Tag - hospitality

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Why Hospitality is Worth the Loss
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A Tiny Apartment That Restores Hearts [VIDEO]
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Ministry and Hospitality: One and the Same? [November Prayer Focus]

Why Hospitality is Worth the Loss

Kingdom of Hospitality
Opening your home can scary and exhausting, but one missionary shares how it became her favorite part of the week!

Once, during a church barbecue at our house, my husband found me in an upstairs bedroom, hiding from our guests. Moments before, in an effort to find a topic that I might have in common with my fellow church goers, I had blurted out something really strange that just didn’t come out right. I attempted to graciously excuse myself and hightailed it out of there. I think of this story fairly often because, honestly, one of my biggest weaknesses is not enjoying small talk and, more specifically, despising moments like this. It happened probably five years ago, and yet I…

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A Tiny Apartment That Restores Hearts [VIDEO]

Missionary member care apartment
A true picture of hospitality: watch how TEAM missionaries use their resources in Paris to provide member care for other missionaries.

The Robelots work as regional member care coordinators for TEAM in Europe and Chad. The couple became missionaries in 1987 and have since developed a heart to help their fellow missionaries through difficult seasons. The Robelots prayerfully decided to purchase the studio apartment located above their house, which has become known as The Upper Room. Now missionaries come there for rest, renewal, recreation and restoration. Video Transcript: Missy says, “When we moved into this house, we noticed that there was an apartment. We began praying that maybe this would become an apartment that would serve to just allow missionaries to come…

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Ministry and Hospitality: One and the Same? [November Prayer Focus]

hospitality ministry
Setting tables, pouring coffee, hosting retreats... Around the world, missionaries share the Gospel through simple acts of hospitality. Photo by TEAM

Everyone needs food and rest — which may be why nothing has as much potential to bring strangers together as fellowship and sharing meals. This gives missionaries around the world huge opportunities to share Christ’s love through hospitality, whether it’s providing a safe place of retreat for fellow missionaries who are feeling burned out or running a cafe in the heart of Tokyo that attracts people from all walks of life. This November, will you pray with us for hospitality ministries around the world? Click here to get a printable version of these requests, and sign up here to get…

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