{"id":77538,"date":"2024-06-03T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=77538"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:38:16","slug":"bring-your-skills-to-the-missions-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=77538","title":{"rendered":"Bring Your Skills to the Missions World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week the blog is sponsored by TWR<\/a>, also known as Trans World Radio, and is called to reach the world for Christ by mass media so that lasting fruit is produced.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pete and Debbie Lee were living the American dream.<\/p>\n

The parents of two children, the Lees lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, and were actively serving in a church they loved. Their 17-year-old IT business had just had its best year \u2013 another in a string of best years. There was no reason to think the success wouldn\u2019t continue indefinitely. <\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t preachers or linguists, or medical professionals — the skills one might typically connect with mission work. Yet God called them to leave their home, their church and their city and move overseas with their children where Pete would use his IT skills in missions \u2013 specifically with TWR.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved what I did, but once I felt God call me, I just couldn\u2019t imagine being anywhere else,\u201d Pete said.<\/p>\n

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With its use of mass media, TWR has places for all sorts of missionaries in what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week the blog is sponsored by TWR, also known as Trans World Radio, and is called to reach the world for Christ by mass media so that lasting fruit is produced. Pete and Debbie Lee were living the American dream. The parents of two children, the Lees lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, and were actively serving in a church they loved. Their 17-year-old IT business had just had its best year \u2013 another in a string of best years. There was no reason to think the success wouldn\u2019t continue indefinitely.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t preachers or linguists, or medical professionals \u2014 the skills one might typically connect with mission work. Yet God called them to leave their home, their church and their city and move overseas with their children where Pete would use his IT skills in missions \u2013 specifically with TWR. \u201cI loved what I did, but once I felt God call me, I just couldn\u2019t imagine being anywhere else,\u201d Pete said. With its use of mass media, TWR has places for all sorts of missionaries in what might be thought of as nontraditional roles, said Alan Lawton, U.S. director of Mobilization and Human Resources for TWR.\u00a0 \u201cChrist\u2019s commission to go into the world and make disciples isn\u2019t just for people with the gifts of evangelism or Bible translation,\u201d Lawton said. \u201cIt is a commission for everybody.\u201d TWR has opportunities in a wide array of fields, from video production to Spanish language proofreading. But there are four areas in which TWR is particularly looking for\u2026See AlsoFree Stuff Fridays (Reformation Heritage Books)The Good Book Company\u2019s Cyber Week Sale!5 Great Christmas Gift Ideas: A Reformed Gift Guide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":77553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-77538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-sponsored","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/TWR-Challies-Featured-Image-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77554,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77538\/revisions\/77554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}