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Minister to children in crisis at Pag-Asa school for local orphans in the Philippines

Jan - Dec 2024 | Action International Ministries

Potter family

Trip #26511

Minister to children in crisis at Pag-Asa school for local orphans in the Philippines

Trip #26511

Potter family

Action International Ministries

Location:

Philippines, Southeastern Asia

Dates:

Jan - Dec 2024
Lasts 1 week to 3 years

Activities:

Evangelism- Friendship/Discipleship, Teaching English, Internship, Orphans and vulnerable children, Teaching/Education,

Cost:

Approximately $1000 to $1200
** See Financial Information Below
Includes: Lodging, Meals
Agency: Action International Ministries
Location: Philippines, Southeastern Asia
Dates: Jan - Dec 2024
Lasts 1 week to 3 years
Activities: Evangelism- Friendship/Discipleship, Teaching English, Internship, Orphans and vulnerable children, Teaching/Education
Cost: Approximately $1000 to $1200
** See Financial Information Below
Includes: Lodging, Meals
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Work with local orphans in a school in Manila, Philippines, to create highly educated and motivated young adults who have a chance to improve their lives, communities, and country.

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What the Mission Trip Will Be Like

Place of Service: Manila, Philippines

Report To: ACTION missionaries Tom and Beth Potter

Starting Date: Team trips and internships can be scheduled year-round with approval

Project Overview: Pag-Asa is a school for local orphans. Currently Pag-Asa partners with five local orphanages in Manila and provides education for over 40 students. We believe education is foundational for success in life. This is especially true in the process of changing the lives of orphans from being the lowest in society to having a chance to become all they were made to be. 

Q & A with ACTION missionaries Tom and Beth Potter

1. What are some ministry tasks that you want the intern to accomplish while serving with you?

We would like short-term teams to gain exposure to global missions. In relation to our specific ministry, we would want interns to gain a new perspective on the needs of neglected children, especially in light of education as a means to a brighter future. Developing an understanding of cultural sensitivity compared to the home culture is very much a move toward understanding the global missions movement. Developing a personal theological perspective of one’s place in global missions would be another goal.

2. What are some key lessons from your ministry and walk with the Lord that you want to impart to the interns to help them as they consider their own individual call to missions or vocational ministry?

Ministry in an intercultural context with a multicultural ministry team has been a huge blessing and great challenge to all those called to global missions. We love having the opportunity to help shape people’s understanding of what global missions looks like, challenging our cultural stereotypes as we move to a more global Christian perspective.

Short-term trips, in our opinion, are a means to:

• gain exposure to global missions needs

• obtain a global awareness of the work of the Church

• become exposed to the needs of developing countries

• develop an understanding of where the intern or team member fits in the global missions effort

• spur the home church to get more involved in global missions

Specific skills an intern may expect to develop by the time the internship is completed:

• understand how to work wisely with neglected children and students who have experienced significant trauma

• learn how to work within a differentiated learning environment and in a multi-age, multi-grade classroom

• acquire the ability to interact within the Filipino culture

• gain a broad view of working within an intercultural ministry team

• become flexible so as to be able to roll with the ups and downs of global living

• capture a broader understanding of the global missions movement

 

For more information including costs please email: [email protected] and visit actioninternational.org/potter

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Relation of Opportunity to National Church and/or Long-term Goals

We seek to please Christ, the Builder and Head of the Church, by conducting our ministries closely with local churches for the advancement and building up of the Body of Christ with the view that all believers will grow in maturity becoming more and more like Christ with the hope that some become pastors, evangelists, teachers, and others cross-cultural missionaries (Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 4:4-16).

Additional Trip Information

Region:
Southeastern Asia
Country:
Philippines
Participant Age:
College, Adult, Senior Adults
Eligible to Go:
Families, Groups [max size 6], Individuals, Married Couples
Other Financial Notes:
Depending on the duration of the stay. Cost of travel not included.
Training debriefing
If the participant is going for less than six months, they will receive mentoring and coaching by someone on our Mobilization Team and also work through pre-field reading material and assignments. If the applicant is going longer than six months, they will participate in an in-person orientation and a separate in-person cross-cultural training course before deploying to the field. They will also have to be able to communicate in German, so German classes will be required. All participants will have a debrief interview with the person from our Mobilization Department who mentored and coached them before and during their time of service. They will also be asked to fill out a post-trip evaluation form to help them process their experience and next steps and provide our home office and field missionaries helpful feedback for sending future short-term workers.
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Mission Trip Offered By Action International Ministries

Action International Ministries (ACTION) is a global mission agency committed to sending multi-national missionaries who treasure Jesus Christ and minister His Gospel in word and deed, primarily to the poor.

Our three-prong strategy for urban ministry can be defined under three headings: evangelism, discipleship, and development.

The mission currently has 330 missionaries (and many other team members) in 40 countries. ACTION’s prayer target is for 221 additional missionaries to join them in the vital task of world missions, for the glory of God!

Our goal is to know God and take action! (Daniel 11:32)

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