Staying Connected: Essential Communication Tips for Goers
Whether it’s a laptop or phone, the device you’re holding allows you to communicate with someone on the other side of the world instantly. But when you change your global zip code, it’s usually not as simple as picking up your phone and making a call. So we asked Goers to share with us some of their tips to stay connected with people back home.
4 Things NOT To Do As You Return From Your Short-term Trip
Short-term ministry trips can be exciting, educational, challenging, and stressful all in one! You have learned so much and expanded your thinking and heart for the world. You have learned new cultures but also new things about yourself. What a great privilege to engage cross-culturally!
3 Things I Learned Doing Social Work in Mexico City
The year after I graduated college I moved to Mexico City to be a part of an anti-trafficking ministry called El Pozo de Vida. I worked in a home called the “Transition House” where women who had come out of trafficking as young girls could finish school and learn how to live independently in a stable and safe environment. The time I spent in this ministry did not go at all how I had envisioned it, but I learned a lot of valuable lessons and out of it came such sweet friendships.
5 Ways to Make Friends with International Students
God has brought the world to us! Over 1 million international students are in the U.S. each year. On your campus, people from many nations of the world are in your dorms, your classes, in the cafeteria. Many are lonely, being away from home. Most are eager for friendship and conversation and learning new things.
Did you know that most international students will spend their whole time in the US without ever being invited into an American’s home?
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
I have spent a year in Berlin, and this year has revealed a lot about me. People talk about moving cross-culturally and how it makes all of your weaknesses and struggles come up. I think I might be living proof of that.
A Week in the Life: Expectation vs. Reality
I could never adequately put into words what it feels and looks like to live here - it is something you would really just have to experience for yourself! Moreover, what I expect to happen in the week is quite different from the reality of what actually happens. But I'll do my best to give you an intimate glimpse into my life with...
Come Lord Jesus, Come
Jesus, My heart, lonely, longs for you. My soul, saddened, cries for you. My mind, anxious, runs to you. My strength, feeble, fights that you Would come. Come Lord Jesus, come.
A Suitcase Full of Questions
Uncle Ahmed* is an older Syrian-Kurdish gentleman with whom we have been walking for the last few years. As the only believer in his family, being in his late 70s, and having some intense heart medication that causes him to sleep the majority of the day, his faith truly grows in seclusion. Yet, he has one of the most beautiful faiths I have ever witnessed.
5 Roles of a Goer
GoCorps specializes in helping ordinary Christians find ways to join God’s extraordinary work globally. But most Christians feel intimidated by the idea of following God into the work of the great commission. It seems that one must possess super skills and extreme spirituality in order to be worthy and effective for missions, right?