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Family Missions: The Tuckers' adventures in Thailand
Chris and Lindsay Tucker share how taking their 8 and 10-year-old children on a mission trip to Thailand with World Missions Alliance changed and challenged them as a family.
• Preparing their children through family prayer for Thailand and Southeast Asia
• Addressing fears about children's safety, comfort and behavior in an unfamiliar culture
• Children have the "same Holy Spirit" as adults, not a "junior Holy Spirit"
• Witnessing their 8-year-old daughter lead a man to Christ during a medical clinic
• Seeing their son recognize spiritual darkness and refuse to enter a Buddhist temple
• Balancing children's needs for breaks while keeping them engaged in meaningful service
• Continuing mission-minded living at home, with their son praying for injured teammates
• Learning that faith without action feels empty, especially when discipling children
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Welcome to Limitless Spirit, a weekly podcast with host Helen Todd, where she interviews guests about pursuing spiritual growth, discovering life's purpose through serving others and developing a deeper faith in Christ.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Limitless Spirit. I'm your host, helen Todd, and today we're diving into a topic that is both exciting and challenging, and that is taking your family on a mission trip. If you are a parent, you have probably wrestled with questions like how do I get my kids engaged in their faith beyond Sunday morning, or what experiences can I offer my children that will strengthen our family bond and deepen our faith at the same time? If you have ever considered bringing your children or grandchildren on a mission trip, you may ask yourself is a mission trip too risky for my family? Or even will my children really understand the impact of serving in another culture? Today, I have the perfect guests to help us answer these questions.
Speaker 2:Chris and Lindsay Tucker recently returned from a mission trip with World Missions Alliance to Thailand with their two young children ages 8 and 10. They stepped out in faith and they faced the unknown and discovered how God can work through an entire family, children included. In this episode, they will share the fears they had and the challenges they faced, and the incredible moments when they saw their children's faith come alive in ways they never expected. Whether you consider it a mission trip or simply want to disciple your children in a more meaningful way. I believe this conversation will be very helpful. Let's dive in. Hello, chris and Lindsay. Welcome to Limitless Spirit. How are you today, guys? Hey, we're doing great, yes doing.
Speaker 3:great Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2:Well, kids are at grandma's. Are you up to some fun today, or it's just for the podcast?
Speaker 4:Just to take a little quiet moment to be able to chat with you.
Speaker 2:That's awesome, although I must say I'm a big fan of your kids and I just think they're awesome. And really, this brings us to our interview. You know, when you guys connected with World Missions Alliance and you mentioned that you wanted to bring your children on a mission trip to Thailand, we were quite open to this idea because we really welcome families and cherish the desire of parents to include their kids in missions work. But when I heard the ages of your kids, I was like wow, they are young eight and 10. That's young. So I'm extremely excited that this did not come in the way of you bringing them and, honestly, it was a pleasure and honor to meet your kids. And so let's start from the beginning. Can you share a bit about what led you to take this mission trip to Thailand as a family, and was this something you had always dreamed of, or did this opportunity come up unexpectedly?
Speaker 3:I'll let Lindsay take most of this. She's quite the narrator. But I will say that our entire marriage, you know, we've known that missions is so much more than going. There's going, sending, giving, praying. And we knew that for the duration of our marriage and on into our family life as we had kids, that this would be something that would be a rhythm for our family, and we weren't sure what that would look like, but we knew that we just had to be open-handed, open-minded to whatever the Lord wanted to do through our marriage or through our kids, and so we prayed for these opportunities for a long time.
Speaker 4:So Chris has done missions. I had done missions independently before we were married and then we had always gone to this missions conference like every year. Probably four years ago there was a missions conference that had a theme called Esther. For such a time as this, and this conference just talks about like missionaries come back, they share what God's doing in the nations. It's so engaging and encouraging and you get really fired up and want to go and want to be a part of it. And so this one year they were calling people to go, saying, like man, the Lord's moving. This is the time, and as we were in a worship session, I felt like the Lord was speaking to me saying I'm calling you to be a Mordecai, to fast and pray for the Esthers that are being called in this moment. And so Chris and I started talking about that and we both felt this desire to really start praying for the nations and praying for these people going. So we came home from the conference and we turned our little upstairs area into this prayer room and just said you know, our kids are part of this family, so they're going to start praying too, and so we would have these family prayer nights and pray for the nations and that kind of started this journey with specifically Thailand and some of the people groups in Thailand.
Speaker 4:We started praying for that region. There were just a lot of people at that time at that conference that were going to Southeast Asia, and so that just was a place where we were praying a lot for and probably four years of praying and just lifting up those people, and I honestly feel like that. Everything just came together with World Mission Alliance. Like we had always said, lord, if we would ever get to go, we'd love to, but it was never a. We are just going to make it happen.
Speaker 4:And I mean, you know this, helen, y'all normally go to Thailand and Laos on that trip. And we didn't know we had had it on our radar, but we didn't know kids couldn't even go into Laos. So we just have always thought, well, maybe if the right time ever came we would get to go. But then really you could see the Lord was moving for us to go. You guys, in God's sovereignty, were only going into Thailand. That time we were able to come and that was how our kids got to be a part of it too. So we said yes when the Lord opened the door, and we're so blessed by it.
Speaker 2:So my next question actually, I would like each one of you to answer, because I suspect that maybe each one of you would have a maybe slightly different answer to this, but many parents struggle with the idea of bringing their children into mission work, especially hands-on, by, you know, going to faraway nations. So what were your biggest concerns before saying yes to this trip? And I can imagine that a mom and a dad maybe have different concerns in mind, so that's why I'm curious to hear from both of you on this.
Speaker 3:I don't know if fear is not the right word. Concern is a great word, because there are things that come to mind, you know, just in our humanity concerns of safety, concerns of, well, how is my one child, who hardly eats much at all, how are they going to adjust and adapt? And you know it's going to be a big opportunity for growth, you know, and he wasn't going to be as adventurous as we thought he was, as you know, as far as food goes, but he did really well. So those might've been the concerns. As the dad, as you kind of mentioned, we have kind of different concerns, different perspectives. I'm very protective by nature and that's how God's wired me, and so I don't feel like I had any concerns for safety per se, because the Lord's entrusted them to me and to us and I know that in those concerns he always meets us with His promises and provision, and so those concerns were just kind of washed away pretty early on for me.
Speaker 4:I think for me, mine is much more. You know they're little kids and you're going on this mission trip with a lot of people. I don't want them to be an inconvenience, and that is so interesting that that was one of the fears that came up for me, because I got to see almost the exact opposite on the trip, of the blessing that they became, not only to our teammates, but just the magnet that children are in the nations, that people want to talk to the children or hear from the children, and so one of my biggest worries was really like oh, these people, they're trying to go on this mission trip and have these moments with the Lord and be used by God. And what if my kids are in there and they're being crazy? And how do I get both of them under control in a foreign country?
Speaker 4:And you know it, just their schoolwork, like they missed some school for it, and just being on an airplane being, you know, uncomfortable. We have so much comfort, we create so much comfort for our children in America. So, like the thought of everything I'm asking them to do for the next 10 days was going to be, it was just going to be hard parenting moment after hard parenting moment, asking my little kids to rise up to occasions that would be difficult for them, and then adding in spiritual warfare on top of that, of going oh man, I better get a whole team of people praying and, yeah, just hoping and trusting that God, if he's asking us to do something and calling us into it with our children, every one of our concerns, like he's gone before us. He knows and it's for our good and it's for His glory, so we can say yes to Him and have confidence, despite our kind of hesitations and worries. And this is very interesting.
Speaker 2:I think each one of you answered very much according to your personalities, just from remembering you on the trip. So that is very, very cool. But we're going to dive now into your experience as a family on a mission trip. So what was it like stepping off the plane in Thailand with an eight and 10 year old, and how did they react to such a different environment?
Speaker 3:I think with any of us you know, an unfamiliar culture or environment is. It takes a while to let that sink in, you know, and really taking in all your surroundings, an airport is an airport is an airport, right. But as soon as you kind of recognize that hardly anyone here looks like me, talks like me, you know, it's just the shock of it all. I think the kids honestly were just so tired, like it wasn't you know, it wasn't connecting with them that they were somewhere new and somewhere different.
Speaker 3:Because they had just been so far and been through, they were very quick to recognize like just the hospitality that that we were met with.
Speaker 4:So I think that helped put them at ease from the get-go yeah, I am, I know, for for me there was absolutely excitement and expectation. I mean, you have to remember, our kids have also been praying for this region for a long time and so they had expectation and excitement for what God was going to do, and that had always framed a lot of what we were kind of walking into is we can't wait to see what the Lord will do in us and through us, what we're getting to see. The other thing that I thought was pretty funny I had told my kids it was going to be really hard. I tried to really make them feel like they may not shower, they are going to go to the bathroom in a hole in the ground, it's going to be roughing it. And so every place we went, the kids were like, mom, you said it was going to be really hard and I'm like, well, praise God, it's not as hard as we thought.
Speaker 4:So it was just it was. It was overwhelming for them to kind of rectify what? Where are we? What are we doing? How is the Lord doing this? We're being used. I know that was. The other thing that was really significant was the first day we were there. We sat down with them at breakfast we had our little family devotion time and we just told them you have the same Holy Spirit we do. You do not have a junior Holy Spirit. You have the same Holy Spirit as us and God, he wants to use you. And so it just gave just such an energy and excitement for them to see with the eyes of the Lord every place they went To be fair, I think they did experience hardships, just not in the way that they expected.
Speaker 2:I just think that, from their perspective, the hardship was in doing those long, endless days that weren't really conducive to the energy of the eight and ten-year-olds, and being surrounded by countless adults that they didn't know in the clinics. I just admired them so much persevering through this and being engaged. That was very, very impressive, and I think that whole idea of preparation how you included them into the prayer and preparation for this trip attributed tremendously to that. So were there any moments when you saw your children experience faith in a way they have never had before, and is there one, maybe particular moment or couple of them that stand out to you?
Speaker 3:In general, just the way that the kids were able to recognize their surroundings, not only because we would point it out to them, but, like Lindsay had mentioned, they have that same Holy Spirit that opens their eyes and gives them wisdom and discernment and all the gifts they had access to, just like we do.
Speaker 3:And seeing the darkness, being able to see in the dark places. One particular moment is when we approached the White Temple and that that kind of was a there was kind of a crescendo of experiences before that, where we're just surrounded by so many things that are not of the Lord and I remember distinctly Hudson said I am not going in there and and man, my heart was just full because I knew that he could recognize the darkness and he was equipped to face the darkness, and that gives me hope for his future. You know, it was high in concentration, the opportunities were high in concentration there, just the sensitivity that he's grown in in his surroundings in things that are not of or from the Lord, and knowing that he is going to be okay to handle those moments.
Speaker 2:Yes, that was a remarkable sign of spiritual maturity that many adults, quite frankly, don't have. So that's probably just a gift of spiritual discernment in him that probably will blossom into something, a calling or a ministry that God has on his life.
Speaker 4:I would say for my daughter, lily. So one of the prayers that she prayed even before our trip, for herself and for her brother, was that they would have courage. They were asking God to give them courage to speak truth and to share, and I got to see the Lord give them opportunities a couple of different times that did put them in places where they got to step out and speak truth and then watch her faith grow as she recognized God's answering that prayer. So both of our kids got to share their testimonies, and in front of a lot of grownups, which could be very scary. And so I remember, before we were asking them, do you want to do this? And Lily was like I think God will give us courage too. And so they. Sure enough, you know, the Lord filled them with courage to speak and they did.
Speaker 4:There was another moment where, as a medical provider, I normally am just doing medicine, but the prayer and receiving line actually was so full of people wanting to talk about Jesus that it backed up and they turned my table into a prayer receiving table, which was so special for me, and Lily was right there with me. So we got to then begin talking to people about Jesus and there was one man that believed in everything. He just said I'll believe in Jesus, but I believe in everything. And Lily, with her little voice, said well, jesus said he's the only way, and it got translated to him this is a grown man that my daughter's sharing truth with. And then, just through a series of conversations with him, lily got to be the one to lead him in the prayer of salvation and that just was incredible. And then, after that, you know it just this confidence came over her of like believing that God can use her, that God can speak, that God does answer prayers for courage. I mean, there was just so much swelling of her faith after those moments.
Speaker 2:For sure, I had the privilege of witnessing this moment. It was literally a highlight for me of the trip and I was just blown away how God uses anyone who is willing. But then there's that element of obedience too. And again, lily is the younger one, she's the one who is eight, and so that was just remarkable. But the other side of this I want to ask and we didn't get to talk about that but did you ever second guess your decision during the trip, wondering if you made the right choice? Or you know any problems?
Speaker 4:Yes, I did. Did you? Do you think you did much? I mean you weren't as sure as, or you didn't really feel like you did.
Speaker 3:I think it's still one of those things that I've I really had to think back through our entire, the entirety of our experience. But even today, lindsay was kind of had reminded me of some things that are like oh, that, yeah, absolutely that's. We had those moments. One in particular was the night that our van got sideswiped by the ambulance right outside Hudson's, where he was sitting, you know, and it was in the moment it was just like, oh wow, what happened? Because we were okay, obviously, but still it's a what have we done? We voluntarily put our, put our child in this position, which we know it could have happened anywhere, but there was still that moment of oh my gosh, like if this is a sign of things to come, then what were we thinking? But again, like I said before, god is going to meet us in those moments with his promises and provisions.
Speaker 3:And he was. He had his hand on us, so yeah, it was another moment. I think Lindsay had mentioned too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was that it was the first night we were there when, when our van got hit by that other van and right up in Hudson's car, your van was not lucky, right, you know the whole like side mirror fell off.
Speaker 4:Hudson was literally on the other side of that side mirror, on the inside of the car. And I do, like Chris was saying it was that moment of like oh, we are in a foreign country and if something happened like I can't just call 911. I can't go see, I can't go to Cook Children's Hospital, where I know my kids will be, you know, well cared for. It was just a very real moment of like. There's some vulnerability and I remember that night I got, I sent out a message to a lot of people at home praying and I just said would you please cover our family in prayer? Like this happened and I I feel a little bit of fear and I need to surrender that and I need your help to pray for me. And it was so helpful to have people at home that were continuing to pray for safety. For you know, for my own heart, I think the other moment where I felt a little bit like am I, am I doing the right thing with these little kids?
Speaker 4:There was one clinic day where all the people were just all over my children and there's like a normal amount of like, oh I'm, I want to take a picture with your child. Or I want to, you know, shake your child's hand, and then there's the child. Or I want to, you know, shake your child's hand, and then there's the like I want to grab your kid, I'm going to put my hands all over your kid and hold them. And you know, I could just see my children, like look uncomfortable. Their faces looked uncomfortable and, as a mother, you know, I'm like am I? Am I putting them in a position? That isn't right? You know, is that not good? And I mean I did, I pulled them aside, I asked them if they were okay. I mean, they were like they're touching us a lot and we don't really like it.
Speaker 4:And I and so we came up with a plan of like, okay, you know what you can say, please. You know you can extend your hand and offer your hand for them to shake, or you can do these certain things or come stand by me, you know. So we did certain things to help them feel comfortable. And you know, but at the same time, like we aren't called to comfort, you know, like and that was the thing that I feel like kept coming up with my kids is like there will be. Yes, you are, you are safe here.
Speaker 4:But we aren't just called to comfort and ease all the time. That's not what God has called us to. And we lay our lives down for the gospel, you know, and we lay our lives down for him because he did for us. And so the privilege of that and just helping our kids shift their thoughts of like, oh, the world has always revolved around me as a child, and now it's revolving around me in a way that I don't like, you know. So it just was good. It was good for them, it was good for me me for them to just be in a place that they had to rise above some things.
Speaker 2:So many parents want to disciple their children, but they struggle making faith come alive outside of Sunday services. So how do you feel this mission trip impacted the way your family talks about faith at home?
Speaker 3:I think that you know faith without action, right is dead. So if we're talking about all these things but we're not putting any steps to it, what good is that? What good is that? So I think for them to walk out in such an extreme way things that they hear about, talk about, learn about was really impactful and really going to be memorable for them, because they will always feel like not to say this is our first and only and last mission trip with them or that they'll ever take. But they'll be able to draw from these early days knowing about God's presence, knowing about the ways that he moves despite circumstances, that he's so much bigger than circumstances, weather, amenities, food, like any kind of resistance or adversity, like he's bigger than that and he's for them.
Speaker 3:They will be able to cling to truths that he provided for them and, in their own special way, that they needed in those moments, and so I feel like, from that standpoint, they could go literally anywhere right now and know that he's good and know that they will have words to say yeah, I think that's what I've taken from that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, even seeing them just practically walk out. You know, they saw God move in powerful ways in the nations and now they are coming back to America going. That's the same God that I saw do these miraculous things. That wants to save, that wants to heal, that wants to engage with his people. And so even last weekend at Hudson's baseball game he plays on a baseball team they're not all believers and there was a boy that hurt his arm and Hudson asked if he could pray for him in the dugout and then put hands on this boy and prayed over him and then he felt better. And whether it was just he just felt better or the Lord healed him.
Speaker 4:Hudson was actively continuing to walk out the things that he was doing in the nations because he knows he has a God that heals and hears him and he can talk to any time and there's nothing better to bring than the Lord into situations where people have need. And so what is so cool about the active, you know, discipleship of your children is what they see overseas. Whenever you're seeing it up close, it's almost like an intensive. And then you're coming back here going and we still live that way, you know. So that's been really sweet to see is that it doesn't end it just. You just continue to do it here, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love it. So, for parents who may fear that their children are too young to understand the weight of missions, or even just to experience, what would be your advice to them?
Speaker 4:I think I can understand that a little bit. I remember when we were talking about when should we take our kids, it always was like down the road, right, like when they're older, when they're more mature in their faith, when they've really made these solid commitments to God and they're just able to walk someone through the Roman road and all this stuff that you think your kids have to be at this part before they're going to be used, which is such a lie from the enemy. But I can understand that because I had that same mentality too. But, man, it was so instrumental, even in their walks now, to know and understand who God is, the heart of God, the love of God, the assurances of God. The heart of God, the love of God, the assurances of God, the comfort of God, like he was with them and in everything on those trips, on that trip, and so that was really powerful.
Speaker 4:I'd also just say, man, we just aren't promised tomorrow. You know, a big thing that that probably pulled us into going to the nations a little sooner was I had a very. My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and then I had a big scare right after that and by God's grace everything was fine. But I remember sitting with Chris and saying my one regret was I hadn't taken my kids to the nations, like if something would have happened to me, you know, like I wanted that, for our family to experience that and, as a family, to get to shepherd my children in that. And so I just would say, man, god can use them at any age and we are not promised tomorrow and he is moving in the nation. There's nothing more exciting than letting your kids be out there and see. You know what God's doing, because, man, it just changes them.
Speaker 2:I was remembering our experience with our oldest son, who didn't get to choose whether he goes or not. He had to go. He had to go with us. But he was three years old and we were in China and after a long, long service where many people got saved, he asked my husband and I what do I need to do to become a Christian? And at that moment I thought three years old, way too young, it's a serious conversation. And my husband insisted that I explain to him and he prayed the prayer. That day he accepted Christ into his heart and has never wavered for one moment.
Speaker 2:And I think if a child is interested, no matter how young they are, whether they're three years old or four years old or eight or 10, if a child is asking you questions, if a child is expressing desire, I think there should be no hesitation about that. It's another story if a child is actively resistant. Well, you know, we say a mission trip is not an experience to change your child's behavior and make them good from being bad. You know, because some parents of teenagers have that idea oh, my teenager is struggling. If only I send them on a mission trip that will fix everything. Well, it doesn't quite work that way. But if a child has that desire and curiosity, I think there is no age that is really too young. But I have to ask the question how did you balance allowing your children to be kids while also encouraging them to serve during the trip, like with the people that they met?
Speaker 3:You know, I think about the spiritual maturity that we're called to and, while our kids are growing in that, it's harder for me than for Lindsay to remember that they are still kids.
Speaker 3:And you know the expectations have to be, like you know, appropriately applied. But I think that, gosh, you know, when we think about situations that, oh, maybe they're not mature enough to handle this, or maybe I should do this instead. It's like, no, like we have to remember all the things that we've taught them about who they are, but not only that whose. They are Right. So it's like we know that God is equipping them. They have their own relationship with him, so we have to trust his presence in their life. You know the gifts that he's given them, while also, you know, trusting the spirit that lives inside of us to appropriately disciple them or to guide them in those situations where maybe they their immaturity might come out, or wait and be patient, and and let's see what God wants to do here, because kids have a lot to say and we just have to be willing to listen, because maybe that's that's the Lord speaking through a donkey moment.
Speaker 4:I think practically that was one thing I was actually a little worried about because I was one of the medical providers and then Chris was a physical therapist, so we both were very busy during clinic days. We both were very busy during clinic days. You know, my hope was that my kids would stay engaged with us. You know. So that, honestly, so I could keep an eye on them, you know like I don't want them just wandering off in these open clinics. I need eyes on my kids.
Speaker 4:So you're going to sit with me and do this medicine with me and I mean, man, they did. They did so good, I will be honest. They are eight and 10 and they were engaged. They sat there, they listened to people's problems, they, you know I had a stethoscope for Lily and she did a lot of this stuff with me, but at some point they did get a little done. You know I mean these are long days, these are not adults doing medicine.
Speaker 4:So you know, at times you would take them aside and let them have like lunch and just talk with them.
Speaker 4:And you know they would go wander around where people were waiting and hand out bracelets, and there was one day they got to play with some children outside. So I think it is about how do we usher in moments where they get to connect with people and be used by God and then also like, see when they're done, you know, see when they need a moment. We all need that. You know. There's times when I'm exhausted and need a moment, you know. So it's just trying to allow your children, like you said, to still, because I will tell you, as a mom, I feel like I had a million different things packed for them, from, like you know, bracelets to make to things to draw with, to, you know, just so that they would have these moments where they could step away if it was overwhelming and, you know, do something on their own a little bit before they could wanted to come back in and engage again, and every time they would, they would jump back in later, once they had a little bit of break and they were ready to go again.
Speaker 2:So you were very well prepared. I think that you could give other parents a ton of advice. Maybe we'll have you put together a list what to pack for your kids for a mission trip, because I was just amazed at how planned and prepared everything was for the kids. But as we're finishing our conversation, I want to ask if you could sum up in one sentence why families should consider taking a mission trip together. What would that be?
Speaker 3:I can't think of a better family vacation to invest in.
Speaker 2:And you know. From our side I want to say that for us, any time a family comes and brings kids, especially younger kids, it's a step of faith because you know, you just don't know and it's a very serious experience. You've seen our schedule and you know, in addition to a challenging schedule, it's a spiritual warfare. It goes beyond just packed family vacation. You're also engaging in a spiritual warfare and there is a certain element of risk of bringing kids into that and we have to trust the parents. I think there's a lot of responsibility on parents to evaluate and assess whether it's going to be the right experience for your kids. What do you think, lindsay? Yeah, I would completely agree with that.
Speaker 4:I think, going back of like the one sentence, I just think it grows you as a family, it grows you as a person and it grows you closer a person and it grows you closer to the Lord, which is really the ultimate opportunity. You know you're growing together, you're growing in Him and you're growing up in maturity in the Lord. I just can't imagine a better use of time, you know, yeah, but I agree with you. I think every person that's considering should we do this, I think my recommendation would be to fast and pray about it. Seek him. He'll make it clear. He'll open the door at the right time, close the doors that aren't supposed to be open to you at that time, and so you can trust him. If he's opening every door and you're hearing, yes, like he will be with you. That was one of the things he said when my first hesitation was I have your children and so that assurance that he sees you, he knows them, he loves them more than you do and you can trust him.
Speaker 2:And I think the key to the success of your family mission was what you mentioned in the very beginning you involved them in the preparation. There was a process of preparation and the children were involved in the process of preparation. I think that laid the foundation for a very good experience overall, minus the van problem. It was a fun story for Hudson to tell loved it so well.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for joining the Thailand mission trip and this interview. I think it will be encouraging and helpful to many parents that are probably considering this and we hope to see you on more missions.
Speaker 3:Yes we would love it.
Speaker 4:Thank you so much, yes, so good to see you.
Speaker 2:What a great story from Chris and Lindsay. I love how their experience in Thailand didn't just impact the people they serve, but deeply shaped their family and their children's faith. It's a great reminder that discipleship isn't just something we do at home. It's something we'll live out in real, tangible ways. If you're a parent thinking about missions, I hope this conversation encouraged you to look beyond your fears and trust that God has something greater in store, not just for you, but for your entire family. Visit our website, rfwmaorg. There are so many opportunities for you and your family to fulfill the Great Commission through short-term missions.
Speaker 2:I'd love to hear from you on today's episode. Have you ever considered taking your kids on a mission trip? What is holding you back? Connect with me on Facebook or Instagram for Limitless Spirit and let's continue the conversation. And if this episode inspired you, share it with a friend. And don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode of the Limitless Spirit. To subscribe so you never miss an episode of the Limitless Spirit. Until next time. Remember, your faith isn't meant to stay within the walls of your home. It's meant to take you beyond, into the world where God can use you in ways you never imagined. I'm Helen Todd. Until next time.
Speaker 1:Limitless Spirit Podcast is produced by World Missions Alliance. We believe that changed lives change lives. If your life was transformed by Christ, you are equipped to help others experience this transformation. Christ called his followers to make disciples across the world. World Missions Alliance gives you an opportunity to do this through short-term missions in over 32 countries across the globe. If you want to help those who are hurting and hopeless and discover your greater purpose in serving, check out our website, rfwmaorg, and find out how to get involved.