Bryan Bishop begins this talk by asking if most people would say that they love or hate writing? His answer, both!
Watch his one hour talk on the importance of writing in missions to find out why his answer was both, and to gain a greater understanding of why communication in mission is so important:
So, do you love or hate writing?
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In this, the first episode of The Accidental Missionary Podcast, I share about what I hope to achieve with this new podcast. I also talk a bit about how I got to where I am now serving as a full time volunteer missionary with the YWAM International Communications Team.
With this podcast my desire is to encourage others to find and pursue the plan that God has for their life. Whether it is on the missions field or somewhere else I know that God has a plan for everyone who listens to this podcast. Hopefully through this podcast people will be encouraged to find God’s plan for their and to pursue it…
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Why I Don’t Want to Work a 4-Hour Work WeekTitle music for this week’s episode is the opening credits for one of the best science fiction televisions shows ever created, Firefly.
Timothy Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek was on the best seller list for years. The premise of the book is to “Escape the 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich“.
That has a certain appeal, but not for me…
I recently listened to a book by Laura Vauderkam called 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think. The idea behind this book is to “show that it really is possible to sleep eight hours a night, exercise five days a week, take piano lessons, and write a novel without giving up quality time for work, family, and other things that really matter.“.
One of the big points that Laura has already talked about is figuring out your core competencies and then find a job or position where you can operate in your core competencies. God has led me to the place in Youth With A Mission (YWAM) where I can do just that and I know that I am extremely privileged to be here.
To be in Youth With A Mission working as a full-time volunteer missionary requires the trust and support of our home church here in Calgary and many individual supporters and sponsors. Despite working full-time in YWAM I don’t get paid but rather we live off the generous donations of our supporters. As I said before, I feel extremely privilaged to be doing this, so “thank you” to all our supporters.
Thank you!!!
The BBC had an interesting report last week talking about the struggle that China is now encountering with their aging population. They are struggling with welfare for the aged population, experiencing large labour shortages and jobs are leaving China for countries where there is a larger labour pool. By 2050 it is estimated that over a third of Chinese people will be over 60.
Below are some audio clips from the BBC report about the problem, and how China appears to be relaxing its’ one-child policy:
[audio:http://dropbox.curry.com/ShowNotesArchive/2012/05/NA-411-2012-05-24/Assets/JCD%20Clips/untold%20story%20about%20china.mp3]To give you an idea about that China’s one-child policy is, here is an excerpt from the wikipedia article.
The one-child policy is the one-child limitation in the population control policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese government refers to it under the official translation of family planning policy. It officially restricts married, urban couples to having only one child, while allowing exemptions for several cases, including rural couples, ethnic minorities, and parents without any siblings themselves.
Here is a good visualisation of the aging population…
Image source: Wikipedia
I have previously written about how I’ve felt burnt out and “in a funk” about my podcasting endevours over at the YWAM Podcast. As part of overcoming this feeling of burnout I’m actually considering launching a personal podcast and changing the direction and focus a bit on the YWAM Podcast.
As a bit of a teaser while I work on getting this going here is what I am thinking of using as the cover art for the upcoming podcast …
