No Small Mission TAKING a ROAD TRIP with a Spiritual Focus, an Oklahoma Group Exemplifies a Growing Trend of Christian Parents Introducing Children to Mission Work
Our mission: To inform, An international inspire and unite newspaper Vol. 71, No. 8 | August 2014 for Churches of Christ No small mission TAKING A ROAD TRIP with a spiritual focus, an Oklahoma group exemplifies a growing trend of Christian parents introducing children to mission work. BY BOBBY ROSS JR. | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE LOGAN, Utah sked what excited her about going on a mission trip to Utah, 5-year- old Lainey Foster smiled. “I might go swimming today or every day that I’m here,” the blond-haired cutie replied. “So that’s really good.” But as Lainey grows up, her parents pray she’ll recall more than taking nightly dips in a hotel pool, roasting s’mores at a campfire devotional or even running into rattlesnakes on a hiking excursion. DEIDRA DACUS For Josh and Jen Foster and their four Dax Curtis, Brady Owens, Bryce Foster, Logan young children, this summer’s 1,200-mile Breninger, Carter Owens, Ty Foster, Haley journey was no ordinary road trip. Dacus and Lainey Foster arrive in Utah. Rather than enjoy a traditional vacation, the Fosters and other families from the tunities to expose their children to mission Edmond Church of Christ in Oklahoma work, said Steven Bonner, who directs decided to go on a mission trip. the youth and family ministry program at Their destination: the Logan Church of Lubbock Christian University in Texas. Christ, a small-but-growing congregation “Family mission trips have seen a in this predominantly Mormon commu- marked increase in the last several years,” nity 85 miles north of Salt Lake City.
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