Students Exploring Missions (SEM) is a conference where students can attend seminars and talk with missionaries about what it is like to be in missions and what it takes to get there. God calls all Christians to be missionaries, some to other countries. What does it take to be a cross-cultural missionary? Seven mission organizations sent representatives to
WOLBI for April 8 – 10 as a wealth of experience in serving Christ around the world to interact with our students. This year the theme was
Serving God in the Adventure of a Lifetime. Our keynote speaker was Wally Stephenson from
ABWE. Friday night we explored how we can prepare for the Adventure of Missions. We had sessions on world religions and how to reach them (THUMB). Saturday we started out on the adventure with sessions on single hearted missions, how a mission board chooses a missionary, missions and finance, and missions and the local church. The students also had opportunity Saturday afternoon to dialogue with the missionaries and tap into their wealth of experience and knowledge and set their own path of service. Sunday morning we explored Living the Adventure with sessions on how a missionary should pick a mission board and the tragedy of misused short term missions. Thanks to all the missionaries and students that participated in the weekend to make it a weekend of adventure!
Special Thanks to:
Wally & Jeannie Stephenson, ABWE Charlie & Cindy McCordic, TEAM Nelson Bezanson, retired from TEAM As well as Word of Life missionaries:
and our conference facilitator Richard Heppner.
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