Missions Fest 2013 Experience

1/30/13

Missions Fest 2013 was a great experience. I initially learned a ton more about missions and discovered new missionary organizations that I had never heard about before. Going into this weekend I had no idea what to expect, I had never been to a missions fest and or even ever heard of it. Overall, the weekend was fantastic and these were some of my highlights.

                First off all, the day we arrived in Vancouver, we were able to explore a little around Granville Island. Never being in Vancouver before it was cool to have a little bit of a look into the culture of the city, it was so different from what I was used to seeing as I grew up in Minneapolis area. It made me pretty excited for my missions trip in downtown Vancouver that is coming up in a few weeks. Another part that was interesting to see was driving through East Hastings at night. This is where we will be doing a lot of our missions work and it was cool to see a glimpse of the culture before we go back there to work.

                Next, I loved seeing the booths and the seminars. One of my Favorite seminars of this weekend was a seminar on the Gideon Organization. I had heard about this organization but I had not known much about it. They speaker of this seminar also talked about sharing your faith in general. One of the things he said that stood out to me the most was that you don’t have to have a shocking/ life changing moment testimony for your testimony to be powerful. The fact that God has sustained you trough out your life and kept you from awful situations is powerful in itself. That was super encouraging to hear.

                I also visited a few booths and one that was super interesting was a booth called Ducan Africa. This organization trained people in Africa to make homemade guitars and to sell them for profit. I had never heard of an organization like this. It was so interesting. Overall, the weekend was amazing; I loved every minute of it.