Tag Archives: Missions
Teen Mania in the media
Posted on 16. Nov, 2011 by Kenny.
Apparently Teen Mania Ministries was in the media last week. MSNBC aired a special called Mind over Mania. I missed it but I did catch up on all the commotion around the special. Below is the promo from MSNBC’s site.
In caes you are unfamiliar, Teen Mania is the parent company to Acquire the Fire, Global Expeditions and a handful of over ministry initiatives involving ministry to teens and preteens. I searched all over the web for a rebroadcast of the MSNBC special, but I couldn’t find it anywhere… but I feel I read enough summaries to speak my opinions and thoughts.
I went on my first Teen Mania trip to Venezuela when I was 16 back in 1993. I spent another two months in India in 1994 and did the one year Internship (now called the Honor Academy) and ventured to both Morocco and Russia while I was an intern. … Read the rest
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Why take kids on a mission trip?
Posted on 01. Apr, 2011 by Jenny Funderburke.
On our mission trip to Belize last week, we took 7 kids age 6 to 14. Until a few years ago I would have never envisioned this being a reality. David and Karen Rhodes, our partner missionaries, expressed that they have gotten lots of negative feedback about envisioning such experiences for young kids. Here is a summary of our experience.
Read the entire post here.… Read the rest
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Global Missions – Aim lower!
Posted on 31. Mar, 2011 by Kenny.
Below is a somewhat tongue in cheek  but very informative video about this idea of reaching the world’s most unreached by focusing on the kids. Enjoy!
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Where the unreached live: 10-40 Window
Posted on 30. Mar, 2011 by Kenny.
There’s a good chance you’ve actually heard of the 10-40 window. I know that I first heard about the 10-40 window when I was preparing to go on one of my first mission trips when I was 15 years-old. That seems like a really long time ago. In case you’ve heard about the 10-40 window and didn’t know what it was, here’s your missions primer.
The 10-40 window is a rectangular area between 10 degrees north latitude and 40 degrees north latitude spanning from North Africa to covering most of Asia. It is in this region that the worlds poorest live, it’s where the the three largest non-christian are most highly concentrated (Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and non-religious) and it’s where practically all of the worlds most unreached live. It’s also called the resistance belt because many of the people groups in this area are very difficult to reach with the gospel.… Read the rest
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Unchurched vs. Unreached
Posted on 30. Mar, 2011 by Kenny.
On Monday I wrote a post about why I’m a missions snob. I think that the post is fairly informative and points to a real problem when it comes to world missions. Our efforts are grossly unbalanced. Since I’m continuing my “Missions Week” series, I thought that I’d explore the focus of my snobbery a little more.
In my post, I talked a lot about the unreached peoples. I wanted to bring some clarity to this term. Very often I will hear someone interchange unreached with unchurched in reference to missions. These words are not interchangeable and do not refer to the same people. Let me clarify.
The word unchurch is basically defined as “those not belonging or participating with a church.” This has become a pervasive term in the modern day church.… Read the rest
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Why I’m a missions snob
Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by Kenny.
I am what I am and I’m not ashamed. If you ask me, “So Kenny, what do you think about missions,” be prepared for some very strong opinions. You’ll certainly get more than you bargained for. Yes, I’m very idealistic. True. However, I think that my opinions aren’t totally grounded in my idealism. I’m a very logical person and when I see something that makes a lot of sense and other people just don’t see the whole picture, I can get very passionate about these ideas. This is the reason for my snobbery.
Here’s the deal. The needs in our world are great. I’m not denying that. There are needs on every corner of the globe. Kids are starving, people are being enslaved and hospitals need to be built.… Read the rest
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CMO:GO – Mission resources for kidmin
Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by Kenny.
Over the years I have written quite a few posts about missions in general, missional resources for kidmin and practical ideas for getting kids excited and passionate about international missions. You can always use the handy search bar on the right to find such posts, but when writing the “Kids on Mission” article for K, I decided to gather all the posts I’ve written about missions and put them in one place where things are easier to find. That places is CMO:GO which is simply childrensministryonline.com/go. This site has always been about resourcing kidmin leaders and if content is too hard to find, then I’m not serving kidmin well. So, if you’re looking for ideas on missions, check out childrensministryonline.com/go.… Read the rest
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Josh Kornberg and Give a Kid a Christmas 2008
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, this post is really about a simple video you’ve gotta see. It’s a powerful audio and visual demonstration of lives being changed in Africa. So, take five minutes and watch the video, you’ll be glad you did.
Now this video is a little of my “worlds colliding.” You’ve seen me post quite a few times about my friends Joel and Heidi who serve as missionaries in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Well, this summer my intern, Josh Kornberg (you an call him Korndog) met Joel and Heidi and decided to go to Africa to participate in Give a Kid a Christmas. You may have seen me write about Josh, or more notable, Karl Bastion, as he made a HUGE deal out of the Korndog at Kidology U as described in this post.… Read the rest
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Things I didn’t know about the Great Commission (Part 1)
Posted on 29. May, 2008 by Kenny.
At staff meeting a few weeks ago, we spent a little bit of time talking about the Great Commission. Yes! This is my verse. As someone who is very committed to the cause of reaching the unreached, the Great Commission is my motto. But I learned something that kind of shook my understanding of this verse.
Don’t worry. My new found revelation has not changed my feelings or passion for world missions. But I do look at this verse a little differently now.
“Go Ye Therefore!” I’ve listened to countless sermons where this was the thrust of the message. The last thing Jesus said to his disciples was to “GO!” This verse has been the catalyst for pushing people out of their comfortable lives a out in the world making a difference.… Read the rest
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Mission details (Surge Part 3)
Posted on 13. Mar, 2008 by Kenny.
Putting together this mission trip was a lot of work, but not nearly as much as it was putting together Venture Quest (our VBS type program) or summer camp. Actually the most frustrating thing was tracking down donations (we had some issues that were beyond our control). I would have anticipated that a 2008 trip to Mexico would have taken significantly less time because I had so much of the ground work done. So, if you’re thinking about doing a mission trip, feel free to borrow as much of this as you need to maximize your time!
Informational meeting
I made sure I had my ducks in a row for this meeting. Although people would come to this meeting very curious and very excited, it is also the first opportunity they have to hear about you taking their child outside of the country.… Read the rest
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