Go Week 2019
September 30th-October 3rd
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Monday - Thursday, September 30th - October 3, 2019
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Bob Jones University
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What?
Come interact with many missions organizations about opportunities to reach all the world with the Gospel. You can find unique summer opportunities, internships and even future employment on mission fields around the globe. In addition, be inspired by messages in chapel and workshops geared to build a passion for global missions.
Info below for GO Week 2019
It is the responsibility of every Christian in every society and in every era to faithfully proclaim Jesus Christ and His gospel to the world around them. For most of history and throughout most of the world that witness has come at real personal cost. Sometimes it costs everything. This is what Jesus promised His followers. There are exceptions, such as the freedom and even at times respect, offered to Christianity in North America, but the call to forsake all and follow Christ is more literal than figurative for most believers in today’s world. In fact, the occasions of oppression against Christianity are more numerous today than in previous history.
We have the privilege this week of meeting some members of our Christian family who experience personally what is described in Hebrews 10:32-34. They are men who have risked all to proclaim their faith in Jesus. Because their appearance here among us raises the level of risk to them, please do not post photos of them or comments about them on any social media sites. They have accepted the call to embrace risk for the sake of gospel. Though our present circumstances differ greatly from theirs, we too are called to make gospel proclamation our life’s endeavor. I pray that their ministry among us this week will encourage us all to accept that call.
We have the privilege this week of meeting some members of our Christian family who experience personally what is described in Hebrews 10:32-34. They are men who have risked all to proclaim their faith in Jesus. Because their appearance here among us raises the level of risk to them, please do not post photos of them or comments about them on any social media sites. They have accepted the call to embrace risk for the sake of gospel. Though our present circumstances differ greatly from theirs, we too are called to make gospel proclamation our life’s endeavor. I pray that their ministry among us this week will encourage us all to accept that call.
Schedule of Events
Monday:
11:00-11:35 – Chapel (FMA) 5:30-6:30 – Dinner in the Dining Common 6:00 – 7:00 – Short Term Missions expo (Den) Tuesday: 7:30-7:45 am – Prayer for China (Bridge of Nations) 10:00-11:00 – Prayer with Missionary Representatives (Levinson) 11:00-11:45 – Workshops 11:45-7:00 – Mission Organization Displays (Davis Room) 6:00-7:00 - China-America Friendship Night (CGO) Wednesday: 11:00-11:35 Chapel (FMA) 11:45-7:00 – Mission Organization Displays (Davis Room) Thursday: 9:00-11:00 - Write Letters to Christian Prisoners (Student Center Mall) 11:00-11:45 – Workshops 11:45-7:00 – Mission Organization Displays (Davis Room) 7:00-8:00 – Display take down (Davis Room) 9:00 – Missions Movie – Dispatches from the Front (SH) Friday: 7:00-7:45 - Prayer Rally (Rodeheaver Plaza) 10-12 pm - Underground: The Restricted Church Experience (WMC) |
GOW Workshops
Worskshops:
Workshop Description: Come and listen to story of God’s Sovereign hand moving powerfully through four generations of one family in China. From Hudson Taylor to the present, God has moved people from nation to nation and place to place to accomplish His glorious gospel purpose in and through this humble family. Our God is truly a Great God.
Workshop Description: Working in a restricted access country is not always easy, sometimes you just need to learn to be creative. Come gain a perspective of what it’s like to work, or start your own company with the many pluses and minuses and listen to somebody with many years of first-hand experience.
Workshop Description: Current, real-life stories of men and women who are using creative skills and creatively using those skills to live, work and minister in a closed nation to the gospel.
Workshop Description: China is the world’s largest country and one of its oldest. It is a land of antiquity, a land of contrasts and a land of great opportunity. It contains some of the largest people groups in the world. The Han Chinese at nearly 40 million, has an estimated 2% who are evangelical. The Uyghurs, at about 12 million, have less than .01% evangelical! Why has Christianity not yet penetrated China?
Workshop Description: There are many national believers that would love to connect you to opportunities that assist them or people like them in the advance of the gospel in China and beyond. In this workshop you will meet two of them and hear about how God is using them in powerful ways and how you can get involved with them in these exciting opportunities.
Workshop Description: Why would God use weak, second culture missionaries to proclaim the glories of Christ’s gospel and train national pastors? In this workshop, we will explore God’s call to weakness and humility. If we truly aspire to become “a servant of all,” then we must surrender our rights and reputations. Join with us as we learn together why surrender is the path to gospel advance.
Workshop Description: A brief overview of China from various perspectives, from cultural to spiritual, that will help you to understand the country better and thus minister more effectively.
Workshop Description: There are thousands of Americans teaching in China and many get the chance to clearly share the Good News with people who have never heard. Most of these teachers don’t raise support- they get a paycheck! Come learn about ten different ways to serve serve God in China as a teacher and see if any of them fit your gifts and calling. Presenter Phil Bassett has lived and taught in China for 15 years. Dining Common Display Times:
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