Canaan 2009 Summer TAiwan Missions

1. Location: Nantou Young Life Camp, Taiwan
Dates: Training in Taiwan: June 28-30, Summer Camp : July 1-3

2. Location: Nantou American-E Friend Camp, Taiwan
Dates: Training in Taiwan: July 2-5, Summer Camp : July 6-13

3. Location:Taidung Young Life Camp,Taiwan
Dates: Training in Taiwan: July 10-12, Summer Camp : July 13-17

General Prayer Coverage:

1.Students would know that "God Is Love" (1 John 4:1) and "[noghting]will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:39) The most powerful message in the world.

2.PrayColossians 4:3-6 for our short-termers:"...that God may Open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, ...Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be Wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone."

3. Protection from Satan.

4. Raise up long-term missionaries from these short-termers.

5. Travel mercies

6. Health :flu, H1N1 virus (no one get quarantined!), diarrhea, heat exhaustion.

7. Unity among all workers from different organizations and countries.

8. Adequate preparation for each activity and spiritually.

Canaan 2008 Short-Term Missions Information Form

1. Location: Nantou and Taidung, Taiwan
Dates: 1st two weeks in July
Application Deadline: April 15th, 2008
Who: 11th grade and up (tentative)
Size: up to 32 people (tenative)
What: teaching English, music, drama
Skills: Mandarin speaking/listening preferable
Special needs: adults and parents willing to be helpers and teaching team leaders
Cost: $1500 per person (subject to change)
Training begins: ~May, 2008
Contact person: Jonathan Weng

2. Location: Hsin-Tsu, Taiwan
Tsing Hua University Summer Student Camp
Dates: August, 2008 (tenative)
Application Deadline: May, 2008.
Who: college students and young adults
Size: ~15 total (tentative)
Contact person: John Tang

3. Location: East Asia
Dates: Summer, 2008
Who: adults and college students
Size: TBD
What: music performances/outreaches, dramas, testimonies, Bible teaching, apologetic
Currently looking for leaders. Please contact Ed Chen for more info.

Serving As Senders

Don’t feel called to go on a short-term mission trip this year? There are still many ways you can be involved. Most importantly, you can pray for all the teams: their preparation, time during the trip, and for them to process what they have experienced. Please also prayerfully consider other ways of getting involved…

1. Be a prayer coordinator for one of the trips: be responsible for mobilizing prayer support for the team, i.e. collecting and distributing prayer requests from team members before and during the trip. Encourage and remind congregational members to pray. Be an “advocate” for the prayer needs of the team.

2. Care for the team: provide dinner for one of the training sessions, give a “care package” for one of the overseas teams (filled with wet wipes, hand sanitizers, cold medicines, tissue packs, etc), or babysit for parents while they attend training sessions. Be creative in caring for those who are going!

3. Be an administrative support for one of the teams: help find and schedule drivers and transportation for the team, help make travel arrangements, or be a treasurer (keep track of financial offerings). There are many details that need to be taken cared of for any trip. Be the point-to person who helps organize and plan logistics so that team leaders and members can focus more on spiritual and ministry preparation.

4. Help raise financial support: give financially to teams, help fundraise for the team (coordinate a bake sale or garage sale), be an “advocate” for the financial needs of the team.

5. Provide language support for the teams: coach the team on conversational Spanish, help translate testimonies into Mandarin, practice conversational Mandarin/Taiwanese with those who need to “brush up” their speaking abilities. One of the wonderful benefits of being a multi-lingual church is being able to partner and support one another in this area!

6. Provide spiritual support for the teams: mentor and keep accountable the youth who are attending short-term trips, keep accountable team members in their spiritual goals and commitments for the trip, follow up with prayer requests, encourage those who are going when they face trials/pray through obstacles with them.