Doing Mission work

[happygal]

Hi Fellow Brothers and Sister

Mind to share from with me your missionary work? Coz my church have a whole calendar year of mission work! Just wanted to gather wonderful experience that you folks don’t mind to share. Coz i’m sort of wanting to prepare myself for mission work. So exciting about serving… : )

Well I’m hailing from Asia, thus our mission work focus mainly to countries like Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Cambodia, Philippines and Malaysia…So if anyone been to such countries before i would love to hear from your wealth experience…

 

[MariaG]

God has not called me to mission work in far away lands, but I do witness to those I come across in daily life.

Service? You betcha!

I help with the youth group in our Church. Helping to direct their energy and open thier eyes to the needs of others in our community. Mother Teresa always was trying to tell others that you don’t have to fly across the world to India to serve Christ.

But mission work to another country? Sorry, I can’t help there, except to study the culture to help you better understand where they are coming from. Kind of like Paul who told one group (can’t remember the specific scripture so can’t remember the group ) that he could tell they tried to please God since they even had a idol for worshipping the unknown God. And then proceeded to tell them about Christ. He clearly understood them before speaking to them.

May God bless your trip and keep you safe,
Maria

 

[PaulDupre]

Your public profile says you are Protestant.

What sort of “mission work” are you planning to do? I spend a great deal of time in the Philippines, and see lots of protestant missionaries telling lies about Catholicism, attempting to lead Catholics out of the True Church into some make-it-up-as-you-go-along protestant organization. In the process, they destroy families.

If that’s what you’re planning to do, then please just stay home.
Paul

 

[happygal]

PaulDupre:

Your public profile says you are Protestant.

What sort of “mission work” are you planning to do? I spend a great deal of time in the Philippines, and see lots of protestant missionaries telling lies about Catholicism, attempting to lead Catholics out of the True Church into some make-it-up-as-you-go-along protestant organization. In the process, they destroy families.

If that’s what you’re planning to do, then please just stay home.
Paul

Well our mission trip is to spread gospel to non-believer, of course typically in Indonesia we are helping church leader to plant more churches and strengthen them in their preaching…I have no comments about what u have said about protestant in US, but i’m 100% sure to tell you , in my country protestant and catholic live in humanity . In fact we protestant and catholic attend one and other church and fellowship together… We do not talk bad about one another since i’m staying in a country that have multi culture and practise, thus we have been brought up since young to respect other pple religion and their practise.

 

[dhgray]

happygal:

Hi Fellow Brothers and Sister

Mind to share from with me your missionary work? Coz my church have a whole calendar year of mission work! Just wanted to gather wonderful experience that you folks don’t mind to share. Coz i’m sort of wanting to prepare myself for mission work. So exciting about serving… : )

Well I’m hailing from Asia, thus our mission work focus mainly to countries like Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Cambodia, Philippines and Malaysia…So if anyone been to such countries before i would love to hear from your wealth experience…

Back to your origional question. The best way to Evangalize is through your actions and not your words.

“Evangalize continiuosly … use words when necessary.”

 

[scylla]

We do mission work throughout the world everyday, most of the people who do it in the Catholic Church dedicate their lives to it. We have been doing this for 2000 years and as such are rapidly growing in places like Africa. The Americas have mostly been evangelized, but unfortunately in the United States there has been a huge amount of confusion regarding the Catholic faith.

Due to a plurality of beliefs and mostly self worship there has been a spreading confusion growing in Latin Americas resulting in new faith traditions being invented over there splitting up families and leading to a believe what you want kind of culture spreading. For one good example of that I point to Iglesia Universal founded by a guy named Macedo.

The non-catholic foundation of the United States, persecuted Catholics for the first couple centuries of its founding and led to a multitude of beliefs and confusion.

I will be going to Mexico to do mission work and sharing the Gospel this summer, but I cannot spend my full time doing this as I am called to be a father and raise my kids in the faith, and I want to concentrate on that, until they are older.

May God Bless you in this work and please work to spread truth and unity, as often there has been much disunity and misinformation being spread. This is why you might see some replies regarding splitting of belief as this is commonly the case with non-catholic mission work. (I am not saying you are doing this and if you bring people closer to Christ then continue on)

God Bless again
Scylla

 

[inJESUS]

in my country protestant and catholic live in humanity . In fact we protestant and catholic attend one and other church and fellowship together… We do not talk bad about one another since i’m staying in a country that have multi culture and practise, thus we have been brought up since young to respect other pple religion and their practise.

in my country as well

i can’t help cuz my mission is charity to poor within my country…but as was said before, i think you should know a bit about the background of your chosen country. Good luck and God bless.

 

[PaulDupre]

happygal:

Well our mission trip is to spread gospel to non-believer…

Well, the Philippines is 87% Catholic, 1% Protestant, 10% Muslim (almost alll of them in Mindanao the southernmost island), and about 2% “other” (Mormon, Jehovah Witness, Iglesia Ni Christo, etc). Whom do you plan to evangelize? Which group have you judged to be “non-believers”?

Best wishes,
Paul

 

[happygal]

PaulDupre:

Well, the Philippines is 87% Catholic, 1% Protestant, 10% Muslim (almost alll of them in Mindanao the southernmost island), and about 2% “other” (Mormon, Jehovah Witness, Iglesia Ni Christo, etc). Whom do you plan to evangelize? Which group have you judged to be “non-believers”?

Best wishes,
Paul

Well for our cases, we just spread our gospel to whoever want to listen. But by far from what i gather from others, are mainly Muslim. There are catholic who came to listen to the preaching and understand what we are doing over in Philippine, however we welcome pple to listen do not force them to accept for conversion. The decision is individual and not by force. I’m staying in a country where alots of non-believer are having doubts and some even hate christianity , therefore over the years we rather welcome them to listen to gospel rather then what they so call hard selling our religion, decision is all up to them. So if by chance everyone here would to come to my country, then you would know the kind of nasty comment you can expect from non-believers, is even worst then lashing out comments among believers.

 

[happygal]

dhgray:

Back to your origional question. The best way to Evangalize is through your actions and not your words.

“Evangalize continiuosly … use words when necessary.”

Amen, action speaks louder then words…
To me pple in this forum are spiritually mature christian, your faith are stronger then those in Asia. I hope those who are available, please come to Asia to spread gospel…I’m sure everyone would have very good spiritual evangalizing…

 

[happygal]

inJESUS:

in my country as well

i can’t help cuz my mission is charity to poor within my country…but as was said before, i think you should know a bit about the background of your chosen country. Good luck and God bless.

Thanks for the encouragement, we have briefing about the cultural of the countries that we are going, typically Indonesia and Philippines…as we rather not create a religion scandal out from it.

 

[happygal]

scylla:

We do mission work throughout the world everyday, most of the people who do it in the Catholic Church dedicate their lives to it. We have been doing this for 2000 years and as such are rapidly growing in places like Africa. The Americas have mostly been evangelized, but unfortunately in the United States there has been a huge amount of confusion regarding the Catholic faith.

Due to a plurality of beliefs and mostly self worship there has been a spreading confusion growing in Latin Americas resulting in new faith traditions being invented over there splitting up families and leading to a believe what you want kind of culture spreading. For one good example of that I point to Iglesia Universal founded by a guy named Macedo.

The non-catholic foundation of the United States, persecuted Catholics for the first couple centuries of its founding and led to a multitude of beliefs and confusion.

I will be going to Mexico to do mission work and sharing the Gospel this summer, but I cannot spend my full time doing this as I am called to be a father and raise my kids in the faith, and I want to concentrate on that, until they are older.

May God Bless you in this work and please work to spread truth and unity, as often there has been much disunity and misinformation being spread. This is why you might see some replies regarding splitting of belief as this is commonly the case with non-catholic mission work. (I am not saying you are doing this and if you bring people closer to Christ then continue on)

God Bless again
Scylla

Well we only do our best to spread gospel and not slandering…Is all up to individual to make their decision to either be protestant or catholic…everything should be free will and not forcing…Thanks for the encouragement i will do my best to serve the lord.Amen

 

[JoeyWarren]

happygal:

Hi Fellow Brothers and Sister

Mind to share from with me your missionary work? Coz my church have a whole calendar year of mission work! Just wanted to gather wonderful experience that you folks don’t mind to share. Coz i’m sort of wanting to prepare myself for mission work. So exciting about serving… : )

Well I’m hailing from Asia, thus our mission work focus mainly to countries like Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Cambodia, Philippines and Malaysia…So if anyone been to such countries before i would love to hear from your wealth experience…

Before you do, please purchase “Surprised By Truth 2” by Patrick Madrid and read the first Chapter.

 

[happygal]

JoeyWarren:

Before you do, please purchase “Surprised By Truth 2” by Patrick Madrid and read the first Chapter.

Thks for the infor, if i able to get it i’m sure to get the book…Amen

 

[MariaG]

happygal:

Well we only do our best to spread gospel and not slandering…Is all up to individual to make their decision to either be protestant or catholic…everything should be free will and not forcing…Thanks for the encouragement i will do my best to serve the lord.Amen

That sounds like what would be called sheep stealing in my area.

True mission work involves bringing the Word to unbelievers. And if one helps someone who already belongs to a church or denomination get a deeper conversion, then they should be encouraged to go back to their church and help flame the fire of God in the hearts of others in their parish.

But maybe I am wrong?

Let me ask you these questions. Do at anytime you allow people their free will and choose, if the person is Catholic, are they ever encouraged to go back to their church and be reconciled with God through the Sacraments instituted by Christ?

Go and look with new eyes at the Mass and see how full it really is now their eyes have been opened?

Are they encouraged to become a better Catholic Christian?

Or are they encouraged to go where they will be “really fed” the Word of God?

God Bless,
Maria

 

[JoeyWarren]

:bowdown: Very good analagy MariaG :bowdown:

 

[happygal]

MariaG:

That sounds like what would be called sheep stealing in my area.

True mission work involves bringing the Word to unbelievers. And if one helps someone who already belongs to a church or denomination get a deeper conversion, then they should be encouraged to go back to their church and help flame the fire of God in the hearts of others in their parish.

→ Well sheep stealing? Maybe to some, anyway if one’s faith with their own believes are strong nobody can make them change their mind. Initially i got real upset when one of frez converted from protestant to catholic…but as time move on, i started to see it a different way…i begin to encourage him to serve the lord and the feeling is different of telling him off our his conversion…So now i rather see thing is a different aspect then to see it so narrow…

But maybe I am wrong?

Let me ask you these questions. Do at anytime you allow people their free will and choose, if the person is Catholic, are they ever encouraged to go back to their church and be reconciled with God through the Sacraments instituted by Christ?

Go and look with new eyes at the Mass and see how full it really is now their eyes have been opened?

Are they encouraged to become a better Catholic Christian?

→ Well the catholic community in Singapore are not as strong as those in the US, in fact is the protestant in our country that seem more eager then Catholic…but so far all my catholic frez still attend mass regularly every week, so at time i always try my best telling them to serve the lord more, help spread the gospel, serve their ministry…etc…some really got irritated by me…haha

God Bless,
Maria

 

[MariaG]

Originally posted by happygal

→ Well sheep stealing? Maybe to some, anyway if one’s faith with their own believes are strong nobody can make them change their mind.

At the point before a deeper conversion the point is that their faith IS NOT strong.

Originally posted by happygal

Initially i got real upset when one of frez converted from protestant to catholic…but as time move on, i started to see it a different way…

Why were you initially upset?

Originally posted by happygal

i begin to encourage him to serve the lord and **the feeling is different of telling him off our his conversion…**So now i rather see thing is a different aspect then to see it so narrow…

I am sorry, I don’t understand what you are saying here?

Originally posted by happygal

→ Well the catholic community in Singapore are not as strong as those in the US, in fact is the protestant in our country that seem more eager then Catholic…but so far all my catholic frez still attend mass regularly every week, so at time i always try my best telling them to serve the lord more, help spread the gospel, serve their ministry…etc…some really got irritated by me…haha

All the more reason to encourage Catholics who have had a deeper conversion to go back to their own churches and do “mission work” in their own church.

But, you still didn’t answer the question. Does your group encourage people to go back to their own Christian churches(and that would include Catholic since Catholics are Christians), or encouraged to go elsewhere?

Those who do the first, are doing God’s work, those who the second, are more concerned about building their own denomination and their own glory instead of giving the Glory to God.

You don’t have to answer those questions to me. I don’t know which group you belong to, but I just ask these questions so you can question yourself and the motives of your own group. I am sorry to have to question your motives, but I pray you will not be offended when you realize that most of those who I personally have met here or in real life, are concerned with their own glory.

Maybe you will be one of the exceptions? I pray so.

Your heart desires to serve God. Make sure that is what you are really doing.

God Bless,
Maria

 

[happygal]

MariaG:

At the point before a deeper conversion the point is that their faith IS NOT strong.

Why were you initially upset?

→ The thing is, simply his GF is a catholic so he just follow her. So i ask him what u know abt catholic…he said catholic pple are more stricter with all those ritual practise!!! I was like huh!!! so this is the reason he’s attending a catholic…well i’m not saying is wrong…but at that of time i find it funny for me to understand

I am sorry, I don’t understand what you are saying here?

All the more reason to encourage Catholics who have had a deeper conversion to go back to their own churches and do “mission work” in their own church.

But, you still didn’t answer the question. Does your group encourage people to go back to their own Christian churches(and that would include Catholic since Catholics are Christians), or encouraged to go elsewhere?

→ Yup the thing is when i ask all my catholic frez what have they serve…the answer is nothing also they have no time to serve any mission or ministry for this church…so i just encourage them to serve their church more…nothing else…

Those who do the first, are doing God’s work, those who the second, are more concerned about building their own denomination and their own glory instead of giving the Glory to God.

You don’t have to answer those questions to me. I don’t know which group you belong to, but I just ask these questions so you can question yourself and the motives of your own group. I am sorry to have to question your motives, but I pray you will not be offended when you realize that most of those who I personally have met here or in real life, are concerned with their own glory.

→ I’m a protestant, motive?? What a word to use!!! our objective is just to encourage weaker christian to build up a stronger faith with god…simple as that…In fact to me all catholic pple is US are so strong in their faith, is good that should there be a call for you all, please come to my country to minister the catholic community…then u will able to know not all protestant are out to attack catholic as what happen in the US. We just wanted to walk the kind of life the god wanted us to be…

Maybe you will be one of the exceptions? I pray so.

Your heart desires to serve God. Make sure that is what you are really doing.

→ Of course, we do not have to tell god what we are doing, coz he can read our mind…so if u have a motive, the motive will not work in the eye of god…that’s a bible verse that say what you done to others, god will do back the same to you…so if you do good things god will reward you, else is other wise…It happened to me before therefore i truly know what god have wanted me to see.

God Bless,
Maria

 

[scylla]

It seems that you come from a far different background in faith than the many of the Protestants in the United States.

There is a common identity that many Protestants hold in the United States that only agree on one belief and that is that they are against the Catholic Church. I have a Seventh Day Adventist Church down the street and know this understanding pretty intimately. Maybe the recent personal interactions have started to skew my perception but that is what I am more commonly seeing. Though I come from a background that isn’t so anti-catholic.

You would see quite a different perspective if you lived in the United States.

God Bless
Scylla