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Short-term missions, REACH Internship, Globalscope, Exchange Semester, EQUIP Immersive Experience

Engaging with international missions through short-term opportunities

Written by Bethany Rivera, Interim Director of Mobilization

As I reflect on my journey with CMF, I often remember that I did not become engaged with God’s mission around the world right away. My journey has not been one from zero to sixty miles per hour. Instead, I see that seeds of understanding God’s mission were planted at a young age through meeting missionaries

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Isabel Miller will serve with Marketplace Ministries in Mexico City

Isabel Miller will serve with Marketplace Ministries in Mexico City!

Isabel Miller entered university at Georgia Tech as a business major, never thinking that she would be a missionary or work abroad. But when she got involved with a campus ministry on Georgia Tech’s campus called CCF, she says that “Little by little, through different ways, just step by step, God changed my heart and sort of shifted my eyes toward this kind of work.”

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Otto McFarland is headed to Spain with our Globalscope campus ministry!

Otto McFarland will serve with Globalscope in Valencia, Spain!

Otto McFarland studied music education in university and fully planned on becoming a music teacher after graduation before feeling a call toward missions in his last semester. After discussing this with professors and the Director of Globalscope, he decided that he wanted to pursue international campus ministry.

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Third Culture Kid, TCK Coordinator, university life, life abroad, Global Trellis, A Life Overseas

Starting University in the U.S.: Resources from a Third Culture Kid Coordinator

This blog is written by Kait Jones, CMF’s Third Culture Kid Coordinator  

I love my job as the TCK Care Coordinator here at CMF. Even more, I love who I get to serve in that job. One group of people that I have recently been asked to focus on and serve very intentionally is high school seniors transitioning to their freshman year of college. I was asked to do a mini seminar for one high school senior as he has not spent much time in the States, and his parents will be staying on the field and so will be unavailable to be there physically to help him with this transition. I was nervous! I care a lot and want each one of our TCKs to thrive.  

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Marketplace Mexico, tortilleria, local businesses, Mexico City, Aspire

Marketplace Mexico’s training impacts local tortilleria

The Marketplace Mexico team has been hard at work reaching local entrepreneurs in Mexico City, largely through the nine-week training program, Aspire, that they lead. This program is geared toward helping new entrepreneurs create a business model and apply business principles that reflect a biblical, people-before-profit worldview.

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