00a0 And something I talk about in <em>The Mission-Minded Family<\/em> is that we need to release our kids to God and in doing that it might mean that God may ask us to do some very uncomfortable things.\u00a0 It\u2019s one thing to say okay my son is thinking about going on a short-term mission trip to say Calcutta, India for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 Would I let him go?\u00a0 Well, we\u2019d pray about it and see if we\u2019ve got a clear go ahead from God and send him off.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat about if he comes back and he says I feel like I\u2019m supposed to go live in Calcutta, India for ten years.\u00a0 What would I say about that?\u00a0 Would I really release my kids to do that?\u00a0 To be away, to maybe to get married, have grandkids over there?\u00a0 Would I let him go to do that? Well when I think about what Jesus Christ did for us.\u00a0 You think about God sending His son down here to earth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt was like Jesus was raised by some poor couple and think about if I would send my newborn son off to Calcutta, India to be raised by some poor, obscure couple and that my son would live and be raised up in order to love these people in Calcutta, India.\u00a0 I would know that when he would grow up that they would hate him and they would kill him.\u00a0 Would I send my son to do that?\u00a0 It\u2019s just realizing what did Jesus do for us?\u00a0 It\u2019s the cross.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a book you guys need to take with you.\u00a0 It\u2019s the one that Ann has written called <em>The Mission-Minded Family<\/em>.\u00a0 You may need to read this before you get on the airplane.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bill:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you, Bob, we will.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have Bob tell you about how you can get a copy of the book.\u00a0 But before we\u2019re done here, Ann, I want you to come back in a moment and I want you to pray a prayer that is kind of a prayer of commissioning over Bill and Tracey as they go.\u00a0 It\u2019s a prayer that\u2019s in your book, but first, Bob, I think there are some other folks that want a copy of that book.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, earlier I was talking to Keith just about the privilege of featuring a broadcast like this for our listeners knowing that there are many of them who will take action on this.\u00a0 We could be seeing a crop and a generation of missionaries who will be raised up in families who here this broadcast where some seed that was sown here ultimately becomes a viral spiritual wildfire for Jesus Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So the question is how many bold, brave, courageous moms and dads are listening that are going to go to the website FamilyLifeToday.com and order a copy of <em>The Mission-Minded Family<\/em> that has right behind the title, Iran, Pakistan, India, \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right, Maldives, Somalia\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You didn\u2019t put New Zealand and Fiji like I wanted.\u00a0 We have copies of the book <em>The Mission-Minded Family<\/em> in our FamilyLife Today resource center.\u00a0 Ann has also written a book called <em>The Mission Minded Child <\/em>and we\u2019ve got that in our FamilyLife Today resource center as well.\u00a0 And then I\u2019ve been mentioning this week the book on missionary heroism, <em>The Adventure of Missionary Heroism<\/em> it\u2019s a collection of great missionary stories that you can read as a part of family devotions or at the dinner table.\u00a0 You can find all of these resources online at FamilyLifeToday.com or you can call toll free 1-800-358-6329, that\u2019s 1-800-FLTODAY.\u00a0 Get in touch with us and we\u2019ll let you know how you can get these books sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well it\u2019s been our privilege to talk with Ann Dunagan who has undoubtedly infected several hundred thousand families with the same mission minded heart that she has for the world and I know of one couple, Bob, that she has infected who have been here with us, Bill and Tracey Eyster who are getting ready to go to Rwanda.\u00a0 And there was a, not a poem, but it\u2019s really a prayer, almost a commissioning prayer that you have in your book that I just wanted you to share the context of it and then pray it over Bill and Tracey as they go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a prayer, John and Betty Stam were missionaries to China in the early 1930\u2019s and they were ones who were willing to give it all.\u00a0 That was a time where there was a great depression going on things were economically tough but they were willing to go to the ends of the earth to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSomething that Betty Stam wrote in her journal before she left is a powerful prayer.\u00a0 This prayer is actually one that Elisabeth Elliot wrote in her Bible when she was a little girl.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also read in Elizabeth George, <em>A Woman after God\u2019s Own Heart<\/em>, this was a prayer that was very meaningful to her.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt says this; Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes.\u00a0 All my own desires and hopes and accept Thy will for my life.\u00a0 I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever.\u00a0 Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Use me as Thou wilt.\u00a0 Send me where Thou wilt.\u00a0 Work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost now and forever.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd you know for them it meant being martyred in China.\u00a0 They were martyred in 1934.\u00a0 They had a little baby over in China and actually the story of that is just incredible because the mom and dad were killed and the baby was just abandoned all by itself and someone found this little baby smuggled in a rice basket all through the mountains and was able to bring it to another missionary family and as I was doing some different research for <em>The Mission-Minded Family<\/em> and being able to find out what\u2019s happened even generations later for some of these families and I thought what happened to the baby?\u00a0 What happened to the baby that was saved?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI began to look and what I felt like the Lord was saying was that we are the generation that, it\u2019s not just what happened to the baby, but what are we going to do with the gospel message that we have been given.\u00a0 But so much has been sacrificed for the faith that we have today in the lives that we have been spared that we need to be willing to do whatever God would have us to do for this generation.\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\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock Arkansas \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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