This month, we are focusing our Missions Partner Spotlight on CULTURELink! CULTURELink's mission is to make disciples of those who make disciples of all nations. This is done in three primary ways:
- Educating through Consulting & Coaching. CULTURELink designs solutions for churches and missions organizations to build and enrich their mobilization process. Ryan Hurlburt's role at MHCC over the past year has been in this capacity.
- Equipping through Seminars & Resources. CULTURELink provides practical training and resources that prepare teams to successfully integrate into new cross-cultural environments. This training equips team leaders to master team development, spiritual formation and cross-cultural effectiveness. This model is what MHCC has adopted to prepare short-term teams (including the team that traveled to the Dominican Republic last year). Another training opportunity is CULTURELink's Intentional Living seminar, which MHCC hosted earlier this year.
- Empowering through Partnerships & Projects. CULTURELink's goal is to empower the body of Christ through long-term, healthy relationships. This is done through missionary care, leadership development, short-term trips and matching churches with credible partners around the globe. One example of this is helping MHCC establish new connections in Austria and Costa Rica.
How can you pray for CULTURELINK?
One primary area that MHCC can join CULTURELink in prayer is related to the third expression of our ministry, Empowering through Partnerships & Projects: Missionary Care.
CULTURELink's director, Larry Ragan, regularly travels to the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) to teach and counsel Christian workers and national leaders. Christians in the MENA region are persecuted, arrested, imprisoned, or even martyred in their countries. Cross-cultural workers and national leaders alike are regularly harassed and threatened. Many are alone, isolated, and exhausted and are in need of rest, encouragement, and restoration. In addition, their difficult situations place further stress on team and family dynamics. CULTURELink's collective prayer on their behalf is the first and greatest expression of care we can provide.
In addition to praying for them, in 2023 alone, CULTURELink has been invited to five specific opportunities to conduct worker care at regional conferences and for the team members of various organizations. The believers we will serve throughout the year are already experiencing the issues we will address through worker care—marriage and family issues, depression and anxiety, team conflict, loneliness, burnout, grief, and hurt. As CULTURELink's staff guides and cares for them, pray that these servants will find healing through the power of Christ's resurrection. CULTURELink has also been asked to recruit additional volunteers for short-term opportunities and are praying for the Lord to bring the right individuals into this role. And finally, pray for the funding that will allow CULTURELink to respond to these opportunities; all of the worker care is provided at no cost to those whom they serve.
CULTURELink's director, Larry Ragan, regularly travels to the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) to teach and counsel Christian workers and national leaders. Christians in the MENA region are persecuted, arrested, imprisoned, or even martyred in their countries. Cross-cultural workers and national leaders alike are regularly harassed and threatened. Many are alone, isolated, and exhausted and are in need of rest, encouragement, and restoration. In addition, their difficult situations place further stress on team and family dynamics. CULTURELink's collective prayer on their behalf is the first and greatest expression of care we can provide.
In addition to praying for them, in 2023 alone, CULTURELink has been invited to five specific opportunities to conduct worker care at regional conferences and for the team members of various organizations. The believers we will serve throughout the year are already experiencing the issues we will address through worker care—marriage and family issues, depression and anxiety, team conflict, loneliness, burnout, grief, and hurt. As CULTURELink's staff guides and cares for them, pray that these servants will find healing through the power of Christ's resurrection. CULTURELink has also been asked to recruit additional volunteers for short-term opportunities and are praying for the Lord to bring the right individuals into this role. And finally, pray for the funding that will allow CULTURELink to respond to these opportunities; all of the worker care is provided at no cost to those whom they serve.
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