• Praise: ShortTermMissions.com buzzed with activity over the last few months as people looked for summer opportunities. One website visitor wrote:

“Yes, I found a short term mission trip through your site (praise the Lord!).  I’ll be going with Eastern European Outreach to Kiev in June 2007.”
— Steve

We are encouraged to see God working through the website! Watch for more user testimonies in the near future.

• Praise: As our staff prepared some reports for our annual board retreat we rejoiced at seeing a solid, steady annual growth rate of 15-20% since M-DAT’s birth seven years ago across all areas of the ministry (service reach, man hours, funding). Praise the Lord for His provision!

• Pray: This year we hope to expand further into helping believers who are considering becoming a full time missionary. To that end we have a number of additions slated for a website we have in development (currently called PreparingToGo.com). Pray that we would be able to pull off these additions in our already tight work schedule! (Keep on praying for a few more people to join our team!)

Urbana proved more successful than we imagined! We met our goal in publicizing ShortTermMissions.com, and sending organizations are already signing up for the service as a result of networking at the conference. Recruiting potential exceeded our vague expectations as well. Mingling with the attendees at Urbana left us more convinced than ever of the need for missions information to be readily available on the internet. Continue to pray for staffing needs here at M-DAT. With a few more full-time people, some of these online information needs could be taken care of, and more people would be more quickly off to the field, to the unreached.