An Overview of Everything

If you’re reading this, you deserve a long-overdue update about our lives, passions, work, and what we’re doing now. Whether you supported one of us on the World Race in the past, or we’ve recently met, we’re excited that you’re here, and hoping that you feel interested in hearing about and supporting our work at Adventures in Missions. This site is the headquarters for everything we do and will do, in terms of our work, our support, and our ministry!

 

UPDATE: Sheri and I have been back in the US since September 2015, having spent the first two years of our marriage overseas. After leaving the States on one-way tickets, we eventually found work in Mongolia, where I (Danny) worked as a country representative for an industrial supply company, Sheri cut hair, and we eventually both taught English.

Our time in Mongolia was amazing in terms of the close friends the Lord put in our lives, and the opportunity to teach. We were brought back to the US because of our hope to disciple young adults and pioneer ministry efforts into the 10/40 window (see below), and an opportunity to reconnect with Adventures in Missions, the organization through which we both went on the World Race.

 

OUR LIVES NOW: We moved to Gainesville, Georgia in October of 2015, and I have been on staff at Adventures In Missions since last December. The transition back to the US after a few years of living overseas wasn’t easy, and in many ways we strongly miss living in Asia. But the Lord has steadily brought a new community of friends into our lives, and slowly been revealing our purposes here. Through it all, we have had the incredible privilege of meeting and becoming friends with many of the people that come through Adventures in Missions, and encouraging others regularly in the mission of bringing the Gospel to the unreached. Our time here has all been worthwhile because of the relationships we’ve made.

 

OUR WORK AND MINISTRY FOCUS: The 10/40 window is the region of the world, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, that is the LEAST REACHED with the Gospel. Despite the nearly 4 billion people (Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and atheists) in this region that have no access to the Gospel, this area contains only the tiniest fraction of all Christian ministry and church planting efforts. If you were to line up every professing Christian on the planet and start choosing people at random, you would have a better chance of picking somebody who would be killed in an airplane crash, than finding a Christian who was working among unreached people groups in this area.

This is the heartbeat of our lives, jobs, and ministry:

•      to mobilize people, money, and efforts INTO this region
•      to stir up awareness and urgency among committed followers of Christ
•      to create disciples that are passionate, knowledgable, equipped, and dedicated to finishing the mission
•      to create opportunity for ministry and work for people in the 10/40 window (both long term and short term)
•      to bring about glory to God from EVERY tribe and tongue

Our work and involvement with Adventures in Missions allows us the opportunity to pursue these passions – to focus ministry efforts into the 10/40 region. We have worked to design the Expedition Routes, to mobilize people onto the field, to create apprenticeship opportunities for alumni Racers to get re-involved with AIM in the 10/40 window, and to help provide training on the region to groups going out. To get a better idea of just some of the opportunities we have been a part of at AIM to mobilize people into this region, look at the World Race Expedition page here. Part of my job has been working closely alongside Expedition since the beginning, designing the route, creating process, and helping run logistics on getting teams of people through this region.

 

SOUTH AMERICA: Most of my day to day job involves logistical problem solving. And we wanted to share an example of what that can look like. A lot of our work with Expedition has involved expanding the ministry focus of Adventures in Missions into countries that they don’t work. Many of these countries are remote, spiritually unreached, or more demanding. We realized very quickly however, that it’s very difficult sending teams of 30+ people into areas that we’ve never been to before. I’ve been integral to the creation of a new program for World Race alumni, called Kingdom Journeys Pioneers, to help solve this problem. Kingdom Journeys Pioneers is essentially a reconnaissance operation. We send small teams of alumni to the regions we’ve never been to before, in front of Expedition squad, to gather on-the-ground information and help prepare the way for future teams. The information they gather is both logistical and relational. It can involve up-to-date information on border crossings, or new hosts or contacts. We’ve sent pioneering teams to Central Asia, Tibet and Nepal, and South America, and are planning to send future teams to the Middle East and West/North Africa.

The team that we sent to South America had a string of unfortunate problems that left us with only one participant remaining, Josh, stranded in French Guiana. We had only two options – pull him out immediately and forego getting any much needed additional information on the Amazon region of Brazil, or send someone down to help him finish pioneering the route, gathering information on what it would like to send a full squad across the border into Brazil and down the Amazon river to Manaus. Fortunately, I was that person. I spent 10 days in Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil, joining up with Josh and finishing the route as quickly as we could, gathering logistical information for the squad that will soon follow. This involved a 9 hour 4 x 4 truck ride through the jungle, and a 5 day boat ride down the Amazon river. The experience was incredible, and we were able to salvage the trip and get the necessary information we needed. 

FINANCIAL GOALS: We are required to raise a portion of our salary. As such, we are pursuing partners who believe in our ministry and our passion, and who are willing to give donations towards AIM and the work that we do. We have an annual support goal at this point and time that is a percentage of my salary. We are hoping for the bulk of our donations to be from close family and friends who feel strongly about investing in us and joining our team, whether it be at $50 or $500. Our current goal is to raise $1800 by September 30th.

You can donate by using the ‘Donate!’ link found in the menu to the left. All donations go to support both of us. 

 

FUTURE UPDATES: We will also be sending more detailed updates in the future, especially as our work, focus, and financial goals change.. If you feel led to be a part of our team, please feel free to contact us, and we will make sure to keep you up to date. We would love to share more of our vision with you, and what the Lord is doing in our lives.

Much love!

Danny and Sheri