Short Term Mission

My name is Zhenya Ballenger, and this is how I’m living deeply.   “Isn’t it interesting how you can love learning about mission work, but not necessarily see yourself getting directly involved in it? I grew up at CSPC attending the church’s mission conference, which I still really enjoy. One of my favorite parts was always Missions Fest, where you get...

I’m Jennifer Yates. Here’s how I’m living deeply.  “The tears were dripping down her chin before she even got through her first few paragraphs. She’d started as a Prince & Princess (P & P) of the King, God Almighty -a child our church helps get through school because she doesn’t have both parents to provide for her- all the way...

I’m Evan Livingston. Here’s more of how God used a CSPC mission trip to Prague earlier this year to enable me to live deeply.  “When we got back to Knoxville from Prague, in early February, I found out the school where I teach would be closing. That sounds like bad news -and in some ways it was- but it actually clarified something. It meant...

I’m Evan Livingston. Here’s how God used a mission trip to Prague with CSPC earlier this year to enable me to live deeply.  “I’m not good at open hands. Ask my wife Judy. Ask anyone who knows me. When something matters, I make a plan. Plan A, Plan B, Plan C. Contingencies for my contingencies. So when my career started heading toward...

We’re Seth & Julie Bowman. Here’s how we’re living deeply after a family mission trip to Africa last summer.  Seth: I didn’t expect the hardest moment to happen in Chicago. But that was how it started, watching the airport screen flip to CANCELLED. Our flight to Newark was gone, which meant our flight to South Africa was gone, which meant the trip we’d been praying over for...

I’m CSPC member Jennifer Hill. This is how God’s been enabling me to live deeply through joining a CSPC mission trip to Prague this past October.  “When I was a child, I wanted to be a missionary. I can remember reading in the Scriptures about going to tell, and I always wanted to do that. My grandmother taught Bible in her church and read her Bible all the time....

I’m CSPC member Mia Smalley. This is how God has been enabling me to live deeply through a CSPC mission trip to Mozambique this past summer, which Angie Cannon also recently described in her Live Deeply story. “At the beginning of the trip, I was definitely very nervous. Very afraid. My sort of knee jerk reaction was to kind of...

I’m CSPC member Angie Cannon. This is how I’m living deeply.  “When Sybil Baloyi started her Christian school in Mozambique, she had 11 preschoolers enrolled, a room in a church, and a crazy idea: What if half the students paid tuition while the other half were at-risk children who got everything free? What if the poorest kids in the village...

I’m CSPC member Jaxon Contreras. Here’s how God’s enabling me to live deeply.  “It’s midnight in Thailand. I’m about to go to bed, lights are turned off, my head’s on the pillow, and I hear a knock at the door. I look through the peephole and it’s Eugene in his pajamas. He says, ‘I’m back.’ My roommate Malcolm is dying...

I’m CSPC Director of Communications Cary Lewis, and this is how I’m living deeply. “Brad & I became empty nesters a few years ago, and we were really excited about that. We were active people – I was a runner, we loved going on long walks, we were ready to start traveling and doing new and different things. But a...