Doing Missions As A Family

by Brenda Harris, FBC member, Family Enrichment Committee member

Now, there's a fresh idea! Gather your family and go on a mission trip together. Stand on a spiritual mountaintop together. Imagine the joy and blessing when all the members of your family are a single unit praying together as one, sharing your faith as one, loving and caring for others as one. Make your vacation this year a family mission trip.

Jason and Elizabeth Rogers and their family had such an experience last summer. They were so blessed and enthusiastic as a result of their mission trip together that they are gathering a group of families for a First Baptist Family Mission Trip this summer. Begin talking with your family now about being part of this exciting new approach to being involved in missions. The trip is scheduled for July 5 - 8.

Jason and Elizabeth have said, "After our first out-of-town mission experience as a family last year, we are excited to organize a family mission trip for other families from First Baptist Nashville to the mountains of northeast Tennessee this summer. Last year's trip taught our family that many, many Tennesseans struggle to meet even their most basic needs and that Christ calls us to serve these neighbors in His name. This summer, we'll have a chance to organize and create food baskets at a food pantry, pick up trash along the Appalachian Trail, and lead family activities at Roan Mountain State Park, along with many other service opportunities sponsored by Hale Community Ministries and the Watauga Baptist Association in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Join us!" For more information, contact Jason & Elizabeth Rogers at 665-7363 or rogerse@mail.belmont.edu.