August Rush

August is about half way through and has already been full of incredible happenings. This year, General Council and Fine Arts Festival took place in Phoenix, AZ. Even though there were many interactive exhibit booths and tons of people to visit with, the greatest highlight for us was the MK dinner! We had over 105 attend, spanning from very young MKs to an MK born in the 1940s. It was awesome seeing MKs from several generations unite over a meal!  And of course we enjoyed being able to see many MKs perform in the Fine Arts Festival. Our MK family has many very talented people. 

Our focus for the rest of August will be working through the final details for the iDiscipleship launch, which is just a few weeks away. If you haven’t signed already, we welcome you to sign up at www.ismk.org!

Like always, we are excited about the future. Please continue to pray for our MKs and for us. We know the Lord has great things in store!  

Life in the MK Office

It seems like Fall should already be here, but that is how it feels every year after summer program. We start planning for events like Thanksgiving Retreat in late July. It gives us the false belief that summertime is over. However, we still have many weeks left of this season and praise the Lord for it! There is still so much to do before autumn arrives. We are continually preparing for the launch of iDiscipleship September 1^st in hopes that it will radically impact MKs and youth groups globally. Our Thanksgiving Retreat registrations goes live on August 1^st, which means we will soon be putting on the hat of travel agent for 150 people. Fall dinners are right around the corner and are a great time to catch up with our MKs.

Each event or program takes many hours of preparation and tweaking. As a team, we enjoy working together to ensure that our goal is accomplished to equip, engage, and enable MKs in Christ.

Summer Program

It is hard to believe that our summer program is almost over. Even though the weeks have flown by, it feels like we just started.We've had close to 250 MKs pass through our doors, and have witnessed amazing things happen in each one of them. The Lord is good! Our hope is that every MK leaves knowing who they are in Christ and how valuable they are to us. 

 

Please pray us as our MKs depart on Friday, and we start packing 60 pallets of ISMK items to store away for next summer.

The Past Few Months

The past few months have been full of activity and exciting developments!

After 22 years at Beaver Village, Thanksgiving Retreat has found a new home at Young Life-Crooked Creek Conference Center. We announced that  Fired Up is becoming iDiscipleship (www.idiscipleship.com) in September to be more inclusive.  Our website (www.ismk.org) had a major makeover and is designed to show off our MKs! Preparations for summer program are well under way. Summer staff has been hired, notebooks have been assembled, activities have been booked, reservations have been placed, and we are about to move the MK Office over to Central Bible College for the summer.

We know that the past can predict the future, and at the rate we are going, the future looks amazing!

Candidate Orientation Spring 2011

This week is Candidate Orientation, where missionary hopefuls travel to Springfield, MO to find out where and how they can serve across the world. This tends to be a time filled with anticipation and excitement. Seeing people passionate to reach others with the love of Christ is invigorating.

During this week, the MK Office has the privilege of meeting with parents of future MKs. Schooling options and cultural transitions are just a few topics discussed when introducing the MK program. Our goal is to equip, engage and enable the parents and their MKs. Our hope is to see parents head home knowing we are on their team.