| Local church mission activities
September 23, 2005
Your church can celebrate mission in several ways. Try a mission fair or a youth mission day. Contact Global Ministries for ideas and materials.
 Invocation for a meeting
This prayer, by staff member Derek Duncan, is a wonderful resource to use in the opening of a church meeting.
World resources simulation game
Use this simulation game for developing an understanding of the economic inequality and unfair resource distribution in our world.
Mission Activity Handbook
The Massachussets conference UCC and the Evangelical Lutheran Church have created helpful mission activity handbook for their congregations. Check out their ideas here!
Decorate Chinese characters!
Here's a fun idea for a Sunday School project from the Searles family serving in Chengdu, China. Download the characters for peace and truth. Enjoy coloring the characters and use them to decorate a bulletin board or wall. They make great bulletin cover designs, too. (Please be sure to include the copyright information that's already on the page you'll download.) Have fun!
Fold paper cranes for peace
Read how one church sent 1000 origami cranes to the Children's Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.
Missionary youth creates book about life in Timor
Use this story by Katie Campbell-Nelson to talk about children of missionaries and what it must be like living in another country.
Learn about a Global Ministries family in China!
Read about the Searle family living in China. Enlarge the photos and share the stories. Then learn the chopsticks game.
Learn about another country
Holidays and festivals
The weather
What time is it?
Chinese Moon Festival
Celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival on September 21 with sweet moon cakes and paper lanterns. From Douglas and Elizabeth Searles serving in China.
Las Piezas Del Planeta Azu
"Las Piezas del Planeta Azul: Programa para los grupos de Creacci‹n" es un emocionante material que ha sido desarrollado por la misionera Elena Huegel de Ministerios Globales para uso en su trabajo con la Iglesia Pentecostal de Chile. El material incluye un video, un cuaderno de investigaci‹n para el participante, un manual para el facilitador y un cassette de mÒsica. Si tiene interÿs en usar este nuevo material en su iglesia, haga "click" aqui para hacer contacto con Ministerios Globales.
New Video - 'Kodaikanal International School: Social Experience Program'
Learn how our partner school in India helps its students become constructive citizens of society. Recommended by missionaries Nathan and Martha Knoll, missionaries at Kodaikanal School. Click here to arrange to borrow this video from Global Ministries.
Plan a youth mission day
Youth from Westlake Christian Church, Westlake, Ohio, and Euclid Avenue Christian Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, gathered for an exciting day of Mission! Click here to see the game plan for the day. You may use any part of it as you plan your own youth mission day.
International Youth Pilgrimages—Send your youth minister!
Be part of an exciting new program sponsored by the Association of United Church Educators (AUCE) and Global Ministries. Put China or Turkey into the future of your church! Click here to read more.
International family videos for sunday school use
Videos present glimpses of family life around the world. The video highlighting Chinese children comes recommended by Global Ministries staff serving in China. Available from Master Communications at 800-765-5885.
Maps
Maps influence our perspective of God's world. Political, religious, and geographical presentations provide information and fascinating lenses through which to view our human family and our environment. The Peters Projection World Map is a stimulating and controversial image of the world. The UCC Synod encourages the use of this image of our world. The Perry-CastaËeda Library at the University of Texas at Austin contains a fascinating map collection.
The National Geographic website has lots of information about the world, including a program that allows you to print maps for any country.
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