Mission Discovery News: Mission Discovery

With mission trips in 9 nations including 5 states in the U.S. it's not hard to find great stories of changed lives. Pictured here is Ann Buchanan, wife of Mission Discovery founder Maury Buchanan in Bulembu, Swaziland. Ann spent a week in the tiny African nation as a part of Mission Discovery's partnership with Bulembu Ministries Swaziland. Along with 38 other youth and adults, Ann worked on physical projects in the morning and spent her afternoons in the home of 6 orphans and their "Auntie".

Mission Discovery's Summer mission trip schedule begins this week with teams arriving in Nashville, Arizona, Jamaica and Tennessee! This is always an exciting time for Mission Discovery staff because we get to meet, in some cases for the first time, leaders we've been emailing and chatting with on the phone for several months. It's also the start of our 20th Summer here at Mission Discovery!

Mission Discovery began 20 years ago with two weeks in Mexico and a week in Jamaica. Today the work of Mission Discovery stretches to 10 countries.

           Just wanted to give some updated information about our Kenya trip and the HOLD the Children status. We will have two weeks of projects in Kenya this summer and both are still available if you want to join us.  We’ll be their July 14 – 24 and July 27 – Aug 6. We will be working and ministering on Mfangano Island and will be working with Pastor Joshua.

I was recently reading the promotional materials for a start up church planting mission. The material said that nationals could be mobilized to do the work of the mission at just 2% of the cost of mobilizing a U.S. missionary to the same area. What that means is that for your dollar 50 people will be missionaries, not just one. I like the part of the strategy that says we want to influence many for the sake of the Gospel. The part hidden from percentage is the cost of training, managing and mobilizing more by that staff here in the U.S.