Mission Panel (Simon Iveson)

Q&A Panel from Sunday the 21st of May. Simon hosted our Mission Panel, inviting members of our Supported Mission Areas to share their life experiences and how God has been working in their mission spaces. This panel was the fourth and last service of our Focus on May Mission Month. Panel members included; Marg Holahan, Lyn Morris, Steve Pickering, and Julie Iveson.Questions from the Panel:What has been your best and worst experience of travel?What is the benefit of used phone cards, stamps and postcards to our Baptist mission work?Is cross-cultural mission still necessary?How do you know that you are called to go do a cross-cultural mission?Does missionary work have to be for life, do short-term mission trips have a place?Is mission work only preaching the gospel, what about the countries that define it as illegal?Have you ever felt that I can't do this? And how can you keep going?There is an uncomfortable reality in the secular marketplace, how would you respond to the colonial under-tones of missionary past?How do you deal with the culture change when you arrive in your mission country, and then again when you return to Australia?Let Us Know You Are Listening