May
21

Experience SEND This June!

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The greatest martial artist of all time, Bruce Lee used a favorite quote by Johann Wolfgan von Goethe. “Knowing is not enough; we must do. Willing is not enough; we must do.” You can have all the knowledge in the world but if you don’t do anything with it, it is useless. Now, after a chewing on that brainy quote, let us segue into ministry! Lol.

Are you bored sitting in church every Sunday? Are you living your faith throughout the week? Are you living and doing a missional lifestyle? If you are a young adult, parent, pastor, ministry leader or anyone seeking to learn about how to live an exciting Christian life or how to do mission and discipleship, then we have good news!

This summer, SEND North America is inviting you to Experience SEND in a Weekend Immersion Event!  This event is designed to be a fun learning experience in which you are immersed into the SEND discipleship and mission model of ministry. For an entire weekend, we will be living out your faith in all areas! We will have amazing teaching, discipleship, ministry, and learning about Christianity as a movement. We will be learning about how the millennial generation now has a vehicle, a process in discipleship. A process designed for young adults to find purpose and direction. They will draw closer to God more than they ever have while being trained as a modern day missionary. In this jam packed weekend event, we will be learning outreach strategies for the 21st century. What it means to be a missionary. We will then be going out into the world and doing hands on mission training and learning what happens in the day in the life of SEND!

When: Join us June 21 -23. We start at 6:30 PM Friday and wrap up the weekend at 1:00 PM on Sunday. All times are Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

Location: Kendallville, IN USA.

Registration: $59.00 per person (group rates available) Training resources, food, fun and fellowship are included. http://sendnorthamerica.com/experience-send-weekends/

The time is now. We must do! Let us live our faith. Let us be the light and salt in this hurting world. Join us this one of kind immersion event. Paul states in Colossians 2:7 “Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving”  The Message.

We will hold another Experience SEND Weekend August 2-4 in Kendallville if the June dates don’t work for you. Please contact John at johnwargowsky@churchdoctor.org for more information and how you can be immersed with Servants Equipping New Disciples!

Blessings,
Josh Humberger – joshua@churchdoctor.org
SEND North America Leader Servants Equipping New Disciples

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May
21

S.E.N.D. – An Amazing Experience

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S.E.N.D. is an amazing experience for young adults. Hear Kent Hunter describe the vision in the video below.

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May
15

Be a Servant

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From Mark 10:45 ESV: “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

In just a quick bible study search online, I found that there are over 56 bible verses on being a servant. In SEND, (Servants Equipping New Disciples), this word is key. It is who we are and what we do as a ministry and as Christ followers. We serve.

We have over 50 teachers who serve by teaching in our discipleship process. They give and invest their time to teach our young adults years of wisdom on specific topics or fields in their areas of expertise. All of my incredible coworkers at Church Doctor Ministries help serve to make SEND and churches all over the country in fulfilling the Great Commission. In our church bodies, we have many different ministries and teams that serve to make the House of God work and function. In setting up mission, the key word I use in finding what the Lord wants us to do is ask: How can we serve the needs of a ministry or group or person? Let us look at that question a bit more in depth with a quick story. In doing so, hopefully we can strive to be better and be more like the greatest SERVANT of all time: Jesus.

A few months back, while SEND was serving at The Rescue Mission we found a need. That need was Bibles and books. On a tour, we found an empty bookshelf. They had thrown out old and damaged books and were in need of new ones. In my newsletter a couple months back, we put out a request. We were blessed by many who donated Bibles and incredible books to better one’s life. Just last week, we were able to go down and donate these books to this wonderful organization. We were able to go back to that same bookshelf and stock it with Scripture. We were able to go back and serve. To help serve and equip these men, that are fighting for their lives. What is really exciting is the more you serve the more opportunities to serve will open up. I found an urgent needs list for the men’s, women’s and children’s divisions at the Mission this last time. Here we go again! I will now share this list with a ministerial association of churches. Additional needs include razors, deodorant, combination locks, pillows, laundry detergent, laundry baskets/hampers and cleaning supplies. Wanna help serve?

If we are looking to do ministry of any kind, ask, “How can I serve?” Paul shares with us in Galatians 5:13 ESV “For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” What are some way’s you serve as a Christian? At church, work, school, and family? Please share and we can inspire each other to become better servants!

Blessings,
Josh Humberger – joshua@churchdoctor.org 
SEND North America Leader  Servants Equipping New Disciples

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May
14

Experience More of God

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Do you want to experience more of God in your life? Hear Tim Kruse explain how this happened with SEND in the video below.

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May
06

Searching for Something More?

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Are you searching for something more? Watch Nick Wilson describe his exciting adventure with SEND in the video below.

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May
02

Experience S.E.N.D. April 2013 News and Updates

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As you open this monthly newsletter from SEND, we are in Belize on our year-end mission trip. This year we have partnered again with the Central American Lutheran Mission Society (CALMS), and are involved with a jam-packed week of relational ministry! Please keep our entire team in prayer for travel, safety, and ask that the Lord guide our conversations and witness with the Tubal Institute. We are working with staff and students to be positive witnesses for Jesus. We will be doing devotions, bible studies, prayer, and testimony. We are also doing service with many different churches and, at the end of the week, we will be doing ethnographic research for future missionaries and possible church plants. Our leader, Pastor Steve Huey, asks everyone to please pray that God will help us work well together and serve together as a team anointed by Him and unified by His Spirit. Our SEND team is grateful for all the folks and churches that are supporting us in doing this work. We hope to share what we learn and give testimony when we get back! Thank you!

Read the rest of the newsletter here!

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Apr
28

Experience God’s Will in Your Life

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Ashley Ruppert tells us about her quest to experience God’s will in her life in the video below.

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Apr
26

A Life Changing Experience

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Jon Hunter describes a life changing experience in the video below.

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Apr
26

Experience Unity in Diversity

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In SEND, our discipleship and missionary training process, we go on what are called Mission Excursion Weekends once a month. The purpose or goal is to live and learn all aspects of a ministry, church, or mission. This last weekend we headed up to the greater metro Detroit area to spend time with the incredible brothers and sisters of POBLO (People of the Book Lutheran Outreach) International Ministries. They are a God-inspired mission movement, which trains and sends ethnic missionaries to minister in partnership with congregations desiring to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to new Americans.

We learned and experienced so much. I will be sharing more in our SEND monthly newsletter, but what is really heavy on my heart is the experience of just spending time doing ministry, hanging out, and worshipping with my ethnic brothers and sisters. I experienced different forms of accents, food, and discipleship. I was impressed by different methods of evangelism, and I gained an appreciation for the different ways people think in different nations of the world. It was an honor to be with these wonderful missionary warriors from Pakistan and India, serving here in the United States, the second largest mission field in the world. All week I have been thinking over and over how ignorant we can be in our American church culture, how divided we have become. And why? Politics, theologies, denominations, and many other things seek to destroy our unity in the body of Christ.

Paul shares with us in Colossians 3:14-16, “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

I was privileged to share SEND in three different churches. In one of the churches, the worship was so awesome, intense, and thick, you could cut the Holy Spirit with a knife! When getting up in front of this international congregation, I was overwhelmed with emotion. I went to speak and I choked up. I think the Lord was showing me that we are all His bride. Just looking out and seeing the power of people worshiping Jesus had a profound impact upon me, folks that might look different from me but are all like me in the unity of the love of our God. I was looking at another part of the body of Christ, a part that I now know and am very proud to claim as my brothers and sisters.

I wanted to share this because I am thankful for this moment, as it states in the verse above: A moment in which I felt peace but most importantly unified love.

With all the craziness and evil going on out in the world, let us unite. If you have the chance, visit another church − an ethnically diverse church. I pray you experience what I have just tried to share.

In His service,

Josh Humberger – joshua@churchdoctor.org 
SEND North America Leader 
Servants Equipping New Disciples

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Apr
17

TIME OUT!

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I would like to pose a few questions. When asking this, I hope that the audience will be the millennial generation but really it is for anyone of any age.

Do you have purpose and direction in your life?

Do feel like you are being pulled in a thousand different directions and feel your life is out of control and too busy?

Do you wish you had a better relationship with God?

Do you pray enough? Read your Bible enough? Worship enough? Do mission for our Lord?

If you answered yes then you are in the center of God’s will! Congratulations! If you are the other 99.9999% that answered no, don’t panic or freak out. You are being honest and are the norm. The last question I want to pose though, to really get us thinking about our life, is this…

 

Do you feel you need to take a time out from life? This is called a gap year.

A gap year is time out to travel between life stages. It is also known as a sabbatical, time off, time out and a year out. It refers to a period of time (not necessarily 12 months) in which people disengage from curricular education and/or work and undertake activities such as traveling, volunteering or working abroad.

This is… time to get back on track, time to get focused, time to get good with Jesus, time to get that relationship with Him firing on all cylinders. If you do take this time, everything else in life will fall into place and your life will be fulfilled with purpose, direction and joy! That is essentially what we are doing in SEND. SEND helps you intentionally take time to devote to a process, a “gap” of time, to draw closer to God and to find your purpose and direction.

Gap years are very common in other countries, especially in Europe and are becoming more common in the U.S. This is what SEND is all about for our students. We train from the fall to summer and use this time for intense discipleship and missionary training. If you know of a recent high school grad or a college student taking a break from school, or maybe even a young adult looking to pursue ministry, please tell them about SEND. They can take a gap out of their life that will forever change the rest of their life!

For more information check out our blogs, videos, and news at SENDNorthAmerica.com!

Josh Humberger – joshua@churchdoctor.org 
SEND North America Leader 
Servants Equipping New Disciples

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