Ways to Support Our Family Doing Things You Already Do

Ways to Support Our Family Doing Things You Already Do

You already know that we are faith-based missionaries, which means we raise our own support to live and work in the ministry God has give to us.

But did you know you can help support our family financially by doing things you do everyday? Listed below are all the easy things that you can do to help us!

Do you ever shop online? If so there are MANY ways you can help us earn extra income without doing things much differently

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For online shopping at other stores join Ebates or Shop at Home. We both get $5 when you join and make a purchase. You will also earn a small percentage of your purchase that will be paid back to you every few months via PayPal or check.

If you print coupons from Coupons.com we earn a few cents for every coupon you print.

Search & Win Swagbucks – This is a search engine just like Google. You use it and earn Swagbucks that you redeem for great stuff! We get the first 100 Swagbucks that you earn. We like to redeem 45 Swagbucks for a $5 gift card to use at Amazon.com. Click here to read more about Swagbucks – there are many ways to earn Swagbucks!

Google Ads – On some of our blogs there are Goggle Ads. If you see something you like click the ad to read more. We do not get to pick the ads that are shown.

Banner Ads – On my blog savingyoudinero.com you will see banner ads. I get to pick the ads that are shown on this blog. I only put up ads for legit companies, stuff I have signed up for. This is a great way to help us generate more income. These ads pay from .20 cents up to $23 when people join.

Thanks for supporting our ministry!

Janell wrote this post. Be sure to check out her blog: Saving You Dinero. You’ll be surprised how much money you can save!!

Incredible Missions Video

I just saw this video over at the Global Youth Ministry Network’s blog. It is powerful.

You might not know it, but YMI is starting an initiative to train youth workers in Nepal, in an area of the world where 70% of the population of over 26 million people who are under the age of 26.

Is It Safe to Visit Mexico?

Is It Safe to Visit Mexico?

Many people are worried about our safety. Many people have asked if it’s safe to visit Mexico. Some people have even encouraged us to leave Mexico because of what they have seen on the news. Is Mexico as dangerous as the news channels have made it out to be?

Regardless of where you live, danger exists. Every country and every city have their own unique problems and dangers. I’m not going to write a lot about the issue of safety in Mexico, but here are a few things I’ve seen on the web lately about safety in Mexico:

Is Mexico Safe?

We’re confident that the place we live is safe. We are thankful for those people who worry about us. But, we have work to do, and we know that we are in the safest place we can be right now.

Social Media and Missionaries

I saw this on twitter the other day, and it made me think about the use of social media in missions.

My job as a missionary has many different aspects. I spend most of my time training youth workers (both formally and informally). I spend a little of my time working with young people (not as much as I used to). I also try to inspire people to be involved in missions.

Some parts of what I do are easier to talk about on social media than to actually do, especially given the culture in which I work.

Right now, for example, twitter in Mexico isn’t very popular. Facebook is coming of age in Mexico. But it would be weird for me to try to convince people here to use twitter so that I could connect with them and train youth workers through twitter. Could I do it? Probably. Would it be very effective? Right now, probably not. (Maybe in the future).

The part of my job that has to do with inspiring people (mostly in the United States) to be involved in missions (either by financially supporting, praying for, or considering going to serve in a foreign culture, among other things), is a little easier to do using social media. In fact, I believe social media has made this part of my job easier. I no longer have to be in the United States to remind people to be praying for our family or ministry.

But this part of my job basically requires talking about what I do in Mexico and Latin America. To answer Tony’s question, talking about what I do (using social media) to those in the United States and elsewhere helps me be able to do what I do in Mexico and Latin America.

I am definitely interested in using social web to train youth workers. In fact, we have a social network (in Spanish) set up on Ning that has various members from all over Latin America. We use it to help them with their ministries. I’m sure we could use it better.

As always, I need to continue thinking through the question. But for some parts of my job it is easier to use social networks than others.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.