Mission

The wrestle with God

Recently during our Heas Up Bible study, we were taken through the naming of Israel and reminded of how that name came about. Before becoming Israel, Jacob was Jacob: a man whose very name carried connotations of striving, grasping, and deception. Yet despite all of that, he became the recipient of God's blessings, passed down from Abraham. When I read the story of Jacob...

Grace didn’t wait until Sunday

There’s a part of the Easter story we don’t often hear about much, for those of us who often go to church. Not what happened on the cross, not the revelation of the empty tomb…but the day in between. The day where, from the outside, nothing seemed to be happening. On the Friday, Jesus had been crucified. The disciples had scattered, and whatever hope they...

How A Mission Trip Changed Our Lives

At Our God Given Mission, we take Missions very seriously. Our mission is to help young people discover Jesus and to empower them to...

#Mission2015 – Day 4

So God blessed the seventh day and made it HOLY (Genesis 2:3). *side eye suspicious face* Could He reallllllyyyy have given us any more of an...

#Mission2015 – Day 2

“Wake up! It’s time to wake up!” Micheal diligently shouted from the corridor. And so day two began, at the not-so-early hour of 8am,...