Archives April 2021

Mission Critical International

The Greatest Adventure In The World

by Matt Bullen

 

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE IN THE WORLD IS…

 
 

OBEYING JESUS’S COMMAND TO

 
 

“GO!”

 
 

Matt. 22:9 ‘Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.’

Matt. 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

Mark 5:19 “Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.”

Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

Luke 10:3 “Go; behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.”

Luke 10:37 And he said, “The one (good Samaritan) who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

Luke 14:23 ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.’

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Wonderfully, Jesus doesn’t ask us to go alone. Rather, He says that we will be going “for” Him (John 20:21), we will be going “with” Him (Mt. 28:20), and we will be going “to” Him (Mt. 25:40)

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A primary mission of this ministry is…

to ignite a passion in people for Jesus’s mission among the nations

and provide opportunities for them to go.

 
 

Short-Term Mission Trips

 

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Each trip typically covers 1-2 weeks in length and depending on the trip and the country may have a focus specific to orphans, medical, crusades, education, etc. or may include multiple aspects of each focus per trip.

South America

We have been blessed to lead dozens of trips to Colombia. The cost of trip is $1500.00 + airfare. The price is all inclusive except for souvenirs. It covers meals, transportation, snacks, lodging, and donations to the orphanages and churches that we will be interacting with. Should you choose to collect items to take in an additional piece of luggage for the orphans (games, markers, crafts, toys, socks, etc.) please raise the additional $70.00 extra bag fee. There is no visa requirement or shots, only a valid passport.

Africa

We have led multiple trips to Zambia, Rwanda, & Liberia. The cost of trips to Africa are still to be determined but will be approximately $2000 + airfare. Trips are all inclusive except for souvenirs. Cost covers meals, transportation, snacks, airfare, lodging, and donations to the orphanages and churches that we will be interacting with. We are taking preliminary applications for Africa.

Asia

We have led trips to Nepal and Pakistan. The cost of trips to Asia are still to be determined but will be approximately $2000 + airfare. Trips are all inclusive except for souvenirs. Cost covers meals, transportation, snacks, airfare, lodging, and donations to the orphanages and churches that we will be interacting with. We are taking preliminary applications for Asia.

 

OUR NEXT MISSION TRIP IS PLANNED FOR MOROTO UGANDA SEPTEMBER 25 – OCTOBER 3, 2021

 

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Mid-Term Mission Internships

 

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Interns typically serve 3-6 months in the field assisting existing missionaries and enjoying an extensive training program designed to heighten their sensitivity to the Holy Spirit’s leading in their lives and to provide them with practical skills needed to serve in ministry.

 

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Long-Term Cross-Cultural Missions

 
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Missionaries typically serve indefinitely in the field as God leads. They may take on roles within existing ministries partnering with Mission Critical International or press into new territory for the Lord with our help, support, and backing.

 

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Mission Moroto

Mission Moroto Sponsorship

by Matt Bullen

“Second only to prayer, sponsors are our greatest need at Mission Moroto.

 

The Wheelbarrow

Sponsors are monthly supporters who help us to love, provide for, and protect the orphans God has put in our care at Mission Moroto.

 

Sponsors keep the orphanage running and so much more. You can send and receive letters to “your child” and send gifts periodically with missions teams that carry items to the children on mission trips and even visit your child on a mission trip. We will keep you updated with a prayer card for your refrigerator, a periodic newsletter, photos of your child and more.

 

To meet their monthly needs of food, housing, education, and medical care, not to mention love and spiritual training, requires $70.00 per child per month. To make it more affordable we have sponsorships at $35 a month and pray for 2 sponsors for each child. For those who are able to give $70.00 per month they can fully sponsor a child. Some choose to set up bill pay through their bank, others send a monthly check, others send a year’s support at one time, and still others choose to set up a monthly debit/credit card payment by clicking on the PayPal button below and following the steps laid out.





 

By mail or bill pay send checks made out to:

 

Mission Critical International

200 Fountains Ln

Apt 11202

Conroe, Texas 77304

 

100% of your tax-deductible gift will go directly to the maintenance of this wonderful orphanage.

 

To choose a specific child to support, scroll to the bottom of the page and with your mouse, hover over the photo of each child. The ones who are currently fully sponsored have (Sponsored) next to their name. All other children shown are yet to be sponsored and desperately need help. Choose the child you feel led to commit to and send us an email with the child’s name and your mailing address by clicking HERE

 

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Our Family…

 

Mission Moroto

God’s Heart For The Orphan

by Matt Bullen

“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means

caring for orphans and widows in their distress…” – James 1:27

 
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Miracles in MorotoThere is a special place in the heart of God for the fatherless. Nearly 50 times the Bible mentions orphans and how the people of God should respond to them. The Old Testament is rife with promises, commands, and warnings from God to His people regarding their treatment of orphans. As we follow the ministry of Jesus in the gospels we see the heart of God displayed again as Jesus holds children and blesses them, takes a child and stands him among the disciples as a reminder of how we are to interact with one another, and so on. In our travels we have seen Jesus in the faces of many beautiful, sweet, lonely orphans and we have felt the heartbeat of God throbbing in our breasts as well. Surely our Heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus, and the sweet Holy Spirit are grieved and broken hearted over the plight of millions of orphans in our world today. By His grace Mission Critical is doing something about it. Praise God! In the month of March, 2021 by His grace alone we have rescued 7 orphans 4 of which would be dead in just a short time had the Lord not led us to them.

 

God’s Heart For The Orphan

 

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Deuteronomy 10:18 “He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.”Psalm 10:14 The unfortunate commits himself to You; You have been the helper of the orphan.Psalm 68:5-6 A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation. God makes a home for the lonely;Jeremiah 49:11 “Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me.”Hosea 14:3 “For in You the orphan finds mercy.”
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Deuteronomy 24:17 “You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge.Psalm 10:17-18 O LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear. To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed, So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.Psalm 146:9 The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked.Proverbs 23:10 Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless, 11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
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Deuteronomy 14:29 “The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.Deuteronomy 16:11, 14 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name. 14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns.Deuteronomy 24:19-21 “When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. “When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.Deuteronomy 26:13 “You shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments.Job 22:9 “You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.Psalm 82:3 Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.Jeremiah 7:5-7 “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Exodus 22:22-24 “You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. “If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry; and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Job 6:27 “You would even cast lots for the orphans and barter over your friend.Job 24:3, 9 “They drive away the donkeys of the orphans; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge. 9 “Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.Psalm 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the orphans.Isaiah 1:23 Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, Nor does the widow’s plea come before them.Isaiah 10:2 So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of their rights, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the orphans.

Jeremiah 5:28 ‘They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

Jeremiah 22:3 ‘Thus says the LORD, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 22:7 “They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

Zechariah 7:10 and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’

Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the LORD of hosts.
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Another passage that really shows the heart of God regarding orphans is found in Job 29-31. Job was a godly man. Just listen to God’s description of him in chapter 1 verse 8, The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.” Wow! What an amazing accolade from the Almighty!

In Job 29:2-11 He tells us some things about His relationship with God that ought to make us sit up and take notice. He says…

God watched over me… His lamp shone over my head… by His light I walked through darkness… the friendship of God was over my tent… the Almighty was yet with me…

Then Job goes on in verses 12-17 to tell us why he was so blessed…

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper. The blessing of the one ready to perish came upon me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case which I did not know. I broke the jaws of the wicked and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Job’s wonderful relationship with God resulted from his faithfulness to God’s own passion for diligently ministering to the poor, needy, widow, orphan, lame, and blind. He defended those who were being mistreated and punished the predators. Job lived God’s and our vision for orphan ministry.

We get another glimpse of Job’s passion for the orphan in Job 31:16-22 where he says very passionately… “If I have kept the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my food alone, and the orphan has not shared it (yet from his youth the orphan grew up with me as with a father, and from infancy I guided her), If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering, if his stomach has not thanked me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep, if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had support in the community, let my shoulder fall from the socket, and my arm be broken off at the elbow.”

Job was very serious about caring for the poor and needy, the orphan and the widow. He is a great example to us.
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Over the last 12 years God has performed a mighty work through our Orphan Project in Colombia, South America. We have been blessed to feed, clothe, love, and most importantly share the love of Jesus in word and deed with hundreds of lonely Colombian orphans. We have made nearly 30 short-term mission trips there and have facilitated over 35 children being adopted into Christian families in the U.S. and the doors have never been open wider.
 
In 2020 God blessed us with our own orphanage in Moroto, Uganda with 50 Karamojong bush children. www.missionmoroto.org

 
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We frequently host mission trips to love and serve orphans.

 
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Mission Moroto

Ugandan Orphan’s Miracle Story

by Matt Bullen

My story of what God did in my life when you pray while your in problems of poverty. – By Kerisa Paul Mickey

 

My name is Kerisa Paul Mickey. I am 18-years-old and I am an orphan without parents. When my parents were still alive they used to go and cut firewood and sell to pay my school fees. I was the only one who wanted to study in our home. All my brothers and sisters were not studying due to lack of money for school fees so my parents can afford only to pay me for the little they get from firewood. At times they could not pay me when they have not gone for firewood because they lack money for taking me to school.

 

In 2011 my eldest brother died so at that time we had nothing to do so I could come back from school and remain at home because my parents were poor they lack money for taking me to school. I stay at home for 4 years without schooling. At that time my parents were shot using a gun so they died and we remain in our house as three in number so we could not do anything by our own. Then a dream came to me thinking of what we are to eat since I was the biggest of the two I decided also to go for firewood in order to sell and get money for our survival. My younger brother became sick more for even the hospital was far. I decided to carry him on my back up to the hospital to get treatment and he recovered two months and then died. I was very weak. I buried him. Then the people of our village helped with some food to eat. Now two of my brothers have gone to my hurt so I remained alone.

 

In a few days I went also to town to look for some work to do for survival. I got the work and where to sleep and was praying hard. I said, “God, Your the One Who knows everything in my life. During Sunday I could go to Rupa Christian Fellowship (the church at Mission Moroto) That was 2013 and when I came back from prayers I could do housework for the woman I was staying with but all those people don’t pray so when I would come home from church they would quarrel with me. I keep on praying until I was taken to their far village where people are busy on only doing the works. I had no way of praying so I decided to create my own church and I called small children around there and I taught them how to sing gospel songs and how to pray. All children were used to me doing this. It reached a time when that woman and her husband quarreled hard and beat me wrongly because of praying.

 

One day the demons they came and attacked the woman and she ran mad. The husband call me to sing some gospel songs and praise. I was wondering, “What is going on!” because the man had never like me anyhow. Then I came to know that the demons had attacked the woman so I prayed deeply for the woman. In fact this woman removed all the clothes she wore and was running naked so I prayed and I started singing. Immediately this woman was healed in God’s will. Because if you pray with all your might, soul, and your body, God will answer. Your prayer therefore there’s nothing which defeats God when you pray. Then we started praying together with the family members and we started going to church together. A few days later I dreamed that I was praising the gospel of God with many others and so that dream came true.

 

I met Pastor Noah Ewaru (Current pastor of Mission Moroto) and Bill Behrmann (late founder of Mission Moroto) and we were praying all that period of time. One day they asked me, “Are you schooling?” I said to them that I had been to school 5 years ago but now I am not schooling due to problems I had. Then another man came to our home and told me his son loves me as his best friend and that he wants to meet with me. I went there and they told me to stay with them because of the son’s love for me. They also desired to take me back to school. I spent two years schooling then they stopped paying school fees so I was chased from school because of the fees so I went home. I had nothing to do.

 

Suddenly I prayed for awhile. One of my friends at school told me that the teachers were conducting a meeting to see if they could let me keep schooling for free do potential they saw in me. It reached a time when we sat for PLE exams. The result was that the head teacher refused to give me the recommendation because I had not paid. I was told to pay 170,000 Shillings in order to get in. I had nothing to do. I went to look for work outside school so I could afford to get the money for the recommendation. Now joining highschool became a problem so I left school and had nowhere to go, stay, or sleep. Later a big friend of mine who was married took me to stay with him. We prayed even though we were different religions. We prayed concerning my future. On Sundays I could go to Rupa Christian Fellowship. Eventually I started preaching and sharing with others. People were wondering about my preaching because I preached as if I had the training of being a pastor. Until now I am still serving God and I want to continue serving Him until the end of my life because He picked me up from was dark but now I have shine. Glory be to Him. With prayer, everything is possible. Now a days I lead the evening praise, worship, and preaching every other evening at Mission Moroto. Thank you Mama Rebekah.

 

Love Kerisa Paul Mickey