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2019 Best Posts of the Year as You Look Overseas

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We really like you people.

In 2019, readers from 142 countries visited Go. Serve. Love. (Hear that? God is moving. You are not alone as you set your sights overseas.) You are different races, holding different devices, from different stages of life and different careers.

Same God who loves this third rock, and longs for them to know hope and a love that bowls their souls over.

P.S.: We love your heart for the unreached. See below.

As we flip the page from 2019 to the unknowns of 2020, thank God with us for his insistent hand working around the world for love and his own glory.

Here’s what you collectively liked best from 2019. Feel free to share!

1. FREE PRINTABLE INFOGRAPHIC: 10 WAYS TO PRAY FOR UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS

How can you make unreached people groups a regular part of your prayer life? We’ve got practical ideas and a free, printable infographic of 10 ways to pray.

2. UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUP FOCUS: JAPANESE

The Japanese are the largest unreached people group in the world (1/3 of the population of the U.S.) that’s open to global workers. What are the obstacles?

Information source: JoshuaProject.net

3. WHAT LIES BENEATH: RECOGNIZING CULTURAL “ICEBERGS”

Below-the-water, invisible aspects of culture are by far the more important and more influential parts. How can we begin to recognize cultural icebergs?

4. 6 KILLER ONLINE RESOURCES FOR FUNDRAISING

What if there are resources to make your fundraising presentation easier, and a touch more professional to inspire confidence?

5. JUST DIFFERENT? RIGHT, WRONG, AND FLEXIBILITY IN CROSSING CULTURES

Was he right? Was what seemed wrong in their culture “just different”? Yes…and no. Here, thoughts about discerning right and wrong as you cross cultures.

6. MEET AN AGENCY: A SERIES TO HELP YOU FIND A GREAT FIT

We heart this new, ongoing series–a little cup o’ joe with organizations (currently 15!) to help you go there, serve Him, and love them even better. Grab a chair.

7. Funding God’s Adventure

We know funding this crazy is your…favorite part of heading overseas. Here’s our collection of ideas, tools, and thoughts to help.

8. Tools for your Trip

Here’s our accumulating stash of the best resources we’ve got to prepare you to Go. Serve. Love.

We’re talking questionnaires, questions to ask, devotionals–and they’re all FREE, y’all.

9. 5 [PRINTABLE] MISSIONS SCRIPTURES TO MEMORIZE (*THAT YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW YET) FOR YOUR JOURNEY

The journey overseas gets long, belabored with details and fundraising and paintball-style emotions. Anchor your soul as you memorize truth.

10. 7 WAYS TO PRAY FOR YOUR JOURNEY OVERSEAS (FREE PRINTABLE INFOGRAPHIC!)

Ever feel like the chaos of heading overseas makes you preverbal? We get it. Here, an infographic to pray for your journey–and words when there are none.

Hungry for more? Consider other 2019 hits:

Open Letter to the Spouse Who Doesn’t Feel as “Called”

My Story: “I don’t know anything about refugees”

“I Should Have the Gift of Evangelism” and 5 Other Missions Myths Debunked

Go. Serve. Love

After seven years on staff with Cru, Janel and her husband packed up their family of six to--yup, Go. Serve. Love in Uganda with Engineering Ministries International (EMI). EMI focuses on poverty relief and development, providing structural design and construction management for Christian organizations in the developing world. After 5.5 years there in East Africa, Janel and her family recently schlepped back to the U.S., where they keep working on behalf of the poor. She writes and loves on her family from Colorado. You can find more of her ideas for practical spirituality and loving each other at AGenerousGrace.com.