Launch Box: This is Not the End
What do you remember from your last mission trip? You probably have a plethora of memories and images etched away in the mission lobe of your brain. Missionaries or church planters you served with, children you taught, sights you saw, food you tasted , cold/hard floors you tried to sleep on, pictures you took, boards you nailed, busses you rode. And the list goes on and on. Great memories come from mission trips.
Often, though, we are left with nothing more than these memories.
This is a fundamental problem with many mission trips. After the Cheese Puff dust is sort of vacuumed out of the church van and the Sunday night slide show and testimonies have been given, mission trip memories quickly begin to fade. In very little time, the life-changing mission trip becomes background noise as we resume cruising speed in our normal lives.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
What if your mission trip didn’t end when it ran past the dates allotted for it on the church calendar? What if you were sent from your mission trip experience to continue the mission back home? What if you did things on the “mission field” that you could also do in your home town? What if you spent a week doing missions in another city while you were learning and gathering ideas on how to live on mission where you actually live? What if there was a mission trip experience in which the #1 goal was to launch you into the mission field AFTER the week was over?
Now there is. We call it Launch Box. We have dates on the calendar with a start time and an end time. But the end is not the end . When your week with Launch Box ends, you will be sent back home…to continue the mission. No doubt you will impact the nations during your Launch Box week. You will worship alongside other youth groups and serve some of the least reached, least served, people in those cities. But the ultimate goal of the week is that you would see that all of life is mission. That you would see how easy it is to live out the mission on your campus and in your neighborhood.
Your mission trip memory won’t collect much dust in the youth group storage closet after a week with us at Launch Box. Instead, the memory will remain front and center as you live it out day by day.
It’s Launch Box. Bring your youth group. Be trained. Engage the nations. And be Launched into the mission field that is your hometown.
You need info. We have it. Visit the Launch Box page on our website.
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