Why Should You Let Your Man Go?

Mission News: We have only 5 spots left for the Man Up missions trip.  Don’t miss out and sign up today! You can purchase my brand new totes with a purpose.  Each bag will help my son, Michael go to Ethiopia and Uganda in August with Man Up Trip with Visiting Orphans. Together we are raising his support and everything above and beyond will bless orphans in Ethiopia and Uganda on his trip.  Michael has helped raise $10,000 for the well project in Chucko, Ethiopia and can’t wait to visit, in person, the working well and see with his own eyes the miracles God has done for a rural village in Ethiopia.

The Man Up Trip: Why should you let your man go on a missions trip?

This is a triple adventure all wrapped up in one mission trip!!  We have prayed for an opportunity to spread our Man Up 4 Orphans mission in a powerful way and Visiting Orphans has customized an itinerary to not only love orphans, but to visit a well digging project in progress, as well as Go Big with the Dude Perfect guys and help them make basketball history in Africa!!

If you have been praying for something extraordinary for your man … this is the mission trip to send him on!  We are calling men [and women] to Man Up and awaken the body of Christ to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the 163 million orphans by visiting them, loving them, and sharing the Father’s heart.

Here’s what one husband and dad emailed me about going on a Visiting Orphans mission trip [Welch McCollough]

Kari,

I want to take a minute to say thank you for what you do for the cause of orphans and following a call God put in your heart!! My wife ran across Zoie’s gotcha day video almost a year ago. This eventually led us to your blog and ultimately me going on a trip to Uganda with Visiting Orphans last week where I got to install ‘high-speed’ internet for Pastor Isaac and the children at Canaan’s, give computers, a projector and lots of clothes and shoes to Pastor Samuel at Return Uganda, feed kids and play soccer at Katie’s, give a laptop to and just fall in love with the work Rebecca is doing at Royal Hope Academy. As I’m sure you are well aware, I can’t tell you how much it forever changed my life. As you can imagine, I can’t wait to get back to do more to help the children of Uganda.

I’ve never considered myself to be overly loving or even very patient towards children other than my own daughter. Most of the mission trips I have been on I always volunteered for the ‘construction projects’ where I was most comfortable, versus really spending time with or loving on kids. That was all before God broke my heart for the fatherless. I’ll have to admit, my first reaction to God’s calling was…. no way, loving on kids is what women/mom’s do. I thought children won’t be as receptive to men as they are women. There is nothing like a mother’s love and care, but then God spoke to me and said, “did I specify women when I wrote James 1:27?” OK God, I gotcha…I’m in…I don’t know how or what I really have to offer, and I will probably be the only man on this trip that is not there with his spouse to ‘help me through this process’, but I’m gonna go, I’m not only gonna do it afraid, I’m gonna do it terrified. When I arrived in Uganda, God used some precious children to show me that I may not be their earthly father, but I can be an example of their heavenly father, who loves them unconditionally, and knows each of them them by name. I also realized these kids are typically taken care of by aunties, which is great, but they desperately need more Godly men in their lives who unashamedly will be the hands and feet of Christ.

Only God knows why He led me to your site, and His ultimate calling on my life to have a heart for orphans. As I reflect on the process of how God led me to Uganda, I’m overwhelmed with His faithfulness to His children when we are obedient to His call and surrender to His will. This entire journey has perfectly demonstrated how God can and will use all of us, women and men.

Apply today for the experience of a lifetime!!

42 million  (reasons to go)

There are over 42 million orphans in the continent of Africa, one-third of them are due to AIDS.  Visiting Orphans sends out mission teams all year long to Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda. We offer trips which are twelve to fourteen days long and our trips range from visiting orphans in one country in Africa, to customized trips which incorporate missions in two different countries like Uganda and Ethiopia.

The hearts of our staff at Visiting Orphans are particularly broken for the orphans in Africa.  Through amazing partnerships with ministries and orphanages in Africa our teams are significantly impacted on these trips and the lives they reach while ministering in Africa are forever changed as well.

Dates: July 31 – August 14, 2011

Location: Ethiopia & Uganda

Details: This is a one of a kind mission trip with a triple killer itinerary to Love and Protect the Fatherless.  If you want to Man Up (women included) with Visiting Orphans and make a difference … this is your trip!!  Man Up 4 Orphans leader: Roger Gibson, Dig Deep leader: Rob Neal, and Dude Perfect leader: Cory Cotton will lead this team on an extraordinary adventure to Africa. We will visit the Dig Deep Well Project in Chuko Weyama, Ethiopia and minister to the precious community receiving a Water and Sanitation system through A Glimmer of Hope.  The team will Man Up and minister to orphans in Ethiopia and Uganda.

“Some people think small. Some people live small. And while that may work for others, that’s not exactly our style. We are Dude Perfect-6 insanely competitive college guys – and we Go Big. Since our beginning only a year and a half ago, we have been on a crazy ride. And to say the least, we feel very blessed.” Dude Perfect has a crazy compassion for loving orphans and hopes you’ll join us in dreaming big, going big and making a big impact on this world.

Your Leaders:

• Roger Gibson- Man Up 4 Orphans website – www.mycrazyadoption.com
• Rob Neal- Dig Deep website – http://www.ourglimmerofhope.org/campaign/dig-deep
• Cory Cotton and the guys- Dude Perfect website – www.dudeperfect.com

Cost: $3400  (cost varies dependent on flight costs)

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