Mission House: Students are ready to go

Nearly a dozen students — all young adults–recently decided to do something with their lives that will impact eternity forever. Last September they packed up their stuff and moved into this house in Appleton. “The Mission House,” as we call it, is the place where they’ve been studying together and praying as one big family for their adventure ahead.

In a few months these students will be going in different directions all around the globe to spend several months serving and  bringing hope to a lost and hurting world.

Pastors Don and Eileen Nickols are serving as house parents and the studies have been intense! And as these students prepare to head out, the Nickols are getting ready to invite a new team of students to experience a long-term mission trip.

Young Adult Director Ben Lenz encourages people to think about what their lives could look like and pray about how they might be called to the world:

“Students will have many teachers and mentors available to them throughout the program,” Lenz says. “The communal living is one of the great dynamics of this experience, where students get to live in a big house together. Men and women are separate of course! Most meals are shared, and the students get to help decide much of how the practical living responsibilities work out.”

Mission House Application 2010 forms are available to download for the next Mission House program, which will run from mid September 2010 through June 1, 2011. Students have six months of in-house training, three months away on a trip (with other students) to a country CTR is working with.

Curriculum includes training on mid-to long-term missions work, personal growth, relational and leadership development, fundamental theology, Bible knowledge and much more!

There is a small tuition fee for the program, but the bulk of the cost will be house rent, utilities, food and mission trip costs.

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