... to initially meet the community and explore what they could do to continue a long-term relationship with this community. This fact-finding trip ... the North American churches too because they are encouraged to make long-term relationships with one community and learn to ... the community means for the building of their on-going relationship. It's a great model to follow for doing short-term missions ...

... a serious problem to the space program and space travel. Researchers say human missions to Mars, as well as all other long-term space flights might be compromised by microbial hitchhikers, such as bacteria. According to a report in The Journal of Leukocyte Biology, long-term space travel appears to weaken astronaut’s immune systems; and it ...

... s worth something, isn’t it? So we’ve been going through a visioning process for our missions program, and this is where I am in my thinking — largely based on ... pass on those either. We should bias our budgets heavily toward long-term missions — even if it makes the teen minister ... teen minister happy) is to coordinate long-term and short-term missions. The goal of a short- ...

... don't read my blog anyway, and if they did, they wouldn't get it. Today I am compelled to write after this long hiatus if only for sign of life. Befitting, I think, since last week I went through a bit ... knew nothing about either. Hmmm, staying power indeed. I was talking about the Apollo missions with others of a younger generation, again blank stares. Just shook my head. One saving ...

... high school graduates but not requiring them to register for classes for one year. They use the term "GAP year" to describe this period where students ... going to the hard places internationally, nationally or even locally. Parents will never see missions the same after they get the e-mail that says, "Daddy, I held a baby while she died last night. I cried a long time because this is ...

... -powered Project Icarus, designed to handle the interstellar long-haul, to the first tentative solar sail experiments in near ... solar sail in the form of a project called LightSail, which will include several missions designed to demonstrate the potential of photons for propulsion. Make ... aluminized 0.5-micron mylar for the short term, but it is degraded by ultraviolet radiation. Areal density (mass ...