Happy Terrific Tuesday! We’re in Calgary and we have had the best week at First Alliance Church.

• Remember last month we gave you a mission to talk to someone you had not talked to in a while? We hope you did that! This time, let’s try being the first to greet someone with a smile when out and about. Keep us updated on your missions!
• We’re here with Briana, who is the missions pastor at First Alliance of Calgary, and she has done an amazing job at connecting her church with God’s mission in Calgary and around the world.
• What’s the secret for churches to get their people engaged in missions? It’s always changing, so it’s always looking for new ways to engage our church. One thing when I started was looking at how missions were already intertwined with different ministries, and I assigned our board each to a different international worker (IW) to be praying for them throughout the year, and we did prayer updates for the board so they could get frequent updates on our global partners, international workers or local partners. Then short-term missions is a huge one. I find that when teams go, their passion for missions grows, their desire to stay connected with missions grows, and they kind of become champions within the church, so they invite new people onto missions trips and share updates. So organically, it starts to grow that way. Then whenever we have IWs or missionaries in town, I try to get them before the church. So just like Rich and Elisa were just here, they shared with the church, and it just continues to elevate story and people’s testimonies, and people just naturally want to learn more. So I think it’s great to have visibility in our services about missions.
• God tells us to love God and love people, and this church is doing it well. We encourage you to connect your people with missions through short-term missions trips or involving them with international workers, praying for missionaries and doing the things that Briana talked about. If you are interested in serving on a short-term missions trip to Latin America with Inca Link, click here.

Have a great week and don’t forget the mission! God bless you.