Short-Term Mission Prospects Complete Orientation

The event is designed to provide a spiritual retreat experience as well as help prepare short-term missionaries for one to two years of cross-cultural ministry. Resource persons from the Covenant who shared with participants included John Weborg, Bill Orris, Debbie Blue and Roland Boyce. Other career missionaries and short-term alumni also participated.

All of the short-term missionaries will leave for their assigned areas of service during the next one to two months. The accompanying photo taken during the event includes (left to right): front row - Paul and Betsy Norby, Minnesota, going to Yaounde, Cameroun, Africa; Karna Sjoberg, Minnesota, going to Yaounde; Jill Halupa, Oregon, to Prague; Mary Samuelson, Kansas, to Yaounde; Laurie Bakken, Chicago, to Yaounde; back row - Barbara Johnson, short-term coordinator; Keith Bakken, Chicago, to Yaounde; Brandon Smith, Michigan, to Central African Republic for two months; Rebecca Moore, Massachusetts, to Reynosa, Mexico; Erika Beckstrom, New York, to Africa and Mexico; and Lana Heinrich, assistant short-term coordinator.

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