Nebraska Christian College

Posted on December 31, 2016.
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Last month, I had the opportunity to take a group of Nebraska Christian College students on a weekend field trip to a Lakota reservation in South Dakota. On prairies once teeming with vast herds of buffalo, many Native Americans today live a life of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness. Ministry in this place can be a lonely life, a life that requires patience, empathy, and vision. but those who invest their lives in serving these long-suffering people -- in playing with the children, going on hunts with the men, joining hands in a community circle of prayer -- would not choose to be anywhere else in the world.

Nebraska Christian College trains cross-cultural workers for the farthest reaches of the world, but also for the many overlooked people right here in our own backyard. This year, our faculty and students will serve in China and Latin America as well as in Colorado Springs, Las Vegas, and Cheyenne. We also serve in an abundant cross-cultural mission field right here in Omaha through service projects with the poor, evangelistic relationships with Muslims, and contributing to solutions to sex trafficking.

Our students don't just learn about ministry -- they learn by doing ministry. When you support Nebraska Christian College, you are helping to train Christian leaders who take the Great Commission seriously -- leaders prepared to minister to the whole person: mind, body, and spirit -- and leaders in the solid foundation in the Word of God and deep familiarity with the best practices being used in the global church today.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support. Perhaps your efforts are modest in your own eyes, but when we all work and pray in harmony, we feel the results like a mighty growing rumble across the plains -- the sound not of long-gone bison, but the mighty power of the Holy Spirit of God.

~ Dr. Andrew Wood, Associate Professor of Intercultural Ministries