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My contact with Every Child MInistries is as a supporter of one of their short-term missionaries. Two of my friends have participated in ECM's short term missionary summer trips. Since they are responsible for all of the funding involved in their trip, I have donated to help make the trip possible. As a result I got feedback via email while they were serving in AFrica, as well as detailed personal reports when they returned. My one friend has gone several times, which indicates how good the short term missionary experience through ECM is.

What impresses me as a supporter is the extent to which the summer missionaries are involved in the missionary experience. In college ,any of my friends went on short term missionary trips with athletics or set up by the colleges. These trips offered people a taste or missionary work; a feel for the foreign country; exposure to the culture differences; and a desire to both help the people and evangelize. But they remained tourists - the trips included tourist attractions; the housing was separate for the Americans and the food was good.

With Every Child Ministries, if you go on a short term trip - you ARE the missionary. John and Lorella find out how you want to serve and evaluate your gifts and experiences, and then they help you become a missionary for the time you are there. If you are in the orphange, you live with the children; you help with meal preparation; clean-up; and when you see a child who needs a hug, needs their hair brushed, needs assistance with a math problem, you jump in and help. If you are in the street ministry you become a missionary nurse; You are caring for wounds with the few supplies you brought; you are washing hurt children's feet; and you are actively sharing Jesus's love to the children. Because a good portion of ECM's ministries occur in English speaking countries, you are able to share your faith directly.

I am so impressed with the way ECM manages to turn a person into a real missionary who is serving Jesus on the front lines and saving souls of little children as soon as you step foot on foreign soil.

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